FROM THE GENERAL OVERSEER, Pastor (Dr) E. O. Abina GOFAMINT Cling To Your Bible “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates” (Deut 6:6-9) “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe 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” (Jos 1:8). “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart! They also do no iniquity; They walk in His ways” (Ps 119:1-3). The value and the worth of the Bible, which is the word of God in the life of mankind and especially for us Christians, cannot be quantified. The need for every child of God to be familiar with the Bible cannot be gainsaid. In the same vein, the importance of reading, meditating, and studying the Bible, the word of God for every heaven- bound child of God cannot be over-emphasized. It has always been God’s delight for His people to be mindful of His word from time immemorial, because, in His word lies everything that is profitable for the present world and the world to come. In a generation that is crazy of breakthrough, success, prosperity, and what have you, what could be better than to be acquitted and familiar with the Bible; not only by carrying it to the church every Sunday but by reading, studying, meditating and applying its principles in our daily living and claiming its precious and good promises for our good. The Bible contained virtually everything we need to prosper spiritually, materially, physically and financially. I call the Bible “our goldmine”. Moses taught the children of Israel to hold the word in high esteem to teach it to their children, in the night, before they sleep; in the morning, when they wake up; to have it written on the doorposts of their houses. When God gave Joshua, a seemingly impossible task of taking the children of Israel to the Promised Land and to dislodge the inhabitants of the land (about seven nations) and also divide the land for the children of Israel to take absolute possession of the land; the only weapon God gave to Joshua was “this Book of the Law”. He told him if Joshua would not depart from the Book of the Law but meditate on it day and night he would prosper and make good success; I believe this was what enabled Joshua to achieve what he achieved. The Psalms which is the longest book in the Bible opens with the word ‘BLESSED is the man…whose delight is in the word of God, in it he meditates day and night; the result is that everything he does prospers. It is your turn in this year of fulfillment to tap and dig deep into the word of God, cling to your Bible closer than ever before, don’t just read it, read it and do what it says you should do, apply its principles and claim its good promises for your good. Last year I listened to Evangelist/ Pastor Jimmy Swaggert say he had read the Bible through fifty one times (51 times). As that would not be a thing of too much surprise, while I was reading The Word For You Today, A Daily Devotional of January 11, 2014, I read about “Edgar G. Watts of North Hollywood, California, aged eighty-four, read the Bible from cover to cover 161 times. And here’s something you probably don’t know: he had the use of only one eye for fifty-five years”. Brethren this is a challenge to all of us- Cling to your Bible. Lose not its precepts so precious and pure!
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:08:45 +0000
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