04: Practice - Bible Memory and Application
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Scripture Memory
Scripture Memory
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life: A Study Guide Based on the Book Exploring Scripture Memorization
How does Jesus’ confrontation with Satan (Matthew 4:1–11) illustrate the power of Scripture that is committed to memory?
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written,
“ ‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”
Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,
“ ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’
and
“ ‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.’ ”
Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ” Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written,
“ ‘You shall worship the Lord your God
and him only shall you serve.’ ”
Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life: A Study Guide Based on the Book Exploring Scripture Memorization
Read Proverbs 22:17–19. Why should we keep God’s Word within us and ready on our lips?
Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise,
and apply your heart to my knowledge,
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,
if all of them are ready on your lips.
That your trust may be in the Lord,
I have made them known to you today, even to you.
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life: A Study Guide Based on the Book Exploring Scripture Memorization
What does Psalm 119:24 say about guidance? How might you apply this truth to your busy life?
Your testimonies are my delight;
they are my counselors.
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life: A Study Guide Based on the Book Exploring Scripture Memorization
What was the psalmist’s attitude toward Scripture? (See Psalm 119:97.)
Oh how I love your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
Scripture Meditation
Scripture Meditation
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life: A Study Guide Based on the Book Exploring Biblical Meditation
Read Joshua 1:8. What did God command Joshua to do, and what did God promise would happen as a result of Joshua’s obedience?
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.
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.
Josh 1:8
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life: A Study Guide Based on the Book Exploring Biblical Meditation
As we meditate on Scripture, what happens to our minds? (See Romans 12:2.)
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Application
Application
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life: A Study Guide Based on the Book Applying God’s Word to Our Daily Lives
Read James 1:22–25. When you read the Bible, do you find it easy to apply what you read to your life? Why, or why not?
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life: A Study Guide Based on the Book Applying God’s Word to Our Daily Lives
What three steps can you take this week to cultivate the Discipline of meditating on God’s Word?
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