Hear, Trust and Apply

How do get into a cycle of growth?

Proverbs 22:17 ESV

17 Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge,

Hear and Apply

James 1:22–25 ESV

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Apply from the heart.

Proverbs 22:18 ESV

18 for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Know the Word, Apply the Word Life will be better.

Proverbs 22:19 ESV

19 That your trust may be in the Lord, I have made them known to you today, even to you.

Hearing applying the Word deepens trust.

2 Timothy 3:16–17 ESV

16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Proverbs gives nuggets of wisdom to hear trust and apply.