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When you're a healthy Christian, you will desire God's Word in your life.

So if to you reading the Bible is a drag, that is not a good indication.

I think a real indication of you being a spirit-filled believer is that you are hungry for God's Word.

Health is often tied to appetite.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie points out it's a very good sign if we have an appetite for scripture.

Hungry people are healthy people.

This is the day when the lost are found.

This is the day for a moment again.

Amazing grace, God's Weakness, God's Word is a life for our path, food for our souls.

It's our only offensive weapon in our suit of spiritual armor.

And yet in many homes is the most dusty book on the bookshelf.

It contains the very keys to the issues of life, and it's overlooked and forgotten.

And so many times we need the help it offers.

A well-used Bible that's falling apart is usually owned by someone who isn't.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie points out the importance of that

in the Bible.

I can tell you I knew nothing about the Bible before I was a Christian.

I wasn't raised in a Christian home.

I'd never read the Bible from myself.

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