In this month’s video blog, Pastor Bill shares his process when reading the bible and how to stay hungry for the Word of God.

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though

the best way to i think to enjoy reading

the bible is to do it with the holy

spirit learn to recognize the presence

read till it comes alive um i

what i like to do is is i’ve already

mentioned

in one of the questions that i was

reading a book by another

author and he was talking about what he

had seen in the scripture

and that awakened the hunger in me i

think that’s one of the wonderful ways

to do it is to hear a bible teacher to

to hear a a great sermon to

read a good book something that just

kind of gives you insight from their

perspective that’s a very

uh legitimate way to learn to hunger for

the word yourself

but at some points you’ve got to get

into that book and do it in a

partnership with the holy spirit

what i found is that in the kingdom of

god we get hungry by eating we don’t get

hungry by not eating

in the natural we get hungry by not

eating but the kingdom’s a different

kingdom

and and so what i’ve learned to do is if

i’m

if i feel like i’m lacking insight on

prayer or motivation to pray

or i need help and discipline or

priorities or whatever it might be

i will start reading on that subject

throughout the scripture even though i’m

not hungry even though i’m not

interested

i will read i will read books i’ll read

the scripture

and what it will do is it creates a

hunger in me when you when you encounter

the god of the word the word becomes

something you can’t live without and i i

don’t

i don’t know that i’ve had a day in uh

in decades where i’ve not been hungry

and

uh i i feel like i feel like this thing

works read it with the holy spirit ask

him to help

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