Holy Spirit's Authorship

Bless the Words of Scriptures -grant a loving discipline for me the reader Lord God. Teach me to search for correct meaning and hold You accountable to Your promises and attributes. Teach me O Holy Spirit to receive what's on the page and not what I want the pages to tell me. I live differently because Your instruction contained in the Scriptures.

Keep me teachable Holy Spirit because I haven't been called to follow my heart or to respond out of emotion. I must respond to Your Word. Your Word is more reliable for life than my own heart, my own understanding, my parents ways, or submission to obeying every law.

To know You is to pursue You, Jesus, AKA Word of God. As I chase you, Holy Spirit sanctify. Fuel this partnership until Christ returns. Your Bible speaks to me: causing me to underline, pray and envelope your declarations. Your plan is made famous in Scriptures, where else should I look for the direction of my life than in your Masterpiece?

But now at Moody, so much of your Word can be compartmentalized, tallied, cross-referenced, trended and extracted by the advancement of technology... Keep me from study habits that offer Scripture without Your revelation! No other moment in time has the possibility of studying your Word been so easy. Hold me God to a higher accountability for what I know about your grace and mercy and the Truth that never changes.

Give me application of faith when reading your Scrolls. Refine my study methods, apologetic and teachers. Gift your Holy Spirit's authorship over all my spiritual understanding. Help me conform to you Lord Jesus. That I would decrease and You increase.

Thanks for Your Word,

Nic