John 12:28-30: ^“28 [Rather, I will say,] ‘Father, glorify (honor, extol) Your name!’” Then a voice came from heaven saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” ²⁹ The crowd of people who stood nearby and heard the voice said that it had thundered; others said, “An angel has spoken to Him!” ³⁰ Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.”

Andrew Wommack shared this in one of my classes, and it has now become my revelation, too.

He explains, “some said it was thunder, and some said it was an angel that spoke to him… it’s amazing to me that they all heard the same thing, but they had different opinions about what it was.” 

He goes on to explain…

“You’re heart is like a filter. 

A person who’s heart is hardened could hear an audible voice and explain it away.

A person with a sensitive heart heard an angel, and heard God speak to them. 

It’s not what God does that’s the variation, it’s our hearts that receive or reject things.

This biblical principle of hardness of heart was a powerful revelation to me because I didn’t understand this- how some people can see the same thing one way, and others another. 

I believe that our life experiences impact the hardness or sensitivity of our heart. 

The hurts of life, our experiences and trials that are so painful and hurt so badly in the natural. 

Our thoughts from those things can create emotions (the Bible says) and we must be careful that those thoughts create God-inspired emotions. Because those thoughts that aren’t captive to the Word of God, can scream louder than the truth of God’s Word, especially if we don’t know what the Word says. 

So what we see, experience, and feel becomes more real to us, taking us captive in a negative way, laying the foundation of a stronghold belief that’s contrary to anything the Word says…rather than the truth of God’s Word being used that will actually set us free. 

This goes too for spiritual principles. 

If we have believed for healing for someone and we didn’t see it manifest, our heart can become hardened to the fact that God wanted them well. 

If we were believing for a miracle and we didn’t see it happen, our heart can become hardened to the Miracle Worker. 

If we don’t ‘feel’ or understand the Love of the Father we can believe that He really maybe doesn’t love us…

The ground of our heart must be tilled up. 

The tilling produces the breaking up of the ground and old roots and stuff getting cleaned out that allows the good seeds to go in- the bad must go first, then the good can come in and harvest. 

Do we have any heart filters that are stealing from us? 

It’s no big deal to God. 

He’s got the tiller already cranked.