Salvation is Free but His Voice is Expensive

The Myrrhologist Podcast, Marissa Saint Luc explores what happens when faith moves beyond information and into relationship.

What if Scripture was never designed as a disconnected collection of books—but as one unified covenant document? What if the Bible functions more like a ketubah—a covenant of promise, inheritance, protection, and restored union?

This episode journeys through hearing the voice of God, covenant intimacy, bridal identity, the High Priest and the Bride, Revelation as covenant fulfillment, and the tension between humility and expectancy in prayer.

Together we explore:

• Why Jesus emphasized hearing more than information
• The difference between knowing Scripture and recognizing His voice
• The Bible as a covenant story moving toward a wedding
• Revelation through the lens of fulfillment instead of fear
• The danger of spiritual boredom and secondhand faith
• False humility vs entitlement in prayer
• Groaning, surrender, and praying with God rather than merely to Him
• Why discernment is trained slowly and intimacy cannot be automated
• The invitation back into purity, sonship, and listening

If prayer has felt distant… if hearing God feels impossible… if you have wondered whether intimacy was reserved for someone else…

This conversation is an invitation back to the table.

The Bride is learning to hear again.

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Transcript

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Welcome to the Moralogist Podcast. This podcast is for listeners who are learning how to hear and not just read. If you've ever wondered why your prayer life feels one-sided and why scripture feels distant or why intimacy with God seems reserved for others, you're in the right place. I'm Marissa St. Luke, and this is the Morologist Podcast. Today I want to teach you something that once you see it is going to change the way that you read the Bible forever, especially the parts that people think are confusing or parts that people consider severe. Because knowledge is increasing in this hour. But scripture never contradicts itself. It functions as one unified covenant document. The Bible is structured like a katuba. A kutuba is a Jewish marriage contract. It records all of the promises of the bridegroom, the costs that he's willing to pay, the responsibilities of the bride, and the inheritance that's promised at the time of fulfillment. So when you recognize the Bible as a kutubah, you start developing the ability to see his nature. And one of those is that he's very protective, like a healthy form of possessive. He's protective of covenant, protective of intimacy, and he's protective of his bride. Jesus didn't invite people to learn about the kingdom. In fact, he hid the information in all of the parables about the kingdom. What he did is he invited them to follow him, to abide in him, to remain in him. Those are covenant verbs. And this is where hearing his voice becomes essential. He didn't say, my sheep read my words. He didn't say, my sheep understand my words. He said, My sheep hear my voice. It's relational. And when hearing is removed from the Christian life, everything else collapses. Nobody else wants to say it. I'm going to say it. Prayer that way is very boring. It's one-sided. You doubt if he actually hears you, if he would actually answer. So frustration sets in, and you're moving in faith, and you're moving in a direction that seems right. It should be of God. And so you go that way. But Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In the season that we're in, good ain't cutting it anymore. It's got to produce life. And there is a lot of people who have grown exhausted, trying to reach a God that they've been told no longer speaks. And the lack of their experience has proven that to be the case, but it's not true. And there is a people rising up in the earth, a priesthood that holds a flame that's burning and brings everything into focus. Just as the high priest in the Old Testament, he didn't enter the Holy of Holies as a private believer. He entered as a representative. On the Day of Atonement, the weight of the entire nation rested on one man. Every sin, every failure, every fracture. And I really didn't understand all of this until I started studying how intentionally everything was set out. The high priest was required to be married for covenant completeness. Hebrew tradition records that provision was actually made for a substitute wife to be on standby in case something happened to the priest's wife before he entered the Holy of Holies. Because the priest could not stand before God without covenant structure intact. Jesus does not enter the Holy of Holies as a lone savior. He enters as a high priest. And that's why he doesn't remain alone. He comes out to claim his bride. Because the goal of atonement was never just forgiveness of sins, it was restored union. And this is why Jesus was pierced in his side at the cross. At the moment he took on the sin of the world, the bride was restored. And this is why the Bible ends with a wedding. And once you see it like this, the whole book of Revelation starts to make sense. It's the execution of the covenant. A sealed scroll appears, spectators are terrified because they're watching events unfold. But the bride is steadied because she's recognizing fulfillment. One group is out here chasing conspiracies, and the other is resting in protection. And this is why Jesus keeps saying over and over again in Revelation, he who has an ear, let him hear. Because not everybody hears. And this is where scoffers come in. Because when somebody can't hear, they don't usually admit and say, I can't hear. They say, I don't know if it's possible or it's definitely not possible for the day we're living in. They mock what they failed to steward, and they scoff at what they never yielded to. But scripture told us that this would happen, right? It says, in the last days, scoffers will come. And they're not coming from the outside, they are coming from among those who speak the language that I call Christianese. And you might be sitting here judging me too, and that's okay. Jesus told me this would happen. One, because I'm a woman, two, because I'm a little too confident about hearing him. And I'm gonna be vulnerable with you. There were seasons where I could not discern if what I was getting was me or God. I always tried to talk myself out of it because honestly, I didn't want to misattribute my own thoughts to him. And I would always keep it to myself. And then the more the word of God got in me, that voice grew. And I would still question myself. And God found a way to disrupt my own thoughts by speaking to me in literal foreign languages, breaking up my familiarity, helping me recognize patterns on purpose to prove it was Him. So instead of giving me clarity quickly, he trained my discernment slowly. What would have taken a couple minutes or less in English took me about an hour in interpretation. So the confidence you hear now was not born out of assumption. It was born from restraint because the only version of myself I trust anymore is the one that lives at the lowest place of the fear of God. That's the part that tests. That's the part of me that waits until obedience is clearer than my excitement. That's the version that he trained. And this is not new. Everyone questioned Jesus' authority when he spoke. They said, Isn't this Mary's son? Isn't this the carpenter? Where did he get all this authority? But they couldn't deny the wisdom. They couldn't argue the fruit. And so all they could do was attack familiarity. When someone speaks from hearing, it exposes those who have learned to function without listening, who are being spoon-fed by podcasts, by TikTok preachers, by a bunch of external noise that sounds familiar and unpolluted. And I really pray that we get delivered from boredom and from old patterns and from placing our trust in men. Life is so much better when you know that you know, and it produces in effortless obedience, like whatever the cost is, it's by any means necessary. I like to say this: salvation was a free gift, but his voice is expensive. And the most costly thing it cost me was my time. Because hearing God doesn't fit inside of a managed schedule. You can't really rush intimacy and you cannot automate waiting. I'm still learning how to stop managing my life and to stay in this chamber of faithfulness. But I waited my whole life to get here, and I ain't coming out for nobody. And when I asked God about showing me my rightful prayer posture as an ambassador of the kingdom of God, he showed me a picture of a seesaw. On one side was humility, and on the other side was expectancy. Some people are so humble that they never ax. They don't want to presume that sounds like God, you know what I need. This was me. What looks like humility is actually false humility. And on the other side, some are coming in too hot, too much expectancy. They're demanding and decreeing and declaring. What looks like faith is actually entitlement. I want you to picture this. You're sitting at the kitchen table with your father, right? You're looking at the keys on the table, you're waiting for permission, you're a little nervous to axe. Now we got fear that has replaced sonship. The father knows that you need to be somewhere, but you won't axe. That posture produces an orphan spirit. And then there's others who grab the keys without asking, and they're going for that drive, assuming access. And this is entitlement behavior. This produces a soul spirit. Saul didn't lack an anointing, he lacked the ability to wait for permission. And both of these postures are off. One never asks, and the other never listens. Neither produces dialogue. Dialogue requires sonship. Humility without expectancy never asks, and expectancy without humility never listens, and hearing requires both. You gotta be low enough to be taught, bold enough to believe that He will answer. And when those two balance, the seesaw settles, and then there's something deeper still that the Bible talks about. There is a groaning too deep for words. I have found that this takes over only once you are fully surrendered. When you're no longer focused on yourself, no longer leading with requests that pertain to your own will, no longer trying to steer the moment in prayer. That is when the Spirit Himself intercedes through you. This is not hype or emotionalism. It looks like losing control, but this is the burden of the Lord coming upon a yielded vessel. You're no longer praying to God, you're praying with Him. And it is a birthing. Something is being formed, and that can't be rushed, it can't be cleaned up, it cannot be managed. And this is where many people get uncomfortable because it's raw, it's unpolished, and you don't see it often modeled. There's no volume control, no predictable outcome. So when it starts beginning to rise, the instinct is to shut it down. But there is a power that accompanies this place that cannot be replicated by language alone. And that level of surrender will always confront comfort. Because birthing is messy and purposeful. And when the spirit is groaning through you, with you, it's covenant doing what it was designed to do, bringing forth what God has already spoken. And listen, I barely made it here. Every day I'm still scratching the surface of who he's called me to be. Every day I'm following a voice in a dark room. Discovering the nature of God has trained my senses. So here's the invitation. If prayer has felt one-sided, if you are not accustomed to hearing the voice of God, and if you question whether it's even possible, I want to pray for you right now that you would renew or develop an openness to purity, because that's actually where it starts. So, Father, in the name of Jesus, I just ask that you would soften every place where disappointment has hardened trust. I pray for purity of desire, that our hearts would want you, not just answers, not just relief or direction, that our spirit would leap at the sound of your voice, that if we heard even just one word, it would be enough to last a lifetime. Lord, I just ask, Father, that you would cleanse our hearing and quiet every competing voice, wash away any cynicism, fear, and accusation that have clouded our expectation. Holy Spirit, I ask that you would create space within us where you are not rushed, where we can wait on you, where we are not managing your voice like an appointment, but giving you room to rush in like a wave at any moment of our day. Teach us how to sit in reverence without shrinking back and how to ask boldly without presumption. Father, I just ask that you would restore childlikeness, let purity recalibrate our posture so that humility and expectancy can finally meet. And where words fail us intercede, I ask for you to awaken the groan within us, align us and form what you desire. All of creation is groaning and waiting for the sons and daughters of God to be revealed. So we give you permission to move through us, give us fragments of the mind of Christ. He who searches our heart knows the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for God's people according to the will of God. Holy Spirit, I thank you for coming in like a dove and coming out like a lion. In Jesus' name, amen. I pray that you feel encouraged and a little more confident today, and that you will make the space with the Holy Spirit to hear his voice, because there's nothing like it. You've been listening to the Mirologist Podcast. This was a bonus revelation for this channel. If you would like to stay connected, this episode has been brought to you by Ahava Overflow. And I would like to encourage you to visit MarissaSaintluke.com. You can find prophetic crest designs that witness about the unshakable government of the kingdom of God, revealing identity and the marking of the bride. And please like, subscribe, and share this message because it's time to get excited. This is the season of the bride. So start cleaning up the cobwebs because revelation rearranges some furniture. The bride is coming out of hiding. And until next time, God bless.