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0:05 it's so wonderful being with you again today thank you and I really mean that from my heart thank you for being with me and joining me today a very important subject a very important heart heart talk I want to talk to about the word of God but first let's pray precious Lord Jesus thank you for your word thank you for your promises thank you for the privilege you given us to know you to serve you to walk with you to you be all the glory and the praise and God's people said amen you know I want to talk to you today and I want to show you from scripture the importance and why is become so important for us to know the nourishment of the word of God not just
0:53 the Bible but to know the very depth of scripture to know the very mind of God in these days the dangers out there have become so great and so high that we need to know the very heart of the Bible the very depth of scripture and I'm going to challenge you as my brother and my sister to really get to know the mind of God you know because that's all we have in this life that's all we have to lean upon that's all we have to sustain us spiritually to strengthen us to keep us living Victor notoriously in this dark day in the world today and the word of God brings light to us brings brightness to us so no matter what happens out
1:39 there we are living in the light in the light no matter if the days are dark and getting darker and darker because today the day the days are other are very dark but not in our hearts not in our life not in the church because it says gross Darkness will cover the Earth but the glory of the Lord will be seen upon you but we have to give God something to use you know my my son-in-law Michael Kos that has a great ministry called Jesus image and my precious Jessica my daughter Michael asked me years ago he said Baba that's what he calls me bab Baba he said give me give me the secret to longevity in Ministry and I said
2:26 Michael three keys number one build a reservoir of the word of God in your heart that when the troubles come you'll know where to go number two cling to Jesus and only the word in you will enable you to cling to Jesus you cannot be close to the Lord without his word enabling you to be close to him and number three never leave your call and he said why is that third one important I said because in your call there's protection do whatever God has called you to do in life don't be distracted by other things and so it all begins with the Bible it all begins with the word
3:13 you know I use the story and you you probably heard me say and talk about let's suppose I give someone a brand new car or you give someone a brand new car let's say one of your children or or a family member and you say here's the keys you know brand new car well the car is no good without gasoline they have to go get the gasoline you give them a brand new car or I give somebody a brand new car in my family but then they have to go and get the cast the gasoline is the word of God so you know spiritually uh and and I just give you an example think about God giving you and I a gift called life eternal so he says here's the key to life eternal I'm
3:58 giving you a gift called salvation life eternal but you have to go and get the gas and the gas is the word of God but then God also says but you have to use the key you have to ignite the engine so you can move the car you can drive the car and that key in the engine is prayer well you know we have got to go and find the gasoline ourselves ourselves so in Exodus 16:4 Exodus 16:4 then then said the Lord unto Moses behold I will rain bread from heaven for you and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or not so God
4:45 was saying to Israel look I'm going to send you bread but the bread will not show up inside your tent you have to go find it and with us God has given us the word it's our job to go find it it's our job to go read it it's our job to go and feed upon the word of God God will not do that for us so he gives us a gift called life eternal no different than you and I giving somebody like a car but you and I have to go find the the gas or otherwise it's not going to go nowhere without the word of God that gasoline spiritually in our life we are not going to succeed in this life and be victorious in this life so it's really important that they had to do it daily okay so Israel had to go and look for the word of God every
5:32 single day and and and God said I will prove you I'm going to see how much you really want to follow me how much you want to serve me by seeing how how hungry you are for the word the Mana okay in in in in verse in verse 19 and 20 of the same chapter Moses said let no man leave of it till the morning in other words no leftovers the Bible we give us this day our daily bread so we have to go look for it daily receive it daily not live on what happened yesterday not not live on what God showed us yesterday not
6:18 withstanding they hearken not unto Moses but some of them left of it until the morning and it it brought worms and stank so you know when when we live on leftovers is no good it doesn't stay fresh the word of God is needed every single day because we rush so easily the flesh gets back so easily we have to keep the flesh out of our life by daily receiving the word of the Lord and it says and they gathered it every morning every man according to his eating so God said look I want you to go look for it every single day daily Mana daily Mana daily daily word that I may
7:06 prove you I will rain bread from Heaven verse four says and the people will go out every day that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or they will not so here's Exodus 16:4 and verse 19 through 20 where some people say no I don't want Daily Bread I'll just you know eat what I got yesterday or I'll take a little extra for tomorrow uh oh it's not going to last I never I have never known God to use a leftover to bless my life it's always something fresh it's always a fresh word from Heaven every single day and I said earlier you know we are rust real easily the rust comes on us real easily you
7:52 know how it is when people live by the ocean you know things get uh things get rusted because of the salt and sometimes when we when we uh get rushed on um you know furniture and this and this and that we have to go clean it up again but think about our own life our own life spiritually we got rushed so quickly even way way quicker than Salt coming on a piz of furniture if you live by the ocean or whatever but it's so important to understand the flesh goes back quickly into into the world when there's no there's no power in in that somebody's life to keep that flesh off and keep that flesh under submission you know and under control so the Lord
8:38 Jesus said in John 6:32 through3 he said verily verily I say unto you Moses gave you not that bread from heaven but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven so he is our bread we find him through the scripture for the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and gives life unto the world oh that's so precious they said Lord give us this bread everm more and he said in verse 35 and Jesus said unto them I am the bread of life he that comes to me shall never hunger he that Believes In Me on me shall never thirst how beautiful okay so the word of God is so important because
9:25 through the word we be we we we receive the knowledge of Jesus it's not about knowledge a lot of people who read the Bible are learning Doctrine Doctrine but when you and I read the Bible we are learning Jesus we are receiving Jesus that you know think think about Saul of tarus before he became a Christian he knew the Bible and yet he persecuted the church because he did not know the Lord through the word he just knew the word for information not for Revelation he knew the word and it made him very legalistic because the look the letter kills you know the letter kills ah we need the Holy Spirit to make the Bible
10:11 Alive so that's why we have to invite him precious Holy Spirit open my eyes that I might behold wondrous things out of your law and then he reveals Jesus to us through the scripture through the word of God and Son life comes in just like what happened to Paul the Apostle who was sa of Tarsus after he got saved the word became life to him and now he saw Jesus in the word while before that he he did not see the Lord in the word so it's important to understand that when we read the Bible we are looking for the knowledge of him getting to know him the Lord Jesus getting to know his
10:57 ways getting to know his mind now some people worship Doctrine they don't Worship the Lord a lot of them you think about how many people who know the Bible and don't know the Lord many who teach the Bible in universities let's say don't know the Lord so knowing the Lord comes through as you read the word I want to talk to you a little bit about meditation because meditation is so people you know always ask me often ask me how do you read the Bible I read thoughts I don't read chapters let me give you an example Romans 1 2 3 4 and 5 talks about justification that's one thought so when
11:43 I read the Bible I will read Romans 1 2 3 4 5 and I'll stop and I'll think about what I just read that is meditation and what you think mentally becomes heart meditation eventually because the more you go through it in your in your mind the more life you receive in your heart and meditation is really important Romans 6: 7 sanctification and that's one thought Romans 8 is an amazing chapter it it focuses on glorification glorification Romans 910 and 11 another thought God's plan for Israel Romans 12-16 how we as Christians should live
12:31 the duties of Believers so you break it like you know you you break it like that or you you do the same thing with Genesis you do the same thing with Exodus and you can decide where the thought stops it's quite simple really because you you'll see the change you'll see the change it goes from one thought to another and and you meditate upon thought by thought and don't go beyond that till you know exactly what you've read in that thought the first thought like Romans 1:5 and then you go on Romans 6:7 a whole different thought sanctification and you think about what Paul wrote what he said you go through it mentally you meditate upon it and then that meditation of the Mind becomes
13:17 meditation of the heart because you you you receive the nutrients of that beautiful word you just read so this is what they call by chewing the cud you know like the cows so I think what is so important is Bible study and Bible meditation often overlap uh there is a difference because Bible study puts the emphasis on the mind on the intellect but meditation focuses on the heart so the mind is used of course at first but it's the heart that becomes active
14:03 it's the heart that becomes active so when you read the Bible it begins with Bible study mentally and that is totally focused on intellectual knowledge intellectual ability the minute you meditate on what you have read and studied now the focus is the heart uh the focus is the activation of the heart and that's when you have gone through it in your mind first intellectually and eventually that intellectual meditation becomes
14:49 heart meditation and when it becomes heart Med meditation the first thing you that that you'll notice is you'll talk to God right there you'll fellowship with the Lord right there it will produce lifegiving prayer I hope this is helping you produce lifegiving prayer so precious let's go to Psalm 19 and I'm I'm I'm going to show you uh how it begins so when you begin to meditate upon the bo upon the word of the Lord it says the law of the Lord I'm reading Psalm 19:7 the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the minute the word of
15:35 God is in the heart it restores the soul wow that's what the word converse the soul means it means it restores the soul the law of the Lord is perfect restoring the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure is sure giving wisdom to the simple so the minute that word becomes active in you through meditation number one it restores you on the on the inside number two it gives you wisdom within so this is really important because
16:22 um there there is such a beautiful key here and and I like to kind of tell you this is when when what I call apprehension happens it begins with apprehension uh let's let's look at Psalm 119 119 this is so beautiful thank you Lord for your word thank you Lord Jesus for your precious word to you belongs the glory and God's people said Almighty amen okay let's look at Psalm 11 19 verse 999 I have more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies are my
17:12 meditation I love to read verse 100 it said I understand more than the Ancients than someone who's older than you because I keep thy precepts thy precepts and the and the minute apprehension Begins the word of God will do something in you that is so powerful that's so powerful because only the word of God will keep you away from sin blessed I I'm going to read verse one of the same Psalm 119 blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord blessed are they that keep his testimony this is what be what begins with meditation you begin to keep
17:59 the word in your heart blessed are they that keep his testimony and seek him with a whole heart remember what what I said earlier the minute the word of God comes into your heart it produces Fellowship it triggers communion with God it says blessed are they that keep his testimony and now they seek him with their whole heart so to seek God with their whole heart that's the the result of the word in you they also do no iniquity they walk in his ways so you will be free from sin the minute you receive spiritual Insight spiritual understanding you begin to apprehend apprehension begins when meditation begins I have more
18:47 understanding than anyone wow because I have been reading the word of God God has expanded expanded the understanding of my heart not just my mind my heart there's like an enlargement of the heart is it precious what what what what Psalm 99 says sorry Psalm 119 verse 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers because your testimonies are my meditation the second thing that that that that that happens now is what is called assimilation assimilation is where you become satisfied so the spirit is fed now that
19:37 spiritual food is being processed through meditation and now you develop your digestive system basically the digestive system comes alive in the spirit in the spirit so our spiritual food now begins to form our spiritual character it begins with understanding more than my teachers now it begins to form in you and me a holy life a spiritually holy character in you and I just like physical
20:24 food affects you physically spiritual food affects you spiritually and I love what Psalm 63 says about this and I hope this is really helping you sweet people of God I just want you to know your Bible I really want you to know the Lord and his mind it says in verse 5 of Psalm 63 my soul will be satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips I think when we reach that place where our spiritual digestive system is back to life and we become satisfied that's when When Praise are
21:11 outside of us wow and and I think this is where what Paul meant in Colossians 3 verse 16 when he talked about the word and he says this he says let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with Grace in your hearts to the Lord so this is When Praise just erupts out of you like you're reading the Bible and Just Praise just erupts out you have reached that place of assimilation now let's talk the the uh final one the final one is is really application you stop leaving it so finally now there's the practical outworking
21:59 of the of the process of meditation so not only is this building your character it's nurturing your spiritual Faith now you are adjusting to the ways of God so we go from understanding to nourishment and satisfaction to adjustments to adjust to the Bible we we we kind of fall in line with the scriptures and now the the scriptures begin to set our our steps in order in the world we begin to walk walk in the law of the Lord remember what it says earlier in Psalm 19 verse one they that
22:46 walk in the law of the Lord are free from iniquity so if you want to really be free from sin you got to do what what the Bible says about it if to walk in the law it begins to affect your footsteps from understanding to satisfaction which is nourishment to suddenly now you you begin to walk it you begin to live it you begins to work out in your life and that's what I think it means in Joshua 18 this book of the law will not depart out of your heart you'll meditate there in day and night that you may observe to do You observe and now you're living it to do according to all that's written then there in and then you'll have good success then you'll prosper in all you
23:33 do spiritually and naturally and that's in Joshua 1:8 this book of the law will not depart out of your heart and mind wonderful Jesus I thank you Lord for your word where would we be Lord where would we be without your precious word oh thank God for the Bible let's just look real quickly before I say bye at at someone blessed is the man that walks not in the Council of the ungodly nor stands in the way of Sinners oh aren't you loving this I'm about to shout nor sits in the seat of the scold but his Delight is on the law of the Lord in his law that he meditate day and night watch now the change here watch the change now in verse two it says this
24:19 man has joy in him because of the word his Delight is in the law of the Lord there's joy in his life now Joy is back and joy stays because of the Bible and then verse three he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth his fruit in his season his Leaf will not wither whatever he doeth shall prosper that says to me that our life will be nourished and our life will become fruitful we will yield fruit in our season so God's word when we meditate upon the word it brings us joy in verse two it brings us nourishment in verse three and it brings us what fruitfulness and healing because it says here his Leaf
25:07 will not wither that means no sickness God's word produces Health it says so then it produces success whatever he doth will prosper you know what I my faith is so stirred right now I want to pray with you Lord let your word dwell richly richly in everyone that's right right now listening in everyone that that is watching on this wonderful day let your word dwell richly in each one of us oh precious Jesus give us a deep hunger we've never known for your word to you and only to you belongs all the glory and honor and
25:54 God's people said amen all right now it's time to go get the gasoline H you know God gave you that gift of life eternal now it's time to get the gasoline and get that engine moving of prayer and watch what God will do with you listen before I leave you I going to ask you to give to sew into the work of the Lord because it's important it's important you know I come daily and I'm with you daily sometimes from a service or sometimes from the studio what I'm just talking to like this about the Bible and other things sewing financially into the work of God is saying Lord you can trust me you can trust me cuz see God wants to
26:39 bless you financially God wants to prosper you financially God wants to take care of you for your future and your children's future and giving is the key to financial blessings God knows look 90% of your time is spent thinking and planning and working about how to make ends meet and how to live and how to take care of your life and your family so think about how important it must be to God too that our finance matters to God he cares about the smallest little matters with us and he gave us the answer he said when you give I will give when you sow I will give you the Harvest when you seow seed in the Lord's work is like a farmer
27:26 that se seed in his farm and then you have to believe now that that seed will work you have to have high expectation for the Harvest to come and faith is the key here faith is the key when we s faith is the key there is no faith involved when you go to a store and buy something because you see it when you go to buy food or buy clothes there's no faith involved but when you suceed there's Faith involved cuz when you so seed like a farmer when you so seed in in the ground he doesn't see the harest the you know Harvest he has to believe for it he sees it you know coming and when we so seed we have to believe God for the Harvest and I want to pray with you right now that God will meet your needs
28:12 financially because he promised it he promised it it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down shaken together running over shall man give to you so we can't receive till we give Lord bless them as they obey you speak to them Lord about their amount they should swow today in your work and multiply that seed and bless them with the Harvest that they need just now in Jesus most precious and Wonderful Name Lord thank you Lord for your promise thank you for your word I give you all the praise would meet every need need in their life right now in Jesus name and God's people said amen amen share this teaching with your friends because this is so needed so much love and I'll see
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