How we listen expresses how we value the one talking
Hurry and finish talking so you can listen to ME
Listening = Caring
James 1:19 NASB95
19This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;
You can hear when you are talking, but you can’t listen when you are talking
You can only learn when you are listening
Proverbs 10:19 NASB95
19 When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable,But he who restrains his lips is wise.
Matthew 12:37 NASB95
37 “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Proverbs 25:11 NASB95
11Like apples of gold in settings of silverIs a word spoken in right circumstances.
Psalm 19:14 NASB95
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heartBe acceptable in Your sight,O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.
Do you have selective hearing?
Proverbs 4:10 NASB95
10 Hear, my son, and accept my sayingsAnd the years of your life will be many.
1 Corinthians 4:20 NASB95
20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power.
We want others to hear us
We want God to hear us
Psalm 54:2 NASB95
2 Hear my prayer, O God;Give ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalm 141:1 NASB95
1 O Lord, I call upon You; hasten to me!Give ear to my voice when I call to You!
Psalm 143:1 NASB95
1 Hear my prayer, O Lord,Give ear to my supplications!Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!
To sum up
We need to hear God
We need the word of the LORD
1 Samuel 3:1 NASB95
1 Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli. And word from the Lord was rare in those days, visions were infrequent.
1 Samuel 3:9–10 NASB95
9 And Eli said to Samuel, “Go lie down, and it shall be if He calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening.’ ” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.10 Then the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.”
Matthew 12:42 NASB95
42 “The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Hebrews 3:7–8 NASB95
7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,“Today if you hear His voice,8Do not harden your hearts aswhen they provoked Me,As in the day of trial in the wilderness,