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I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

Father, we thank you for the Word, and we believe that we're going to understand it, retain it,

and learn a very important lesson out of your word in Jesus' name.

For at least two years now, I've been on a mission to try to get people to change their thinking a little bit from reading the Bible to studying the Bible.

See, we hear all the time, you need to read your Bible, you need to read your Bible.

And that's good.

Reading the Bible is good.

But most of us have a tendency to try to read as fast as we can

and conquer material. Somehow another, the more we read, the better we feel about ourselves for that day.

But God doesn't care how much we read.

What he cares about is what do we learn.

And the only way that we're really going to learn and retain

is not by just rushing over something, reading it,

to say we've got our Bible time in for the day,

but it's to study.

Like in Romans 12, chapter 12, there are 12 different lessons in that one chapter.

Now, you'd probably never know that unless you actually took it verse by verse and wrote down what you're learning out of there.

And so I'm going to teach on the first three chapters of the book of Galatians.

And we're going to take our time.

You're going to be a good Bible student.

You're going to learn many, many good lessons.

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