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Memorizing God’s Word
Matthew 4:1-
Memorization Supplies Spiritual Power
Meditating on the Word of God
One of the ways we can experience more spiritual victories is to do as Jesus did—memorize Scripture so that it’s available within us for the Holy Spirit to bring to our remembrance when it’s needed.
Applying the Word of God
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p.
40).
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Memorization Strengthens Your Faith
Memorizing Scripture strengthens your faith because it repeatedly reinforces the truth, often just when you need to hear it again.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p.
40).
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Memorization prepares us for Witnessing and Counseling
But until the verses are hidden in the heart, they aren’t available to use with the mouth.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p.
41).
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Memorization provides a means of God’s guidance.
Just as the Holy Spirit retrieves scriptural truth from our memory banks for use in counseling others, so also will He bring it to our own minds in providing timely guidance for ourselves.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p.
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Memorization Stimulates meditation.
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Imagine yourself in the midst of a decision and needing guidance, or struggling with a difficult temptation and needing victory.
The Holy Spirit enters your mental arsenal and looks around for available weapons, but all He finds is a , a , and a Great Commission.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p.
42).
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You can Memorize Scripture
Memorizing is mainly a problem of motivation.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p.
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Have a Plan
Write out the verses.
Draw Picture reminders.
Memorize the verses word perfectly.
Find a Method of Accountability
Most Christians, however, are more consistent when they meet or talk regularly with someone else—not always another Christian—with whom they review their verses.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p.
44).
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Review and Meditate Every Day
It’s not unusual, however, to reach a point where you spend 80 percent of your Scripture memory time in review.
Don’t begrudge devoting so much time to polishing your swords.
Rejoice instead at having so many!
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (pp.
44-45).
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A great time to review your better-known verses is while going to sleep.
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The goal is not to see how many verses we can memorize; the goal is godliness.
The goal is to memorize the Word of God so that it can transform our minds and our lives.
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45).
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Meditating on God’s Word - Methods and Benefits
Christian meditation involves filling your mind with God and His truth.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p.
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Meditation as deep thinking on the truths and spiritual realities revealed in Scripture, or upon life from a scriptural perspective, for the purposes of understanding, application, and prayer.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (pp.
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Meditation, however, is like immersing the bag completely and letting it steep until all the rich tea flavor has been extracted and the hot water is thoroughly tinctured reddish brown.
Meditation on Scripture is letting the Bible brew in the brain.
Thus we might say that as the tea colors the water, meditation likewise “colors” our thinking.
When we meditate on Scripture it colors our thinking about God, about God’s ways and His world, and about ourselves.
Similarly, as the tea bag flavors the water, so through meditation we consistently “taste” or experience the reality taught in the text.
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and the Promise of Success
Joshua 1:8
From a New Testament perspective we know that the main application of this promise would be eternal riches and Christ-centered success—the prosperity of the soul and spiritual success (though some measure of success in our human endeavors would ordinarily occur as well when we live according to God’s wisdom).
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p.
48).
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If you want to get warm, you have to linger by the fire until it warms your skin, then your muscles, then your bones until you are fully warm.
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