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00:11 >> It has stood the test of time. 00:15 God's book, the Bible, still relevant in today's 00:20 complex world. "It Is Written," sharing 00:26 messages of hope around the world. 00:30 ♪♪ ♪♪ 00:42 >> Friends, thank you for joining us on 00:45 "It Is Written Canada." We have been so privileged 00:47 to have Lee Venden here with us, and we have been talking about 00:52 the three basic ingredients that you need to have a meaningful 00:56 relationship with God, and we looked at, number one, 00:58 being reading the Word of God for the purpose 01:01 of having a meaningful relationship with Him. 01:04 And number two, Prayer. Prayer for the purpose of having a dialogue, 01:10 not just a monologue, just not speaking to God and asking Him for things 01:14 but actually listening to Him. And then, thirdly and the product of the first two, 01:18 is sharing what you have experienced with God. 01:22 So, Lee, when I think about the Word of God, now, I want 01:26 to focus on number one today, the Word of God -- I think of 01:30 John 6:35, where Jesus says, "I am the Bread of Life." 01:35 And so the word of God is the Bread of Life. 01:38 And He says, "Whoever comes to me will never hunger, 01:42 and whoever believes in me will never thirst." 01:44 >> Mm-hmm. >> Yeah, the metaphor that Jesus 01:47 himself used about the bread. I mean, everybody has bread, 01:50 right? Pretty much. 01:51 >> Yes. >> Even gluten-free bread. 01:52 [ Laughter ] 01:54 And so Jesus is saying, like, you know, "That's how important I am. 01:58 I'm as important as your bread." And I like to kind of work 02:02 with a recipe for bread, thinking about it as spiritual bread. 02:06 And so when people ask me, "So how do you spend time in the word that's meaningful?" 02:11 I say, "Let me give you a little recipe for that, that Bread of Life." 02:15 And then the recipe goes like this -- time alone at the beginning of every day in 02:22 contemplation of the life of Christ through His Word and through prayer. 02:29 So that's it. That's the recipe. >> That's the recipe. 02:31 >> And, as you know, recipes vary from one person to another in terms of the way 02:35 they apply them. Some people are dump-and-stir and other people follow 02:38 the book very carefully. But in a recipe, regardless of how you approach doing them, 02:44 there are certain things -- if you're gonna make bread, you're going to have to use 02:47 flour. Doesn't matter how you do recipes. 02:49 Still gonna have to use flour. >> Mm-hmm. >> So what I like to do with 02:52 that recipe is I like to tell people, "These are some suggestions, these are sort of 02:56 like -- here's the flour that needs to be included in the recipe. 02:59 You figure out how you want to put it and mix it. But look for ways to use 03:06 these ingredients in your quiet time with Jesus, alright, your daily time with Him." 03:12 >> So you sit down and you open the Word of God. What do you do 03:16 before you open the Word of God? >> Well, the very first thing I do -- I'm glad you asked 03:20 that question. Yeah, the very first thing I do is I pray 03:23 for three things in particular. >> Mm-hmm. >> I say, "Lord Jesus, first of 03:27 all I want to have an increased sense of appreciation for you." That's why I'm reading. 03:33 I'm reading for relationship. I'm not reading for facts and information. 03:37 I'm reading for relationship. I'm reading like you'd read a love letter from a fiancé. 03:42 So I say, "I want my heart stirred again." 03:45 The two on the road to Emmaus, when they got to the end of that 03:48 trip, they said, after Jesus vanished -- remember the story? 03:53 They said, "Didn't our hearts burn within us as He showed us 03:56 Himself along the way?" 03:58 Well, He was showing Himself to them in scripture. So I want Him to show Himself 04:03 to me in scripture in such a way that when it's done I can say, "Didn't my heart burn within me 04:08 as He showed me Himself again today?" So that's the first thing 04:10 I pray for. The second thing I pray for is that that the devil's power 04:16 to distract me will be -- you know, that God will prevent the devil from distracting me. 04:23 >> Okay, so the devil can put in some distractions there. >> Mm-hmm. 04:27 >> Yeah. What kind of distractions does he usually put in your life, 04:30 love? >> Well, it's usually worrying about the children and about our 04:38 daughters and something would come up and then I would think about that 04:42 and the scenario would play over and over, you know, and so, for me, I think it's 04:46 just worrying about the girls. >> Yeah, and those distractions become numerous. 04:51 >> And there's nothing evil about that. That's a beautiful thing. 04:55 To be loving and caring about your children is not a bad thing. 04:58 So it's kind of sneaky of the devil to use something that's not evil 05:03 to keep you preoccupied from having quality time with Jesus. >> Mm-hmm. 05:08 So we have to let that -- give it to God. So we pray, number one. 05:12 "Let me have appreciation for Jesus." >> Yeah. 05:15 And, number two, to just silence the distractions of the devil. So, for me, 05:21 I say, if it's quiet time at the beginning of every day, you know, in contemplation 05:26 of the life of Christ, then I'm picking up His Word and I'm saying, "This is the first 05:30 device that I'm going to look at at the beginning of that day. I'm not going to look 05:35 at any other device or any I'm not text, right?" >> What kind of device? 05:40 What do you mean? Why not? >> I could pick up my phone, I could pick up my computer, 05:43 any kind of device. >> And what could happen if you did that? 05:46 >> Well, it's going to take me throughout the day -- I'm not gonna even read the Bible. 05:51 I'm going to be looking at so many other things. I've just got, like, a herd -- 05:55 >> Probably e-mails. >> E-mails, yeah, text messages. And so God's saying, "This is 06:00 the first text you're going to read," and that's scripture. And if I put the pause on 06:04 everything else in my life, and I say, "I'm just going to read the Bible first, 06:08 that's the first text, and I'm going to do that for the first hour of my day," 06:12 that's a commitment, a solid commitment to God and to His work, yeah. 06:17 >> Mm-hmm. What about someone who is not a morning person... 06:22 >> Oh, oh >> And they just feel like -- yeah, they just -- it's hard for 06:28 them to do stuff in the morning, because they're not a morning person. 06:33 >> Well, boy, that unpacks a whole different element that I think it's important 06:41 for us to address, but think about -- think about, okay, Jesus compared himself to 06:47 bread. >> Yes. >> He's really comparing himself 06:50 to a meal, right? Okay, so nutritionists tell you, what's the most important meal 06:55 of the day? >> Breakfast. >> Breakfast. 06:56 >> Breakfast. And they would tell you not to call it a good breakfast if it's 07:00 a Carnation instant drink. >> Yeah, no. >> They want you to have a 07:03 hearty breakfast, okay? >> That's right, yeah. >> And what would happen 07:07 if you waited till the end of the day to have the biggest meal? 07:10 What would happen to you? >> Oh, no. Yeah, you couldn't sleep at 07:13 night. >> And you'd probably gain a lot of weight. 07:15 >> Yeah, you'd gain a lot of weight. That's right, 'cause 07:17 you're not working out. >> Yeah. So there's something about starting -- 07:20 you know, it's interesting that you mentioned that because in John 6, which you quoted, 07:25 Jesus also compares himself to manna. Mm. Hmm. 07:29 And He says, "I am the manna that God sent down." And when you think about Jesus 07:34 comparing himself to manna, of course, that takes you back to the children of Israel 07:38 traveling across the desert and God giving them this supernatural food, and it 07:44 came at what time of day? >> In the morning. >> Yeah. Now, Jesus is comparing 07:48 himself to manna. And the manna falls heavy in the morning. 07:53 And if you go to Exodus 16, which is where God gives the guidelines for gathering manna 07:59 to the children of Israel. One of the things He says is, "Gather it in the morning, 08:04 because it's going to melt if you wait very long." >> That's right. That's right. 08:08 >> And what I think -- I tie that back to what you just said a minute ago -- what's the first 08:11 device I'm going to open in the morning? I'm gonna open the Bible 08:14 rather than my cellphone or my iPad. >> Otherwise, it's just 08:17 going to melt away. >> Yeah, it's gonna melt. That's what I consider 08:20 the melting, yeah. Those devils rabbits that he releases that I chase after -- 08:26 those e-mails that I need to answer, whatever. But back to your question, 08:30 if I'm not a morning person... Jesus is more interested in time with me 08:38 than I am in time with Him, and He's even offered to be my alarm clock. 08:42 >> Wow. Mm-hmm. >> Isaiah 50:4. 08:46 He says that He will waken us morning by morning. 08:52 He will cause our ear to hear. 08:55 And so I have discovered -- and this is really fun. I could tell stories for hours 09:04 that people have shared with me in which they decided to ask God to meet their alarm clock. 09:07 >> Yeah. >> And He wakens them. People who are not morning 09:11 persons. And so they say, "Okay, Jesus, if this is for real, 09:15 if you really want to hang out and you really want me to grow in a relationship with you 09:19 and you want this time to be a way to start my day before the distractions of the day 09:23 have started to get in my face, I give you permission to fulfill the promise 09:28 of Isaiah 54 for me. Wake me up." And He will do it. 09:33 And not only will He do it, He'll make you alert. And then here's 09:37 one more thing. If you get up for Jesus... Let's just say that you're 09:42 a person who needs eight hours of sleep, typically. But you get up 09:46 after seven hours instead, because you got up for Jesus. This is amazing thing. 09:51 Seven hours of sleep with the blessing and the anointing of time with Jesus, 09:56 will give you more strength energy, and efficiency for your day than 10 hours of 10:00 sleep would have given you without the connection with Jesus. 10:04 So if you're really dialing in, you don't miss your sleep and He'll even wake you up, 10:10 if you're not a morning person. >> He promises to give us strength. 10:12 >> Yeah. >> So when you when you pray, you open up your Bible, you ask 10:17 for an appreciation of Jesus, you ask to appreciate Jesus more and also you want to 10:23 be able to... >> Be free from those distractions. 10:26 >> ...be free from those distractions. What's the third thing? 10:28 >> The third one. The third thing I ask for is that He gives me 10:31 spiritual eyeglass. >> Ah, okay. >> Because, you know, 10:34 spiritual things are spiritually discerned. And if I read the Bible without 10:40 spiritual -- I call them the eyeglasses of the Holy Spirit. >> Both: Mm-hmm. 10:43 >> If I read the bible without the eyeglasses the Holy Spirit, do you know what I get? 10:46 I get information. Remember Jesus saying to those guys -- you referenced 10:50 in an earlier episode, Mike, where Jesus said to those guys, "You search the scriptures 10:54 because then you think you have eternal life, but you missed me." 10:56 The reason they missed Him is because they didn't read with spiritual eyeglasses. 11:00 They just read. >> It was all for knowledge. >> It's for knowledge rather 11:04 than for heart as well, right? >> So I ask Him to give me the spiri-- back when I was a kid, 11:09 someone gave me a Bible that had blue-ink pictures, full-page. 11:13 And the facing page was red cellophane that was clear. And if you laid the facing page 11:19 over the blue ink, amazing things happened. I almost thought it was magic, 11:23 because one of the pictures were a bunch of sheep in a pasture, and as soon as you 11:26 laid the red over, it looked like there was a shepherd in front of the sheep. 11:32 I couldn't see the shepherd until I laid the red cellophane. If I held the red cellophane up 11:36 to the sun or the light, I didn't see the shepherd in it but there He was. 11:40 We need the red cellophane of the Holy Spirit, or all we're going to see is the sheep. 11:44 We're not going to see the shepherd. And I want to see the shepherd. 11:47 That's the third thing I pray for, spiritual eyes, yeah. >> So how much should you study? 11:54 How much of the Bible or how long? >> How much time? 11:58 >> Yeah, how much time? >> Yeah, how much would you read? 12:00 I think that's -- I think it's important to let the Holy Spirit grow that for you, because the 12:07 manna -- back to the manna again. One of the guidelines 12:10 for the manna, in Exodus 16, said, "Each man must gather according to his own need." 12:17 Now, remember Jesus is the one who compared himself to manna. If each one is to gather 12:22 according to his own need, then time's going to vary from one person to another, 12:26 and I think it would be dangerous for you or me to tell people how much time 12:30 they should spend with Jesus. >> Right. >> Because, you know, one of the 12:32 things could happen is people would say, "Okay, I got my 15 minutes in -- check. 12:38 I'm good to go." And they turn that relationship time into just another 12:42 what you might call a legalistic sort of a work thing, you know? What if a husband said to his 12:47 wife, "Counselor said we need to spend at least 30 minutes having meaningful time together. 12:51 I've got the clock running. Let's get the 30 minutes going." You know? 12:54 Missed the whole point, right? >> Exactly, yeah. Yeah, that relationship 12:58 wouldn't work very well. I'm just guessing. >> [ Chuckles ] You're guessing. 13:04 Pretty good guess. >> Or someone might say, "I read the Bible for an 13:08 hour-and-a-half this morning," and you maybe didn't read it for that long, and then you 13:12 might start, you know -- >> "I'm a spiritual dud." >> Yeah. "I'm a dwarf." 13:18 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's another thing. I think we should avoid 13:22 comparing spiritual lives with each other, 'cause the real deal is we're walking with Jesus. 13:28 And our walk with Jesus is going to be unique and special, each person 13:33 And He can be in charge of growing the time we spend. So, you know, a bodybuilder, 13:39 he might lift 100 pounds of dumbbells. I might only be able to lift 13:43 20 pounds. But the bodybuilder would tell me, 13:46 "Don't worry that you can't do 100 pounds. just start lifting your 13:49 20 pounds. And if you do it every day, you will find that you'll have 13:53 more stamina, more strength, and you can do heavier weights." >> Right. Mm-hmm. 13:58 >> And I think the application to the spiritual life and time with Jesus sort of 14:02 goes the same way. >> Absolutely, yes. So you get -- you get 14:07 stronger spiritually as you continue to spend your time alone with Him, so... 14:14 >> And you talked about worrying over your daughters. Sometimes the time we spend 14:18 with God is driven by the need that we have. You know, have you ever noticed 14:22 in physical life, you can be more hungry sometimes than you are others? 14:26 You could sit down and have a heartier meal, could just eat more. 14:30 Maybe you've been out working hard in the yard or something, and you have a bigger appetite. 14:35 So I think that time may have ebbs and flows with Jesus. >> Right. 14:42 >> And some days you'll have an appetite that just seems insatiable, 14:46 you can't quit, you're just -- hours go by with Jesus. >> Right, right. 14:50 >> Other days, not so long. >> Yes. >> But I think it is important 14:53 that you have it every day. That little recipe I gave? Time alone at the beginning of 14:58 every day. >> In contemplation of the life of Christ, yeah. 15:03 >> Far too many people just substitute church for their daily walk with God. 15:06 They don't have a daily walk with God. They just go to church. 15:09 >> That's once a week. So one meal a week. >> Yeah, one meal a week. 15:14 >> Yeah. Yeah. How well would you do with one physical meal a week? 15:20 >> Yeah, you wouldn't survive. Well, you'd lose a lot of weight. 15:23 [ Laughter ] >> You'd lose so much weight. >> Yeah. 15:27 Yeah, but you'd be famished. I mean, you would not -- you would not be healthy. 15:31 And, spiritually speaking, I can see the connection. You just do not want to survive 15:37 on one meal every now and then. >> Mnh-mnh. The sad truth is, if you ask 15:44 people who attend church how much time they spend alone with God -- this is a sad truth. 15:52 On the average, four out of five people who attend church, 15:59 when asked to describe their personal spiritual life, will stay consistent 16:03 in church attendance, little or no time alone with Jesus daily. 16:08 >> Wow. >> Four out of five. >> Four out of five. 16:10 >> Yeah, that's forty years worth of surveying in churches that I just summarized 16:14 right there. I can support that. It sounds outlandish, 16:19 but it's true. And so what that means is that four out of five -- 16:23 can you imagine trying to be a baker without using flour? Can you imagine trying to be 16:29 a skydiver on a parachute? Or a dairy farmer without any goats or cows? 16:33 Well, if I'm trying to be a Christian without daily time with Jesus, 16:39 then I'm trying to run a bakery without flour. >> Yeah, impossible. 16:43 >> So this time alone with Jesus is absolutely nonnegotiable. >> Nonnegotiable, yeah. 16:49 So you're trying to be a "Christian" -- that means "like Christ" -- 16:56 with no connection. And without that connection, you're just doing it -- 17:00 >> You're basically a spiritual anorexic, which you don't want to be. 17:05 >> You don't want to be, yeah. >> We want to eat the bread every day. 17:09 >> Right. We want to have just a short break right now. 17:13 And when we come back, we're gonna take a view of the Bible and make it applicable 17:21 so that so that our viewers can actually look at, "How do you study the Bible?" 17:27 And so we'll ask the Holy Spirit to guide us in that and trust Him to guide us in a practical 17:33 application of reading the Bible every day. So let's just take a quick 17:38 break, and we'll come back and do that after this. Do you ever struggle 17:43 in your spiritual walk? I mean, do you ever wonder why you just don't feel as close 17:49 to God as you would like to? The truth is that, sooner or later, this happens to each 17:54 and every one of us. >> Mm-hmm. Yes, but did you know 17:57 that they are very real and practical steps you can take to help develop 18:02 that closeness with God? That's why today we want to offer you this very special 18:08 book, "Help in Daily Living." 18:11 >> Mm, I absolutely love this book. 18:14 It's, as it says here, A practical guide 18:16 to everyday blessings full of concrete steps 18:20 that you can take to strengthen your walk with Christ 18:23 and at the same time build stronger, more meaningful 18:26 relationships with the people that you love. 18:28 And today this book is yours absolutely free. 18:32 Just contact us through the information on the screen. 18:35 And may God bless you as you seek Him. 18:37 >> Mm-hmm. >> Friends, what we are going 18:41 to attempt to do right now is completely unrehearsed. 18:44 We are going to open up the Word of God, 18:47 and we're going to trust the Holy Spirit to guide us as we 18:50 study the Word of God together. We're going to give you 18:53 a demonstration of of an acronym. 18:56 It goes like this -- S.O.A.P. It shouldn't be hard to 18:59 remember. The first thing is scripture. 19:01 So we're going to open up a scripture, just 19:03 a random scripture, and as we read through that, 19:07 before we do, we're gonna ask God, we're gonna pray to Him, 19:10 because we want God's guidance because this is spiritually 19:14 discerned, and so His Holy Spirit is going to guide us 19:17 in the understanding of this scripture and when we read it. 19:19 So we're going to -- "S" is for scripture. 19:22 "O" is for observation. So we're gonna try and see 19:25 what we see from that scripture. And so we're going to observe it 19:29 and then we're going to apply what we see in the scripture, 19:32 a personal application to our lives, and then, finally, 19:35 we're going to close off with prayer, and we're going to thank 19:37 God for leading us in this Bible study. 19:40 So you pray for us, and we're gonna pray as we go through this 19:43 Bible study together. 19:45 >> 'Cause we want to give a miniaturized sample of what we're describing as 19:50 that quiet time in the Word with God, morning my morning and day by day. 19:53 >> Absolutely. So, Lee, can I ask you to open with prayer before 19:57 we open up the scriptures? >> So, Lord Jesus, we actually believe you when you say 20:04 that you are the Bread of Life, and we would like to have a fresh slice right now. 20:09 >> Amen. >> So we're going to open up the passage here in scripture 20:12 that we haven't rehearsed because we're trusting you to speak to our hearts 20:16 and our souls right now. Give us a deeper sense of love and appreciation for you. 20:22 Give us concentration, freedom from distraction, and just make it real. 20:29 For Jesus' sake, amen. >> Amen. >> So here we are. 20:33 We're going to open it up. 20:34 >> Yeah, so we're gonna start with "S," which is scripture, 20:39 and we're going to take a look at some Mark 4. 20:44 >> There you go. >> And we're going to look at 20:46 verses 35 to 41. So I'll start reading at 35. 21:57 >> So you read the scripture. And so that's the "S." "Observation" -- this is 22:03 something that I observed as soon as you started reading there, that this was evening. 22:08 So they had come to the end of the day, the light is not 22:11 at its brightest, and Jesus says, "Let's go to the other side." 22:17 And they all get into the boat together. So what am I seeing? 22:20 Well, I'm seeing that it's dark and now the wind picks up. And they're in the middle of the 22:27 lake. What are you seeing? >> Well, I see that 22:33 what they did, they did at His command, 'cause He said, "Let's get in the boat. 22:38 I want to go to the other side." So, in a sense, you could say they are workers for Jesus 22:44 and they're involved in doing what He asked them to do. >> Yes, yes. 22:50 >> And then I'm thinking about Him sleeping. So I'm guessing He was pretty 22:54 exhausted. >> He was exhausted, yeah. >> In fact, He must've been 22:58 major exhausted because if the boat -- as you read, it said the boat 23:03 was filling with water, and He's still asleep. >> Sleep, yeah. 23:07 >> So He must have been really tired. >> Yeah, I don't think I'd stay 23:11 asleep in those conditions. >> No, water coming over, boat doing like so, you know, and 23:15 He's still sleeping? >> And they must have been so panicked, 23:19 because I can just imagine if the boat is filling with water 23:22 and you thinking, "Oh, no, we're going down." So you're gonna try and get rid 23:26 of that water. So I just see them, yeah, baling, yeah, baling water out 23:31 and just panicking. >> Yeah, the fear level is very high. 23:34 So their fear level's very high. They had faith in Jesus that -- 23:38 >> Their fear level's so high they forgot He was there. >> Ah, they had faith 23:42 and they did what He asked them to do when He said, "Let's go to the other side," but now they're 23:46 totally panicked, their faith has evaporated, and their faith is pretty much zero 23:54 especially when they see, "Hey, He's sleeping. What are they doing sleeping?" 23:58 >> It's almost like they discover Him sleeping as an after-- afterthought. 24:02 You know, have you ever heard people say, "We tried everything. 24:04 There was nothing left to do but pray." >> Yeah. 24:08 >> The last resort was prayer? >> Yeah. >> It's like they tried 24:10 everything. They were so panicked and so gripped by this storm, 24:14 they tried everything to save themselves. And then, all of a sudden, 24:18 someone goes, "Whoa!" >> Yeah. >> "How could He be sleeping?" 24:21 >> Yeah, yeah. "Where are you, God? I mean, you don't show up." 24:25 And then they wake Him up. >> Right. "Don't you care?" >> Yeah, "Don't you care?" 24:29 >> "Don't you care?" Honest, there have been times where I've felt like God 24:34 doesn't care, you know? You talked about your daughters a few moments ago, 24:39 about how you have a concern sometimes over them, things that -- and maybe sometimes, as 24:43 a parent, you're praying for them, and it doesn't seem like God's actually making any kind 24:48 of an answer to that prayer. It's like, "Well, doesn't He care? 24:52 Is He sleeping at the bottom of the boat?" >> So, when we're going 24:56 through this exercise, you've got a scripture, you got an observation, now you're 24:59 making a personal application. We're not just reading the scriptures 25:03 just to check it off the list. We're personally applying it to our lives. 25:07 So what am I seeing in there? I'm seeing that they're worried. They're asking questions. 25:13 "Is He really concerned about me?" And panicking, yeah. 25:18 When have we panicked? How do I personally apply that to my life? 25:23 >> Worry. >> Yeah. >> It just seems 25:26 like a sort of second nature to us as human beings to worry. And I think what worry really is 25:31 saying is, "I don't know how I'm going to get through this. I don't see a solution. 25:37 And I don't see one solution. I don't see two solutions. I don't see any solution." 25:41 >> Yes. >> And all the time, He's right there. 25:47 >> He's right there. >> Worry is blind and cannot see the future, 25:51 cannot see past your circumstances right now. "If I can't get past this -- 25:57 No, I can't. I can't. I can't see even God involved in it," and so they wake Him up. 26:02 >> But Jesus isn't troubled at all. He wakes up. 26:06 This just boggles my mind to think about. The guy stands up in a boat 26:10 that's rocking and waves are coming over the top, and He speaks to the star. 26:15 "Knock it off!" >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Quiet. 26:19 >> And just like that [inhales sharply] the waves go [makes whooshing noise]. 26:23 And then this is the thing that blows my mind. He says, "Why were you guys 26:26 afraid? Did you think I had forgotten?" You know? "I have this. 26:31 I got this." You talk about application. When I remember who He is, 26:39 and that only comes by reminding myself of Him daily, by spending time at His 26:42 feet, focusing on -- When I remember who He is, then I realize 26:50 I can trust Him. >> Yes. >> There's two things He seems 26:52 to say in Bible all the time, to me. One is, "I love you," and the 26:56 other one is, "I've got this." >> "I've got this," yeah. >> Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 27:01 >> God showed up. >> Yeah. >> [ Chuckles ] 27:03 So we've got scripture, observation, application, and, finally, prayer. 27:09 So let's let's close off with a word of prayer and thank God for what He has 27:14 given us in these scriptures. And I hope, friend, that you have have really benefited 27:21 from this little demonstration that we have. This hasn't been a demonstration 27:26 that we rehearsed. This is something -- >> You probably figured that 27:28 out. They probably figured that out. >> And maybe when you apply 27:33 this in small groups and study together, that you'll have the same experience, right? 27:39 When you study the Bible, when you apply S.O.A.P., that you will also be blessed 27:44 like we have been blessed. >> Let's close with a word of prayer, okay? 27:49 >> Father in heaven, thank you for putting in your Word messages that speak 27:56 directly to our hearts. And I thank you, Father, that you have done that for us now. 28:02 >> Mm-hmm. >> And for teaching us through your word 28:06 that we can trust you fully even when things seem absolutely out of control. 28:12 We pray this and we thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. 28:14 >> Amen. >> So, friends, I just want to remind you again of the words 28:18 of Jesus when He said, "It is written man shall not live by bread alone 28:24 but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. 28:28 ♪♪ ♪♪ 28:44 ♪♪ ♪♪ |
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