Ep. 363 - The Power of Memorizing and Meditating on Scripture

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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If you don’t memorize Scripture, you won’t be able to stand against the devil. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar each share how storing God’s Word in their hearts transformed their faith and equipped them for spiritual battle. E.Z. didn’t grow up with the Bible, and when he discovered it, he became captivated by its sweetness and power to guide his life. Oscar initially found the Bible confusing, but through memorization, he came to see it as the single, reliable source of wisdom. While God’s law is...

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0:00.0	We're talking about the sword, you know? The Word of God is the sword of the spirit.
0:04.6	You can't yield the sword if you don't pick it up. You can't use it if you don't know it.
0:10.2	Right. So to hide God's word inside of our hearts, if you're always meditating, you can't be
0:14.9	meditating on God's word and looking at something horrific on your phone at the same time.
0:21.5	You can't do it.
0:22.5	It's one or the other.
0:24.3	So I love the fact that we have been commissioned by God to open up God's word and to dig down deep.
0:33.3	There was a quote from J.C. Ryle who said,
0:36.4	Let us read our Bibles like men digging for a hidden treasure.
0:41.5	Wow.
0:41.9	Let us read our Bibles like men digging for a hidden treasure.
0:44.6	So every morning when we open up, we look for that golden nugget,
0:49.0	and then we are just enamored with that golden nugget all throughout the day,
0:54.2	going back to that single verse that stood out to us.
1:03.3	Oscar's got a black eye.
1:05.0	Why does Oscar have a black eye?
1:09.7	Because I punched Oscar.
1:13.7	We have that now on record.
1:15.5	Yeah.
1:16.2	Oh, no.
1:17.0	Human resources.
1:18.3	Employer abuse.
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