Bibles For America Podcast

This is the fifth podcast in a special series on reading the Bible. These podcasts include helpful excerpts from books by Watchman Nee and Witness Lee that provide insight about reading the Bible. Last time, we began to look at how to read the Bible. God has given us two precious gifts—the Word and the Spirit; actually, these two things are one. Thus, we need to read the Bible not by any particular method, but by prayer, exercising our human spirit to touch the divine Spirit in the Word. As we come to the Word in prayer, we should love the Lord who is the Word and who spoke the Word. Then we can use our mind to grasp the facts, meanings, interpretations, and significances of the Word. As we do so, we should be ready to heed the Spirit’s speaking and obey the truths in the Bible. Ideally, we ought to read in this way a fixed amount of God’s Word each day. In this podcast, we’ll go on to consider ourselves—the readers of God’s Word. We may not realize that we ourselves affect what we perceive when we read the W