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So if you study the word and you see what God is promising and you get into agreement with that and you believe that and you keep believing it and you keep believing and you keep believing it, then you will get it.

Thank you for joining us today on Enjoying Everyday Life.

I'm talking this week about the importance of studying God's Word. At least that's what I talked about yesterday. I'm going to be talking about it again today and tomorrow.

Today I'm talking about believing God. But believing God is believing the Word. Because when you study the Word, you're really studying the nature and the character of God and his heart for his people.

And so many people say, read the Bible and yes, it's great. Read the Bible. Any chance you get, read the Bible. But we need to go deeper than that.

I think that reading the Bible is kind of like the surface, but studying the Bible, you go deeper.

A lot of people think because they go to church on Sunday that that's why I hear the Word. Well, that's good too. But you need to invest time in studying the Word of God.

Mark 424 in the amplified Bible says, and he said to them, be careful what you're hearing.

The measure of thought and study you give to the truth that you hear will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you. And more besides, will be given to you who hear.

I love this. It's basically saying exactly what I'm trying to say. You hear the Word. Be careful what you're hearing is accurate coming from an accurate Bible teacher.

And then the measure of thought and study that you give to that truth that you hear is the measure of virtue and knowledge, like real knowledge, not just head knowledge, but revelation knowledge.

You know, we say we don't need more information. We need more revelation. It needs to get from here to here. It needs to be incorporated into our lives.

We don't just need to hear it, but we need to do the Word.

In John chapter 13, Jesus washed his disciples feet. And when you get to verse 17, he said, knowing these things, happy are you if you do them. See, just knowing the Word won't add the joy to our life that God wants us to have. It's the doing it.

And there's power in the Word to help you do it because the Holy Spirit works through the Word and he will give you the grace to do it.

But sometimes you may have to study it for a period of time. For example, if you need to forgive someone that's hurt you, well, you might hear somebody say you need to forgive your enemies. Well, you might think, well, I can't.

It's just not fair. They don't deserve forgiveness. It's too hard. It's too hard. But if you study yourself, and it takes time, but investing time in the Word of God is just that it's investing.

It's not wasting. It's investing. And you know, we all have the same amount of time. And it's really up to us what we do with it.

And anybody, anybody who really wants to can carve out some of their time to study the Word. And when you spend time in the Word, you're spending time with God.

And you're not doing it far him. It's not like an obligation or something you owe God, but you're doing it far yourself because you're learning how to live right and how to recognize what's right from what's wrong.

And you have an enemy, a spiritual enemy, Satan, the devil, and demonic power, evil forces. And the way that they gain access into our lives is through lies and deceptions.

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