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SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY. TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS “JOURNEY” “U” MUST BE SPIRITUALLY PREPARED. SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY. THE BASIC PREPARATION IS SIMPLE!!! “KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS LORD (BOSS) AND SAVIOR!!!!” WHY????????.
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SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS “JOURNEY” “U” MUST BE SPIRITUALLY PREPARED
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY THE BASIC PREPARATION IS SIMPLE!!! “KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS LORD (BOSS) AND SAVIOR!!!!” WHY????????
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) I. Why Can’t Non-Christians Understand?? ICorin. 2:14b “Because they are spiritually discerned” LASB “The man without the spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned”
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) II. Why Christians Understand!! John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you” LASB “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of everything I have said to you”
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) II.Why Christians Understand!! (cont.) IITim. 3:17 “That the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work” LASB “So that the man of God my be thoroughly equipped for every good work” “Against Temptation” Matt. 4:4 “But He answered and said, ‘It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’” LASB “Jesus answered, ‘It is written: Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God”
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) LIVE MEMORIZE STUDY READ HEAR
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” 1st) We Must “Hear” God’s Word Heb. 2:1 “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at anytime we should let them slip” LASB “We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away”
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 1st) We Must “Hear” God’s Word Matt. 13:22b “And the care of this world, and the deceit- fulness of riches, choke the word, and he be- cometh unfruitful” LASB “But the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful”
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 1st) We Must “Hear” God’s Word Neh. 8:8 “So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading” LASB “They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was being read”
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 2nd) We Must “Read” God’s Word Matt. 6:11 “Give us this day our daily bread” LASB “Give us today our daily bread” <<How To Read To Transform>> a) Get a good study bible b) Have a definite time and place to read it c) Read one book at a time by paragraph or chapters, start with John, James, I John, Psalms and then Hebrews
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 2nd) We Must “Read” God’s Word (cont.) <<How To Read To Transform>> (cont.) d) Use a pencil or pen to underline verses that really speak to you e) Don’t worry about verses you don’t understand
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 3rd) We Must “Study” God’s Word IITim. 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a work- man that needeth not be a- shamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” LASB “Do your best to present yourself to God asone approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of God”
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 3rd) We Must “Study” God’s Word (cont.) <<To Rightly Divide The Word Of Truth>> a) A good study bible b) A good bible dictionary c) A good bible commentary
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 4th) We Must “Memorize” God’s Word Psalm 119:11 “Thy Word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee” LASB “I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you” <<Hints For Memorizing Scripture>> 1) Choose a good time Matt. 4:4 “But He answered and said, ‘It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that pro- ceeds from the mouth of God’”
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 4th) We Must “Memorize” God’s Word (cont.) <<Hints For Memorizing Scripture>> (cont.) 2) Memorize a phase at a time 3) Carry the verse in your purse or wallet at all time 4) Review the verses
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 4th) We Must “Memorize” God’s Word (cont.) <<Hints For Memorizing Scripture>> (cont.) These U Should Be Able To Recall John 3:16 II Corin. 5:17 Eph. 2:8-9 Romans 12:1 Romans 8:28 I John 5:13 The Roman Road To Salvation Matt. 6:33 (Romans 3:23; 6:23 and 10:9-10) Luke 9:23 John 13:35 I Corin. 10:13 Philip. 4:13 II Tim. 1:7
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 5th) We Must “Live” God’s Word James 1:22 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves” LASB “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourself. Do what it says.”
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 5th) We Must “Live” God’s Word (cont.) “Let’s Personalize It” “For God so loved Donald Hawkins, He gave His only begotten Son, that if Donald believes in Him, Donald should not perish but have everlasting life.” “Having A PLACE In Your Life”
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) III. “Transforming Ourselves” (cont.) 5th) We Must “Live” God’s Word (cont.) IS THERE A (AN).. P.romise to claim? L.ife to model? A.ttitude to change? C.ommand to obey? E.xample to avoid?
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) What God promises!! James 1:25c “This man shall be blessed in his deed” Hear, Read, Study, Memorize and Live; of these which has made a change in and on you and WHY!!
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) !!STUDY AND LIVE!! It’s so wonderful when you actually seek to know His word, and find out just what is offered to you in it. The living becomes something that guides your every thought, step, feeling and action. You really find it hard to not do what is required!!! The rewards are great!!!
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY(!!Letting The Bible Transform “Your” Life!!) B.asic I.nformation B.efore L.eaving E.arth
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