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Are You Willing to Listen?

Sometimes we ask God for things and we patiently wait for a response. But we often grow impatient with his timing. 

Sometimes we pray for healing, deliverance, protection, blessings, and earthly things. And in our impatience, we find ourselves asking God "do you hear me?"

As a witness I hear to say confidently, yes God hears your every prayer. The question is are you willing to listen to him? 
If God is asking you to take more time for him- listen, if he's asking you to wait- listen, if he's asking you to remove some things and people from your life- again I say listen to him. 

Our Father in heaven hears every word we ask him and every thanks we give him, but we've adopted the "all-talk-no-listen" mentality. We want to hear only the things that we want to hear or not at all. But imagine if God did things as we do... it's hard to imagine because we know deep down that God listens to us but yet we fail to do so. 

Imagine a child asking their parents for a new toy that they desperately want and their parents tell them "I will one day, but I want you to obey me." That child will automatically obey their parents and their parents will bless them with the new toy. Now, imagine if the parents instead told their child "no, if you can't listen to me then I'm not listening to you." 

God is always listening and he loves us as loving parents who love their children. 

Now, please take heed that I'm not saying God will "grant your wishes" if you listen to him and obey him. 1st- God is not a genie, he's the Most High, our Father, and our Lord & Savior. And 2nd- you should automatically selflessly love and obey the Lord without expecting something out of him. God's love is not something that is reciprocated, it's unconditional and unchanging. 

Listen to him and you'll be surprised how close your blessings, healings, deliverance, and protection are to you. It's often not satan and has demons that hinder you, but it's your lack of closely listening to God. 

Brethren, ask God to open up your ears and fill you with the active listening spirit of his wisdom, direction, and guidance. Open your ears, God's are always opened! 
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