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HEART WORK
You thought I was kidding around. I’m not. I’m serious.
I’d like to see how many of us can commit I John 4:7-11 into our hearts.
Here it is again:
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Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:7-11 (NIV)
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How is it going?
To memorize something, to learn it by and in your heart, follow these steps:
- Read it out loud a few times.
- Make sure you think through the logical progression of the passage.
- Break it down into pieces (like how you learn golf, cooking, history or anything else)
- Repeat the small pieces out loud and add them together one by one.
- Do this over a period of days or weeks. (Time helps to move things from short term to long term memory.)
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ALL YOU HAVE
Sometimes the only Bible we have is the one that we have committed to our heart/memory.
If you could never use a Bible again, how much of it would you have stored internally? Take a moment and count how many passages you know by heart.
Memorized Bible passages are like ice cream—the more the better!!
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AND NOW WHAT DO YOU SEE?
Through this internalization process we often see something more about a passage than when we just read it.
What do you see now in this passage (I John 4:7-11) you did not see before? Let me know!
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WHAT OTHER ONES?
What other passages do you want committed to memory? Check out our web site to see 25 Key Bible Passages. http://www.stlukehas.com/index.php/ministries/category/C41/
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AND ONE MORE BENEFIT
Working on memorizing Bible passages will help the memory in general.
Who knows? If you develop a habit of Bible memorization, you may find yourself not forgetting things on your grocery list!
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He is risen!
He is risen! IndeedI