A Method to Study the Word

Clcms   -   October 16, 2019

PRAY –

  1. For the Spirit to reveal the truth and reality of the Word to us.
    1. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. To see Jesus in the Scripture.
    2. How He talks, ministers, disciples others, prays, handles opposition, trusts God, treats others, etc.

READ –

  1. Slowly because quantity does not equate to quality
    1. “Some people like to read so many chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!” – Spurgeon
  2. With Intent.
    1. Search for those things that you prayed to see concerning Jesus and seek to find anything that may become “Shoe-Leather Gospel”

OBSERVE –

  1. Play the detective
    1. Ask the questionsà who, what, when, where, why, and how.
  2. Relationships
    1. How does this Scripture fit in the overall testimony of God’s Word?

THANKSGIVING – (PRAISE)

  1. Give thanks to God for His Word and for the deeper truths discovered as a result of prayer and study.
  2. Praise God for the things that He has done, is doing, and will continue to do.

REFLECT –

  1. Take a few moments to streamline the major points of your study, working to condense the various ideas into concise thoughts.

APPLICATION –

  1. Apply those “streamlined” thoughts received from our study.

PRAYER – (WORSHIP)

  1. Worship God for Who He is and for how He has revealed Himself to us through His Word.

SOAK –

  1. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.