•I. Your Spiritual Inheritance
•II. Encountering the Holy Spirit in Bible Study
•III. Journaling
I. Your Spiritual Inheritance
John 4:14 – but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
John 7:38 – “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
- A. Your spiritual inheritance is not depression. It is having your heart flowing like a river in love.
- a. To have the affections of God touching your emotions.
- b. Depression and heaviness is a counterattack of the enemy to put out the fire in your life before you realize and walk in your inheritance of a flowing heart, fully released into the anointing.
- c. Adopt this as a promise that you can really experience in this life not just when you die.
- d. Your inheritance is to be able to “feel” the love and presence most of your life. Except for when He withdraws to test you.
- B. You are to “feel” love for God, and to “feel” love back.
- a. This is a receptive heart for HS knowledge/revelation and emotions.
- b. It’s a supernatural work of God to make your heart receptive.
- c. Feeding your soul is consciously cooperating with the Holy Spirit, when the Lord jump starts you. Guard the little jump starts with all your heart.
Proverbs 4:23 – Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.
- A. Don’t live the lifestyle that puts the spark out.
- a. The seed of God is growing but it is choked by desires for other things.
- b. Don’t have appetites for so many things that there, then, is no real hunger for anything.
II. How to come to Jesus in the Word
- A. You cannot experience the anointing in bible study; you have to use the Scriptures to come to Jesus.
- a. What are the areas that the HS has put His finger on and I have said no to?
- B. Faith is being confident in the love of God.
- C. Devotion is not academic bible study.
- a. Academic bible study, it is good to search out things at the mind level to know what they mean, but you need to then turn it into a dialog with God that makes your heart fall in love with Him. Otherwise the academic study is good for nothing.
III. Journaling
- A. When you write – more comes. Journal as you read it. Here are two things to start journal with:
- a. Truths that exhort you to believe something.
- b. Truths that exhort you to obey something
- B. When you read one of these scriptures, pause for 5 seconds and talk to God about it.
- a. Then ask Him to give you more.
- b. Help me to do it.
- c. Fasting doesn’t move God it moves you.
- d. You have to go after Bible study with a plan.
Filed under: Hermeneutics - (Rules for Interpreting the Bible), Other
