So then, Faith comes by Hearing, and Hearing by
The WORD of GOD.
Are you having difficulty understanding The Holy Bible? Ask The Author for help. Read your Bible out loud. Doesn't matter how silly you think it sounds.. The Bible tells us that there is POWER in the Spoken WORD. And our Bibles are the Written WORD.. When we read Out Loud, we hear our voices Speaking The WORD of God in our ears and The Holy Spirit directs this WORD to our hearts!
Take care which 'bible' you read, as well. Not all bibles are The Written WORD of GOD. While the KJV is my favorite, there are other reliable versions. The Amplified Bible applies Strong's Exhaustive Concordance right in the Bible verse, making it easier to understand the words in places. (Helps to have your own Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, too).
Some folks have their own bibles printed up with parts of the Bible removed. Ask God to direct you to the Bible He wants you to read. Like I said, KJV is my favorite. I have read the NKJV, NIV, RSV and I have a Greek-English New Testament nearby. I always come back to KJV (King James Version). And I keep Matthew Henry's Commentary near me to guide me in my studies. In fact, all of my study books are at hand to help me seek out that which is burning in my heart.
See, this Faith verse? We cannot always get to church to hear The WORD of GOD preached by the pastor, minister, teacher, evangelist or missionary. But we can still hear The WORD of GOD spoken, if we are willing to speak IT out loud in our homes. Set down in your recliner, put your feet up, open your Bible and begin to read where God directs you to, where your heart is so inclined to go.
We have no excuse for not hearing The WORD spoken, when we have ears that hear. But what about they who cannot hear because they are deaf? The heart hears The WORD, whether the lips move or not; the desire to hear is rewarded with the riches of heaven: The WORD gets applied.
Some day we will see THE WORD of GOD with our eyes: face to face with JESUS we will be. Until then, we see and hear THE WORD OF GOD with our Faith.
