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Do
over!~ In His Word 8-10-2026
As a kid playing a game, if people disagree
and the game came to a stop because of that disagreement, we had a replay or do
over.
When you became a Christian, you got what every kid who is loosing a game
wants! You won!
And let’s
face it we were all losing in the game of life!
But don’t be sad, don’t be a poor looser….
You got a “DO OVER!”
All of us did!
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a
new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled
us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of
reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to
Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the
word of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:17-19
NKJV
Eph 4:17-24
This I say, therefore, and testify in the
Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the
futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated
from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the
blindness of their heart; 19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves
over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been
taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your
former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful
lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was
created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:17-24
The life we used to live before Christ came
into our lives is gone. For most of us here, it has been a clean break, some it
has been harder to separate the old from the new, almost as if we were hanging
on by a thread and two knitting needles trying to resew our old lives into our
new ones. Yes I meant that to be a thread, think of the picture. It is that
futile!
That is not what God wants for us. He wants
us to focus on Him. He wants us to hang on to Him!
Jesus died so that we could be cleansed from
our old ways, or the old blind man, and go on with sight and see.
Paul is the perfect example of this!
Paul had his sight taken from him physically
so that he could see spiritually!
Now that we have a Do over, like Paul we need to get studied up in the Word and
realize that we were wrong in how we lived before Christ.
We need to realize that it is time to live
what we learn.
Each week you come and hear the Word of God
spoken and taught and shared in your group Bible study and some of you are in more
than one study group so you are getting more of the Word.
But what are we doing with it?
Are we just listening and nodding our heads
and then tossing it out? Or are we listening and thinking of how we can put it
to use in our lives?
Are we praying about what we learn and how to
apply it?
We come to church, we receive the Word, and
we leave the church after the service is over.
We go off to the world to live our lives as
they are set up. But do we think on the
Word of God during the in-between times? Or do we expect all our reading to
happen in church from the Sermon notes screen?
We
need to ask ourselves “Am I living what I learned today in His Word?
How do
you know?
Let’s
check it out…keep reading.
Are you reading the Word of God on your own?
We need to read the Word daily! That is just
like food to our soul! We need to get to
know God and the best way to get to know Him is in His Word!
A lot of Christians sit in the pew thinking
that is enough.
Do not get stuck here! If you think you
cannot read the Bible every day I say you are wrong! Start small, then grow
with it!
Start with Five minutes a day,
Then read ten, then fifteen… each week
increase five minutes until you are in the habit of reading each day a good
measure of the Word.
We all have the time to read, though many of
us think we are too busy! We may have to give something up to make the time to
read.
We need to read and we need to pray every day!
Prayer time-
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This is just as important if not more
so!
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Common mistakes in the assumption of prayer rules;
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Prayer is just for church!
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Prayer is just for dinner.
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You should only pray at home in your
closet.
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Only a priest or pastor can pray and
be heard by God.
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You can go along okay by just praying
on Sunday.
WHAT DOES 7 DAYS
WITH OUT PRAYER MAKE?
7 days with out Prayer make one weak!
The
more we pray, communicate with God the Father the more we get to know Jesus our
Lord and Savior. The more we know Him the more we can learn how to live a godly
life! How can we love Him unless we spend time listening to His voice?
How can we know Him unless we converse with
Him?
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We spend time with a friend to get to
know them. Jesus is not asking for anything less!
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We spend time working on a project to
do a good job of it.
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Shouldn’t we also spend time with
Jesus in prayer and reading, getting the facts straight, so that we can do a
good job of being His followers, His children, His servants?
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One more thing;
Study to show yourself
approved...
Studying
the Bible is different from reading it. If you spend time reading the Bible
each day, and you spend time praying, both for others and yourself daily; you
still need to get into the Word and study it!
You need to truly hide the Word in your heart
so that you will not sin against Him! 119:11
Okay, and then apply the Word you read,
studied, and prayed about, to your life. I know that’s another thing, but
really its all of it summed up together, applying the Word to our lives is what
the point is to all of that!
This study was originally published on August
23rd 2005. I read portions of it and rewrote a lot to make it more appropriate
for today’s terminology. Words change their meaning in the world every so many
years, but the Word of God never changes, really, but we people see things in a
different way when we read it and as we grow in knowledge, we see things in a
more spiritual view of God’s plan for our lives. So if you search for that date
you can get the original In His Word, but for today, lets follow this path,
read, pray, study to apply, then repeat!
Copyright 8-10-2026
Teresa M. Wilson