{"id":7329,"date":"2016-08-16T23:32:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/biblestudy-and-prayer\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:32:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:32:54","slug":"biblestudy-and-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/biblestudy-and-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"BIBLE\nSTUDY AND PRAYER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>If you would understand the Word of God in its knotty points, if you would comprehend the mystery of the gospel of Christ, remember, Christ\u2019s scholars must study upon their knees.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Is there anything like the Word of God when the open book finds open hearts? The prayerful study of the Word is an act of devotion wherein the transforming power of grace is often exercised, changing us into the image of Him of whom the Word is a mirror.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Let me tell you a little secret \u2013 whenever you cannot understand a text, open your Bible, bend your knee, and pray over that text; and if it does not split into atoms and open itself, try again.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>If prayer does not explain it, it is one of the things God did not intend you to know, and you may be content to be ignorant of it.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Prayer is the key that opens the cabinets of mystery.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Prayer and faith are sacred picklocks that can open secrets, and obtain great treasures.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>There is no college for holy education like that of the blessed Spirit, for he is an ever-present tutor, to whom we have only to bend the knee, and he is at our side, the great expositor of truth.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>Bibles with Misprints<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would understand the Word of God in its knotty points, if you would comprehend the mystery of the gospel of Christ, remember, Christ\u2019s scholars must study upon their knees. C.H. Spurgeon Is there anything like the Word of God when the open book finds open hearts? The prayerful study of the Word is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/biblestudy-and-prayer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BIBLE<br \/>\nSTUDY AND PRAYER&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}