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Today we bring our series called 40 Days in the Word to a Close, with a final look at practical Bible study tools

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Here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called integrating God's Word into my life.

Now, you want to build your life on the Word of God's. You know, I don't always agree with it.

I don't always like it. It's not always convenient. It's not always politically correct.

But if God said it, it's gotta be true. So God, I'm gonna build my life on the Bible. It is my final authority. This is my final authority for life.

Now, after you start building on it, the second thing you have to do is you have to feed on it. You have to feed on the Bible to get the strength you need.

Now, I've asked Pastor Buddy to come and share the next couple of points. Okay?

The second way to integrate the Word of God into your life is to feed on it.

Feed yourself on the Word of God. The Bible tells us that the Word of God is spiritual food. In fact, it uses several pictures.

The Bible describes itself as the water, the milk, the bread, and the meat of the spiritual life.

So it has everything that you're gonna need for sustenance. But you have to be feeding yourself. You have to be eating something.

Because just like you need physical food for physical strength, well, you've gotta have spiritual food for spiritual strength.

So you have to be feeding yourself constantly, all of the time. You know, if you were a construction director, okay? A contractor.

Would you want to send a guy out on your construction crew that hasn't eaten anything in two weeks?

Or if you're a commander in the army, would you send a person into battle who hadn't had a meal in a month? Well, of course not.

We need to be feeding ourselves so that we have strength to accomplish the tasks ahead of us. The Bible says that we are all building.

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