Author: daughtersofz

Called, appointed and anointed by God, Pastor Debra Lowe has been called to the forefront to pastor along side her husband, Michael Lowe at Hesed Ministries. Pastor Debra has served the Lord for 39 years. Called as a Prophet to the nation she also walks in the office of teacher and is an intercessor. Pastor Debra has used these gifts to minister to the body of Christ, teaching men, women and children to enter into His presence causing them to mature and be changed by His Word. As a servant of the Most High God she brings forth a word in due season to the body of Christ.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

There were two images that kept coming to my mind this morning, at the same time that this verse was bubbling in my heart, here is the verse: John 10:27, " My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me." Now the two images are as follows; the first one is of a song and the lyrics that say, "Earth people, this is God, please come in!" The second image is the commercial, where the man is on the cell phone and he keeps saying; " Can you hear me now?"

Well, God said very clearly through His Word that His sheep hear His voice.  If we are having difficulties hearing His voice and yet we’re saying that we are His sheep, we need to develop a sensitive ear to hear His voice.  The bad connection usually means that there is too much interference or a poor connection.  These things can affect our ability to hear and to hear clearly.  Are we hearing clearly, or, are there things that we allow to interfere with our ability to hear correctly?

Mark 4:12-20; gives us a list of things that could cause interference in our ability to hear.  Affliction, persecution, cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things: under this listing would go all other kinds of subtitles that touch our lives and affect our hearing the Shepherd of our soul. Verse 22 says," If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him perceive and comprehend, what he is hearing. Verse 24 ,says further," Be careful what you are hearing (in other words, pay attention to what you hear as well as to how you listen).  If we hear and listen through the ears that are filtered through our afflictions, persecutions, offenses, cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches and the lust of other things, then we will end up intermingling a little of these things into how we perceive hearing from God.  These poor connections and interferences will only be multiplied back creating difficulties in our perception of the Good Shepherd.(read the rest of verse 24)

So, today we ask, Jesus, Shepherd of our soul to remove from our ears those things that hinder us from hearing clearly.  It is our desire to hear, obey and follow you. We say boldly that we are your sheep and now we do hear you. We recognize the things that try to block our hearing and we pull down all those strongholds.  It is so good to hear you so clearly, Lord. Thank you, Jesus.