2. How the Bible Changes Us

3. Jesus: “The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life!” John 6:63 (NIV)

4. “The Word of God is LIVING and ACTIVE. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts And attitudes of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 (NIV)

5. How long does it take to read the bible? Love the Word

6. King James Bible has 788,258 words in it Learn the Word

7. How Fast do American’s Read? People Reading speed (words per minute) 3rd grade students150 4th Grade Students170 8th Grade Students250 11th Grade Students350 Average Adults300 Low Scoring College Students340 Average College Students450 High Scoring College Students800 Mid Level Executives340 High Level Executives575 College Professors680 High School Dropouts240

8. How long does it take to read the bible? 788,258 words ÷240 words/min = 3284 minutes, or 55 hours

9. How many minutes would it take me to read the Bible if I read a little each day? 788258 words ÷365 days = 2160 words per day

10. How many minutes would it take me to read the Bible if I read a little each day? 2160 words/day÷ 240 words/min = 9 minutes per day

11. So if you started reading 9 minutes a day beginning today you would complete the whole bible on February 19, 2012. Live the Word

12. Do you have 9 minutes somewhere in your day to let God change you with His Word?

13. How Does God’s Word Change Me? 1. It recreates my life

14. “He chose to give us birth through the word of truth…” James 1:18 (NIV)

15. “Holy Scriptures, are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 3:15 (NIV)

16. How Does God’s Word Change Me? 2. It eradicates my guilt

17. “… Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word.” Ephesians 5:25-26 (NIV)

18. “You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.” John 15:3 (NIV)

19. How Does God’s Word Change Me? 3. It activates my faith

20. “Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the Word of Christ.” Romans 10:17 (NIV)

21. “For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. Philippians 2:13 (NLT)

22. How Does God’s Word Change Me? 4. It stimulates my growth

23. “I commit you to God and to the Word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” Acts 20:32 (NIV)

24. “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)

25. How Does the Bible Stimulate my growth as in 2 Timothy 3:16-17? Teaching is God shows me the path to walk on. That’s teaching. Rebuking is when God shows me how I got off the path, and I’m now in the ditch. That’s called rebuking.

26. How Does the Bible Stimulate my growth as in 2 Timothy 3:16-17? Correcting is how I get back on the path, the right path for life, for my life. Training is how I stay on the path and don’t fall off in the ditch again.

27. How Do I Gain These Benefits? 1. Learn it

28. Jesus: “Your trouble is that you don’t know the Scriptures...” Mark 12:24 (LB)

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30. Every problem is an opportunity.

31. There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Proverbs 14:12 (NASB)

32. How Do I Gain These Benefits? 2. Accept the Bible as my authority

33. “When you received the Word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the Word of God, which is at work in you who believe.” 1 Thessalonians 2:13 (NIV)

34. How Do I Gain These Benefits? 3. Act on it

35. “Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.” John 13:17 (NIV)