IF EVERY CHRISTIAN WOULD SEE AND UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES, AND SPEAK WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAYS, INSTEAD OF WHAT PEOPLE SAY, WOW! WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT WOULD MAKE!
How much time do you spend in the word of God? How much time do you spend in prayer and asking God to reveal his word to you.
You see, many Christians only hear what a minister says or what a friend says about what is in the Bible:
Now, there is nothing wrong with listening to a friend or a minister on the subject of the Bible! But you should never swallow what they say, hook, line and sinker until you see the word for yourself:
There are things you can do when you hear the word spoken by a friend, relative or a minister:
1) Take notes
2) Pray
3) Get the word of God out
4) Ask God to reveal the truth by his word
As you do the above, clear your mind and say to the Holy Spirit, I am here with God the Father’s word and have these notes from (then say who from) please as I look into your word, reveal to me what your word says. Reveal what is true and not: Don’t take what a minister or friend says, just because they carry a ministers title, or they have been your friend for a long time:
You see, you cannot go wrong when you invite the Holy Spirit, into your studies and let him tell you what Gods word says and means:
Another thing you can do, is pray for your mind to be quiet and your spirit to listen to what the Spirit of the Lord is revealing:
Get rid of all distractions, even if you are watching a movie that you are interested in, that is a distraction and will interrupt the Spirit of the living God:
Let your time be between you and the Holy Spirit: Get rid of all distractions, sometimes you need to have your spouse watch the children while you go off by yourself to hear from the Spirit of God or when you sit down to read the word of God:
There are so many sayings out there about the word, that is nowhere close to the truth, but you will not know the difference until you spend time alone with God!
You might say, Brother Bill, do you mean that preachers will tell you things that are not in the word or things that have been twisted?
This is why you here things like, God does not heal today, those things are past gone: Well if you take that in and accept that as true, you cannot receive healing or be delivered.
In 1 Peter 2:24 --- Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Now, look in the word of God and find the scripture that says, healing has passed away! Look for the scriptures that say, yes that was true at one time, but we cannot accept that now! It did not work for Aunt Jody, she got sick and never got healed and she died sick:
Well, just because uncle doodad or aunt doodad died of an illness does not mean that the word is no good or that healing has passed away:
Do you know for a fact what Aunt or Uncle doodad was saying while they were alive?
Do you know what Aunt or Uncle doodad believed when they were alive?
Do you know if Aunt or Uncle doodad even read the bible or just took what a friend or minister said?
These are very important questions that we need to ask ourselves before we believe the negative or we listen and swallow what cousin doodad say that healing passed away, because Aunt and Uncle doodad believed God and died: Really, now I ask you, what scriptures were they standing on? How much time did they spend in the word and prayer? Better yet, are you even sure that Aunt and Uncle Doodad knew the bible or just took what preachers or cousin a friend so and so said!
The above items are very important to know before you doubt the word of God or blame God:
All of us have the same amount of time each and every day: We need to look at our schedule and adjust our time to include the study of the word and prayer:
Do you know you can clean house or do your job and pray at the same time? Do you know that God the Father will talk to you while you are doing your job or grocery shopping etc.:
Yes, that is true! God the Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus are listening for you to speak his word out of your own mouth!
Yes, they are listening, now notice, I did not say they are listening to what you said preacher so and so said, I said they are listening to what you are saying on a regular basis:
Notice the words above “regular basis” I say that because all of us make mistakes, but what makes the word of God work or not work, are the words spoken out of our mouths on a regular basis:
Don’t be tripped up by our own lips or someone else’ s lips, but get inside of us exactly what God’s word says and see how it will change our lives and change how we see God and his word:
REMEMBER: JESUS IS LORD!
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