2. AdventureTruth: He wants to _____ _________ with me stay connected

3. Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to Him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread. Matt. 4:1-3

4. Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ” Matt. 4:4

5. AdventureTruth: He wants to stay connected with me

6. “Man does not live on bread alone…” The Lord wants to _______ _____ connect daily

7. Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. Deuteronomy 8:2

8. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Deuteronomy 8:3

9. “…his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.” Psalm 1:2-3

10. “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word …” The Lord wants to _______ __________ connect personally

11. James 1:22-25, James puts it this way, “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

12. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

13. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it – he will be blessed in what he does.”

14. “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God …” The Lord wants to _______ ______ connect deeply

15. “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.” John 17:17

16. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

17. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment… we have the mind of Christ.” I Cor. 2:12-16

18. Think of it as digesting His Word

19. Little bites eaten frequently are best

20. Digest a portion and then apply it

21. Get a copy that is easy to digest, like the New Living Translation

22. Expect Him to speak

23. AdventureTruth: He wants to stay connected with me