As I wrote yesterday, the vast majority of Christians struggle to hear GOD’S Voice. In order to be led by The Holy Spirit, you must be able to hear.
James wrote by The Holy Spirit in James chapter 1:
2 My fellow believers, when it seems as though you are facing nothing but difficulties, see it as an invaluable opportunity to experience the greatest joy that you can!
3 For you know that when your faith is tested it stirs up in you the power of endurance.
4 And then as your endurance grows even stronger, it will release perfection into every part of your being until there is nothing missing and nothing lacking.
5 And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for Wisdom and HE will give it! HE won’t see your lack of Wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but HE will overwhelm your failures with HIS generous grace (enablement).
6 Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith without doubting that you will receive. For the ambivalent person believes one minute and doubts the next. Being undecided makes you become like the rough seas driven and tossed by the wind. You’re up one minute and tossed down the next.
7-8 When you are double-minded and wavering it leaves you unstable. Can you really expect to receive anything from the Lord when you’re in that condition?
Double-mindedness is a major impediment to hearing GOD’S Voice.
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 6:
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
What does a “single” eye represent? There is no divided focus. The Passion Translation provide a more complete explanation of what Jesus spoke:
Matthew 6:
19 “Don’t keep hoarding for yourselves earthly treasures that can be stolen by thieves. Material wealth eventually rusts, decays, and loses its value.
20 Instead, stockpile Heavenly treasures for yourselves that cannot be stolen and will never rust, decay, or lose their value.
21 For your heart will always pursue what you esteem as your treasure.
22 “The eyes of your spirit allow revelation-light to enter into your being. If your heart is unclouded, the light floods in!
23 But if your eyes are focused on money, the light cannot penetrate and darkness takes its place. How profound will be the darkness within you if the light of Truth cannot enter!
24 “How could you worship two gods at the same time? You will have to hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t worship the true God while enslaved to the god of money!”
Jesus warned us against what the world wants us to focus on: the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in.
Worldly treasures are emphasized by Jesus Himself as being a major source of having a divided mind (eye). We must heed such a warning.
Jesus spoke to His disciples (and us) in John chapter 16:
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
The disciples had just spent a full 3 ½ years with Jesus, listening to countless teachings, seeing great miracles and a vast number of healings, yet they could not bear additional revelation to be given by Jesus. They had not fully developed a single eye yet. There was still a lack of stability in their ways.
Each of us needs to focus on hearing The Holy Spirit and rejecting the noise of the world. Until we do, we will be unable to bear greater revelation due to our unstable minds.