Ouvir
Ouvir é uma disciplina espiritual essencial. A Bíblia exorta: 'Quem tem ouvidos, ouça.' A fé vem pelo ouvir, e ouvir é mais que escutar — é obedecer e agir.
A fé vem pelo ouvir
Sem ouvir a Palavra, não há fé. A pregação do evangelho gera fé nos corações de quem ouve com disposição e humildade.
Ouvir e obedecer
Não basta ouvir — é preciso praticar. Quem ouve a Palavra e a pratica é como o homem sábio que edificou sobre a rocha.
Deus ouve nossas orações
O Senhor ouve os que clamam a Ele de coração sincero. Ele inclina os ouvidos para as nossas súplicas e responde com fidelidade.
Alleluia.
Praise the Lord, all ye nations:
Praise him, all ye peoples.
For his mercy has been abundant toward us:
And the truth of the Lord endures forever.
In the sun he has set his tabernacle;
And he comes forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber:
He will exult as a giant to run his course.
Yet they rejoiced against me,
And plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not:
They were scattered, but repented not.
Attend to the voice of my supplication,
My King, and my God:
For to thee, O Lord, will I pray.
And the righteous shall see, and fear,
And shall laugh at him, and say,
Whose mouth has spoken vanity,
And their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.
Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.
Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he should not hear?
Ouvir a voz de Deus
Jesus disse: 'As minhas ovelhas ouvem a minha voz.' Deus fala através da Palavra, do Espírito e das circunstâncias — cabe a nós ouvir.
ye shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or the dreamer of that dream, because the Lord thy God tries you, to know whether ye love your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Sabedoria no ouvir
Seja pronto para ouvir e tardio para falar. A sabedoria começa com a disposição de ouvir instrução e aceitar correção.
Whoso answers a word before he hears a cause,
It is folly and reproach to him.
He who is skillful in business finds good:
But he that trusts in God is most blessed.
My son, keep the laws of thy father,
And reject not the ordinances of thy mother:
Instruction keeps the right ways of life;
But instruction unchastened goes astray.
He that turns away his ear from hearing the law,
Even he has made his prayer abominable.
It is better to hear a reproof of a wise man,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
All things are full of labor;
A man will not be able to speak of them:
Neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing,
Neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.
And if after this ye should walk perversely, and not be willing to obey me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues according to your sins.
If ye will not hearken, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yea, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because ye lay not this to heart.
But when I speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient: because it is a provoking house.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send forth a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hearken to the word of the Lord our God.
And Jethro was amazed at all the good things which the Lord did to them, forasmuch as he rescued them out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh.
For the troubles of death compassed me,
The floods of iniquity amazed me:
The pangs of death surrounded me,
The agonies of death prevented me.
When I am afflicted I will call upon the Lord,
And will cry to my God,
And he shall hear my voice out of his temple,
And my cry shall come into his ears.