Our daily priority should be to hear GOD’S Voice, including HIS warnings and corrections!
It is as important to hear FATHER’S corrections as it is to hear any other commands that result in blessings. If we are being led astray by the subtleties of adversaries and unknowingly embraces lies, we need to repent and carry out corrective actions.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Corinthians chapter 4:
14 I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish (correct) you as my beloved children.
15 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the Gospel.
16 I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
17 That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
18 Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.
20 For the Kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.
A father is called to correct his children when necessary.
Paul also wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Timothy chapter 3:
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
If we were perfect, we would not need correction. A Loving FATHER corrects His Sons and Daughters so they will be equipped for every good work. Embrace correction!
It is recorded by THE SPIRIT in Jeremiah chapter 7:
1 This is the message that YAHWEH gave to Jeremiah.
2 “Go stand at the gate of YAHWEH’s house and proclaim this word: ‘Hear this word from YAHWEH, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship Him.
3 Here’s what the God of Israel, YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies, says: Change your ways and start living right, and I will let you dwell in this land.
4 Don’t fool yourselves by trusting the deceptive words, saying: “The temple of YAHWEH is here, the temple of YAHWEH is here, the temple of YAHWEH is here, so we are safe.”
5 For if you truly change your ways and start living right, if you deal justly with one another,
6 if you don’t mistreat the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow, if you don’t shed innocent blood in this land, if you stop your self-destructive ways of chasing after other gods,
7]then I will let you dwell in this place, here in the land that I gave to your forefathers for all time.
The Israelites were trusting deceptive words and FATHER had to send many prophets to correct them.
8 “ ‘Look, you keep putting your trust in worthless lies.
9 You think you can steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,
10 and then come and stand in My Presence? You think you can come into this house called by My Name and say, “We are safe!”—only to keep doing all these disgusting things?
11 Do you really consider this house that bears My Name to be a robbers’ den? I know everything that you have been doing! I, YAHWEH, have spoken.
Why do people pursue the opinions and subtle lies spewed out by the world’s representatives? They have proven themselves gullible to the persistent falsehoods spread by the vessels of dishonor. It is clearly a “psyop” strategy of the adversary.
23 Rather, I commanded them: “Listen to My Voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. Live your lives according to what I command you that all may go well with you.”
24 But they did not listen or obey. They followed their own stubborn plans of their evil hearts. They disrespected Me and went backward, not forward.
25 From the day that I led your ancestors out of Egypt until now, I have persistently sent you My servants the prophets,
26 but My people did not listen to Me or obey; rather, they stubbornly did more evil than their fathers.’
Whose words are you going to place your trust in? The words that appeal to your soul and/or flesh, or are you going to place your trust in FATHER, even when His Words of correction may be painful or inconvenient?