Prayer is great, but, let's not forget personal Bible study

Friday, March 12th, 2010

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord". Colossians 3:16

With our blog, we have done much talk of
prayer, prayer, and more prayer. With this post, we do not wish to take any importance from the routine of prayer, considering the importance of prayer can never be over estimated. Instead, we have come to the point in which we wish to emphasize the importance of studying our Bibles along with prayer. They simply go hand in hand. Before or after or both(I think it's up to each person), approaching God in our prayer closets for intercession with Him, we need not forget to make time with Him in His Precious Word. When we have intercession with the Lord, it is a time of worshiping the Lord for us. The beginning place of worship is the Bible.
The Bible tells us so much about God and as a result, we learn about Him and understand more of what He expects of us we we approach Him in intercession. If we want to know God, we must Read His Word, Period.
I was reading this morning of how a young man in his college years ago, read letters from his sweet heart and found them similar to what a love letter from God might be like.
During his first semester of Bible college, he met his wife. During the summer, she would go to San Jose, California to be with her family. He had to stay in the Los Angeles area to work so he could pay his school bill. He never forgot the letters she would write to him during that time.
Every day he would come back to the college campus after work and go directly to the mail room. His box number was 117. As he entered the mail room, he would start sniffing to see if he could smell perfume! Many times before he even opened the box, he knew whether or not she had written. With great anticipation, he would take those love letters out of the mail box and begin to read them.
If he had one of those letters in his hand, he didn't have time for the president of the United States. He would get somewhere alone and devour every word of the letters. He would smell them, read them, and study them. He had to make sure she still loved him and everything was still right between them. The he would reread them because he wanted to know everything he could about her.
This is exactly the way we need to approach the Bible. God's word should be sweet to us. We should study it closely to make sure everything is right between us and God.
"As we approach God's Word, our prayer should be, "God, I want to know more about You and more about Your love for me. I want to know what You have for me today."