Daily Huddle - Sat Sep 12, 2020 The Top Two

Love you all, praying for you.
 
I just love God’s Word, it’s so simple.  God breaks it down.  Sometimes you just have to ask, and He will answer you.  Matthew 7:24 – Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.  God’s simple.  Two things, not even three or four, you could forget, or mix up the order.  This is simple.  Two things.  First – hear, Second – obey – put it into practice.  Do what you hear.  Do it now!  I love that it says put it into practice, not put it into perfection.  It’s not perfect the first time you do it.  It’s practice.  The more you do it, the better you get.  You don’t obey perfectly the first few times, you obey imperfectly and He perfects it, He completes it.  He gives you the fullness of understanding and the fullness of the fruit that comes with it.   Many find it hard to hear – because they are never within earshot.  If they get a preacher once a week, that’s pretty much it. That’s why PRISM is so important – that habit of those five things you can do every day in God’s Word.  The more you put yourself in earshot, in position to hear – the more you hear.  Then the preacher doesn’t tell you something new, He just confirms what God has been telling you all week.  And the more you hear – the more opportunity you have to practice putting it into practice.  No thing is too little.  No thing is too insignificant. Not "I’ll get to it later."  Do it now, immediately!  That’s how you grow in it.  You can’t get better at obeying without getting better at hearing.  And you get better at hearing, but putting yourself in earshot, in position to hear what God is speaking – to you.  Praying that PRISM will be a consuming fire, a life’s pursuit, where you get so good at hearing that you can get just as good at obeying.  So how do you put it into practice?  First speak it.  Put what He says in your mouth, on your tongue and it will get put in your heart.  Speak it into the atmosphere, speak it over you.  Declare that you will do it right now – and do it right now!  Putting it into practice is not just the doing of this thing, but the habit of doing the first thing you hear from Him!  Speak it, Do it, and give your testimony about it.  When you hear and do, God does something too.  That’s the testimony that comes from hearing and obeying.  It’s how you overcome – it’s how you make ‘putting it into practice,’ your lifelong practice.   Praying that PRISM has you hearing, that PiVAT has you obeying, and your Daily Call has you testifying your overcoming.  Praying that you get really good at these top two.  Everything else will follow, all the good, all the blessing, all the promise, all the reward, all the joy, all the hope…  The top two are there for a reason, so you build your house on a rock, that firm foundation that is Jesus Christ, so you walk in all the good that He has stored up for those who fear Him. 
 
Love you all,
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