Hearing, Understanding, Abundance
Matthew 13:12
“To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge. But for those who are not listening, even what little understanding they have will be taken away from them.”
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Good morning and greetings in Jesus’ name. Today, our desire is to grow and increase and become more and more in the image of Jesus, the image of God. He is the word of God, the revelation of the Father, the complete description, the complete authenticity of the Father, is hidden in Christ Jesus. In fact, the Bible says, Jesus is the word from the beginning that became flesh and dwelt among us. When we understand Jesus, we understand the word of God, when we understand the word of God, we understand Jesus.
In Matthew 13:12, Jesus introduces his disciples, multiple dimensions in following him. One, is the dimension of listening. If we have to be the disciples of Jesus, we have to learn the art of listening, because, Jesus said ‘my sheep hear my voice, pay attention to my words and that is how my sheep follow me.’ If we do not listen or hear what he says, we can’t be disciples of Jesus. If we can incline our ears to hear what he is speaking then, we have crossed the first dimension to our encounter with God.
The second dimension, Jesus says is that they received understanding, the ones who listen and pay attention, to them understanding will be given, so when it is given, it is for us to open our hearts to receive this understanding. When certain understanding, revelations, principles are shown to us, we don’t want to receive it, we know that there’s a price to pay for that understanding. People who have understanding are still happy with ignorance, they are satisfied with the dimension of hearing from God but they don’t want to go into the dimension of understanding what they hear, merely due to the price they have to pay. They will have to cut off relationships, stop doing certain kinds of businesses, or change their ministry, that is why they refuse understanding. But, if anyone does well with the understanding that is given, they will have abundance of knowledge, information and abundance into the heart and the mind of God. So, the third one is the dimension of abundance. There is always a price to pay, to walk in revelation, but if you can push beyond that stage, if you can continue to remain faithful in that stage of understanding, then will come the season, the dimension of abundance, where there is abundance of knowledge and access into the heart and mind of God.
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