How To Make the Most of Your Time in God's Word

How to Make the Most of Your Time in God's Word

James 1:21-22 -- Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves

Here is a very practical outline of how you and I can make the most of our time in God's WORD. This outline is from the Sunday evening message that Dr. George Murray, Chancellor of Columbia International University, shared with us on Sunday evening.

Step One: Before you listen to and study God’s Word

Come with a pure heart.
· Wash up before you eat
· Get the soil ready to plant the seed
· Get rid of all moral filth
· Get rid of the evil that is so prevalent (overflow of wickedness) “When you leave – don’t look back – Remember Lot’s wife. Luke 17:32
· It took God one night to get Israel out of Egypt; It took forty years to get Egypt out of Israel.

Step Two: As we listen to God’s Word

Receive God’s Word with humility
· Like a baby
· For yourself (and not for someone else)

Step Three: After you listen to and study God’s Word
Go do what you hear!

· Merely listening = Listening with the intent to gain more information is Deceiving yourself = listening without doing anything about it

· Really listening = Listening with the intent to change my life. Looks intently = listening with doing something.

Spiritual maturity is not measured by how much we know, but how much we obey. – Dr. Howard Hendricks

Brothers, use this simple, but profound outline to help maximize your time in God's WORD. -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK

God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 25; Psalm 119:1-88; 1 Corinthians 7:20-40

Great Quote: Somewhere in this trial His will must be hidden, and you must accept His will whether known or unknown...Say "Thy will be done!" again and again. Shut out every thought but the one thought of submission to His will and of trust in His love. Hannah Whitall Smith