Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

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Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

• Question 2 Are You Governed Increasingly by
  Gods Word

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I. Delighting in the Word

• Psalm 11947-48
• Psalm 11997
• Psalm 119113
• Psalm 119119
• Psalm 119127
• Psalm 1119163

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II. The Value of the Word.
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This Book of the Law shall not depart from your
mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and
night, that you may observe to do according to
all that is written in it. For then you will make
your way prosperous, and then you will have good
success. Joshua 18
success, prosperity
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• conversion
• wisdom
• joy
• understanding
• warning
• reward

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the
soul The testimony of the Lord is sure, making
wise the simple The statutes of the Lord are
right, rejoicing the heart The commandment of
the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes The fear
of the Lord is clean, enduring forever The
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous
altogether. More to be desired are they than
gold, Yea, than much fine gold Sweeter also than
honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them Your
servant is warned, And in keeping them there is
great reward. Psalm 197-11
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How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking
heed according to Your word. With my whole heart
I have sought You Oh, let me not wander from
Your commandments! Your word I have hidden in my
heart, That I might not sin against You. Psalm
1199-11

• spiritual cleansing
• prevention of sin

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Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from
Your law. Psalm 11918 Your word is a lamp to my
feet And a light to my path. Psalm 119105

• wonder
• direction

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Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your
word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart
For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of
hosts. Jeremiah 1516

• rejoicing

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Is not My word like a fire? says the Lord, And
like a hammer that breaks the rock in
pieces? Jeremiah 2329

• changed life

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And they said to one another, Did not our heart
burn within us while He talked with us on the
road, and while He opened the Scriptures to
us? Luke 2432

• changed heart

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Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is
truth. John 1717

• holiness

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So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to
the word of His grace, which is able to build you
up and give you an inheritance among all those
who are sanctified. Acts 2032

• spiritual growth
• glorification

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So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God. Romans 1017

• faith

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• wisdom for salvation
• teaching
• reproof
• correction
• instruction
• spiritual maturity
• equipping

But you must continue in the things which you
have learned and been assured of, knowing from
whom you have learned them, and that from
childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures,
which are able to make you wise for salvation
through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All
Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness,
that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly
equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 314-17
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For the word of God is living and powerful, and
sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even
to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints
and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart. Hebrews 412

• soul searching
• spiritual examination

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Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow
of wickedness, and receive with meekness the
implanted word, which is able to save your
souls. James 121

• deliverance

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Since you have purified your souls in obeying the
truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the
brethren, love one another fervently with a pure
heart, having been born again, not of corruptible
seed but incorruptible, through the word of God
which lives and abides forever, because All
flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as
the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And
its flower falls away, But the word of the Lord
endures forever. Now this is the word which by
the gospel was preached to you. 1 Peter 122-25

• purity
• new birth
• eternal life

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Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit,
hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as
newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word,
that you may grow thereby, 1 Peter 21-2

• spiritual growth

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III. Jesus Use of the Word (Luke 4)

• 4 And Jesus answered him, It is written, Man
  shall not live by bread alone. 5 And the devil
  took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of
  the world in a moment of time, 6 and said to him,
  To you I will give all this authority and their
  glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I
  give it to whom I will. 7 If you, then, will
  worship me, it will all be yours. 8 And Jesus
  answered him, It is written, You shall worship
  the Lord your God,and him only shall you serve.

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IV. Governed by the Word Study the Main issues
of Your Life

• Church
• Discipleship
• Family
• Money
• Work