The Power of a Teachable Spirit

I often hear people say: “LORD take me to another level” but I never hear people say: “LORD enlarge me to be more teachable”. Our next level is linked to us having a greater and enlarged teachable spirit to be able to receive instructions, wisdom, correction, and guidance in righteousness. If you join a church and have a pastor or a mentor please go to receive – and with this comes treasures forever more.

Here are scriptures to get you started:


Ac 28:31 -
Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

Ro 2:21 -
Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

Ro 12:7 -
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

1Co 2:13 -
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

1Co 4:17 -
For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

1Co 14:19 -
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

Ga 6:6 -
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

Eph 4:11 -
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

2Ti 1:11 -
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

2Ti 2:2 -
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

2Ti 2:24 -
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

2Ti 4:3 -
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

Col 1:28 -
Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:




Question & Answer:

1. ”Why” is it difficult for people to be teachable, not looking at the teacher but rather focusing “on the why” regarding the person and their inadequacies?

2. How do a person reach a better mindset regarding being more teachable?

3. Can you be an effective teacher and not be teachable?

4. Does the Kingdom of God need teachable people? Why?

5. Should the pastor be teachable?

6. Should every leader in life be teachable?

7. Is it a fact that, teachable people are normally very humble? Why?

8. Should everyone be yielded to listen and be submitted to receive the doctrine or “teaching” of a “better and more excellent way” outlined by the Bible regarding our life? Why?

9. Do teachable people make great leaders? Why?


* What can you do for the rest of this year, that would cause you to be more teachable in order to grow to another level in God: