BIBLE STUDY WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
1. MEDITATION - This is a very powerful tool that you must never allow anything to deprive you of. King David tells us that we have to meditate on the word of God. To meditate does not mean to wait for God to talk to you. Meditation is still going further and digging deeper in the word, you can take a verse or subject and ponder on it over and over in your heart.
2 Peter 3:18 “… but GROW in the grace and KNOWLEDGE of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
To meditate means to think about and to try and figure out what the different Scripture verses mean and how they can apply to your daily life. The Spirit of God inside of you will then help you to shed light on that subject you are meditating on, and you will begin to understand it, whether by the gift of knowledge, dreams or visions, prophecy etc. Every time a newborn do some bible study, the Holy Spirit may suddenly open and reveal the meaning! Here is a simple example why Bible study is so exciting, just look at the following revelation:
Exodus 34:28 Moses stayed there with the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights. Moses did not eat any food or drink any water. And he wrote the words of the agreement (the Ten Commandments) on the two stone tablets.
Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
From the verses above we can see that both Moses and Jesus fasted for 40 days and nights. Moses wrote the words of the Ten Commandments on 2 stones and Jesus spoke the word against stones becoming bread for Him to eat and refers to the Word of God as His true bread in the Matthew 4 scripture.
Studying the word of God will take us deeper into understanding the word, but most importantly it will help us to understand the ways and the BIG love of the Father Himself. Like prayer, I can also describe bible study like having a 2-way conversation with the Father on a particular verse or subject for a better understanding, which is exactly what a loving relationship needs.
Furthermore, reading the word of God is like breathing in and prayer like exhaling out. Likewise we need to do both to stay alive. I have found that the Holy Spirit will literally guide your thoughts into the revelation that you are seeking after as you are trying to figure something out. In other words, you will find the knowledge as you are seeking after it. Let’s look at another revelation.
Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
Gen 2:9…”The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
Gen 3:4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Gen 3:22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever--"
Gen 3:7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
Mark 11:13 He saw a fig tree with leaves. So he went to the tree to see if it had any figs growing on it. But he found no figs on the tree. There were only leaves, because it was not the right time for figs to grow. 14 So Jesus said to the tree, "People will never eat fruit from you again." His followers heard him say this.
John 6:32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John 6:50 But the bread from heaven has come down, so that no one who eats it will ever die. 51 I am that bread from heaven! Everyone who eats it will live forever. My flesh is the life-giving bread that I give to the people of this world.
Rev 2:7 If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will let everyone who wins the victory eat from the life-giving tree in God's wonderful garden.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
In Gen 2:9 there were 2 trees in the middle of the Garden of Eden, one forbidden & one not. In Gen 2:16 God gave the instruction to Adam not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge before Eve was created. We cannot find that God Himself commanded Eve also not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge. However if we look carefully we can assume that Adam must have told Eve what God said. This means Adam disobeyed God but Eve disobeyed Adam, therefore God said to Eve that Adam will rule over her as a consequence. Also God said to Adam “Have you eaten of the fruit of the tree that I told you not to?” but to Eve He said “what have you done?” and then to the serpent “because you have done this”
In Gen 1:26 God created Adam in his own image. In Gen 3:22 Adam became like God after he ate of the Tree of Knowledge In Gen 3:7 Adam and eve covered themselves with the leaves of a fig tree after they have taken the forbidden fruit. In Mark 11:13 Jesus cursed a fig tree from bearing fruit ever again, however the tree Jesus spoke to was not even suppose to bear fruit. I don’t know if this was just a coincidence of hunger, however this could be a spiritual revelation about the Tree of Knowledge.
However I just want to add the following verses in context.
Numbers 21:8 And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
John 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
2Kings 18:3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done. 4 He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it
In Num 21:8 above Moses erected an Idol snake on a pole so that the people may look unto it for healing. In John 3:13 Jesus confessed that the He Himself must also be lifted up so the people can look unto Him for everlasting life. In 2 Kings 18:3 King Hezekiah broke down the idol snake that Moses erected because the people worshipped it. So to conclude - on the one hand we have Moses giving the people the Ten Commandments of knowing good and evil and on the other hand we have Jesus giving the people everlasting life. However I discuss these in much more detail in my next book “Supernatural Gospel Revelations – Bible Study in Context”
As you will see in some of the Scripture verses I will list below, it is the work of the Holy Spirit to teach us all things in this life. In other words, the Holy Spirit is our personal Guide and Teacher in this life. For example, look at the following revelation:
Matthew 26:75 And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly.
John 21:17 A third time Jesus said, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was sad because Jesus asked him three times, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you!" Jesus said to him, "Take care of my sheep.
In the Matthew verse above, before Jesus was crucified, Peter denied knowing the Lord Jesus 3 times and a rooster crowed. In the John verse above, after the resurrection, Peter confessed his love for Jesus 3 times! For me personally this must be one of the most heartbreaking encounters that any person could have with Jesus. One can just imagine how Peter felt when he had to face Jesus asking him that question the 3rd time, but still the Lord Jesus loved him!
You will start getting “inner knowings” as to what certain things may mean. The Holy Spirit can also give you “inner visions” in your mind’s eyes when He is trying to communicate knowledge to you on something specific. They say a picture paints a thousand words.
The Holy Spirit can and will communicate to you if you are open and hungry to receiving this kind of direct supernatural revelations from Him.
2. MEMORIZE - commit the scripture into memory, so that when occasions demands you will have the right and powerful thing to say to have victory over the enemy. Jesus knew, and quoted the scriptures, and He was able to defeat the devil. We can do the same whenever we are faced with situations upon which we want to have victory. You will discover that for each scripture that Jesus quoted, the devil did not have an answer. (Matthew 4:1)
I cannot stress enough the importance of memorizing scripture. One can just imagine what would happen if the devil poses a question and a Christian cannot give an answer from God’s word to stand against the devil. Also it is very important that every teaching and commentary we listen to must be confirmed by the Scriptures in context.
Let me give another example. If a preacher says to you “On day one of creation God created the heavens and the earth”. If we know the scripture, then we can immediately identify this as a false statement, because on day one of creation God created the Light. (Genesis 1:3) This is the Light within that John spoke of in John 1:3-10. Also Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning” does not refer to the first creation day, but rather an unknown time in the past that could be billions of years ago. That is why earth was void and dark but existed before day one when God said let there be Light. This Light also does not refer to the sun, because the sun and moon were created on day 3 (Genesis 1:13-14). For this reason it was night then day, not day then night.
We must also consider that one day in God’s time is a thousand years in men’s time. (2 Peter 3:8) In this case we can consider that Adam could have been created in year 6 thousand of creation, that is, on day 6 of creation in Genesis if we take the creation days prophetically. This means if we start from creation day one and not from the day of Adam’s creation on day six that day one of creation was already 12 thousand years ago if we include the 7th day (1000 years) of rest.
However this deeper study of God’s word by the guidance of the Holy Spirit combined with His gift of knowledge and wisdom can be written in a complete set of books on its own.