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Opening
• Welcome to a New Year
• Bible Study Tuesday night
• Boudreaux Joke
Message Opening
• Pray
• Prayer and fasting coming up 1/22 through 1/28
• Start the year off right
• More details on just how it will happen next week
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This will be the best year of your life if this is the best year of your life spiritually.
• If you go all in with God, it will change every part of your life for the better
• CS Lewis - if you aim at heaven you’ll get earth with it.
If you aim at earth, you’ll have neither.
• Fasting:
• Jesus sanctioned fasting
• Early church fasted for almost everything
• Wouldn
• Paul himself said this:
• Fasting isn’t some form of penance
• Boils down to what’s in charge: body, soul or spirit
• Only creature with a spirit
• image of God - a spirit
• designed to be spiritual being housed in a fleshly tent
• body in charge if: drink, drugs, food
• soul in charge if always depressed, worried, anxious, angry
• king of the hill - strongest guy wins
• in your life the strongest part wins
• If you’re struggling, the wrong part is in charge
• Rom 8 - first few verses addresses it
• Fasting starves the other two parts that aren’t the spiritual parts
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Whatever I starve dies.
Whatever I feed thrives.
• Types of fasts
• Just try it!
Complete Fast
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Selective Fast
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Partial Fast
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Soul Fast
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The Holy Bible
• Not just a bible - its the HOLY bible - set apart
• attitude toward bible is very important
• Start bringing a physical bible to church
• We’ve made it too easy - but it doesn’t get IN you
• Goal today is to get you to love it like I do
• Get you to use it, apply it, turn to it for help
• Make it personal
• Want you to have a love relationship with the word of God
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• Longest chapter in the bible is about the bible
• This verse is right in the middle of the chapter
• take it with me
• makes me wiser than my enemy
• 3 things highlighted in this verse:
1. Love the Word of God.
• What does it mean to love something
• Why love it so much
• God breathed
• its useful
• it equips me -
• builds me
• corrects me
• God’s autobiography
• It is God!
• What’s your attitude about it?
• Paul prayed for church in Thessolonica:
• “received” - “I’m so glad you’re hear”
• accepted ti as God’s true word
• May not realize it, but great love grows from discipline
• check you’re children - see if it isn’t true
• Gumbeaux -
• When you discover something or someone that will change you for the better, you love it
• One thing I want for you above all else: treasure the word of God
• That’s why this series, the bible study starting Tuesday night
• Our devotionals based on the word
2. Learn the Word of God.
• Learn it by:
Listen to God’s Word.
• Come to church
• Bible study
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• Built on the rock
• Strongest lives are those that take in the word
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Read God’s Word.
• Jesus said:
Set aside time
• Pick a time - make that time HOLY - set apart
Get a paper Bible.
Have a Bible-reading plan.
• We’re posting one - dont’ worry about days you miss, don’t get into a bondage, just read the next day’s reading
Don’t just read the Bible, let the Bible read you.
• And don’t just read it:
Study God’s Word.
• Study it!
• Start by devoting 1 hour on Tuesday evenings to be with us
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• The whole reason is it testifies about ME
• About Jesus
3. Live the Word of God.
• Now it becomes a tool that I fight the devil with
• Armor of God - only one is offensive
• Some don’t have anything to fight with
• Why David said:
• Only one way
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