Scripture & Memory A HEBREW SAGE MIGHT SAY. . . One must both be humble enough to learn from every person and to teach everyone, regardless of status. All are blind until GOD opens their eyes. [MIDRASH, Bereishis Rabba 53] SCRIPTURE & MEMORY John 14:26 the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. [John 14. 26] The Apostle John wrote his detailed discourses of MESSIAH YESHUA about fifty years after the LORD spoke them and almost half of the verses in John’s Gospel is quoting the MASTER. In spite of the time delay, John was able to report them verbatim because of the supernatural memory of them brought back by the HOLY SPIRIT. The same must have been true for the other writers of the INSPIRED WORD OF GOD as they recalled words and events of things that happened years before. In the same sense, the HOLY SPIRIT also can bring to our remembrance the words of SCRIPTURE just when they are especially needed in witnessing or for personal guidance or some other need. This will only be operational, of course, if they have first been stored in our memory, either by direct memorization or by such frequent reading and studying of the WRITTEN WORD as to make it a part of our subconscious memory. Most confidently, the HOLY SPIRIT is the DIVINE TEACHER. The anointing which you have received from HIM abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things…and just as it has taught you, you will abide in HIM. [1 John 2. 27] These things we also speak, not in words which mans wisdom teaches but which the HOLY SPIRIT teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. [1 Corinthians 2. 13] Peter, the unlearned fisherman, was able to quote long passages of HOLY WRIT when he needed them quoting the Prophet Joel in Acts 2:16-21; then David in Acts 16:25-28, 34–35. Peter evidently had spent much time in studying and even memorizing key portions of the OLD COVENANT. Of course, MESSIAH YESHUA frequently quoted SCRIPTURE in HIS conversations and Paul also quoted SCRIPTURE freely in his epistles. Certainly, we should be doing the same. SCRIPTURE memorizations has been a great blessing to many CHRISTians over the years, but it seems to have become a lost art these days in this age of modernization, electrical gadgets and quick down-loads. Nevertheless, YESHUA has promised to answer our prayer — If you abide in ME, and MY words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. [John 15. 7] So, as Paul urged, 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. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the LORD JESUS, giving thanks to GOD THE FATHER through HIM. [Colossians 3. 16 - 17] Be diligent to present yourself approved to GOD, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the WORD OF TRUTH. [2 Timothy 2. 15] Allow the COMFORTER to instruct you that you may have the mind of CHRIST. Sha’alu (Pray) for the Shalom (Peace) of Jerusalem and all of Israel! Good Sabbath! Praise to ALMIGHTY CREATOR GOD! We praise and bless YOU, O GOD for lovingly and graciously giving YOUR Holy Sabbath— the Bride, the Queen — the imagery of beauty and radiance, testifying to the tremendous affection that Shabbos is enjoyed among YOUR people in YOUR majestic presence. We thank YOU, GREAT & MIGHTY GOD for by YOUR grace we were taught the sanctity of the weekly day of rest and the Sabbath is the sign of the tie that binds us to YOU. Keep us ever grateful and grant us YOUR perfect rest. Amen! Praying for the peace of Jerusalem, is praying for the return of our Messiah and Lord and for the Kingdom of God He is bringing when He comes. Then Gods Will shall be done on earth as it is in Heaven and the world will experience true godly universal peace which is the fruit of Righteousness. Email: [email protected] Web Page: delrifkah Thoughts Archived: groups.yahoo/group/delrifkah/ End-time Events: delrifkah/Facepage.html Please visit our web page for teachings on Bible texts and subjects. Also notice the section showing the disparity between the Holy Bible and the Muslim Koran (Quran). The newest section is our thought by thought study through the Bible. Having completed the Torah (books of Moses), and the New Testament, we are now going through the book of; [Zechariah].
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:38:05 +0000
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