Life-Changing Spiritual Disciplines: Bible Ingestion | John Black | 01-22-17

Date:  January 22, 2017

Series:  Life Changing Spiritual Disciplines

Text:  Psalm 19:7-14 (HCSB)

Title:  Bible Ingestion

Pastor John Black

 

Listening Guide

 

 

Today’s Big Idea

“Our faith will grow when it’s planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.”

 

 

The sad reality is that the majority of American Christians do not engage in God’s Word on a daily basis. 

 

Today’s Objective

To observe how King David viewed God’s Word, which produced in him a deep desire for God’s Word.

1. David’s Descriptions of God’s Word

    God’s Word is … (Psalm 19:7-9)

• The perfect instruction
• The means of renewal
• The source of trust
• The guide for blessings
• The method of understanding
• The force of holiness

 2. David’s Desire for God’s Word

     God’s Word is … (Psalm 19:10)

• Invaluable
• Incomparable

 3. David’s Discernment From God’s Word

     God’s Word …(Psalm 19:12-13)

• Exposes our hidden sins
• Restrains us from our sinful rebellion

 4. David’s Devotion to God’s Word

     God’s Word produces … (Psalm 19:14)

• Holy actions
• Holy thoughts

A simple approach to the most powerful Spiritual Discipline available to us

(Bible Ingestion)

• Read it

 

• Reflect upon it

Does God’s Word reveal something I should …

• believe about God?
• praise or thank or trust God for?
• pray about for myself or others?
• have a new attitude about?
• make a decision about?
• do for the sake of Christ, others or myself?
• do or stop doing because of a direct command?

 

• Remember it
• Memorize it
• Mediate on it

 

• Respond to it
• Obey what God tells you to do!