I was having coffee with a member yesterday, and we began to discuss why we find it so hard to read scripture, but find it easy to read other things that have little or no value. The reason is because everytime you take time to sit down and read scripture you're sitting down to read the most important books and letters ever collected,and you are entering a battle field. The last thing the evil one wants you to do is to know and live truth.
When you read scripture, you are placing yourself in the presence of truth, and the Holy Spirit is drawn to the truth and makes it known to us. If we know truth, then the evil one has little influence over us. Reading scripture is hard because there is literally a battle being fought to keep us in darkness and to keep us blind so that we might be rendered ineffective. If we become weary and begin to fall away from the word then other things that have the appearance of God, but lack the power, begin to creep in and occupy the space designated for God.
You may want to pray " Lord, give me the desire to read your word,and when I do, teach me what you would have me learn. I bind the evil one from this time and space that I might know the truth so that I can live truth. Amen"
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