The Bible Knights Quest! - Bible Challenge 2009 - Week 37
Sunday --- John 2
Monday --- John 3
Tuesday --- John 4
Wednesday --- John 5
Thursday --- John 6
Friday --- John 7
Saturday --- John 8
Knights and Ladies,
They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"Luke 24:32
Pray for the Holy Spirit's presence and intercession that God's truth might be revealed as you read, study, and meditate on His word.
Does your heart burn when reading the Scriptures? Mine doesn't always. There are days that it is just a discipline, but then there are those days when you just sense the presence of God's Holy Spirit almost reading and explaining the scriptures to you! Those days make all the days of discipline worth it! So keep up the discipline of reading the scriptures and pray for the Holy Spirit's presence.
"Thus do they not so much compare notes as compare hearts, in the review of the sermon Christ had preached to them. They found the preaching powerful, even when they knew not the preacher. It made things very plain and clear to them; and, which was more, brought a divine heat with a divine light into their souls, such as put their hearts into a glow, and kindled a holy fire of pious and devout affections in them. Now this they take notice of, for the confirming of their belief, that it was indeed, as at last they saw, Jesus himself that had been talking with them all along. . .
What hearing is likely to do good —that which makes the heart burn; when we are much affected with the things of God, especially with the love of Christ in dying for us, and have our hearts thereby drawn out in love to him, and drawn up in holy desires and devotions, then our hearts burn within us; when our hearts are raised and elevated, and are as the sparks which fly upwards towards God, and when they are kindled and carried out with a holy zeal and indignation against sin, both in others and in ourselves, and we are in some measure refined and purified from it by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, then we may say, 'Through grace our hearts are thus inflamed.’"
(The Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1706)
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“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”(2 Timothy 3:16-17)
A prayer for the use of Holy Scripture:
O Gracious God and most merciful Father, who has granted us the rich and precious jewel of Your holy word, assist us with Your Spirit, that it may be written in our hearts to our everlasting comfort, to reform us, to renew us according to Your own Image, to build us up, and to instruct us into the perfect building of Christlikeness, sanctifying and increasing in us all heavenly virtues. Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen.
(adapted from the “1599 Geneva Bible” Tolle Lege Press, 2006-2007)
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