Scriptures: Psalm 119:105, 119:9, 119:11, 119:133, 37:23, Luke 24:27, Matthew 16:6, Proverbs 2:20

How do you view the Word of God? As a book, a reference, a collection of letters? Perhaps instead the Bible is actually among your most valued and treasured possessions, and you don't even know it. The Bible is the only book in the world that contains the secret to eternal life, that is God's direct revelation of Who He is, and tells the only message of true salvation in the world. It also God's sets divine standard of what is right and wrong. The Bible for us today is God speaking. The problem is, God is speaking, but very few people are listening. In this message, Dr. Merritt endeavors to help the congregation "zone in" on God's Word like never before. Not just occasionally, or randomly, but daily.

This message includes a one-week Bible reading and study application for your congregation.

"The truth of the matter is there are many of us in this room that took the long way around to where we should have gone in our life where we’ve taken the long way around, because we didn’t listen to God. I could fill book after book with real-life people I’ve dealt with over the years of my ministry who made unbelievable marital mistakes, unbelievable financial mistakes, and unbelievable moral mistakes because they didn’t listen to God. They didn’t heed what God said in His Word. Usually when you wind up in the wrong place it is for one of two reasons: you either didn’t know the directions or you didn’t follow them." --Dr. Merritt

Keywords: God's will, Word, Bible, Psalm 119, lamp, light, focus, Scripture, direction, graphe, written, legalism, liberalism, surgeon, behavior, obedience, Chuck Swindoll, Max Lucado, read