Benefits Of Reading The Bible

The Real "Secret"

king James Bible

Benefits Of Reading The Bible was a study by the Center For Bible Engagement, where they ran a study on forty thousand Americans from the ages of 8 to 80 years old. They noticed that when participants read the bible

  • One time a week, which can count as a church service on a Sunday, it had very little effect.
  • Two times a week, very little effect.
  • Three times a week, it was a little heartbeat, but it wasn’t crazy
  • Four times a week is when the whole game changed their study shows that
    • Feeling lonely dropped 30%
    • Anger issues dropped 32%
    • Bitterness in relationships it dropped 40%
    • Alcoholism and drug use dropped 57%
    • Feeling spiritually stagnant dropped 60%
    • Viewing pornography dropped 61%
      On a more positive side
    • Sharing your faith jumps 200%
    • Discipling others jumps 230%

 

This is PROOF that there IS Power in the Word of GOD!

The Secret

I’m sure everyone has heard of The Secret? I had the audio-book around 2006, I listened to it religiously, no pun intended, and it does work.It helps you tune into the energy (zero point energy?) of the Earth.

But how? In my opinion, you’re allowing the Holy Spirit “in through the backdoor”. I say that because to do it properly at first, it requires repetition, kind of like praying. It requires you to be a “good person”. Being a good person combined with the repetition, produces results. It’s not a set it and forget it kind of thing like some of the people in the book, movie and audio-book claim…not at first anyway.

It put my mind on a self-betterment crusade. I started meditating, which really raised my energy level. By that I don’t mean I had a ton of energy that made me want to do things, I guess a better way to say it, would be “frequency”. After a while, you get better at it, then you can get to that set it and forget it level.

Napoleon Hill - Think And Grow Rich

Think And Grow Rich is where The Secret came from. The people just reworded it and made their own version. I remember The Secret audio-book was about 4 hours long, I used to listen to it every day for about a month so it would sink in.

I created an audio-book of Think And Grow Rich and it’s 9 hours long. I haven’t listened to it every day, but by creating the audio-book, I realized that this is where The Secret came from. It’s a powerful tool.

Much like a more powerful tool, where the Words jump off the page and sink into your heart, I’m talking about the Bible. As you can see by the stats at the beginning of this post, they’re all true. The Secret and Think And Grow Rich are more of a me, me, me kind of thing, whereas the Bible is the opposite.

The Power in the Words of the Bible, make you want to be good, but to be real good, you have to hand the reigns over to Jesus and let him be the designated driver of your life! The time is coming, maybe VERY soon, where you’re going to have one last chance to repent and join the winning team. That would be the wise thing to do.

The fool is easily manipulated by words; but the fool does not hear The Word of GOD, because “The fool doesn’t believe in GOD”.

Are you going to be one of those fools? One of the MANY fools that will be cast into the pit? I hope not! All you have to do is repent and invite The Holy Spirit into your heart, and accept Jesus Christ as your savior.

He got nailed to a cross to save us from death and clean the slate of sin for us. I recently heard an explanation of Original Sin from my pastor. He said it very simply, he said: “You see how small children start doing things that they shouldn’t, even after they’ve been told not to do something, they still do it.”

Why do you think they do it? Who taught them that? That is original sin. They do those things until they understand what they should be doing good.

When you hear that Jesus took away the sins of the world, let me try, in my human mind to put it into perspective for you. Jesus took away the sins of the world alright, he took mine, yours, everyone you know, everyone they know and the sins of the almost 8,000,000,000 people on this planet. Not just 1 sin per person, EVERY sin they have done. The actual number is probably in the quadrillions.

Now imagine, the WRATH of GOD coming down on ONE man! It’s bad enough getting railroad spikes driven through your feet and both arms…

Do you think you’re a good person and that you’ll get accepted into Heaven because of your good works? Take test below and see how good you actually are.

Test Of Your Goodness

Here is a test based on the 10 commandments, that will tell you if you need to repent and let Jesus into your life and let The Holy Spirit arm you with GOD’S armor:

  1. “You shall have no other gods before me” This I think just about EVERYONE is guilty of. Everyone has an image of GOD and they think “he will be lenient on me because I’m a good person”, so you’re creating a god that suits you. That’s a form of idolatry.
  2. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image…” Idolatry!! Are you an Idolator?
  3. “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain…” This one is very serious, you would be stoned to death in Jesus’ time. Are you a Blasphemer?
  4. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy…” Do you keep it Holy?
  5. “Honor your father and your mother”  This one I hope everyone does.
  6. “You shall not murder.” Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer. 1 John 3:15. This is another interesting one, 1 John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar.” Maybe that’s why the reason 4:20 has the meaning it does? Are you a Murderer
  7. “You shall not commit adultery” Anyone who LOOKS at another person in lust, has committed adultery with them in their heart. Are you an Adulterer?
  8. “You shall not steal”. If you’ve ever stolen ANYTHING, no matter the value, you are guilty of this one. Are you a Thief
  9. “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” How many lies have you told in your life? Are you a Liar? If you say you’re not, you’re guilty!
  10. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife…” Have you ever coveted anything that anyone else has? When the word neighbor is used in the Bible it means that EVERY person on the planet is your neighbor. Are you Covetous?

So how did you do? Are you a good person? “No one is good, except GOD alone” Mark 10:17-22, or are you going to be one of those that is cast into the pit?

Look at everything that’s happening in the world right now. Some people just celebrated “Pride Month”! The name itself speaks of sin. Proverbs 16:5
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD:
though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

It’s not too late, do it now! Here’s why I say that: You have no idea when you are going to die! You could die tonight while you sleep. If you don’t repent and accept Jesus as your savior, I’m afraid you will be cast into the pit! It might be like that movie Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, where the bad guys are getting killed or  they’re about to die and the demons come out of the ground screeching and drag them down into the pit…How horrifying would that be!!?? Repent now, save yourself!!!

Peace, Love & Blessings To All!!!