"My Words WIll By No Means Pass Away" Mark 12:31 NKJV

So here is how it read today...

"MY WORDS WILL BY NO MEANS PASS AWAY" (MARK 12:31 NKJV)
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How to receive God's Word (2)

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How can you get the maximum benefit out of God's Word? Receive it as a permanent Word, not a temporary Word. Given our culture's "disposable" mentality we don't expect to hold onto things too long. We're constantly replacing them with more up to date technologies. But not God's Word! "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away." It never needs updating: it's perfect and can't be improved upon. That's why Jesus instructs us to let "my words remain in you" (Jn 15:7 NIV) In twenty-first century vernacular. "Program your mind with the Scriptures. "How do you do that?

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(1) "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly" (Col 3:16). Give it permanent residence, not just visitor status. Take it in richly, meaning copiously, abundantly. Call it " operation saturation!" To help us, this passage in The Living Bible adds: "Teach them to each other and sing them out in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs." What a great way to reinforce your grasp on the Scriptures. (2) "Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night...do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful" (Jos 1:8 NIV). To retain it permanently, talk it out, think it out, walk it out! You say, "But my memory doesn't retain things too well." No problem. "The Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name...will remind you of everything I have said to you" (Jn 14:26 NIV). If you'll read, teach, sing, talk, think and walk in God's Word, His Spirit will supernaturally refresh your less-than-perfect memory of it.