Today’s New Covenant nugget is from Mark 4:24 (TPT)
Then He said to them, “Be diligent to understand the meaning behind everything you hear, for as you do, more understanding will be given to you. And according to the depth of your longing to understand, much more will be added to you.
The New Living Translation says, ‘Then He added, “Pay close attention to what you hear. The closer you listen, the more understanding you will be given—and you will receive even more”.’
Friends and family, it is so important that we hear what the Holy Spirit is saying to us through His Word. You may hear someone else quote a scripture, or you may hear a scripture that impacts you, but let me encourage you today, go read that scripture for yourself and ask the Holy Spirit what He is saying to you.
How many times do we read a scripture and not ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to us what He is saying to us through that portion of the Word. The Holy Spirit not only wants you to hear His Word, but He says in Mark 4:24, to be diligent to understand the meaning behind everything you hear.
You can ask someone close to you to explain the scripture to you, but more important, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you what He is saying to you. Ask the Holy Spirit to bring understanding to your heart of how the Word you are reading is applicable to your life right now and ask Him to bring you fresh revelation and insight.
The bible promises us that as we understand the meaning behind what we hear, as we grasp what we hear in His Word, He tells us that more understanding will be given to us, more understanding will be added to us.
In one of our ladies zoom meetings, one of our gals, described her walk in the Word as ‘3 dimensional’. That’s exactly what the Lord wants to do in your understanding of His Word. He wants to expand you on the inside to not only read His Word, but to see His Word opened up to you in a new level of understanding, and in such a way that you see His presence in your life, His direction for your life and you see beyond what you would normally see in the natural - that you begin to see in the realm of the supernatural.
He takes you to seeing things and understanding things you would never have seen or understood in the natural. When He adds His super to your natural, you begin to receive more and more. Your hunger for Him and His Word increases more and more, and as TPT translation puts it in such beautiful words, “according to the depth of your longing to understand, much more will be added to you.”
Friends, I pray today and this week, more be added to you in Jesus mighty Name.
Blessings on you, Esther
