Fill Your Tank: Living on God's Word Daily

``The king was required to make a personal copy of god's law in his own handwriting to keep it on him wherever he went. He was to read it every single day. That would be like the president of The United States having to write out the the the constitution in his own hand, put it in his pocket, and carry it with him everywhere he went and read it every day. Now if god can require that of a king, how much more does he require that of you and me? Because if a king needs to hear from god to run a nation, we certainly need to hear from god to run our own lives. [00:43:07] (35 seconds)  #CarryGodsWordDaily

And the day is gonna come when the rope runs out. And I'm not ashamed to tell you that when I get to the point, if I'm lying on a deathbed and a doctor says to me that nothing else can be done, I want a word from the God that I'm about ready to meet. That's the only thing that matters to me. My children may be interested in my will. I'm only interested in his will. I want my life to be filled with the lessons that I've learned from looking at God's word. [00:46:02] (28 seconds)  #MeetGodWithHisWord

You've got to live it out. You've got to obey it before it becomes a real power in your life that that gives you the power that you need to live your life to the fullest extent that god wants you to. And so we should really be honest with ourselves and ask this question. Who what has the final say in my life? Is it people's opinions? Is it the political headwinds of Washington? Is it the the social buzz of Hollywood, the bottom line of Wall Street, or is it the word of God? Listen. The bible was not written for information. The bible was written for transformation. [00:51:46] (39 seconds)  #WordOverWorldlyNoise

See, this book is so great, and it is so life changing. It will not only help you learn how to live, it'll also help you learn how to die. The psalmist says in verse 33, teach me, oh lord, the ways of your statutes, and I will keep them to the end. To the end of what? To the end of his life. Because these are lifelong lessons that god gives us to walk by. [00:45:15] (25 seconds)  #LessonsForLifeAndDeath

You need the author of the word to reveal the word to you. It's called illumination. We need the illumination of the holy spirit. And see, listen. We need to to understand who the author is before we can understand what the author has said. And the thing that we have to do is to get from the page to the person to whom the pages are all about, Jesus Christ. [00:54:07] (26 seconds)  #FromPageToPerson

See, more Bibles exist today than ever before. More Bibles sit in people's homes and in people's hands, and yet there are people who say they believe the bible, who say they love god, and they're suffering from spiritual anorexia. They're starving to death by spiritual mal nutrition. And the psalmist calls the treasure troves of truth in god's word wondrous things, boxes filled with jewels that are just waiting to be opened. [00:41:46] (28 seconds)  #OpenGodsTreasures

See, god wants us to open our eyes and look at them. And in order to do that, we simply have to read the bible. Because there is not a day in my life or your life that goes by that we do not need to hear from God, and there is not a day in our lives that goes by that we do not need to listen to God. The best place in the world to be is in God's presence, and the best way to get into God's presence is to get into God's word. [00:42:13] (25 seconds)  #IntoGodsPresence

See, you you don't have to sin as a believer. I know that we are sinners saved by grace, but we don't have to sin. I remember Flip Wilson, and I'm I'm revealing my age. He used to have that old saying with Geraldine, the devil made me do it. The devil does can't make you do anything. The devil is a whipped pup. The devil has been defeated. That happened at Calvary. We sin because we want to sin. We sin because we want to sin. Let me re re re reiterate that. We sin because we choose to. [00:40:38] (36 seconds)  #SinIsAChoice