Your mindset will determine whether you live with a hardened heart or a sensitive heart. It is solely up to each of us to guard our hearts.
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 3:
1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, you are now made Holy, and each of you is invited to the feast of your Heavenly calling. So fasten your thoughts fully onto Jesus, Whom we embrace as our Apostle and King-Priest.
The world would like to eradicate the Name of Jesus from every reference possible. Why? They are led by the adversary who fully understands the power and authority behind the Name of Jesus. The adversary also understands the power of His Blood. The author of lies is promoting lies hoping to extinguish Truth from every aspect of the media but is failing.
2 For He was faithful to the Father Who appointed Him, in the same way that Moses was a model of faithfulness in what was entrusted to him.
3 But Jesus is worthy to receive a much greater glory than Moses, for the One who builds a house deserves to be honored more than the house He builds.
4 Every house is built by someone, but God is the Designer and Builder of all things.
You and I have been appointed for this time in history so accept this as reality. You were not randomly placed here but were specifically to be here with your own set of unique gifts and calling (Psalm 139:16). We are to be faithful to what FATHER has planned for us. It is never too late to walk in your calling. Moses spent the first 80 years on earth before he fully began his walk. It’s not over until it’s over.
5 Indeed, Moses served God faithfully in all He gave him to do. His work prophetically illustrates things that would later be spoken and fulfilled.
Moses did his part and it is time for us to do our part in FATHER’S Grand Plan.
6 But Christ is more than a Servant, He was faithful as the Son in charge of God’s House. And now we are part of His House if we continue courageously to hold firmly to our bold confidence and our victorious hope.
Let us hold firmly!
7 This is why the Holy Spirit says, “If only you would listen to His Voice this day!
We must keep our hearts sensitive in order to hear HIS Voice.
8 Don’t make Him angry by hardening your hearts, like your ancestors did during the days of their rebellion, when they were tested in the wilderness.
9 There your fathers tested Me and tried My patience even though they saw My miracles for forty years they still doubted Me!
10 This ignited My anger with that generation and I said about them, ‘They wander in their hearts just like they do with their feet, and they refuse to learn My ways.’ 11 My Heart grieved over them so I decreed: ‘They will never enter into the calming rest of My Spirit!’ ”
We have been warned! Do not do the same thing that the ancestors did in the wilderness. It was their decision to allow the mindsets to focus on worldly thoughts and desires rather than learning FATHER’S Ways.
12 So search your hearts every day, my brothers and sisters, and make sure that none of you has evil or unbelief hiding within you. For it will lead you astray, and make you unresponsive to the Living God.
This is not a “one and done” issue. It is vital that we focus daily on maintaining a sensitive heart.
13 This is the time to encourage each other to never be stubborn or hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
These writings are intended to encourage us to not become stubborn or hardened.
14 For we are mingled with the Messiah, if we will continue unshaken in this confident assurance from the beginning until the end.
15 For again, the Scriptures say, If only today you would listen to His Voice. Don’t make Him angry by hardening your hearts, as you did in the wilderness rebellion.
16 The same people who were delivered from bondage and brought out of Egypt by Moses, were the ones who heard and still rebelled.
17 They grieved God for forty years by sinning in their unbelief, until they dropped dead in the desert.
18 So God swore an oath that they would never enter into His Calming Place of Rest all because they disobeyed Him.
19 It is clear that they could not enter into their inheritance because they wrapped their hearts in unbelief.
I have been asked more than once how I am able to hear Father’s Voice. It is all about my heart being sensitive and willing to change my mindset. I have made many mistakes in my walk with FATHER over the last 50+ years. However, I am willing to change because I know that I have so much to learn and understand which is beyond my current understanding. I live my life knowing that I need to constantly change so that I can reach a higher level of maturity. I am unwilling to think that I have arrived.
If you approach life with a sensitive heart and a willing mind to accept change, you have prepared yourself to be used in a greater manner by FATHER and hear HIS Voiced with greater clarity.