Wednesday Service | Getting Directions From God | PART 9: The Keys of God’s Word

Psalm 119:105 New International Reader’s Version

Your word is like a lamp that shows me the way. It is like a light that guides me.

[1] The word helps us God

• God’s

Psalm 37:23 New Living Translation

The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.

Psalm 103:8 New Living Translation

The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.

• God’s

Psalm 19:7b ESV

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

Psalm 25:9 New International Reader’s Version

⁹ He shows those who aren’t proud how to do what is right. He teaches them his ways.

• The more familiar we are with God’s character and ways the more we will recognize his

[2] His word the soul

Psalm 19:7-14 English Standard Version

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul;

Matthew 6:11 New International Version

Give us today our daily bread.

Psalm 1:1-2 New International Version

¹ Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, ² but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.

(3) The word us

John 15:3 New International Version

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

Ephesians 5:25-26 New International Reader’s Version

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives. Love them just as Christ loved the church. He gave himself up for her. ²⁶ He did it to make her holy. He made her clean by washing her with water and the word.

(4) The word up

Psalm 131:2 New International Version

² But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content.

1 Corinthians 13:11 New International Version

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

Ephesians 4:14-15 New Living Translation

¹⁴ Then we will no longer be immature like children… ¹⁵ Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.

(5) The word transforms the

Romans 12:2 New International Version

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

(6) His word us

James 1:27b New International Reader’s Version

And don’t let the world make you impure.

Psalm 119:9, 11 English Standard Version

⁹ How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word…
¹¹ I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Matthew 5:8 New International Reader’s Version

⁸ Blessed are those whose hearts are pure. They will see God.

Psalm 19:8b ESV

The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

(7) The word exposes the enemies

John 8:44 New International Version

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:31-32 English Standard Version

³¹ So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³² and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

• If a truth will set you free, what does a do?