In this month’s video blog, Pastor Bill shares his process when reading the bible and how to stay hungry for the Word of God.
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though
the best way to i think to enjoy reading
the bible is to do it with the holy
spirit learn to recognize the presence
read till it comes alive um i
what i like to do is is i’ve already
mentioned
in one of the questions that i was
reading a book by another
author and he was talking about what he
had seen in the scripture
and that awakened the hunger in me i
think that’s one of the wonderful ways
to do it is to hear a bible teacher to
to hear a a great sermon to
read a good book something that just
kind of gives you insight from their
perspective that’s a very
uh legitimate way to learn to hunger for
the word yourself
but at some points you’ve got to get
into that book and do it in a
partnership with the holy spirit
what i found is that in the kingdom of
god we get hungry by eating we don’t get
hungry by not eating
in the natural we get hungry by not
eating but the kingdom’s a different
kingdom
and and so what i’ve learned to do is if
i’m
if i feel like i’m lacking insight on
prayer or motivation to pray
or i need help and discipline or
priorities or whatever it might be
i will start reading on that subject
throughout the scripture even though i’m
not hungry even though i’m not
interested
i will read i will read books i’ll read
the scripture
and what it will do is it creates a
hunger in me when you when you encounter
the god of the word the word becomes
something you can’t live without and i i
don’t
i don’t know that i’ve had a day in uh
in decades where i’ve not been hungry
and
uh i i feel like i feel like this thing
works read it with the holy spirit ask
him to help
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