Heavenly Father – how much this describes me. And how desperately I need a heart of repentance from it. I see the blighted fruit of this sin in almost every conversation I have.

Please grant me a hearing ear. Let me be the man of James 1:19 – quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger. Truly listening and not formulating my answers before I’ve even understood the whole of what is being communicated to me. This is a very great wickedness Father, and it hampers every relationship I have.

Worst of all – I think I know what YOU are going to say, before I’ve finished hearing your own Word. Forgive me. Lead me into a path of righteousness for your name’s sake.