Revelation 2:4-5 You have forsaken the love you had at first. 5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.

Psalm 34:8-10 “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! BLESSED is the man who takes refuge in him! 9 Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! 10 The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Ezekiel 4:12, "And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung." 

HOW TO STUDY THE BIBLE:

CHOOSE A TRANSLATION YOU CAN UNDERSTAND

CHOOSE A PLACE AND A PLAN TO STUDY

KNOW THE CONTEXT

DON’T JUST READ, STUDY

PRAY THAT GOD WILL REVEAL WHAT HE IS SAYING IN WHAT YOU READ.

THE BIBLE IS MEANT TO TRANSFORM US, NOT JUST INFORM US. 

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

What Is the Word of God?

A sword that pierces. Hebrews 4:12

A light that shines. Psalm 119:105

A mirror that reveals. James 1:23

A path to purity. Psalm 119:9 

A meal that nourishes. 1 Timothy 4:6

A seed that reproduces. 1 Peter 1:23

A fire that consumes. Jeremiah 23:29

A defense against temptation. Psalm 119:11

The source of our faith. Romans 10:17

The truth that lives forever. Isaiah 40:8 

PSALM 119:9-16 How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. 10 I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. 11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. 12 Praise be to you, Lord; teach me your decrees. 13 With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth. 14 I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches. 15 I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. 16 I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.

Psalm 119:33-37 Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end. 34 Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart. 35 Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight. 36 Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. 37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word. 

Psalm 119:41-48 May your unfailing love come to me, Lord, your salvation, according to your promise; 42 then I can answer anyone who taunts me, for I trust in your word. 43 Never take your word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws. 44 I will always obey your law, for ever and ever. 45 I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts. 46 I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame, 47 for I delight in your commands because I love them. 48 I reach out for your commands, which I love, that I may meditate on your decrees.

James 1:21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

James 1:19-25 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. 22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

1 Corinthians 8:1 (NLT) … while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church. 

“The Bible should give us a bigger heart, not a bigger head.” 

—Rick Warren

Matthew 7:21  “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 7:24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.