Bible Week 2
Reading the Bible should be the most important part of your day, every day.
“10 Reasons to Read the Bible Everyday”
Reading the Bible daily helps us discover
Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. —1 Timothy 4:16
Reading the Bible daily
We often forget what it means that Jesus came and died. The gospel should shake us, not just the moment we first realize and understand it, but every breath afterwards. —-
Reading the Bible daily helps us to resist/fight the
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” —John 10:27
And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” —Matthew 4:3-4
Reading the Bible daily helps us to resist/fight
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. —1 Corinthians 10:13
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. —Matthew 26:41
Reading the Bible daily
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. —Psalm 1:1-3
This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord. That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” —Jeremiah 17:5-8
Reading the Bible daily gives us our spiritual
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. (John 6:35)
‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” —Matthew 4:3-4
Reading the Bible daily gives us
When we read about God moving throughout the history and in the stories of Scripture, filled with ordinary people, we grow in our faith that God can move in our own lives.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. —Hebrews 12:1-2
Reading the Bible daily changes how we
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Reading the Bible daily gives us
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What God Made You Great At = Your Calling
Reading the Bible daily is the primary way God
I have revealed and saved and proclaimed—I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “that I am God. Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?” —Isaiah 43:12-13
“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.” —Martin Luther