FAITH CAPSULE: Ability is a choice, a desire to listen and gain an understanding of God.

Proverbs 4

The ability to hear the word of God is not enough as the evidence of listening to gain understanding to be faithful in God.
Listening to gain understanding is rooted in paying attention by hearing and hearing by the word of God (continually give yourself to non-stop from hearing the word of God). Romans 10:17 counsels, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” 
Listen to gain understanding is the ability to see in the word of God to gain and retain the presence of God.
Listening to the word of God will understand the word of God to live life abundantly to the glory of God.
Keep in mind that the word of God is in the documentation for all to learn and gain understanding. 
Romans 15:4 buttresses, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
When there is no listening, there will be no understanding.
The word of Jesus in John 8:43 rhetorically questioned and answered, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
Are you listening enough with the understanding to be able to see what God says to you in His word?
All that God wants to do for you is always in His word if you will listen and gain understand to see in what He says to you.
For example, the victory for Jeremiah was rooted in the word of God when God said, “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:10) 
God spoke to Jeremiah, and he listened with understanding to see the manifestation in the spoken word of God. 
To Ezekiel, God spoke direction: “See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it.” (Ezekiel 4:15) Ezekiel also listened with understanding to see and received the direction by the word of God.
Every of your hearing and hearing (listening) in the word of God is the evidence of listening to see, which is the key to gain understanding.
Are you listening to understand the word of God?
Are you with understanding to see your victory in the word of God just like Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and many others in the pages of the Bible?
Pay attention to the word, know how it works, and you will live life for the word of God, by the word of God. Proverbs 4:20-23 records, “My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.”,
Listen to the word of God to gain an understanding of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled in listening to the word of God.