{"id":524,"date":"2017-03-25T19:14:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2017-03-25T19:14:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T19:14:21","slug":"jeremiah-724-gods-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Jeremiah 7:24 \u2013 \u201cGod\u2019s Ears\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they did not listen\u00a0or pay attention;\u00a0instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.\u201d Jeremiah 7:24<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is so difficult to find anyone who will truly listen, these days. God wonders if anyone is listening to Him. I really appreciate when folks listen to me. I want to sense that what I have to say is important. My own selfishness keeps me from being a good listener for others.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I was meditating on the scripture above. As soon as I finished my meditation, a friend called, distraught over the passing of a loved one. He was looking for someone with God\u2019s ear. How blessed I was that he chose me. I offered no advice, but listened to my friend with my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Godly listening is hard to do through e-mail communications or a post on Facebook. I would rather listen to someone in person or at least hear his or her voice on the phone.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When was the last time we were God\u2019s ears for another person? When was the last time someone else was God\u2019s ears for us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God&#8217;s Word\u00a0 \u201cBut they did not listen\u00a0or pay attention;\u00a0instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.\u201d Jeremiah 7:24\u00a0 Applying God&#8217;s Word It is so difficult to find anyone who will truly listen, these days. God wonders if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}