Attempting to pray this morning before getting out of bed for work, I dozed off. While in that state between waking and sleeping, I heard the following words: “They have no eyes, no ears and no one wants to hear My Word. ” This startled me awake and I asked the Lord to please give me spiritual eyes to see, spiritual ears to hear and a greater zeal to read and hear His Word… wether He speaks it, uses man to speak it, or it is through the written Word – the Bible.

I was reminded of the scripture in Isaiah 6:9 and Mark 4:12 where Jesus said: “….“The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,  so that, ‘ they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’” 

So after recording the words I heard down in my journal, I asked the Lord if He would give me something in reply to this, and I opened up blindly to the following: “Come along with Me, then, keeping close, and we’ll talk together. You will hear Me, and humbly you will translate My words into daily living. I know how to take a soul captive. I don’t speak in vain.”