Just wanted to share, hoping you too might want to share some examples of the word and its truths coming alive in your lives.

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CharliRenee

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How can I say that I found His words and ate them, and that they have become the joy and rejoicing of my heart, just as did Jeremiah in verse 15:16?

Well that answer is in my experience... its description reflects exactly what his expressed experience conveys, so accurate in fact, that it leaves me wanting more. Oh how sweet and satisfying it is to have found this banquet of divine nutrition.

To me, it is yet another example of truth I see in Isaiah 55:10-11.

"For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:10‭-‬11 NASB

May His food rain down on our lives. May we submit ourselves to His authority. May we find our sustenance and growth in the flourishing sanctifications found in the profound working of His word. May He and His word become the desires of our hearts.
 
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The love and desire for the word of God is a gift from God.

I had an unusual experience several years ago, I was in the worship team back
than and we were having a bible study and prayer time together.

Someone came up with the idea of covering each person with veils as the others
prayed over them, sort of symbolic of hiding with God in the Holy of Holies.

I was not really sure what I thought of that but went along with it.
When it came to my turn I was prayed over and thought thats nice.
Then later we all went home, it was about 10pm.

Then something happened back at home, I got this sudden desire to
read the bible like never before. I picked it up and it opened at Isaiah 45.

The whole chapter seemed to resonate in my brains especially the verses which
say "I am the Lord and there is no other."

It seemed as if the words jumped out of the page and into my soul, even the
little words like it, and, am the etc seemed to take on meaning. Even the
gaps in-between the words seemed to have a specific purpose and meaning as
they brought order to the passage.

Oh and of course verse 3 about treasures in darkness - wow it felt like that had
happened to me while beneath the veil.

It literally felt as though I was drinking in the word of God and it tasted good.
I could not put the bible down. I think for the first time I unstained John when he
said the scroll tasted like honey in revelations. Only there was no bitterness.

For a good 3-4 months I could not complete a reading or bible study I would read
a few words and they seemed to have such deep meaning that I could not move on
with the rest of the reading, until I had drank up every single morsel there was to be
gleaned from those few words.

Gradually things calmed down, but ever since whenever I read the bible its like
looking at it with fresh eyes as if its the first time I have read it. Something
new catches my attention that i never noticed before.

His word really is a two edged sword, it really it water and bread of life. :)
 
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Miri said:
The love and desire for the word of God is a gift from God.

I had an unusual experience several years ago, I was in the worship team back
than and we were having a bible study and prayer time together.

Someone came up with the idea of covering each person with veils as the others
prayed over them, sort of symbolic of hiding with God in the Holy of Holies.

I was not really sure what I thought of that but went along with it.
When it came to my turn I was prayed over and thought thats nice.
Then later we all went home, it was about 10pm.

Then something happened back at home, I got this sudden desire to
read the bible like never before. I picked it up and it opened at Isaiah 45.

The whole chapter seemed to resonate in my brains especially the verses which
say "I am the Lord and there is no other."

It seemed as if the words jumped out of the page and into my soul, even the
little words like it, and, am the etc seemed to take on meaning. Even the
gaps in-between the words seemed to have a specific purpose and meaning as
they brought order to the passage.

Oh and of course verse 3 about treasures in darkness - wow it felt like that had
happened to me while beneath the veil.

It literally felt as though I was drinking in the word of God and it tasted good.
I could not put the bible down. I think for the first time I unstained John when he
said the scroll tasted like honey in revelations. Only there was no bitterness.

For a good 3-4 months I could not complete a reading or bible study I would read
a few words and they seemed to have such deep meaning that I could not move on
with the rest of the reading, until I had drank up every single morsel there was to be
gleaned from those few words.

Gradually things calmed down, but ever since whenever I read the bible its like
looking at it with fresh eyes as if its the first time I have read it. Something
new catches my attention that i never noticed before.

His word really is a two edged sword, it really it water and bread of life. :)
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Wow, what a supernatural and beautiful gifted experience. I'm off to go read Isaiah 45. I wonder what made you choose that particular book and chapter. Wow, how inspiring, how fun that must have been, seeing Him shine His glory like that so radiantly vivid.
 
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CharliRenee said:
Wow, what a supernatural and beautiful gifted experience. I'm off to go read Isaiah 45. I wonder what made you choose that particular book and chapter. Wow, how inspiring, how fun that must have been, seeing Him shine His glory like that so radiantly vivid.
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Its one of my fav chapters now, I have done all sorts of bible studies about
God in the secret places and God in the darkness. Its quite amazing.

There are verses about how God wraps Himself in darkness, why - well we cannot
see His glory and live! Jesus wrapped up His glory when He came to earth as
a man. Elijah ran away and God met him in the secret place. Moses hid in a cleft
and saw the back of God as He passed by.


I had a whole serious of dreams about God in the darkness around the same time.
How in the dark quiet places we can discover God, question God, symbolically enter
the holy of holies with Him. That was not possible until the veil was torn in two
following the death on the cross.

Its strange isn't it how we think of light and God together, but not darkness.
But its in the darkness, the secret places hidden away with God, that we found the
most treasure.
 
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I love looking for what is right, it is kinda a hobby, Miri. But coming across the right in your comment is easy. I like the way u think, love@Its strange isn't it how we think of light and God together, but not darkness.
But its in the darkness, the secret places hidden away with God, that we found the
most treasure.
 
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