Pastor Deborah
God is always speaking, just that we are not hearing
Shema/Shama שָׁמַע is the 3-letter Hebrew Verb Root defined in English as To Hear, Listen, Take Heed, Harken, Comprehend, Obey…
The difference between our English understanding, and the original Hebrew, is - the HEARING is NOT SEPARATE from the ACTION of DOING:
The ancient Hebrew pictographs show us a figurative picture of Shemaשָׁמַע ; to Hear, Understand and Do:
Listen to obey
Hear, understand, do. All in one word, Shama
Sheen שָׁ = Teeth, Sharp, Press, Crush, Eat, Devour, Destroy, Crush, Remove, Consume, Fire…
Mem מַ = Water, Liquid, Blood,
a Massive amount, Chaos, Raging, Mighty, the Living Water, Messiah…
Ayin ע = Eye, See, Know, Experience, Perceive, Watch, Look, Appearance, Shade, Salvation…
Shem שֵׁם , is the Hebrew word for Name.
It is a sub-root within the Verb Root Shem-a, שָׁמַ-ע.
The Sheen שָׁ means to Destroy.
The Mem מ ַ represents both sides of the Water, Chaos and Life.
A Name Destroys – Chaos.
When Shemשָׁמַ is followed by the Ayin ע ; Eye, it becomes, the Name – Seen, or Perceived.
If we say we Know the Name of יְהוָֹה , *YHVH (He Is, He Was, He Shall Be) it will also be evident by our actions.
To Hear and Do, Shema שָׁמַע , the Voice of *YHVH is to Obey His Commandments and Statutes:
It is a joy to discover what the Lord wants to say to us
The Lord gives us life
so that our lives can be transformed and changed
DEUTERONOMY 27:10
You shall therefore Hear and Do (Shema שָׁמַע) the Voice
(קוֹל Qol) of יְהוִֹה , YHVH your God,
Doing (עָשָׂה Asah) His Commandments (מִצְוָה Mitzvah)
and His Statutes (חֹק CHoq), which I Command you today.”
GENESIS 3:8 KJV
And they HEARD the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
In the presence of the Lord, God speaks
Hear and obey, otherwise, nothing happen. It will be just head knowledge.
H8085 heard
Original: שׁמע
Transliteration: SHÂMA‛
Phonetic: shaw-mah'
- to HEAR , LISTEN to OBEY
- to HEAR INTELLIGENTLY, OBEDIENCE,:- X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, DISCERN, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear (-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) OBEDIENT, OBEY, PERCEIVE, (make a) proclaim (-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, UNDERSTAND, whosoever [heareth], witness.
DEUTERONOMY 6:1-2 NKJV
“Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess,
that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
DEUTERONOMY 6:3 NKJV
Therefore HEAR (shama), O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’
DEUTERONOMY 6:4-5 NKJV
“HEAR, O Israel:
The Lord our God, the Lord is one!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
God wants us to enjoy a land that is flowing with milk and honey.
God's heart is for us to love Him in return.
DEUTERONOMY 6:6-7 NKJV
“And these WORDS which I command you today shall be in your HEART.
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
DEUTERONOMY 6:8-9 NKJV
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
DEUTERONOMY 6:10-11 EASY
The Lord your God will soon bring you into a land that has large, beautiful cities that you did not build.
That is the land that he promised to give to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It has houses that are FULL of GOOD THINGS that you did not put into them.
There are wells of water that YOU DID NOT DIG.
There are fields with grapes and olive trees that YOU DID NOT PLANT.
You will be able to eat AS MUCH AS YOU WANT.
No more work for devil.
1 KINGS 3:4-5 KJV
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night:
and God said,
Ask what I shall give thee.
God will reveal to you He is the God who wants to give you
Think..God is asking us..what shall I give you
What did Solomon say?
1 KINGS 3:6-7 AMP
Then Solomon said, “You have shown Your servant David my father great lovingkindness, because he walked before You in faithfulness and righteousness and with uprightness of HEART toward You; and You have kept for him this great lovingkindness, in that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
So now, O LORD MY GOD,
YOU have MADE YOUR SERVANT KING in place of David my father;
and as for me, I am but a little boy [in wisdom and experience]; I do not know how to go out or come in [that is, how to conduct business as a king].
He put Himself as God's servant.
King Soloman said I don't know and I need to learn how to be a king. How to conduct business as a king.
Many of us said I know.
Acknowledge God as your Master.
1 KINGS 3:9 AMP
So give YOUR SERVANT an UNDERSTANDING MIND and a HEARING HEART
[H8085 Shama - "hear to obey" Heart (innerman)]
[with which] to judge Your people, so that I may DISCERN between good and evil.
For who is able to judge and rule this great people of Yours?”
What Solomon asked pleased the Lord
1 KINGS 3:10-11 AMP
Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.
God said to him, “Because you have asked this and have not asked for yourself a long life nor for wealth, nor for the lives of your enemies,
but have asked for yourself understanding to recognize justice,
1 KINGS 3:12 AMP
BEHOLD, I have done as you asked.
I have given you a wise and discerning heart (mind), so that no one before you was your equal, nor shall anyone equal to you arise after you.
1 KINGS 3:13 AMP
I have also given you WHAT YOU HAVE NOT ASKED, both wealth and honor, so that there will not be anyone equal to you among the kings, for all your days.
Solomon did not ask for wealth and honor.
1 KINGS 3:14 AMP
If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and My commandments, as your father David did, then I will lengthen your days.”
1 KINGS 3:15 AMP
Then Solomon awoke, and he realized that it was a dream.
He came [back] to Jerusalem and STOOD BEFORE the ARK of the COVENANT of the LORD;
he OFFERED burnt offerings and peace offerings, and he prepared a feast for all his servants.
It was never meant to become like Solomon in terms of money
Solomon asked God for a "SHAMA / SHEMA שׁמע Hearing to Obey"
HEART לב lêb
Listen to the Word of God carefully. Everything that you hear to obey.
LUKE 11:28 TPT
“Yes,” said Jesus, “but God will bless all who LISTEN to the WORD of GOD and CAREFULLY OBEY EVERYTHING they HEAR.”
JAMES 1:22-24 MSG
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other.
Act on what you hear!
Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
JAMES 1:25 MSG
But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of ACTION.
That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.
Scatterbrain...you are called here and there, and you are scattered.
Scatterbrain scatter all over the place
First we need to follow as a sheep, hear the shepherd's voice
JAMES 1:25 AMP
But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience].
JOHN 10:1-2 EASY
Jesus then said, ‘I tell you this:
A shepherd keeps his sheep in a safe place with a wall round it.
There is a gate into that safe place.
Anyone who gets into that place by another way, not through
the gate, is not the shepherd.
That person is a robber.
He comes to take away the sheep for himself.
But the shepherd goes in through the gate.
JOHN 10:3 NKJV
To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep HEAR HIS VOICE; and he calls his own sheep by NAME and LEADS them out.
G191 hear
Original: ἀκούω
Transliteration: akouō
Phonetic: ak-oo'-o
Thayer Definition:
to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf
to hear
to attend to, consider what is or has been said
to understand, perceive the sense of what is said
to perceive by the ear what is announced in one's presence
to get by hearing learn
a thing comes to one's ears, to find out, learn
to give ear to a teaching or a teacher
to comprehend
JOHN 10:4-5 NKJV
And when he brings out his own sheep, HE goes BEFORE them; and the SHEEP FOLLOW HIM, for they KNOW his VOICE.
Yet they will by no means follow a STRANGER, but will flee from him, for they DO NOT KNOW the VOICE of STRANGERS.”
Wisdom
JOHN 10:4-5 EASY
When he has brought out all his own sheep, he goes in front of them.
The sheep FOLLOW HIM because they KNOW HIS VOICE.
They will not follow a stranger.
They will run away from a stranger because they do not recognize his voice.’
G5456 voice
Original: φωνή
Transliteration: phōnē
Phonetic: fo-nay'
Thayer Definition:
a sound, a tone
a voice
of the sound of uttered words
speech
of a language, tongue
Strong's Definition:
Probably akin to G5316 through the idea of DISCLOSURE; a tone (articulate, bestial or artificial);
an address (for any purpose), saying or language: - noise, sound, voice.
Hear God's voice to listen to obey. To understand and to obey.
Your lover. Follow Him
JOHN 10:27 KJV
My sheep HEAR (SHEMA) my voice, and I know them, and they FOLLOW ME:
GENESIS 22:18
And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be Blessed, because you have HEARD and OBEYED (Shema שָׁמַע ) My Voice (קוֹל Qol),”
GENESIS 26:1-2 NKJV
There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
Then the Lord appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you.
GENESIS 26:3-4 NKJV
Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven;
I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
GENESIS 26:5 NKJV
because Abraham OBEYED (SHAMA - HEARD and OBEYED) My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
ISAIAH 28:23 KJV
Give ye EAR, [Listen (Azanאָזַן ) ]
and HEAR [Hear and Obey (Shema שָׁמַע )]
my VOICE (קוֹל Qol).
hearken, PAY ATTENTION (qashab קָשַׁב)
and HEAR [Hear and Obey (Shema שָׁמַע )]
WHAT I SAY (אִמְרָה Imrah),
Inside this new heart is written God's law.
When two hears are put side by side, it becomes a heart.
You listen to the person and the person gets attracted to you
The Shema
DEUTERONOMY 6:4-5 NKJV
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
EZEKIEL 36:26-27 NKJV
I will give you a NEW HEART and put a NEW SPIRIT within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
1 PETER 3:3-4 AMP
Your adornment must not be merely external—with interweaving and elaborate knotting of the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or [being superficially preoccupied with] dressing in expensive clothes;
but let it be [the inner beauty of] the HIDDEN PERSON of the HEART,
with the imperishable quality and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit, [one that is calm and self-controlled, not overanxious, but serene and spiritually mature] which is very precious in the sight of God.
Grow more and more beautiful hearing the Lord
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