I usually study my Bible following along with radio sermons during lunch in my car. My favorite show is the late J. Vernon McGee's "Through the Bible". They have a guide to their many world-wide radio broadcasts in many languages, archives of past shows, excellent free study material, and a free business hours phone number at www.ttb.org .
About eight years after the Book became real to me was the first time I ever studied in my computer lab during lunch, because my car was in the shop. Something happened that day not when I sought it, but before I needed it. So even if I were foolish I could not pretend to cause it in any way. Again the skeptic will say it was only coincidence that I take in a foolish way. As in the first "wonderful truth" entry I say: God controls how and who He answers, and what He wants is to nurture humble faith willing to believe His answers come to those who humbly persist in seeking Him.
I was in my computer lab following Thru The Bible with a certain verse, and just finished reading and hearing about that verse. Exactly then, not a minute later, my mother called me on the phone at my desk to tell me that my father had passed away unexpectedly.
The verse I had been studying was...
When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage;Notice that taking this as an answer planned for me means God has coordinated all the following to happen down to that very instant:
they will be like the angels in heaven. Mark 12:25 (NIV)
- - what the Thru The Bible broadcasts as part of their five-year Bible study series;
- - that my car needed repair work;
- - that my father passed away;
- - that my mother would call just then;
- - where I was, and
- - that I already had many reasons to believe His Word is beyond magical and from Him.
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