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Read The Bible for Power in Your Life.

My message to you today is to read the bible, daily, twice daily or even more. Read the bible out loud and let all around you hear the word that proceeds from the bible, that power may come into your life, and that you may be blessed through the word.

Reading the bible is sadly not well encouraged anymore. Most people have never read the bible through from cover to cover. Most people read the bible less than once a month, with a high majority of people that never read the bible at all. Jesus says in John 15:7 that we are to abide in Him. Many people are under the misconception that if they go to church on Sunday, they receive enough of the word to carry them through, after all is that not what they are paying the pastor, or preacher for when they drop their small change into the offering basket. By giving those couple of cents on Sunday, they are expecting that the pastor will first read the bible for them, and then pray for them the whole week through.

Sorry but it does not work like that. have you ever wondered why some people in a particular church, will fly through every situation and always seem to prosper, even in hard and difficult times, whilst others from that very same church, who attend just as often, seem to always be falling and suffering. What is the difference.  When we become Christians we start to build the house of the Lord into our lives.

Having spent some time in the building trade where I was building blocks of flats in an area known to have difficult soil conditions, I became very familiar with the whole concept of foundations.

In the building industry, there are many different types of foundations that can be used. The foundations range from being cheap and easy, to becoming very complicated and expensive. Cheap and easy are used where there is solid ground underneath and the expensive are used in sandy and clay conditions wher the soil is subject to compaction and movement. If you use cheap foundations in sandy and clay conditions, the building will start to crack up and will eventually be condemned as not being fit for habitation. Many builders, in order to make a quick buck, still use the cheap, quick and easy foundations in bad soil conditions.

Jesus said that we are to build our houses upon the rock. Rock is the most solid of all foundations. A house built on rock will never fall. It will never crack and will always be fit for habitation.

What is the rock in our lives that we are to build our house upon? The rock in our lives is Jesus, but the way to get the Rock into our lives is through reading the word of God and depositing the word of God into our lives through reading the bible. Everytime that you read the bible, you are busy creating more rock in your life, upon which to build your house.

I spoke above about the two christians from the same church, where one succeeds and the other fails. The difference between these two is that the successful one, reads his bible daily and continuosly is adding to and strengthening  the foundation in his life, whilst the other seldom reads the bible, and so has built his house on sandy ground, and the minute rain comes down, the house falls. The house is not fit for habitation and is condemned.

The devil hates you reading the bible, because he knows that the more of the word that goes into you, the less chance he ever has of causing your house to fall. Read the bible. Read it out aloud as this makes the devil angry as he can not stand hearing the word. When the word is continuosly read out aloud, he flees from before it and will leave you and your whole house alone. Demons leave in the prescence of the spoken word. Speak that word out constantly, that there may be peace in your home.

Reading godly books written by pastors and spiritual people is great. They are often a lot easier to read than the bible, but they do not replace  reading the bible. Those books will help you to get understanding and motivation, but they do not build the rock. The rock comes only from reading the bible. Read the bible as much as you can. Before you read, Pray that God will open your eyes and give you the understanding of the word. Even if you do not fully understand the word that you are reading, continue to read because it is building your foundation.

God Bless

Something to put a smile on your face today, probably modern day proverbs.