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I just love God’s Word. It is success for life. It’s truth on a page, practical for today. The commands of this Book bring life! - safety and protection, guidance and instruction, humility and favor. I’m also thankful for four additional tools I always use in my PRISM Time with God. Those Five things you can do every day in God’s Word. The first tool is www.startpage.com – the secure search engine I vastly prefer over Google or Bing. Anytime I think of a Bible story or a character or principle and I can’t remember the verse – I just use startpage.com. Any phrase or close to it - like “so loved the world” and it will pull up John 3:16. The second tool that has helped with PRISM is www.biblehub.com Type in a verse and it will give you another fifteen versions that you can look at simultaneously – just scroll down. Very helpful, quick and easy, I use it almost every time I do PRISM. The third tooI that is helpful with PRISM – is www.webstersdictionary1828.com – the first published version by Noah Webster. The definitions of words are explained as they were back then, using Biblical references - the foundation of all truth completely abandoned by our schools today. And the fourth tool so helpful for PRISM Time In God's Word – is e-sword. This isn’t a website, it’s a program that is run locally on your PC or Mac. It lists every book of the Bible in the left column. Click on Psalms and it lists every chapter in Psalms. Click on Psalms Chapter 150 and it lists all the verses in that chapter. If you’re in the King James+ Tab, Click on a verse – and it lists every word in English with Strong’s Concordance Links – to mouse over or click on to see what Hebrew or Greek Word was used and it’s definition. Extremely helpful. Often there are no words in English – that fully capture a word used in the Bible – Greek or especially Hebrew. But they had to pick on. It’s ok to see some of the other words that additionally reveal the meaning. God can use this to broaden your understanding of what He wants you to know. You can download e-sword for your PC or MAC for free from www.e-sword.net I use this often - especially for “Study the Word” the S: of PRISM which uses S.O.A.P. to study. S:Scripture “God what verse do you have for me to dig deeper in today?” He will always tells you. Write out the reference and the verse on a PRISM page in your Conversation Log. Then O:Observation – “God would you show me something I’ve never seen before? (or need to be reminded of?) Just start writing what the Holy Spirit reveals. This takes faith. If you ask Him – believe what He promised and just start writing. He will bring across your mind and through your pen, the truth He has for you – that you wouldn’t have thought of naturally, with your mind. It’s how you learn to hear His Voice. He will 100% speak to you. He promised. Believe that God will answer your prayer and show you new things. Start writing what He brings to your mind. Remember there are two ways to do PRISM. Some people try to do it with their brain. Never use your natural mind for PRISM – you’ll just get your opinion. There’s no power in that. Are you saying we shouldn't use our intellect when reading God's Word? Of course not - just don't approach it with the finite limitations of mental understanding. Let the Holy Spirit lead you to those things God says can only be discerned by your spirit. Then God can bring them to your mind. Your spirit taps into God's infinite - by the Holy Spirit - then your mind can process what God just revealed to you. Only do PRISM in the spirit... Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal God’s truth. That’s what Jesus said His Father sent The Holy Spirit to do. This is foolishness to the unspiritual mind they just can't understand. But it's the secret to hearing God speak - God is spirit, and He speaks by His Spirit. (That's why you must be born again - to be born of the spirit, not just the womb and be filled with the Holy Spirit - so you can see and hear what God sees and says, not just what your mind can see. When you ask Him, He will speak. Write down what He reveals to you in your PRISM Time with Him. It’s better than Oswald Chambers – This is God speaking directly to you! My Utmost For His Highest – was really good. That was Oswald Chambers’ PRISM for the day. God will give you one just like it - but even better! He knows what you need today – because He already knows what will happen. He will confirm through your PRISM time in His Word – what He told you last night – when you did PiVAT before dinner – to get His plans for you for today – as much as He chose to reveal so far… And when I’m done writing what the Holy Spirit reveals – Sometimes I will then use e-sword on my computer to look up that verse. It can really surprise you. Psalms 37:4 – Delight yourself in the LORD – and He will give you the desires of your heart. As a kid, I always thought that meant – be happy about reading the Bible and God will give you what you want. Then God showed me through e-sword what that word really meant. Delight. It’s the word anag <aw-nag’> and it means - to be pliable – not just happy. Really? I never knew that. 1828 Webster – Pliable – Easily bent, yielding to pressure, flexible. Readily yielding to moral influence, persuasion or discipline. Wow - that word delight yourself in the LORD isn’t just happy about His Word – it means to be humbly mold-able – willing to change your mind or opinion to conform to His Word and His Way. That’s why David constantly committed himself with his mouth. Psalms 86:11 - Teach me your way O LORD and I will walk in your truth. What was David doing when He committed himself with His mouth? He was delighting himself in the LORD – being pliable! That’s why he got what He asked for – what His heart desired. That’s why he always obeyed – it’s how he became a man after God’s own heart. Because if you delight in His Word – fully humble and fully moldable – your desires will change to His desires! And THEN everything your heart desires will surely come to pass! Praying that PRISM is an insatiable hunger in you today, that worship and praise in His Presence is an insatiable thirst. That you would keep coming back and getting everything God can’t wait to share with you – so you will know His ways – so He can prosper everything He put in your heart to do today. Love you all, dad
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