12/07/19 WARNING: CULTIVATE TO HEAR AND SEE MORE

[Lord why has it become so hard this year to see and hear?  Please help me!]

[2 AM HEARD:] Keeping watch over the flocks by night. A righteousness remnant.  Follow my lead.  Set an example.  Meltdown  A purity of heart.

Equip.  How have I equipped you?  [Lord You have given me rhema]  Use it.  More shall be given. An enlargement.  Freedom. 

Matthew 13:9-23 Who has ears to hear, let him hear. 10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why do you speak unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever has not, from him shall be taken away even what he has.

WARNING AND KEYS TO HEARING AND SEEING

Why parables?

·       Because they don’t see even though they see

·       Because they don’t hear even though they hear

·       Because they don’t understand

 

Why don’t they understand?

·       Because their heart has become gross

·       Because their ears are dull of hearing

·       Because they have closed their eyes

·       Because if they understood they would convert (repent) and therefore be healed

13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, who said, By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Isaiah 6:9-13 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but understand not; and see you indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people dull, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return, and be healed. 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate, 12 And the LORD has removed men far away, and there are many forsaken places in the midst of the land. 13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be laid waste: as a terebinth tree, and as an oak, whose stump remains, when they are cut down: so the holy seed shall be its stump.

GROSS

Strong's Greek Dictionary
3975. παχύνω pachyno (pachýnō)
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παχύνω pachýnō, pakh-oo'-no

from a derivative of G4078 (meaning thick); to thicken, i.e. (by implication) to fatten (figuratively, stupefy or render callous):—wax gross.

DULL

Strong's Greek Dictionary
917. βαρέως bareos (baréōs)
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βαρέως baréōs, bar-eh'-oce

adverb from G926; heavily (figuratively):—dull.

adverb

Strong's Greek Dictionary
926. βαρύς barys (barýs)
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βαρύς barýs, bar-ooce'

from the same as G922; weighty, i.e. (fig) burdensome, grave:—grievous, heavy, weightier.

adjective

Therefore those who hear will be given more.  Those who do not, it shall be taken away.

HOW TO CULTIVATE YOUR HEART TO HEAR/ SEE:

·       Stay in His path, not next to it on the wayside.

·       Remove the stony / hard places in your heart

·       Cut back the distractions of this world and pursuing wealth

Results of cultivation:

·       You shall hear and see

·       More shall be given in abundance

·       Shall bring forth fruit 30, 60 and 100 fold

16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.

18 Hear you therefore the parable of the sower. 19 When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the way side. 20 But he that received the seed in stony places, the same is he that hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; 21 Yet has he not root in himself, but endures for a while: for when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he is offended. 22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. 23 But he that received seed in the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; who also bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

PRAYER:  Lord please forgive me where anytime You have spoken and I have not received Your Word!  Forgive me for any place I have calloused my heart to resist You or Your Word.    Forgive me anytime where I have dulled my ears against hearing You!  Help me to stay directly in Your path and not stray to the side.  Please remove any hard places in my heart and melt it with Your love.  Please help me cut out the distractions that keep me from pursuing You and Your Word.

I do not want what I have to be snatched away by the wicked one.  I do not want trials to offend me.  I do not want the cares of this life to choke out the growth of Your Words. Please allow me to grow to be 100 fold fruitful in all that I hear You say and see You do.  In Jesus Name!