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  07-01 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part One: The Iron Rod of Jesus 07-02 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Two: Narrow Mindedness 07-03 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Three: Changing Things 07-04 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Four: You Are Your Own Reaping 07-05 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Five: Falling into Place 07-06 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Six: Almost Hopeless? 07-07 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Seven: Helping, Not Hurting 07-08 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Eight: The Most Miserable People On Earth 07-09 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Nine: 100% 07-10 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Ten: Choosing Pastors 07-11 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Eleven: How Not To Be Happy 07-12 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twelve: What You Are Known For 07-13 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Thirteen: Controlling Your Body 07-14 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Fourteen: What Really Matters 07-15 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Fifteen: You Have To Sin? 07-16 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Sixteen: Need The Bible? 07-17 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Seventeen: Knowing What Time It Is 07-18 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Eighteen: Self-willed 07-19 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Nineteen: A World Like You 07-20 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty: The Mind Of Christ, the Servant of God 07-21 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty One: Second Opinions 07-22 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Two: Don’t Blame the Liar 07-23 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Three: Always Pray 07-24 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Four: Salvation 07-25 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Five: Who Is Who 07-26 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Six: Getting the Point 07-27 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Seven: Bad Places 07-28 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Eight: Recognizing God’s Voice 07-29 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Nine: Our Righteousness 07-30 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Thirty: Leaking Joy and Strength 07-31 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Thirty One: Only One Real Victim

 

Thought for the Morning
7-16

Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Sixteen:
Need The Bible?

“About four years ago, I put a piece of notebook paper in my Bible on which to write down things said during the meetings that really stood out to me.”
Rebekah Joy

“If you know God, you don’t need the Bible.”

Preacher Clark used to remind us of what Jesus did not say. The Lord did not say, “When I’m gone, I’ll have a book written that will guide you into all truth.” Rather, he would tell us that Jesus said, “I will send you a Spirit that will guide you in all truth.”

We need the God that the Bible tells about more than we need the Bible itself. On the New Earth that God has prepared for His saints, there will be no Bibles. There are no Bibles in heaven now. Wherever the knowledge of God rules, the Bible does not. There are many verses in the Bible itself that plainly tell us this, such as:

“Those who are led by the Spirit are the sons of God.” - Paul

“You search the Scriptures, thinking that in them you have eternal life, but they are they that testify of me, and you will not come to me.” - Jesus.

“The letter [Scripture] kills, but the Spirit gives life” - Paul

If there was no one on earth who could tell you what is right, and no book that you could read to find out what is right, could you still do the will of God? You could if you were led by the Spirit. True religion is not religion of the Bible but religion of the heart, led by the Spirit of God.

I thank God that He has given us the precious Bible that we have, but I thank Him more for His promise that the day is coming when we will no longer need it or have it.