It is this that leads to careful consideration of what the truth one is hearing means . Pray as one hears and after. If God is speaking ask him to make clear his meaning to you and to give you grace to believe and obey. Do not keep what you hear to yourself. Few speak of the word they have heard, as if sermons were such secrets that they must not be spoken of again.
Conversation helps retention and drives the application home to the heart.
Do you see, by the way, how all of this requires and is made so much more effective and powerful by the keeping of the Lord's Day holy. The problem with TV football is that it drives the impression of the Word of God right out of your mind. What passions the Word of God caused to rise in your heart are swept away before these new passions. And do you not see how all of this is helped if you come again to the Lord's House on a Sunday evening to hear the Word once more. She was asked why she went to hear preaching in English when she couldn't understand English.