my question now is when we get to the
point where the holy spirit makes a
Bible verse important to us or we get a
deeper uh understanding of a Bible
passage is it important then to keep a
written record of it for example in a
personal Bible diary or Bible Journal
because I don't want to lose the
knowledge I received um so how do you
handle this how can we organize and
manage all the knowledge we receive so
we don't lose it
very practical the question you asked
was my uh I remember in 2002 when I came
to
Synagogue Church ofin Nations I I
discover things new there's a a
teaching that was so deep and I was
battling to understand it because of
language barriers well because I'm a
French speaking so anytime I come across
uh a verse a Bible verse or a word of
wisdom
which seems so difficult for me I said
to myself God help me to understand if I
don't understand I don't reject it I
will take the verse I will write it I
what helped me a lot is that for example
you say okay let me give an example the
first word of wisdom I came say we are
Sav to save others I said to myself how
can we save
others it's only Jesus I know as Savior
how can we save others
so I wrote it on a on a on a small note
and I begin
to meditate I never knew what meditation
was about but I read to understand if I
don't understand something it's very
difficult to become part of me so but I
will not reject it I will write it
later I will go to the
verse to read it once I read it I record
it in my brain I memorize it I to do
that before because I don't have time to
read sometime sometime if you put it on
a note because of activities you may
even forget it but the Bible is meant to
be stored in the speci in the shelf of
our
heart that's very it is effective so
when you read the Bible and you come
across a specific
passage that speaks to you
intimately so I write down and one day
the prophet say I give you an advice
create a file called don't go don't go
don't let it go it was 2004 I grabed the
idea anytime I come across a Bible verse
I highlight you see my Bible it's
highlighted everywhere full of colors
rainbow rainbow yellow so when I
highlight it I do something I use my
phone I have a not
note I write the
verse and I learned and I learned the
verse I make sure the verse I know this
verse anytime I hear Matthew chapter I
must know what it is because when you
just get the the Matthew 11:28 what does
it
say I have to read it to possess it to
become part of me and the prophet say if
you take God's word to
heart and made it a part of
you that word by its very nature will
change
you and when it changes you you find
yourself moved by the life of God so I
said to myself okay since you are so
busy attening to
people people write notes on their
hands do you remember it me I memorize
it in my in my brain that's why
meditation start thinking is not bad I
memorize but if you memorize something
as time goes on you lose it but I Contin
to tell in my mind I want to understand
what it means to understand what it
means to understand it means before you
realize it after one day it become part
of me it's the exercise I did so I wrote
it but after I wrote it I will go to the
not when I go to the notes I will I will
learn it learn it learn it by and
continue to meditate it's meditation
that keep the word into our
heart because it's just like a computer
so when I switch my computer on I have
the RAM memory so if I type a uh a
message if I don't save it and I switch
off I may lose it so I have to record it
somewhere so it's very good to keep
record but what we need to do after
reading after you have read whether a
message or a Bible I go back to the
message and that's where the key of
meditation starts it's not something
passive is
active I will record it on the tablets
of my heart once I understand the word
it is with me it's is there forever just
try to do it I said to myself okay every
day I must get five words of wisdom five
Bible verses I read in my Bible that
must be part of me so if I'm in a
vehicle or I'm in a bus I need to look
for the Bible it there
already now this is where Holy Ghost
will help you Jesus said in John chapter
14: 26
that the holy spirit will bring to our
remembrance the very words of Jesus yeah
that's what I was thinking of and that's
very the key sometime you think you have
forgotten you okay you have read
something in the
morning but go to a quiet place and just
try to remember what you have
read while you doing ask Holy Ghost to
bring to you'll be very surprised to
realize that what you think you have
forgotten begin to come begin good to
come begin good to come that's the work
of Holy
Spirit and that's where meditation will
start you
read after you have read you close your
Bible and think about what you have
read think about it think about it as
you walk think about it think about it
before you realize it the thing will
sink into your
heart Prophet say when you eat food I I
I match it I it's my mouth chew it I
chew it I chew it thank you very much I
chew it before I realize it I instinctly
swallow it once it enter my enters my
stomach I have no control over it
there's a process going inside so when
you read your Bible you read it to
understand it you read it to get it into
your heart because that word is there
forever that's why when you are
praying we call it Spirit prayer prayer
in the power of Holy Spirit Holy Ghost
will bring that word to remance to you
you start worshiping worshiping and the
word just spring from your spirit so
what we need to do now I kept record I
write it I have full of them see if my
phone is I want to show you even CER
consum me I don't know what I like to
do show
you I I I even snap The Bible Pages I
read not to forget it I will snap it and
read it and read it and read it and read
till become part of me so all these
notes are I reading daily reading any
time I read a passage that really
strikes me see my Bible I snap it I snap
the whole page on my Note and once I
finish reading I go back to it I always
go back to it to read it to meditate it
and that's when the Bible will become
part of
you I strongly
believe that the Bible explains Itself
by
itself you can read a passage that seems
difficult to understand and later you
come across one scripture that is cross
reference to that one that give you more
light so what I do I put those verses
together in a very logical are way and
read it and go over it I go over it I go
I trust Holy Ghost before you realize it
it is part of you and one day you begin
to pray all of the scripture come to
come to your spirit and when I read my
Bible I I gave you one one testimony one
day the prophet say if you read 40
chapters per day you got the Bible in
one year in in one
month I I say how can you read the Bible
in one month 4 chapters perday I did it
it's so quick you don't remember
anything but what is there something
mysterious in this Bible
anytime you read
it you will discover something
new any time you read it first I read it
again my mind get refreshed any time you
read something new happen so what we
need to
do is to record instead of our shelves
but on the shelves of your human spirit
and that's the area of meditation that's
what helps a lot many of my reference I
don't need anymore they become part of
me but those verse I read them I read
them I read them I read them and when
one
day the man of the Prophet was saying
that this is my advice when you are
reading a
message and you see Bible
scriptures don't just read your Bible
alone read the Bible but read the
message read the message and read the
Bible whatever message you come across
go to the Bible and find out what is in
line with the scriptures and that's what
helped me a lot so when I came across
that quote that say we are safe to serve
others I begin to search I say wow I
remember Bible say in book of First
Corinthian uh the ministry of
reconciliation
absolutely yes that's Mutual
reconciliation so knowledge come
first but understanding comes later
there are many verse we read today but
later we get the understanding of it so
the cross ref ref of the Bible is very
important I meditate I learn it by heart
I stop in my memory I begin to think
about it till I get spiritual
understanding of it once what you
understand is what you keep forever yeah
that that's what I wanted to say just
quickly because when you talked about
the Holy Spirit bringing to our
remembrance he can only bring to to our
remembrance what's already stored in our
heart it's only the word in our heart
that he will bring back to us at the
time that we need it and you know he
will use that word to to strengthen us
to to fortify us to comfort us to to he
will use that word but that word has to
be stored in our heart and when you were
talking about um you know do we write it
down it's it's different to like when
you're revising for exams you know when
you're Rising for exams you know you
pick up bits and you learn it's all it's
all academic you know you just can write
it out write it out put it in different
colors and write out so many times but
this is a matter that's why I just
wanted to focus on you said
understanding if you understand
something it will stay in your heart
forever you can you can learn something
by
memory all of us have gone through the
education system you know we we learned
so many things that now we can't
remember you know I'm sure so much of of
of but the process of of that learning
stays with us forever and once you
understand something that understanding
is in your heart and that doesn't leave
you and and because what struck me from
your question is you know how how can we
make sure that all of this um doesn't
leave us that we don't lose um what we
read and I really like that point you
made because um it's it's you know it's
not just a matter of reading and it
going in one ear and out the other you
know we can't lose this because this is
our life how do we how do we not lose it
well we have to understand spiritually
that's only through the help of the Holy
Spirit but we have to start somewhere so
don't condemn yourself don't
if we're all on this journey together
and that's why we said at the beginning
that if your life is in Christ it's a
new creation there's there's new
revelation every day when you read the
Bible and ask the Holy Spirit to help
you you can read read things oh now I
understand now I understand so it's a
it's a it's a lifelong Learning Journey
but I just wanted to emphasize on that
point of understanding when you
understand it with the spirit's help
then you can't lose it you you you you
might not know exactly the chapter and
verse you know Vine is a walking
Encyclopedia of the Bible I not like
this if you ask him anything he'll be
able to tell you the chapter and verse
look I'm going to be honest with you I
don't want to provoke you to say that I
was not born Master when I was I was a
young boy Muslim when I was young I
learned to learn the Quran by
heart I went to Quran in school and I
learned them by heart and all those
verses I learned by heart I still
recorded here so I apply the same
technique when I read the
Bible I will read it I will memorize the
whole thing so I will begin to read it
in my memory I don't need to carry bible
I memorize I now when I came across the
book of prover if you have your Bible
when you see the Book of
Proverbs 4 verse 20-
23 my
son attend to my words I learn it by
heart keep them in the midst of your
heart for there are life for those who
find him and health to all flesh keep
them way in the midst of your heart and
that's what is the most difficult we
need to allow that word in the midst of
our heart through that process of
meditation meditating the Bible because
I we said already that we meditate
because we want to understand the Divine
meaning Jesus spoke lot of Parables do
will really understand what it means to
apply
it he
said if your right hand disturb you
catch it off or plag it off it's a he
was speaking his Parable that's why in
the in the parable of the s in Matthew
chapter 13:
19 Jesus said can you read it for
us Matthew chapter 13: 19
it's good to keep
record when anyone hears the word of the
kingdom and does not understand it then
the wicked one comes and snatches away
what was sown in his heart this is he
who received seed by the
wayside when anyone hears the word of
the kingdom when you hear the word of
the kingdom and does not understand it
and we do not understand it then the
wicked one comes and snatches away what
was sewn in his heart that's is it the
importance of understanding the Divine
meaning of what I'm bring so when you
are reading and you find you come across
a a section sometime it is personal to
you your heart will begin to ring that's
why the prophet say read your Bible
slowly attentively
repeatedly mean sometimes some heart are
very slow to understand that's dependent
nature of our heart
you go to read it you read it you read
it slowly like the Ean un did in the
book of act chapter8 he was reading he
could not understand but did not drop it
he kept on reading reading until he
became a part of you once you understand
it's there forever you may not remember
the number of the Matthew 12 whatever
but the meaning is inside of you that's
what I wanted to say that's where I was
going when I said that rine will know
the exact chapter and verse
I'm saying even if if you know we're not
we all have different anyway everyone's
different what I want to say is that the
understanding of the scripture like for
example you
know what it says you might not know
exactly where it is but you know what it
says and you understand it and you apply
it to your life that is what counts um
you know and because for example this is
the blueprint that we have The Sermon on
the Mount in Matthew 6 you know this
when when Jesus explained how we should
live our life
you know that that you might not know
everything word for word but we know
what he said and we we apply it we we
understand okay what it means when turn
the other cheek okay love your enemies
okay do this do that okay it it's
something which becomes a part of you in
the same way the more you read and
that's why it's so um important that
we're doing this journey through the
Bible together we're going all the way
through you know many people it's
difficult to read through many many
books in the Old Testament you know
um and so to actually go through this
whole journey encourages you to actually
see okay what what can I see in this and
as you read things will just jump out at
you and when they jump out at you
definitely everyone has a different way
okay you can underline it highlight it
write it down somewhere else like rasine
said he takes a picture with his phone
um any way that's the best for you but
the the most important is that H you you
you ask the Holy Spirit to help you
understand and apply it to your life
then can never you can never lose it you
can never lose it it's it's here that's
the Heavenly currency that that will
will get you what you need in the
kingdom of God and please continue
reading because one day you say I've
heard about this
somewhere sometime I read one verse and
I remember Paul said this I quickly go
to Paul and make the connection because
the Bible is Interlink
once I got the connection important
verses I make sure I get it by heart
because there some like everybody know
John 3:16 God so loved the world that we
know those verse you know Romans 10:1 17
Faith but when you come across your
Bible there are some section where if
your heart is a lord it will strike
you you may forget you you either you
highlight depend on system you have me
what I do as I show you I snap the page
this is the page I snap the page
directly and then when I finish my day I
will go back to the pages I read you see
them this is my I'm sharing my technique
to you because you ask me this is how I
do I read this morning and I see the
connection God was talking about let me
tell you why was say about prophecy God
say I will raise for them a prophet like
you in the midst of the Brethren I will
put my words what strike me is two words
God say I will
raise Prophet I will put my words I say
wow this mean God is the one that raised
the prophet not
man number two I will put my words in
his
mouth means it's not just about
receiving inspiration it's about
expressing the word of God from your
mouth mean the spirit of God will speak
through
you so I wrote those two I said wow this
is teaching me lessen that God will
raise and God will put the word mean the
expression of Prophecy came through the
power of Holy Spirit and I to ask myself
what is the purpose of Prophecy I write
that question later when I was reading I
went to another section that gave me the
answer and I and I noted here in the
book of Jeremiah it's here he
said if they are prophets and if the
word of the Lord is with them let them
now make
intercession for the for the for the for
the Lord of host that the vessel which
they left in the house of the Lord will
be taken back so that mean the purpose
of the prophecy is to bring people to
their heart back to God so I take those
two verses and I get them into my heart
now that understanding fix them for
forever now God will raise and God will
put his word in your lips so nobody can
teach you to prophesy holy ghost that
speaks through you so I read my Bible I
take I take attention of every single
word there are some words are so
powerful why God you say it why this
word why this verb why this and that's
that understanding now make the Bible to
become part of you as you continue to
practice it to practice it to practice
before you realize it it is there
forever once you understand it but this
is my record keeping record is very
good so if you go to a church a service
or you hear somebody preaching a
wonderful
message I heard the word wisdom I write
it I heard something I write it when I
go home I begin to meditate the more you
meditate new revelation will come new
understanding will come and that's just
how this you transfer from the letter to
the spirit from the written to Your
Heart by thinking about it meditating we
just have that time sometime we read we
don't have to go back to it go back to
it don't read it again turn it over turn
it over till you get it right it's a
gift of Holy Spirit and that's why I
just wanted to say finally is that there
is a power in actually reading the word
you know it is a blessing as well to
listen to the audio version of the Bible
and have for example listen to have it
how can I say listening to to scripture
but there is such a power in physically
reading your Bible um that's what I just
wanted to encourage you with that you
know when you read it it's like
literally the word can just jump out of
the page at you um and so don't
underestimate or under mind the power of
actually reading the Bible your your
physical your physical Bible um yeah
yeah and second not on your tablet or
your iPad or your phone I'm I'm all for
physical physical Bible it's we like to
but sometime you may situation where I
have my physical Bible I have both but
one thing is important I used to read a
lot of Bible
study sometime you want something quick
what they say about this it's very good
to read the Bible study we commentary we
learn a lot from this but learn to
develop build your own correct Bible
Bible references cross references that
will help you a lot because this thought
expressed by this Apostle has been
expressed by another one in a different
way and they interconnect themselves and
number two my personal experience when I
read for example the Gospel of John now
John is very deep so when I read John
after I finish John I will go to First
John second John third John he has a way
of expressing the same truth in a
different way and it will help you to
get the context and the mind that's why
if you say key verses you should write
them write them write them and by you
you meditate that Bible is always when
you are praying now holy ghost will use
that word in your heart to
pray that's the
key because when you are praying your
prayer must be filled with the
scriptures that's why it says the holy
spirit will pray for you absolutely was
you don't understand Spirit prayer okay
Spirit prayer prayer in the power of the
Holy Ghost Springs from need what is the
need at the time of need Holy Ghost will
bring to your remembrance the very word
you pray for as you pray the scripture
will come the scripture will come just
trust him for
that we went to a very good school you
know the same when you have when the
prophet will call who has message to
preach to the church
tomorrow wow you know prepare a message
and preach to a
congregation how can it
be you write your message there's
something to have a message you prepare
you write there's another thing to stand
before the public and to deliver the
message and by the time you read the
message you write the message you the
way you study the Bible you study the
message you you understanding
order it by the time you begin to talk
you realize that new inspiration become
better than what you wrote the holy
spirit will give you that's the work of
holy spirit so when you are reading just
on your bed try to remember what you
have read without opening the Bible say
holy spirit help me Lord bring to my
remembrance just like your
dream your dream but you woke up in the
morning the dream vanish you don't
remember you're trying to grab bits of
it and it's like vanished
that's where you close your eyes and ask
Holy Ghost to help you to remember to
remember he that's his job he bring to
our remance the very words of Jesus at
the time of
need sword of the spirit but if the
heart is empty there's nothing for him
to remind you of so there are many
things you learned when you were at
school primary school and you must have
forgotten but they are deeply
embedded one day you will just come to
your mind the same for a heart so it's
good to to do like like the animals when
they eat food they will bring it out and
bring it out bring it out bring it out
bring it out you refresh your mind
refresh your Spin and before you realize
it the seed the word settles in your
heart at the point of
understanding that is it once you
understand it conviction come it is
there
forever so please I encourage you
keeping record is good excellent keep
giving your record but much more don't
don't don't forget your so busy go back
to the record read it in the night read
it and meditate make sure every single
day you get one or two scriptures you
part of you was my my my my discipline
dedication and
discipline I dedicate my heart to the
word and I discipline my mind by
thinking meditating while the public
transport I meditate on the Bible when I
have break in my job I meditate the
Bible so it become part of me because I
I rehearse it rehear it become fully
part of me that's that's what I
did thank you thank you so much for that
question um I believe it's blessed many
people and we hope that you're you're
blessed as well thank you so much and I
want tell something you know one day you
can meet somebody in the street can say
can you tell me about who is Jesus
you'll be surprised that day Holy Ghost
will bring all the verses you have been
reading
and that's the expression the expression
of the Holy Spirit to your remembrance
it will flow like a river it is there
thank you