His revealed will-The Word of God

Below are some important truths of passages I pick out from George Mueller’s book. I happen to run by this book as I was rushing out of house today. The first thought that came "Wow, George Mueller?!(I have a liking for his writings since Pastor Prince introduced it) Never knew my landlord would have his book…" =) It was also a confirmation to me on the subject of the importance of the Word I’ve been pondering about lately.
I grew up all my life as a Christian. One may think that I would have known/memorized a considerably number of Scriptures but no…that was not the case. Having full attendance as a kid in children’s church which gain me some presents =) and in youth meeting did not attain for my knowledge of the Word. I love the Lord. I love going to church camps esp when there’s praise and worship where we will all get fired up. Later in my teens, I started to have an interest for the Word. I enjoy sermons (no matter how dreadful it may seem…=)) and even started of reading Max Lucado books and make sure I would get every single one of them. But guess what, I realized I hardly know more than 5 verses memorized. Not as a child, but only 5 months back.
The verses that I knew was John 3:16, Proverbs 3:5,6(which I recite every nite as a kid-and the only verse I could come up with when problems arise Hee,) Ephesians 4:32(kids song)….
But I was sensitive to the things of the spirit then, it may have been my close relationship I have with Abba.
Then recently, someone prayed for me. He told me He saw two wings, one was the Spirit and the other the Word. He said I was sensitive to the spirit but not grounded in the Word.I need to be grounded so that I could soar like the eagles…
The pass 4 months had been my hardest times…I had no other means but to sought the Lord day and nite….in prayer and in e Word.
One morning, the Lord asks me to write down all the blessings and supernatural touch He has given me all my life. I started drafting them out. Later, He ask me to tick the ones I received 4 months back in pink, my 4 years of grace in new creation in orange and before I came new creation in blue.
Guess what amazing truth I found.
Before I came to New Creation it was only 5, my four years of grace…30+, my last four months 100+ by now…
It was this pass 4 months that I kept reading and reading and meditating the Scriptures…it was this 4 months that I had supernatural confirmation in His Word(never before this 4 months) and it was this 4 months that I had my greatest growth. I am so in love with Him now that I cannot pass by one day not reading His Word.
Beloved, I always grew up thinking that it’s ok not to expound on the Word…just knowing that it’s somewhere in the bible or maybe telling yourself oneday will come when I will take up the precious book and read…but you’re missing out something great I wont be able to explain to you!
His awesome love for you!
I encourage you to feed on what George Mueller has written…I know it’s long. But maybe you can just read a few sentence a day =) but it’ll be nourishing to your soul.
The careful and consecutive reading of the Holy scripture
Concerning this subject Mr. Muller says, "I fell into the snare, into which so many young believers fall, the reading of religious books in preference to the scriptures. I could no longer read French and German novels, as I formerly done, to feed my carnal mind; but still I did not put into the room of those books the best of all books. I read tracts, missionary papers, sermons, and biographies of godly persons. The last kind of books I found more profitable than others, and had they been well selected, or had I not read too much of such writings, or had any of them tended particularly to endear the Scriptures to me, they might have done me much good. I never had been at any time in my life in the habit of reading the Holy Sciptures. When under fifteen years of age, I occasionally read a little of them at school;afterwards God’s precious book was entirely laid aside, so that I never read one single chapter of it, as far as I remember, till it pleased God to begin a work of grace in my heart. Nowe the scriptural way of reasoning would have been : God Himself has condescended to become an author and I am ignorant about that precious book, which His Holy Spirit has caused to be written through the instrumentality of His servants, and it contains that which I ought to know, and the knowledge of which will lead me to true happiness; therefore I ought to read again and again this most precious book, this book of books, most earnestly, most prayerfully, and with much meditation; and in this practice I ought to continue all the days of my life. For I was aware, though I read it a little, that I knew scarely anything of it. But instead of acting thus, and being led by my ignorance of the Word of God to study it more, my difficulty I had in unerstanding it, and the little enjoyment I had in it, made me careless of reading it( for much prayerful reading of the Word, gives not merely knowledge, but increases the delight we have in reading it); and thus, like many believers, I practically preferred, for the first four years of my divine life, the works of uninspired men to the oracles of the living God. The consequence was that I remained a babe, both in knowledge most sadly kept me back from walking steadily in the ways of god. For it is the truth that makes us free (John 8:31,32), by delivering us from the slavery of thelusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. The Word proves it. The experience of the saints proves it; and also my own experience most decidedly proves it. For when it pleased the Lord in August 1829, to bring me really to the Scriptures, my life and walk became very different. And though I have very much fallen short of what I might and ought to be, yet, by the grace of God, I have been enabled to live much nearer to Him than before.
"If any believers read this, who practically prefer other books to the Holy Scripture, and who enjoys writings of men much more than the Word of God, may they be warned by my loss. I shall consider this book, should it please the Lord, through its instrumentality, to lead some of His people no longer to neglect the Holy Scirptures, but to give them that preference, which have hitherto bestowed on the writings of men. My dislike to increase the number of books would have been sufficient to deter me from writing these pages, had I not been convinced, that this in answer to my prayers, the reading of my experience may be the means of leading them to value the Sciptures more highly and to make them the rule of all their actions.
"If anyone should ask me, how he may read the Scriptures most profitably, I would advised him that:

1. Because it throws light upon the connection; and a different course, according to which one habitually selects particular chapters, will make it utterly impossible ever to understand much of the scriptures.
2. Whilst we are in the body, we need a change even in spiritual things; and this change the Lord has graciously provided in the great variety which is to be found in Hi Wors.
3. It tends to the glory of God for the leaving out some chapters here and there, is practically saying that certain portions are better than others; or, that there are certain parts revealed truth unprofitable or unnecessary.
4. It may keep us, by the blessing of God, from erroneous views, as in reading thus regularly through the Scpirture we are led to see the meaning of the whole, and also kept from laying too much stress upon certain favourtite views.
5. The Scripture contain the whole revealed will of God, and therefore we ought to seekk to read from time to time through the whole of the revealed will. There are many believers, I fear, in our dauy, who have not read even once through the whole Scriptures; and yet in a few months, by reading only a few chapters every day they might accomplish it.

1. It is also of great importance to meditate on what we read, so that perhaps a small portion of that which we raed, or, if we have time, the whole may be meditated upon in the course of the day. Or a small protion of a book, or an epistle, or a gospel, through which we go regularly for meditation, may be considered every day, without, however, suffering oneself to be brought into bondage by this plan.

"Learned commentaries I have found to store the head, with many notions and oftern also with the truth of God; but when the Spirit teaches, through the instrumentality of prayer and meditation, the heart is affected. The former kind of knowledge puffs up, and is often renouced, when another commentary gives a different opinion, and often also is found good for nothing, when it is to be carried out into practice. The latter kind of knowledge generally humbles, gives joy, leads us nearer to God, and is not easily reasoned away; and having been obtained from God, and thus entered into the heart, and become our own, us generally carried out."

Above all he should seek to have it settled in his own mind, that God alone, by His Spirit, can teach him, and that therefore, as God will be enquired of for blessings, it becomes him to seekk God’s blessing, it becomes him to seek God’s blessing previous to reading, and also whilst reading.

He should have it, moreover, settled in his mind, that, although the Holy Spirit is the best and sufficient teacher, yet that this teacher does not always teach immediately when we desire it, and that, therefore, we may have to entreat Him again and again for the explanation of certain passages; but that He will surely teach us at last, is indeed we are seeking for light prayerfully, patiently, and with a view to the glory of God.

It is of immmense imporatnce of understanding the Word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read everyday a portion of the Old and a portion of the New Testament, going on where we previous left off. This is important: