Are you making time each day to study God’s Word? Dr. Stanley shares a personal and practical way of approaching the Bible. Watch more from “In the School of Faith”: http://bit.ly/ITMfaith. In Touch Ministries, 2012. For more messages from Charles Stanley, including this week’s broadcast, go to www.intouch.org/watch
if I want my faith to be steady I’m
going to be meditating upon the Word of
God which means I read it I asked him
what it means to me I want to I want to
I’m not going to get in the herd I’m
going to apply to my life and ask him to
show me what are you saying to me in
this passage watch this God speaks in
different ways but one of the most
accurate primary way God speaks to us is
through his word and the question is
what is he saying somebody says well
God’s never spoken to me oh yes he has
yes he has that’s what this book is all
about God’s speaking to us and if I’m
going through some situation and I want
to correct my wavering faith I’m going
to ask those questions and I’m going to
get in the word and I’m listening I’m
going to meditate on it carefully and I
think oftentimes when you do it
privately and I’m going to apply what
I’ll read on I’m going to listen to what
he’s saying
and I’m not going to doubt him because
he knows I’m coming to the word seeking
an answer and seeking clarification
likewise I’m going to try to recall
instances in the past when I was
troubled and God faithfully answered my
petition this is why I say you should
have a Bible whatever Bible you have and
it ought to be one with enough margin in
it that you’ve got room to write in it
and then when you come to one of those
situations and God speaks to your heart
through a particular verse right and it
margin a date and just put in one or two
words what that is you know what it
happens after a while your Bible becomes
a bogger if you have God working in your
life now I would never tell anybody how
to read the Bible necessary but I give
you a suggestion when I’m going to when
I’m reading and meditating on the Word
of God I do not use this Bible right
here you say would you preach it of it
that’s right when I open this Bible I’m
going to work I’m listening to God for
what he wants to say it to me but to me
primarily through me
to you so what I do for my own private
emotion
I’ll read two different other Bibles you
say well do they say something different
no they just sit in a different way and
one of them is the Living Bible because
it’s so very cat it’s so down-to-earth
and casual the way it’s written but it’s
true and I will usually read either that
or one of the versions I can tell you
what that is you at all I got to go and
buy me another know you’ve got the right
version in fact the one you have in your
hand that I preached from is the most
accurate it’s the most accurate
translation it’s boxy it’s not easy to
memorize they can told King James
Version is the best is the best Bible to
memorize it just flows this thing
doesn’t flow like that at all
but it’s the most accurate what I’m
after is God what did you say how did
you say how did you said I want to be
sure that what I can visit somewhere
else is exactly what you said when I’m
reading from my own personal devotion
then I listen I don’t have you in mind
sorry I I have me in mind what does God
want to say to me you have to decide how
you read the Word of God but read it and
ask and remember we said really
carefully unhurried Lee and you’re
prayerfully and you read it for God to
speak to you you and you and you and
you’re reading it very sincerely God my
heart’s open to what you have to say