Have you ever noticed that we don’t naturally live thankfully? Sure, there are the “glass-half-full” people who tend to be more sanguine, and therefore think more positively. But that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the fact that we don’t naturally live in a way where we are continually aware of the little…
BLOG POSTS ON MEMORIZING, MEDITATING, AND FASTING
One of the great benefits I have experienced from memorizing God’s Word is an increase in my faith. The more I memorize and meditate on Scripture, the more my faith and trust in God deepens. One of my favorite passages to meditate on is Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11 strips away our assumption that all of…
When talking about memorizing large blocks of Scripture, many Christians balk and immediately cry out, “I could never do that! I don’t have a good memory!” And yet, they don’t realize that they have a vast memory of song lyrics, names of friends and acquaintances, landmarks, mathematics facts, routes to and from places… Their memory…
Growing up I’d always heard that we should memorize God’s Word because you don’t always have your Bible with you. You never know, they might outlaw the Bible, like in persecuted countries, so you want to always have it with you in your memory. Well, that’s true. Something like that could happen (probably not in…
Have you ever tried to memorize whole chapters or books of the Bible before? Maybe you think you could never memorize so much of the Bible all at once. Well, I have good news for you! You don’t have to memorize it all at once. You know what they say about how to eat an…
