The Word

by Stan Murphy

Introduction. The aim of this book is to retrieve the religious knowledge hidden away in our subconscious mind; information retained from childhood, that has been lying stagnant for many years. When recovered, hopefully this knowledge, will help you reap the subsequent blessings gained. It is not a sermon or lecture, just a teaching aid, explaining my attempt to 'awaken' my own childhood knowledge of Christianity. Reading accompanied with Meditation. Meditative Reading is choosing some important practical or spiritual truth, always preferring the practical, and proceeding like whatever truth you have chosen, read only a small bit of it, aiming to taste and digest it, to extract its essence and substance, and go no further while any savour or relish remains in the when this subsides, take up your book again and proceed as before, seldom reading more than half a page at a time, for it is not the quantity that is read, but the manner of reading, that benefits us. Those who read fast reap no more advantage than a bee would by only skimming over the surface of the flower, instead of waiting to penetrate into it, and extract its nectar. Much reading is rather for scholastic subjects than divine indeed, to receive real profit from spiritual books, we must read as I have described; and I am certain, if that method were pursued, we should become gradually used to, and more fully disposed for prayer. (Madame Jeanne Guyon. Take your time. 'Precept upon precept....line upon line, here a little, and there a little..' (Isaiah 28:10). Index. A. Absolute. Apocrypha. Angels. B. Baptism. Breath of God. C. Creator. Conflict. D. Death. E. Easter. F. Faith. Fear. Forgiveness. Form. G. God. H. Holy. I. Infinite. Image. J. Jealousy. K. Kingdom. L. Love. M. Mind. N. Needy. O. Omnipotence. P. Peace. Pure. Q. Quiet. R. Resurrection. S. Secret. T. Trinity. Truth. U. Understand. V. Voice. Virtue. W. Word. X. Xmas. Y. Yuletide. Z. Zacharias. Having studied Madame Guyon's statement, I developed my own system of study. It is to concentrate on a word that is used to describe a passage in the bible, or other religious works, and study that word until a clear knowledge of what it means in a text. For example we read, God is absolute. To expand my understanding of what absolute meant I looked the word up in my dictionary to expand my thoughts on what God being absolute might mean. I then studied further texts from the bible that identified the meanings from the dictionary. 'The New International Webster's Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language,' Absolute. 1. Free from restriction or relation, unlimited, independent, unconditional. 2. Complete, perfect. 'For you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality, (role and authority) and power.' (Colossians 2:10). 3. Unadulterated, pure. 'As for God his way is perfect.' (Psalm 18:30). 4. Positive, entire, total, unquestionable. 'Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.' (Colossians 4:12). The absolute- The ultimate basis of all thought, reasoning or being-God. For further clarification study, 'complete' and 'perfect'. Complete. Lacking nothing, entire, perfect, full, thoroughly wrought, finished. Perfect.

69 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 21, 2021