Study the Word, Do and Teach! - 01 Introduction
Highlights:
Time mark: 1:30
There is a major difference when we are talking about studying the Word of God versus reading the Word of God.
It's important that we study the Word of God. Studying the Word of God is totally different because now we are engaging ourselves to receive what the Word is saying. We are engaging ourselves to have the ability for God to reveal to us, so that we can learn something beyond our common knowledge so that we can gain instruction on how to go about doing things. So that we can also gain a knowledge on how to be more discerning, and the decisions that we make, and the choices that we make so that our life is a good quality of life. So that we are truly living the life that God has given us through His Son Jesus Christ, living life abundantly!
Time mark: 13:07
Ezra 7:10 (ESV) verse 1
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Time mark: 14:50
Psalm 119:15-16 (NLT) verse 2
I will study your commandments and reflect on your ways. I will delight in your decrees and not forget your word.
Time mark: 16:41
Hebrews 4:12 (ISV) verse 3
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
Time mark: 17:08
When you have meditated on the Word, day and night, it's on the inside of you. You're going to be careful, and you're going to do things according to what the Word instructs. We're going to be more careful according to the way of the written Word, for us to follow the will of God. Why? Because then we make our way prosperous, and then we will have good success!
We have to put in the work of studying the Word of God, meditating on it day and night, so that our character is defined according to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
When it's time to take care of business, the Word of God is going to tell us how to conduct our self accordingly. Instructions on how to use our talents and our gifts. Artists, singers, all of this in the Word of God but we have to read it, we have to study, and God will lead and guide us through the scriptures on how to conduct our self so that we can come into the place of being successful. The very thing that He has equipped us with having, whether it's our skill or our talent, we've got to give these things over to God so that He can be glorified in our good work.