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- READ . . .
Reading and writing have always been fundamental for humanity in order to communicate with other people spread out everywhere on the earth. Different writings of different races have used every possible means of writing to communicate with others human knowledge, life experiences, emotions and human history. There can not be WRITING WITHOUT READING. For this reason we want to invite you today to READ or at least to start to read - if you have not done so already - a book that is defined in the world as THE BOOK OF BOOKS or better THE BOOK. This very important book has changed, with its MESSAGE and with the SPIRIT that is in and around it, the life of millions of people on the earth during the centuries, of many different nations, religions and races, UNITING THEM for what really counts. Human LIFE is important? and more still ITS AIM, ITS MEANING. The Bible, called also - THE BOOK - tells us what LIVING means, tells us its AIM and the MEANING of human existence, and directs it towards HE that generated, created and desired it, that is GOD. The BIBLE is the BOOK WRITTEN BY GOD for each one of us, for me and for you that are reading this, the book through which GOD wants to speak to you and reply to the FONDAMENTAL QUESTIONS of every person: -Why do I live, why do I die, why was I born?- -What is the aim of my existence? Or the reason for my death?- -verse 2- READING the Bible is therefore fundamental to KNOW OURSELVES, and what is around us, their reasons, causes and effects, and to feed our FAITH IN GOD. Please DON'T go away? Continue to read? Take some time? Don't rush.
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- LISTEN . . .
How often are we worried about the problems of life? how often are my tired and burdened? how often do we BEGIN TO READ but we do not manage to LISTEN to what we read? How often do others speak with us? we hear their voice? but we are not able to LISTEN? GOD repeatedly invites us to LISTEN to his THOUGHTS, he kindly asks us to take some time out to listen to HIS STORY. LISTENING is important because it means UNDERSTANDING what one reads. And UNDERSTANDING means ACTING upon the TRUTH, having in this way the possibility of CHOOSING. Or at least of asking GOD for HELP to be able to CHOOSE the correct direction in our life. So let me tell you:- STOP READING AND LISTEN to what GOD wants to make you hear. It is important for your life? it was for mine and for that of millions of people on the earth, yesterday, today? and also in the future. If you grasp now the IMPORTANCE OF - verse 3 - LISTENING TO GOD, HIS SPIRIT has already pricked your conscience, in the depths of your emotions and wants to carry forward HIS WORK for you. He is asking you to continue on this path? please do not go away? be wise.
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- THINK . . .
Humans are different from many other beings in that they are intelligent, they are creatures that THINK and REASON. If they can reason they are able to make choices. With the choices they can do either GOOD or EVIL. Unfortunately history has demonstrated the difficulty that humans have in doing good, and their ability to pursue and do evil in every way. Humans think. God wants that humans think about their existence? God wants that humans think seriously about the condition of their life? God wants that humans realise that they are alone, because this was their choice a long time ago. READ THE BIBLE, LISTEN TO THE WORD OF GOD - verse 4 - THINK ABOUT GOD and YOUR EXISTENCE AND?
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- AND ?
And? then you will be able to FIND GOD. HE WHO SEEKS FINDS. Bible: From the Gospel of Luke, chapter 11 verse 10 - For everyone who asks receives; HE WHO SEEKS FINDS; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.- Finding GOD means finding the aim of your existence and being certain of your destiny. First the search, then the discovery, and at the end the certainty. This are very PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. The personal experience of faith and of the discovery of God for every single individual is linked with those of many others to become and form, as the Bible says, one - verse 1 - BODY with many members. Finding God means NOT being alone any more on this earth. You are not alone any more, or abandoned to an uncertain future. God takes us by the hand and shows us our destiny. He shows us his LOVE, that has a NAME:? Jesus Christ. FOR THESE REASONS, for us the most important, we want to simply ask you that you really give importance to the READING OF THE BIBLE. A reading that can be led by a prayer to God, so that it is not only:
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READING, but also?
LISTENING, ? and not only listening but also?
THINKING, ? and not only thinking but also?
AND? above all FINDING GOD and being SURE of HIS - verse 5 - LOVE in Christ Jesus, the Lord.
Bible: From the book of Hebrews, chapter 11 verse 1 -Now FAITH is BEING SURE of what we HOPE FOR and CERTAIN of what we do not see.-
True, Proven and Verified Data
We want to show you now some data, information about the Bible, so that you can increase your TRUST -faith-. So that you might truly BELIEVE that the BIBLE is the WORD OF GOD. And therefore that GOD is speaking to you through the Bible. Do not be discouraged if there are many DOUBTS. But use DOUBT as an INSTRUMENT to stimulate your research. Think of how many scientists in the world, thanks to their doubts, began to study in order to search for and to find the knowledge that we have now. Doubt yourself, doubt the world, doubt the things around you that are called real, to DISCOVER the hidden reality that today you can not see, to DISCOVER GOD that today you do not see. Bible: from the book of Hebrews, chapter 4 verse 7 - God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."-
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BIBLE VERSES
This verses are about the text given above, to strengthen its contents and the message that we want to give. If it is the first time that you begin to read the Bible, you will be able to find them easily. Begin with the name of the BOOK in the Bible, for example Deuteronomy, then the chapter and finally the verse. We hope that this small suggestion might be useful for you to learn to read the Bible, if you have never read it before.
BODY: 1 First letter to the Corinthians, chapter 12 verse 12:
-The BODY is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form ONE BODY. So it is with Christ.-
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READ: 2 Second letter to Timothy, chapter 3 verses 16 and 17:
-All SCRIPTURE is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.-
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LISTEN: 3 Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 12 verse 28:
-Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.-
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THINK: 4 First letter to the Corinthians, chapter 8 verses 2 and 3:
-The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. But the man who loves God is known by God.-
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CHOOSE - 5 LOVE: Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 30 verses 19 and 20:
-This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now CHOOSE life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his VOICE, and hold fast to HIM. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years?-
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