Men in Ministry, on track or off track, how do you know? The Bible is the basic to answering this question. The Bible is also fundamental to the daily Spiritual Warfare Prayers. Luke 10:21: At that time Jesus, full of the joy of the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father for this was your good pleasure."
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Men in Ministry do you want to take a passive or active approach to your faith? The better question may be: if 90% of church going Protestants want to please Jesus is not Bible reading, studying His Word, a main area of pleasing Jesus? Is pleasing Jesus doing good stuff? Is pleasing Jesus picking what we like to do?
In 1985, I was a New, Freshly Baptized adult Christian. Hungry for God; I came to know the Lord because my wife had a couple’s Bible Study in our living room. I intended to passively participate, to please her. That lasted about 15 minutes. I could not get enough of the Word in me. I went out the next day and bought a Bible. That year at Christmas, a few months later, the Pastor of Neighborhood Assembly Pastor Rozelle, distributed One Year Bible Reading Guides. I still have it in my Bible. That year I read the Bible through for the first time. The habit was later reinforced and rekindled in San Francisco. Pastor “recommended” that we read a specific version of the Bible each year. I fought it and went back to the One Year Bible Reading Guide. I confessed the disobedience and few years later began reading the exact version he recommended each year.
Men in Ministry, the Bible tells us in Acts 2:42 “They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” This is the early church. The church as Jesus designed it. The Church as we are the churches calling each day Holy Spirit come. The example we are to follow. As Christians, we are to follow Jesus and be like Him. When in the desert being tempted Jesus used the Bible to fend off the devil. How can the Word be buried in the heart if we do not read and study it?
Bible reading is fundamental obedience. Consider that obedience begins when we are joyfully, immediately and totally doing what Jesus wants us to do NOT what we chose. Bible Reading is fundamental to prayer. A person cannot be a prayer unless he studies the Bible and cannot study the Bible unless he is a prayer.
Build a daily regimen of thanksgiving, worship, prayer and Bible Reading. Get a One Year Bible in 15 minutes a day you will read the Bible through in 1 year. In the One Year depending on your selected version. It will provide a daily reading of Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs. Other versions provide a different daily mix.
Men in Ministry, to realize everything God has for you, you must fully participate in Christianity.
Reference: There are over 50 Scripture Verses, which tell us to read the Bible.
Glad Tidings Men in Ministry International
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