Churches and all followers of Christ are fully dependent on God's word in order to

carry out God's purposes. Sadly, however, many Christians either don't read God's

word regularly or don't know how to understand it rightly.

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In this message from Psalm 8, David Platt

gives us a helpful tool for getting the most from our time in God's word.

In order to be a faithful disciple and in order to make disciples, every follower of Christ is encouraged

to meditate on and memorize the word, apply the word,

pray the word, and share the word.

Here's David with a sermon titled, By Making Disciples and Multiplying Churches

from Psalm 8.

Last week I took the first Psalm, Psalm 1, and tried to give an example of what meditation on God's word

looks like using that acrostic that's in your notes maps M for a meditate

memorize a apply p pray and s share but even last week we were going pretty quickly through that time in God's word and by the end I felt like I had successfully scribbled all over the screen and

written a bunch of words that you couldn't actually see in a way that well I want this to be helpful one of my kids

after that time Sunday said dad was really diplomatic about it he's like it was

helpful hearing you share all that stuff but like really when I opened my

Bible I just don't know how to do whatever you were doing up there and I appreciate

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