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March 8
Saturday


TRANSFORMING
POWER

READ:
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
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These words which I
command you today
shall be in your heart.
__Deuteronomy 6:4-9
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Many people love to play games that test their knowledge. Recently, a colleague and I were testing a Bible-kowledge game. Since we were seated in an open area of our office, those nearby could hear our conversation. Soon questions ranging from Noah's ark to the woman at the well were being answered by those within earshot of us. It was a delight to hear various staff members volunteering responses to Bible questions.

A knowledge of the Bible is important, but God desires us to be saturated with His Word and to internalize it so we an grow in our relationship with Him. The Holy Spirit uses the Word to make us more like Christ (Eph.4:20-24). Consider these benefits of internalizing the Bible: joy and rejoicing (Jer. 15:16); spiritual success (Josh 1:8); a tool in spiritual warfare (Matt. 4:1-11); correction (2 Tim. 3:15-16); light for our path (Ps. 119:105); wisdom with problem solving (Prov. 1:1-2); and stimulating faith (Rom. 10:17).

Learning about the Bible just to increase our knowledge can lead to spiritual pride (1 Cor. 8:1). But allowing the Holy Spirit to transform us by the Word helps us navigate through life's twists and turns and respond in love to God and to each other. __Dennis Fisher

```````````````````````My hunger for the truth He satisfies;```````````````````````````
````````````````````Upon the Word, the Living Bread, I feed:``````````````````````````
``````````````````No parching thirst I know, because His grace,````````````````````````
``````````````a pool of endless depth, supplies my need. __Sanders``````````````````````
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Many books can inform,
but only the Bible can transform.

************************************Today's Bible Reading __ Deuteronomy 6:4-9

4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD
our God, the LORD is one!

5 You shall love the LORD
your God with all your
heart, with all your soul,
and with all your strength.

6 and these words which I
command you today shall
be in your heart. 7 You shall
teach them diligently to
your children, and shall talk
of them when you sit in
your house, when you walk
by the way, when you lie
down, and when you rise
up. 8 You shall bind them as
a sign on your hand, and
they shall be as frontlets
between your eyes. 9 You
shall write them on the
doorposts of you house
and on your gates.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHTS<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

There is no record in the Bible of God speaking to anyone in any
form__including dreams oracles, or visions__from the time of
Joseph to the time of Moses. When the people of Israel were led
out into the wilderness, it is likely that they had little knowledge
of the God who had delivered them and was leading them to a
new home. The commands given through Moses were meant to
reintroduce God to them and to help them to be people who would
be a light to others (cf. Isa. 49::3). By keeping God's words always in
front of them (Deut. 6:6-9), they could live by those words and be
transformed into people who showed God to the world.