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Welcome to Lad's Subject podcast. Our
mission at Vladimy Subject Ministries is to reach

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the world globally and disciple them digitally. Let's dive into this episode the number

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one thing that the devil is after. In this video, we are going

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to look at what the devil is
trying to get out of our life,

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and that is the Word of God. We're going to also learn how to

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combat that and how to pretty much
help you to get the most out of

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the Bible and to stop the devil
from succeeding in taking the Bible out of

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your life. I will also share
practically how to get into the Word of

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God and some of the things that
I practice in my life. I believe

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it will be very beneficial. If
you're struggling with reading the Bible, understanding

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the Bible, this is a video
for you. If you're struggling with motivation

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to read the Bible, this video
is also for you. Let's start from

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the beginning. The devil is after
the Bible, meaning is after taking the

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Word of God from your life.
I like to say like this, the

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bird is after the book Matthew Chapter
thirteen, verses three to four. It

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says, then he spoke many things
to them in parables, saying, behold,

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the souler went out to sow,
and as he sowed, some seeds

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fell by the wayside, and the
birds came and devoured them. Now,

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so that you don't get confused on
what the bird represents, Jesus and Matthew

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thirteen, verse nineteen says to us, when anyone hears the word of the

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Kingdom and does not understand it,
then the wicked one, so the bird

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is the wicked one, comes and
snatches away what was sown in his heart.

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This is he who received seed by
the wayside. That means that the

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bird is after the book. It
wants to steal the seed. It wants

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to eat the seed. A few
things I want you to keep in mind.

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Number one is the less we read
the word of God, the less

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we desire to read the Word of
God. A lot of people don't understand

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is the motivation and desire to read
God's Word comes from reading it. You

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don't get hunger for the word of
God by not reading the Bible. You

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get hunger for the word of God
by reading the Bible. You don't get

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desire for prayer by not praying.
In fact, the more you go without

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prayer, the less you want to
pray. The hunger for spiritual things work

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the opposite as the hunger for the
physical things. Like for example, if

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I don't eat food, I become
hungry for food. Spiritually, it doesn't

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work like that. If you don't
read the word, you actually will desire

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less to read the Word. So
if you want to get stronger desire for

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God's word, it comes from consuming
God's word. The second thing I want

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you to keep in mind is that
if you feed your soil with the seed

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of God's word, you will starve
the bird the enemy. But if you

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don't feed yourself with the seed of
God's word, you will feed the bird

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the birds that ate the seed God
fed from that seed. Now, the

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devil doesn't get fed from God's word. What he gets fed where he gets

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stronger. Is if you don't get
fed by God's word, you empower the

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enemy by not equipping yourself with God's
word. If you don't get into your

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Bible, your enemy will get into
your business. The third thing I want

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you to keep in mind is that
the enemy cannot stop the word from producing

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the fruit, so he will try
to stop the word from taking root.

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The devil can't stop God's word from
bearing the fruit, bringing change in your

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life, bringing change in your mind, bringing transformation in your life. He

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can't stop that. Once the seed
goes into the soil, there's nothing he

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can do. So what he's going
to do is he's gonna slight you so

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that God's word doesn't take root.
So it goes into the soil, but

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it doesn't take root in the soil, because once it takes root in your

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soil, he can't stop the fruit
from being produced and being released through God's

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word. God's word is has so
much power, it's incredible. But he

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is going to fight you so that
it does not take root in your life.

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You must feel your mind with God's
word so that you will have no

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room for Satan's lies. Now,
what are the three things that the devil

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will do from God's word taking root
in your heart? The first one is

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you not understanding God's word. You're
reading God's word not understanding God's word.

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That's going to be the first thing. And you see the seed that was

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sown on the wayside. Is the
person who read it or heard the word,

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but it didn't understand it. So
he will fight you if you don't

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understand it. The second soil that
didn't bear fruit is the one that had

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very little root system. In other
words, it's speaking of category of people

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that get emotionally excited and then the
sun comes up and they just kind of

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fizzle out. And so that's emotionalism. That's the people who only read the

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Word when they feel like reading the
word. These are people who have a

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lot of emotion, very little devotion. They have no discipline, they have

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no habit, no routine, and
they're not willing to create one. There's

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just more of like what if I
feel it. If I feel it,

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I'm gonna read it. But I
don't feel like really the Bible, So

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I'm not going to read the Bible. And so the devil's going to use

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your emotions so that the Word of
God doesn't get take a root in your

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heart and you become an emotional this
kind of a person who is not grounded

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in your faith because you're deeply grounded
in your feelings. So that's going to

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be the second one. First one
is not understanding the word. Second one

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is when you're just an emotional person, he will use that so you don't

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get into the Word, and then
you won't live by faith if you're not

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in the word. The third thing
is the devil will use business, and

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that's the thorns. You know,
the seed fell into the soil and then

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started to grow, but then the
thorns came squashed it. And thorns are

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business. It's when you're distracted,
when your life is so overwhelmed and so

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full, it does not have place
for God. It doesn't have a place

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for God's word. You don't have
time for God's word. You don't have

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time for reading. I mean,
even as you're listening to this video,

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you're probably running, walking, or
doing something else, which is totally understandable.

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I am not God's word. But
for God's word, you have to

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give it some time. And to
do that you have to upproove thorns.

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You have to start being emotional and
follow your decisions to read God's word even

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if you don't feel like it,
and the desires feelings will follow. And

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then you have to understand God's word. And this is what the understanding that

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I'm going to help you with right
now now before I share that. In

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an interview, Billigraham was asked a
question, if you were to live your

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life all over again. What would
you do differently? And Billigraham said something

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in his response that was really touching. He said, one of my great

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regrets is that I have not studied
enough of the Bible. He said,

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I would have wished that I had
studied more and preached less. For most

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of us, we want to preach
more and read less, preach more and

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study less, preach more and actually
get into the word of God less.

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So how do you combat these three
weapons that the enemy will use to take

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you from God's word and taking God's
word from taking root inside of you.

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First one is you have to combat
the lack of understanding of God's word by

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finding a translation you can understand very
practical. Get a study Bible. There's

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plenty of great study Bibles. The
one that I would recommend is Jack Hayford's

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study Bible. It's called spirit feeled
study Bible because it comes from a point

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of supernatural and the moving of the
Holy Spirit. It doesn't deny the miracles

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and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And so you're one of study bibles

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that, you know, say,
miracles don't happen today. God doesn't speak

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today, you know, And they
don't believe in healing. They don't believe

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in none of this stuff, and
so I would stay away from those study

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Bible. Second one is don't focus
on your feelings, focus on your feeding.

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So the devil will use your feelings
to get you out of the word

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of God. And you have to
change your thinking. And instead of looking

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at how I feel, you have
to say, no, I have to

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feed myself with God's word today.
So you go into feeding mode instead of

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into a feeling mode. Your emotions
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Salvation is God's deeper work, and
God doesn't do his deeper work in

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shallowest parts. Meaning when God saves
you, he saves your spirit. He

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doesn't say your emotions first. So
God goes for your spirit. He doesn't

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go for your soul. He goes
through your soul to your spirit. So

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if you live your life always in
the realm of the soul, you're not

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going to experience the depth of God, and you're not going to experience spiritual

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maturity. And part of spiritual maturity
is stop paying attention to your feelings and

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actually start paying attention to your spiritual
men and start feeding him. The third

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thing that I would encourage is how
to fight this business that the devil uses

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against us, and that is you
have to create a habit to read the

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word, not a goal. Don't
get trapped by self imposed rules or commitments

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that bear no fruit to godliness.
Many people set a goal I'm going to

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read the Bible every single day,
and they create this legalistic rule that they

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impose upon themselves, not against rules
or not against self imposed discipline. But

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that's not the purpose. You need
to develop a habit. And the habit

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is more important than a goal,
because a habit will make this a part

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of who you are. It will
become a routine. One day setting a

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goal and you know, like I'm
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it's it's not what you need.
You need a habit. And so

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now in the beginning, maybe you
need to set up that goal to read

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through the Bible in one year.
But the goal is not to keep a

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goal. The goal is to keep
a habit of living in God's Word.

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Whether it's five times out of the
week, seven times out of the week,

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or twice a day or once every
other day, whatever it is,

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it's the habit that keeps you spiritually
nurtured and spiritually grounded in the Lord.

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How do you read the Word or
what do you do when you're reading the

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Word? How do you get the
most out of the Bible. Let me

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just share with you my practical pattern
or path. I call it getting washed

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daily in the Word through soap.
Now soap soap stands for scripture, observation,

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application, and prayer. Now,
the Bible talks about being washed by

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the word an Ephesian chapter five,
verse thirty six. In John chapter fifteen,

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verse three, talks about being cleansed
by the Word. John thirteen,

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verse eight, Jesus actually washed his
disciples feet and so I believe when you're

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reading the Bible, it's kind of
like the Lord actually washing you with the

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Word. So people who think that
you're doing God as service by reading the

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Bible is actually the other way around. God is washing you. He's washing

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your conscience, he's washing your heart, is washing your mind as you read

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the Bible. Now, how does
that happen? Is you read the scripture,

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So that's the s Then you observe
what you've read. That's oh application

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is you ask the question how does
this apply to my life? And then

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you pray. Now, there's a
difference between exe Jesus and ise Jesus.

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Exe Jesus is when you read the
scripture and you're saying, okay, what

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does the scripture mean? Okay?
And then Jesus is when you impose your

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own meaning on that. So it's
very important as you read the Bible,

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you read the scripture and then you
observe what does the scripture? Say what

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does the scripture mean? Before you
ask the question how does it apply to

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my life? Because if you go
straight for the application without observation, you're

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going to take a lot of scripture
out of context. So you go read

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the scripture, you say what is
the scripture? And mean not for me,

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but just generally what did the author
mean? Why was this written?

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So you observe Sometimes study Bible helps, your commentary helps you, but you

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just need to use common sense.
Read the chapter before, read the chapter

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after, and just kind of pull
back and say what does this mean?

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And then how does it apply to
my life? Because the scripture wasn't just

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given to increase your knowledge, it
was given to increase your holiness. And

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then you pray through the scriptures that
you've read, and that is how you

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get washed by the word. I
call it the soup. Now, for

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those of you who are struggling to
hear God, I heard somebody say this,

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don't say that God is silent when
your Bible is closed. Complaining that

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God is silent with the closed Bible
is like complaining that nobody texts you if

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you turn off the phone. So
I begin to open the Bible again.

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Fight every distraction, fight this thing
that you don't understand it by bringing understanding

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through the reading of the Word.
And understand is that if you don't get

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the feeling and the desire to read
the Bible, probably you're not reading it.

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So just begin to read it.
Begin to force feed yourself until the

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feelings and the desires come in.
God's Word is the lamp to your feet,

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is the light to your path.
All of scripture is God breathed,

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and it's profitable for teaching, full
reproof or correction, for training and the

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righteousness that you, as the man
and the woman of God, may be

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complete and equipped for every good word. God's Word is living and powerful.

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It's sharper than any two words sort
It's piercing into the division of soul and

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the spirit of joint and merrow discerning
the thoughts and the intense of the heart,

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Faull tells Timothy, until I come
give yourself over to the reading of

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the Scripture, to exhortation, and
to teaching insom we see that delight in

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the law of God and meditating in
a day and night will cause you to

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be a tree planted by the rivers
of living water. Listen, it's time

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to get into the Word and for
the Word to get inside of you.

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And then stop the bird from eating
the book, stop the bird from eating

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your seed, stop the devil from
lying and planting all feelings in your mind

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and your thought that you don't need
to read the Word, that you don't

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feel like reading the Word, you
don't understand the Word, you're too dizzy,

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and all of this stuff. And
then you're complaining why your life is

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not growing spiritually, why God is
not speaking, and why you're spiritually not

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maturing. Because the number one tool
that God has given to every believer for

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spiritual maturity, that is the Word
of God. Dive into God's Word today.

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Let me know in the comments what
you learned in this video. Let

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