WEEK 2 - DAY 1

IN - Take In God’s Word

DAILY DIRECTIONS JOURNAL

UP - Lift Up Your Praise

Lord, I praise You for …

DOWN - Bow Down In Repentance

Lord, I repent of …

IN - Take In God’s Word

As Christians we believe that the Bible is the Word of God. Here’s a good statement on the Bible from the VineyardUSA Statement of Faith.

We believe that the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of Holy Scripture so that the Bible is without error in the original manuscripts. We receive the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments as our final, absolute authority, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.

As the inspired Word of God, the Bible reveals to us both the way of salvation and the way to live our lives. The Bible is both the record and the tool of how God saves us. So we need to get into it and it needs to get into us. We need to read it and let it read us.

Follow The Way uses the To Hear Is To Obey Bible study method. After reading the Bible complete these two thoughts:

• Lord, I hear You saying to me …

• Now, with Your help I will …

The Bible wasn’t meant just to be read or understood or even just believed. It was meant to be obeyed. That’s why Follow The Way aims not just at Biblical literacy, but Biblical obedience. We can all certainly know the Bible better. And Follow The Way will help you do that. But we can also follow the Bible better. Our hope and prayer is that as you journey through Follow The Way, Biblical information will lead to Biblical transformation. It’s what we call obedience-based discipleship. The point is we must translate our knowledge of the Bible into living it out in our daily lives and relationships.

2 Timothy 3:14-17

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Peter 1:19-21

We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

James 1:22-25

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

Lord, I hear You saying to me …

Now, with Your help I will …

OUT - Pray Out Your Requests

Lord, I pray for …

STOP - Stop, Look and Listen

Lord, what do You want to show me or say to me?

GO - Go Through Your Day

Lord, I pray for Your help as I anticipate these events today …