“I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy [like God].
“You cannot be strong in God unless you are diligently and constantly listening to what God has to say to you through His Word. You cannot know the power and the nature of God unless you partake of His inbreathed Word. Read it in the morning, in the evening, and at every opportunity you get. You will find that the more of God’s Word you hide in your heart, the easier it is to live a holy [power-filled!] life. As you receive God’s Word, your whole physical being will be given life, and you will be made strong. As you receive the Word engrafted, with humility [knowing you can’t make it happen] (James 1:21), you will find faith springing up within. You will have life through the Word.” – S. Wigglesworth
But what does it say? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.” For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!” So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Word of Christ. – Romans 10
Some people may read the Bible in Hebrew or Greek. Be the kind of person who reads it in the Holy Spirit. You can read with your mind, but by meditating, turning it over in your mind and speaking it out loud again and again, it will get into your spirit and become more and more a part of who you are. If you are a believer in Jesus, His Spirit lives within you. Ask Him to engraft the Word into your very being. Receive every Word that He speaks to you.
Grab hold of a little Word of power that gets lit up to you when you are reading. Repeat it out loud, and think about it. Ask the Lord to expand it to fill your heart and to be implanted in your being and bear fruit in your life. Hold onto that Word, and ask Holy Spirit to pivot you and spin you and wrap you around that Word, to see it from different angles. Ask Him to bring into your awareness other words in Scripture that hook up to that word and explode it into your understanding, and ask Him to make your life a fulfillment of the Word.
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