Richard Sibbes on Lydia’s Conversion

The effect of God’s grace in the life of an individual is to enable them to attend to God’s word, by which he brings about faith.

God opening the heart of any Christian, it is to carry the attention to the word. God by grace carries the heart to the word. ‘She attended to wat Paul spake.’ Where true grace is wrought, it carries not to speculation, or to practise this or that idle dream; but where the heart is open grace carries to attend to the word, especially to the good word, the gospel of Christ. As grace is wrought by the word, so it carries the soul to the word. - Works vi p. 525