{"id":26239,"date":"2017-10-24T04:54:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T11:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=26239"},"modified":"2017-10-24T04:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T11:54:43","slug":"the-sheep-hear-his-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/24\/the-sheep-hear-his-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"The sheep hear His voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThey speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.\u00a0\u00a0They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, \u2018It shall be well with you\u2019; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, \u2018No disaster shall come upon you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say, \u2018Declares the LORD,\u2019 when the LORD has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201chypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201chaving the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people\u201d,\u00a0 \u201calways learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John 10:1<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. \u00a0But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. \u00a0To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. \u00a0When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. \u00a0A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Proverbs 19:27<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.<\/p>\n

2 Peter 2:1<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies<\/p>\n

1John 4:1<\/a><\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.<\/p>\n

Colossians 2:6<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,\u00a0\u00a0rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.\u00a0\u00a0See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.\u00a0\u00a0For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,<\/p>\n

1 John 4:5<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.\u00a0\u00a0We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.<\/p>\n

Living for the single purpose to humbly serve, honor, follow, and obey Jesus Christ is driven by a deep heart desire, want and commitment. \u00a0Knowledge, understanding, and ability to hear His whispers of guidance into our life has firm root in and through His word and is a reflection of this desire our time spent in it. \u00a0How many days are spent complacently neglecting our purpose this side of eternity. \u00a0These scriptures are directed toward those who have an appearance of walking with the direction, power, and light of Jesus Christ. \u00a0Yet, in reality, they have none. \u00a0Our purpose is to be more than an\u00a0appearance. \u00a0in Malachi it says :\u201cThey shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.\u00a0 Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him<\/em>. \u00a0Walking with and serving God is not to be a self directed life but rather one that seeks to know, wants to know, and is ever listening for God’s direction. \u00a0Do you want to find a place of comfort, refuge, hope, joy, love, courage, peace, and purpose? \u00a0Set your heart, mind and soul on Him. Spend time in His word. \u00a0This side of eternity is filled with cultural lies, false hope, and non-God seeking purpose. \u00a0Each day we must fight off these lies with truth which is found in and through Jesus Christ. \u00a0Think about the commitment David had in his\u00a0heart, mind and soul – “Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThey speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.\u00a0\u00a0They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, \u2018It shall be well with you\u2019; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, \u2018No disaster shall come upon you.\u2019\u201d \u201cThey say, \u2018Declares the LORD,\u2019 when the … Continue reading “The sheep hear His voice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5329,5326,5328,5333,3592,3161,5327,5338,167,5342,5341,5337,5335,235,5334,5025,5336,5323,5343,303,4784,165,5330,5332,5346,5320,236,5339,5340,5325,5324,239,315,5347,5295,5322,3333,980,937,5321,5344,5331,1033,5345,322],"class_list":["post-26239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-always-learning","tag-appearance-of-godliness","tag-avoid","tag-by-name","tag-clean","tag-declares","tag-denying-its-power","tag-destructive-heresies","tag-disaster","tag-empty-deceit","tag-established-in-the-faith","tag-false-teachers","tag-flee-from-him","tag-follow","tag-goes-before-them","tag-hear-his-voice","tag-hear-instruction","tag-his-own-heart","tag-human-tradition","tag-hypocrites","tag-in-him","tag-jesus","tag-knowledge-of-the-truth","tag-leads-them","tag-listens-to-us","tag-minds","tag-mouth","tag-received-christ","tag-rooted-and-built-up","tag-self-indulgence","tag-sent-them","tag-speak","tag-spirit","tag-spirit-of-error","tag-spirit-of-truth","tag-stubbornly","tag-taught","tag-test","tag-thanksgiving","tag-the-word-of-the-lord","tag-they-speak-from-the-world","tag-thief-and-robber","tag-visions","tag-we-are-from-god","tag-world"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26317,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239\/revisions\/26317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}