Hey, I'm David Platt. I wrote a book on how to read the Bible, a simple guide to deeper intimacy with God.

I think about Psalm 119, 162. It says, I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.

There is spoil. There's treasure waiting for you and me every day in God's word, not just so that we know it and understand it,

but so that we know God and walk in love relationship with God.

That's why I wrote this book to help you toward that end.

So I encourage you to pick it up wherever books are sold.

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Well, if you have a Bible, and I hope you are somebody around you does that you can look on with,

let me invite you to open to me to the middle of Bible, and you'll be close to Psalm, Psalms,

and open to Psalm 119. Psalmm 119 i have a ton of ground to cover in a little

bit of time today so i'm going to dive right in with a question for every follower of jesus so i want to

ask you are you currently memorizing God's Word? And obviously I don't mean the whole thing,

but do you currently have a plan that you are implementing to memorize verses or chapters

or books of the Bible? And over the next few minutes, I want to build a case from

God's Word for why memorizing God's Word to the extent that you are mentally able to do so

is critical for your walk with Jesus. I will never forget the moment when God showed me this in a memorable way,

as a teenager, I was in a worship service, the guy leading musical worship, at one point just

put down his guitar and he just quoted a chapter of the Bible. It was so powerful. I'd never

heard anybody do that before. And afterward, a leader in

the church pulled me aside and said, David, if you commit to memorization of God's word,

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