Biblical Discernment

"O how love I Thy law: it is my meditation all the day." -- Ps:119:97(MEM.) O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
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"Ye search (or search ye) the Scriptures: and these are they which bear witness of Me." -- John:5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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"The word did not profit them, because they were not united by faith with them that heard." -- Heb:4:2For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
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[There] is more than one passage upon the use of God's word in the life of grace...I would fain once again come back to this all-important point. I cannot too earnestly and urgently address this call to my beloved young brothers and sisters: Upon your use of the word of God your spiritual life in great measure depends. Man lives by the word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. Therefore seek with your whole heart to learn how to use God's word aright. To this end, receive the following hints. Read the word more with the heart than with the understanding: with the understanding I would know and comprehend; with the heart I desire, and love, and hold fast. Let the understanding be the servant of the heart. Be much afraid of the understanding of the carnal nature, that cannot receive spiritual things (1 Cor:1:12Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
See All...,27; 2:6,12; Col:2:18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
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Read the word always in fellowship with the living God. The power of a word depends on my conviction regarding the man from whom it comes.

First set yourself in loving fellowship with the living God under the impression of His nearness and love: deal with the word under the full conviction that He, the eternal God, is speaking with you; and let the heart be silent to listen to God, to God Himself (Gen:17:3And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
See All...; 1 Sam:3:9Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
See All...,10; Isa:50:4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
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(Andrew Murray, excerpt from The New Life, Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ, Chapter 51).