The apostle Paul says:
Philippians 3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
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In the following, Paul says this is the third time he is coming to them to speak this message.
2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
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God often shows me to repeat messages.
Humans often look for "new" things, when what they need is to keep the same scripture before them day and night, for a season, to enable the power of God to do the message to grow stronger, producing a deep root system to the word.
Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
As we think on the word and do the word we grow stronger in that portion of the word.
Mark 4
4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
14 The sower soweth the word.
15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
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It is so important to hold onto the word and let it go deep into our hearts, doing that word given opportunity.
I often think on the same scripture day and night for a season, doing that instruction.
Then another scripture is brought to my mind and I work it into my life, making that a part of life by doing it.
Sometimes several years pass and when I see a scripture I have lived in for a season, it is like seeing an old friend again! I rejoice again in that word. This happened a few days ago when I re-visited the following scripture:
Nehemiah 8:10 Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
(This really causes me to want to write on the blog and to make podcasts to send "food from God" to the churches where some have nothing prepared for them.)
I rejoiced in seeing that scripture once again!
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In Athens, when Paul visited, he found many who spent all their time looking to hear something new.
Acts 17
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, HIM declare I unto you.
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Understanding the truth and meaning of the old things, the scriptures written in the Bible, is the power of God to us who seek God.
Here is an old friend from past years that I recently returned to visit and to do.
2 Timothy 2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please HIM who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Immediately the power of God was upon me to help me to cut back on the TV news stories which I had been hearing.
There is such power in doing a scripture!
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