1. A man who hears many sermons, is not necessarily well-instructed in the faith.

3. 4 BENEFITS OF MEDITATING ON GOD’S WORD 1. Meditating on God's Word will give you spiritual 2. Meditating on God's Word will help you keep your heart 3. Meditating on God's Word will give you and that will guide you at every turn in your life. 4. Meditating on Scripture will help you with the things of God. success right before Him wisdom insights fill your mind

4. We meditate on God's Word, because... 1. we get real nutriment out of them 2. it fixes the truth in our memory If your paint be thin, and you can not make your picture stand out in glowing colors, lay on many coats of thy paint, and so it will come out like you want. Complain not, then, of thy memory, complain of thyself if thou art not given to meditation. Let thy closet rebuke thee because thou hast not been oftener there, if thy memory be frail.

5. We meditate on God's Word, because... 1. we get real nutriment out of them 2. it fixes the truth in our memory Meditation clippeth the wings of thoughts, which otherwise would fly away at the first clapping of the world's hands.

6. We meditate on God's Word, because... 1. we get real nutriment out of them 2. it fixes the truth in our memory 3. it opens up truth & leads us into its secrets 4. after awhile it becomes easier for us.

7. Proverbs 3:5-6 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

8. Trust - to go quickly for refuge; be confident, sure, bold, hope in the LORD – Jehovah- the self-Existent or Eternal One with all thine heart - used very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect and lean - to support one's self -- lean, lie, rely, rest, stay not unto thine own understanding - knowledge, meaning, wisdom

9. In all thy ways - a road (as trodden), a course of life or mode of action acknowledge - to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing) him and he shall direct - to be straight or even; to be or to make right, pleasant, prosperous thy paths - a well-trodden road; manner, path, race, rank, highway

10. Proverbs 3:5-6 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.