Life Lesson
If you are too busy to read the Word of God, you are too busy period.
Life Lesson
Take the time to read, because Jesus took the time to bleed.
Selected Notes/Illustrations
John 3:16-17 NKJV
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
Matt 12:3 NKJV
But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:
Matt 12:5 NKJV
Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
Matt 19:4 NKJV
And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'
Matt 22:31 NKJV
But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
Mark 12:26 NKJV
But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?
Gen 24:63-64 NKJV
63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming. 64 Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from her camel;
Josh 1:8 NKJV
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Ps 1:1-3 KJV
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Ps 63:6-7 NKJV
6 When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate on You in the night watches.
7 Because You have been my help,
Phil 4:8-9 NKJV
8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
1 Tim 4:14-16 NKJV
14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. 15 Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all. 16 Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
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