Five Ways to Improve Your Hearing of God's Word

Are you trying to improve your time alone with God? Trying more than ever to hear the words that God is saying to you?

Here are 5 tips that I received in a recent study I was doing with my church. I hope you find them as helpful as I did. I'll be working on improving in each of these areas in the months to come.

1. Be ready and eager to hear God.

"He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" Luke 8:8

"How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" Psalm 119:103


2. Address attitudes that prevent you from hearing God.

"Consider carefully how you listen..." Luke 8:18

* A closed mind lets fear, pride, or bitterness prevent one from really hearing God
* A superficial mind is not really serious about wanting to hear God
* A preoccupied mind is too busy and concerned with other things to concentrate on what God has to say.


3. Confess the sin in your life.

"Get rid of all moral filth and humbly accept the Word." James 1:21


4. Take notes on what you hear.

"We must pay more careful attention to what we've heard, so that we do not drift away!" Hebrews 2:1

Studies show that writing down what you hear greatly improves knowledge retention.


5. Act on what you hear.

"Do not merely listen to the Word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says." James 1:22

"Whoever does not simply listen and then forgets it, but puts it into practice that person will be blessed in what he does." James 1:25