Scripture is God-breathed and true. When we memorize it, we carry the good news of Jesus with us wherever we go.
During this plan, we are memorizing 1 Timothy 4:7b–9. This week, work on committing the last part of verse 8 to memory. To help, say the passage aloud three times in a row, changing the inflection of your voice and the way you emphasize different words and phrases.
Train yourself in godliness. For the training of the body has limited benefit, but godliness is beneficial in every way, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance.
—1 Timothy 4:7b–9
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Amen! I want to keep my focus on Gods word. I want to be completely consumed by Jesus. Always living with the Holy Spirit at work in me.
Amen and the body definitely is limited.
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Lord i will serve you!
Amen amen!!
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Thanks Churchmouse – add me to the ever-growing list of those who scroll for your insight each day. ❤️ Love your analogy today
Thank you! Your words and real life examples/interpretations of the readings are so helpful to me. I love the thought of our practices being a marathon.
Thank you to Laura, Pamela and Churchmouse for sharing today.
I am really loving this study and I appreciate all of the ladies who comment. I learn from everyone’s insights and struggles. It often gives me triggers for more study, research and prayer.
Thank you ladies!
Churchmouse…….we have something in common! I’m so excited about this! This March will be the 10 year mark when I ran my fist and only marathon. And have ran several half marathons but financially I couldn’t afford to keep running them so I ran on my own. I take that time when I’m running to pray and sing worship songs. I call it my “Jesus and I time”. This is the main reason I run alone. I enjoy that “alone” time. Just me and Jesus. Covid d slowed me down. But hopefully next weekend I can start again. I missed that special time. And so true, our walk with Jesus is not a sprint, it’s a marathon
Thank you for the recommendation earlier this week for the Verses app! I have never considered myself good at memorizing scripture, but this app helped me commit 1 Tim 4:7-9 to memory!
In the last year I have been very committed to my physical training but have really slacked in my spiritual walk. This verse and study from the perspective of training has really hit and I see the vast benefits of these spiritual disciplines.
I love this analogy (I’m a runner as well and this really helps me to feel better about the small steps I’m taking daily to walk more closely with Christ)! I too look for your words after the daily readings. Thank you so much for sharing!
I was just talking to my mother, who is 83 years old, and thanking her for the way she faithfully prays for each of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren every day. Our daughter is a prodigal, and my mother is the only person in the family she will even respond to through text or phone. My mother has been a faithful believer for a long time. I appreciate the fact that she has modeled that faith to us over the years and now, in her later, somewhat slower, less busy years, we know that she is taking our troubles before the Lord every day. What a gift to have someone in the family who has trained and been disciplined for a very long time. I pray that I can someday be that faithful warrior for my family.
Amen Churchmouse! Amen
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Thank you Churchmouse, I too search your comments each day. You are encouraging and insightful! Love reading all SRT comments. Blessings to all.
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Godliness: walking with God and pleasing God benefits my todays and my future. Being in active devotion to God daily and in every situation, choice and circumstance. This is what I’m to be training for. Being like Jesus, Enoch and Elijah: obediently following in relationship with God.
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Churchmouse, I search for your comments each day. They add so much to the already rich scriptures and devotional that are posted daily. Thank you for being obedient to what must be constant nudges from God to share your thoughts with all of us. You are deeply and sincerely appreciated. ❤️
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One of the hardest lessons in life for me when I was young was to learn that being a follower of Christ meant having a relationship with the Lord. Well ….I wasn’t very good at relationship at all, in any way. I didn’t realize how proactive I needed to be in nurturing relationships in order for them to be fruitful and successful. After some years of struggle. I finally sought the Lord in my need. I told him I flat out just didn’t have a desire to read the Bible or to change my heart. I also understood that I wasn’t going to know Him if I didn’t read the Bible and seek Him out.
I asked Him for that desire. He graciously answered my prayer. Then He showed me how having a relationship with Him and anyone else has to be proactive…I have to be involved. I have to take steps to make it happen. I also have to have faith and trust Him that what He is showing me is the right way.
Training is exercise it requires action. That means I can’t just look at the Bible sitting on my desk and expect to learn from it. I can’t sit in the pew when the church is open and soak in what the pastor has to say without meditating and following up with study, prayer and conversation.
When I was young salvation was “fire insurance“. It was just a way to avoid the torment of hell and I didn’t even know what that meant. Honestly. I have learned through His WORD that I don’t ever want to be separated from Him. I don’t wish to imagine what my life would be like without Him now. I am forever grateful. I pray and hope that others would have faith and see their need for Jesus our Savior the King of kings!
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My younger self ran two marathons and a handful of half marathons. I did not get up the day of each race and decide to run the distance. No, I spent months in preparation, running varying distances each day so that I would be able to reach the finish line upright. I didn’t worry about speed. Discipline led to endurance which led to the medallion at the end of the race. Godliness is achieved in much the same way, through discipline and endurance. A godly life is not a sprint. The spiritual disciplines we’ve been studying through SRT are essential for training us to go the distance and finish well. It is not our own willpower upon which we rely however. God graciously has given us the Holy Spirit as our running buddy to encourage us, strengthen us and empower us. He lets us know when we need to rest and He reminds us to not focus just on the pavement and the miles to go but to look up and around and enjoy the journey. Spiritual practices are like protein bars that energize us as we keep running. The pace, the speed, is not important. It’s going the distance that is. And enjoying the presence of our Friend.
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This is such an interesting verse and I’m not sure I’ve heard it before.
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