No.1: READ THE BIBLE REGULARLY
Do we have a Bible? Do we take our Bible off the bookshelf, where it might have been gathering dust, and open it? “Which Bible do I choose?”
GREAT ADVICE from -, the announcer on the Breakfast Show on Radio Rhema (1251AM), and a Pastor:
Look up a Passage in the Bible that you are familiar with/know well – in several Translations – find one in which God “speaks” to you, and start using that one. It is God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, speaking to us.
Aaron Ironside
“How much of the Bible do I read?”
How hungry are you?
Its more than just “eating” God’s Word, but allowing it to “speak to our hearts” – praying about what we have just read – meditating/ thinking/ mulling over what we have read – and letting it change our lives.
For example Mary the mother of Jesus, in Luke 2:19, “But Mary TREASURED UP all these things and PONDERED THEM (thought about them) in her heart.”
Eating food signifies how much of the bible do you read?
It doesn’t matter how much – or how little – we read of the Bible, but that we read it regularly. Do you remember the Israelites gathering Manna in the wilderness (Exodus 16:4-36)? The Bible records that some gathered much, and some gathered little – but each had enough (Exodus 16:17). Interesting, eh.
Hands in prayer
No.2: PRAY – Do we know how to?
Jesus’ disciples, in desperation, asked Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray.” (Luke 11:1). Jesus said to them, “Pray like this”. He then gave them what we call “The Lord’s prayer” – but it’s really “The disciples’ prayer” (see Matthew 6:9-13) (“The Lord’s prayer” – Jesus’ prayer of interceding for us – is recorded in John 17).
Mark records, ‘Very early in the morning…Jesus got up…and…prayed’ (Mark 1:35 NIV). Jesus made deposits each morning so that He could make withdrawals throughout the day. Many of us don’t, and it shows! (from Prayer (1))
No.3: MEET TOGETHER REGULARLY FOR FELLOWSHIP, TO ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER, AND FOR COMMUNION
Acts 2:42, “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” (See also Hebrews 10:24-25).
No.4: REACH OUT TO OTHERS – ESPECIALLY TO SHARE THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL
See “The Great Commission” (Matthew 28:18-20).