My Bible Study Journal
Nourishing my whole being by the living Word
My Bible Study Journal

Bible Quotes

  1. There are bible interpretation principles. Above all these principles, you have to submit to Holy Spirit to guide you. The Spirit will guide you which principles to apply to get juice of understanding from verses. If it is the Lord leading you, it will be easy and light. Opposite of that is dry venture
  2. Parts that you dont claim from cross, you wont receive them. Jesus saves, but if you dont believe that Jesus also heals, there will be no miracle of healing. Whateever you claim from the Cross , you receive and get.
  3. God wont bless you beyond the line that you allow God to bless.
  4. When you preach, pray that God lead you to give the word in season, the now words.
  5. Bible is alive, the word of God is living and active. It gives you present time guidance, arrest you, gives you the now word, will speak to your direction, can talk to your situation
  6. Grace makes you fruitful. Abram became Abraham, Sarai became Sarah because God breath Hey (grace) to their name, a symbolic action that God gives grace to their life. Thus, they became fruitful (bear child, Isaac).
  7. Jesus makes you what you can not be in yourself. Our uncleaniness cant defile Him instead His holiness makes you holy.
  8. All theology boils down to this: “Jesus loves me, this I know”. If you don’t know that, your/my theology is no good. That’s the bottom line
  9. Look to the Lord Jesus, and speak to Him: You are my righteousness, You are my cleaniness, You are my acceptance, You are my favor with God, You are my health, You are my Life, You are my length of days, You are my renewal of youth, You are my protection, You are my Rock and Savation, You are my refuge, You are my all in all.
  10. Principle of sow and reap in the Bible always in the context of giving, not sin. Jesus has harvested all the harvest of sin on the cross. If you still beat and condemn yourself for your wrong, mistakes and sins, you say that what Jesus has paid is not enough.
  11. When you come under law, the law stirs up the hidden desires because the strength of sin is law
  12. God measures your sins by your heart , not outward sin. If you dont kill someone literally but you hates someone, you murder. If we realise this truth, how great we need a Savior
  13. Those who knows there are forgiven much, you will love much
  14. Bad sinners or morally sinners, both are sinners. Holiness is perfection. We need a Savior
  15. Covenant of grace, depends of God fully. The more you rest and believe, the more God works. Grace upon grace. Grace means you depend on God, not on your talent and ability. The more you depend on His grace the more productive you will be. Grace means it is All God, our part is only believe and receive and rest. Believe God will not hold grace and favor from you if you rest on Him. It is all of him. Dont let yourself take pride of the work. It is law. The more you depend on Him, the more you will see victory, prosperity and His goodness.
  16. Under new covenant, you dont need to seek righteousness. You are righteous and holy before God because of Jesus. Now live the life of righteous and holy. Dont work anymore to be right with God.
  17. Holy Spirit does not convict you of your sins, but of your righteousness in God, your position in Christ. (Heb 10:15-17) 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
  18. Under new covenant, you dont have sin concious again but righteousness concious.
  19. Nothing between you and God that block you to come before God. Come boldly, in full assurance of faith, in liberty, to the new and living way, there is nothing God is holding against you anymore. We can come to Him anytime and freely, He is present help in that of need. Not only big things but also with small thing prayer. Every small thing you can come to God.
  20. Grace will produce true and unconscious holiness.
  21. If you truly rested in the Lord inwardly, the Holy Spirit inside you will tell you your assigned portion in the Lord’s vineyard.  Whatever He wants you to do, God will anoint you for it.
  22. God’s word will make you success. A tips : If you stuck in anything, quote Psalm 23 and meditate on it. Look up to the Lord as your shepherd and you shall not lack.
  23. Dont focus on your problem, but focus on the word. 
  24. The first thing to do is to rest on Him. Christian walk begins with rest on His finished work on the cross.
  25. All blessings begin with rest
  26. Stop trying to earn healing, rest in the finished work of Christ.
  27. How well you rest in the finished word will determine how well you walk in your life. (Book of Ephesians : sit and walk)
  28. The thieves and robbers are religious teachers, Jesus did not come to give you religion. 
  29. Until you understand God is your shepherd, you wont have abundant life
  30. If you are stolen, that’s the work of devils. Possession, joy, relationship, health, finances, peace of mind are your inheritance.
  31. God forgives according to riches of His grace, not out of His riches. And not according to the poverty of our confession. His forgiveness leave no room for guilt. 
  32. Keep on feeding, focus on feeding, you will be healed. 
  33. Jesus asked Peter “do you love Me?” Peter answered “Yes, I love You”. Jesus said “feed My sheep”. Thats how Jesus interpret your language of love. Feeding his flocks is loving Jesus.
  34. Jesus is the Shepherd and the Door. The door is the entrance for the shepherd. Jesus is our feeder and our food. He is the prize and he is the journey/way. Devils want to undermine Jesus, because He is everything to us.
  35. God calls name twice, it shows affection. Only calls twice for His children, example : martha, saul, samuel, daniel.
  36. If someone cast you out because of Jesus, they do you a favor. 
  37. You are not face in the crowd, God knows you by name
  38. The goodness of God will make you forget what you have lost.
  39. If you focus on Jesus, as the result goodness and mercy will hunt you down
  40. Walking in /after the flesh always refers to self-effort, self-accomplishment, self-confidence. Work of the flesh is adultery, witchcraft etc. Self-effort is the tool of devils to produce the work of the flesh. Devils get you to walk in the flesh, and rely on your self-effort, self-confidence,discipline; everything is self.
  41. Walking in the Spirit is resting in Christ
  42. The power of the Spirit can accomplish what years of flesh can not do. Walk led by the Spirit means depending on God, walking by flesh, depend on self-effort. Put no confidence in the flesh like what Paul said.
  43. If you follow God’s plan, you will end up better, healthier, and richer.
  44. Water into wine: fill yourself with water (the word of God), and without you realize, the Holy Spirit will turn it into wine (the power of HS)
  45. If you are faithful in your position right now, God will drop you charismata (grace gift)
  46. Unbelieve looks to self and his circumstances; believing look to the Lord and His resources. That’s why faith always reason from God to difficulties; on the other hand, unbelieve reasons from difficulties to God, starting with self. Faith does not deny the difficulties.
  47. Unbelieving will paint a horrible picture of God. Comparing if you are strong in the love of God, and believe that God loves you, you will have a good opinion of God. God loves to be trusted
  48. Things that are invisible and spiritual are eternal and stronger than things that are visible and human which never last. Religion wants visible
  49. What you behold you become. The power of vision
  50. But on Mount Zion, there shall be [a]deliverance, And there shall be holiness; The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. (Obadiah 17). Withouth Mount Zion (Grace), there is no deliverance and holiness. You will stuck in Mount Sinai
  51. Faith is not a formula, but seeing the reality in the invisible realm.
  52. Your accomplishment will not follow you to eternity
  53. If you focus on yourself, you will discover shame, lacks, and flaws. Think of His goodness, mercy, and loveliness, You will get lost in His love and forget about yourself. Grace is not about you
  54. Good work : result of the life of Christ in you. Dead work = something you do to obtain right standing with God.
  55. Dont feel quilty if you dont pray or read bible, you should feel hungry
  56. If you hear preaching that makes you focus on yourself be careful it will stir up and raise the flesh.
  57. The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing – wisdom (1 King 3:10). God never changes, He is the same yesterday, today & forever. If you ask for wisdom, the speech will please God
  58. There is no problem you face today that God does not have solution or answer in His wisdom
  59. Under the old covenant, “if you walk in My ways, to keep My statues and My commandments, then I will lengthen your days.” The blessing was conditional; it was contingent on ourselves. Under the new covenant, we walk led by the Spirit. We have a long life because we are in Jesus. If we walk by the Spirit, we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. You not only do not steal but give. You not only not commit adultery by falling in love with your spouse. You not only do not covet, but praying for the best for your neighbor. If you walk by Spirit, you will fulfill more than the Law.
  60. We have position in Christ. It is different from the people under the old covenant. “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” Rome 8:32. You don’t have to earn it. All things including length of days. If you have Jesus, you have everything!
  61. After Solomon received wisdom, the first thing he did was to come to Jerusalem to stand before the ark. The sign of a person has God’s wisdom, he appreciate the Lord’s presence and Jesus.
  62. The word of God can touch, heal, cut away and creates miracle in challenging area without side effect
  63. Jesus never bore our sin in His spirit. He bore our sin in His body (1 Pet 2:24) and soul (Isaiah 53:10). His spirit was untouched.
  64. Sin offering is the most holy one because of Jesus’ obedience, burn offering is holy one.
  65. Solomon wisdom was tested by two women. He went by heart not brain/reasoning. Jesus always goes for the heart.
  66. Jesus came down to us to give His position because we can not reach His position by ourselves.
  67. God calls you to live a princely, royal, heavenly, powerful, holy, radiant life
  68. You are salt of the earth, who makes people thirsty for living water.
  69. Your responds to words of God : hearing, ingesting, feeding and growing
  70. You may corrupt the wisdom you have, because you used past wisdom and don’t receive today’s wisdom. like manna, it stinks. The Bible said Lucifer had wisdom and later it was corrupted. Likewise Salomon.
  71. Lord, You have shown great mercy and great kindness to my mom. Now I face a situation where I have to take decision that will impact my family. I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out this situation. So Father, give me a discerning heart (shema – hearing heart) to take a wise decision (1 Kings 3:4-10). The prayer of Solomon pleased God. If you pray the same prayer, it will please the Lord because He never changes.
  72. Wisdom is always about the heart. Wisdom enables you to see heart beyond words. In the case of Solomon, there is voice of flesh, voice of affection and voice of wisdom (God’s voice). Listening to the voice of affection instead of God’s voice is not good either.
  73. Your bad education does not deprive you from the good life God has for you because good life depends on God’s wisdom.
  74. Bezalel was a slave but God put wisdom (key to his heart) and he was chosen among 3 milliions Israeli to build tabernacle. In the same token, God wants to build up the Church of Jesus Christ, your life, your body, your health.
  75. Wisdom takes its time, he who is hasty in spirit exalt foolishness.
    Wisdom is not something that can be cultivated, the Bible says God GAVE Solomon wisdom, exceedingly great understanding and largeness of heart (to be kind and patient).
  76. Imperfect people pray for imperfect people will show the grace of God.
  77. Wisdom will place on your head an arnament of grace (favor) and a crown of glory. In the way you behave and talk and carry yourself there is glory. Wisdom will cause you to walk in glory and glory is what you are. Glory is more than beauty.
  78. You can not feed your mind with news from media and expect you grow in wisdom. Make sure you hear the truth (words of God)
  79. House of God is healing center. In my Father’s house has enough bread to spare.
  80. Jesus is the true goodness, knowledge of good and evil is subjective. Tree of Life is not about knowing with your head, but discerning with spirit.
  81. Life can not be predicted, life flows. AI is advanced but they are limited by mathematical procedures, therefore they are dead.
  82. Eternal life is not about quantitative (the length of time which is forever), but qualitative, the form of life that God Himself lives by. It is called Zoe (in Greek), the highest form of life. Remember the food pyramid, the lowest form of life is the plant, next insect life, next animal life and the highest is human which is called bios.
  83. Those who goes to hell has eternal life, died forever. The knowledge of good and evil (human morality) forms religion. Jesus comes to give us abundant life, not rules and commands.
  84. Adam and Eve partook in the wrong tree. God prevented them to partake the Tree of Life, because they remain perpetually in that state. If man partook, evildoers will live forever in this world.
  85. Dying you shall die : Adam died spiritually and later it was manifested physically.
  86. 1 Peter 1: 6 “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials.” We are living in 2 paradox : true self (spirit, mind, heart, new man in Christ) lives in heaven and greatly rejoices, but bodily, situation and circumstances, we live in this world that makes us subjects to trials and temptations.
  87. All Leviticus sacrifices related to sins. The book of number mentioned the sacrifice of the ashes of the red heifer. The sprinkling of the water contained the red heifer ashes were for everyone who touched deadness: carcass of animal, dead corps, bones. It is cleansing from death. God want us to redeem us from everything deadness in our life. Our prayers can be dead.
  88. Heaven is not the place for dead people, the living God is there. the source of life is all there. The place of resurrection.
  89. Don’t live under the sun, the vanity line. Nothing profits and nothing fulfills your heart. All pursuit under the sun at the end is emptiness of emptiness. Your heart is too big for this world. You need an object and it is Jesus. Jesus is too big for your heart and we need to expand our hearts.
  90. Above the sun,
  91. The book of Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon. He was the king who had access to everything but he said vanity of vanity. Whatever the pleasure of this world offers, the pleasure under the sun will lift you up and later will drop you down. In heaven, everything is elevation and beautiful, perfect symmetry, joy unspeakable, everything you look is perfection. The best is we meet Jesus, the most handsome man. He maximes your manhood and womanhood.
  92. That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecc 1:9) History repeats itself.
  93. Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth. I want to experience His love in a very intimate way. Don’t focus on your love. It is inferior love. His love is everlasting love that love without ceasing.
  94. Human relationship is a reflection of His love for us although in a limited way.
  95. Pray in the spirit and keep yourself in the love of God, be conscious that He loves you. For Your love is better than wine. Wine represents earthly joy : human relationships, darling sons. Life above the sun is to know Him. If you know Him, you find yourself, because you are in Him. We are all subject to His drawing.
  96. Receive Jesus as Savior not teacher. He gives complete salvation through and through.
  97. Life above the sun is seeing Jesus and His love for me every single day. God does not want you religiously minded. Religious peop
  98. If you come to Jesus to admire and follow Him, it is not pleasing His heart. Because you can adopt His principles and go independent. God wants you to say “I need You to be my savior, living water, bread of life.” It is Me that I am giving.
  99. There are religious people but no earthly good. If you pray the same prayer with same form, style and way, it will be a form of deadness. you need to need to hear the Lord how to pray today and follow His leading. That is living. If you don’t know how to pray, pray in the spirit.
  100. Christ will transform you to be royal but yet the servant spirit. This is not being religious, but being Christ-like. If you truly walk with the Lord, you will have royal mint around the person but demonstrate humility. There is power when the person prays but also there is submission.
  101. In His chamber, God shares the secret of His love. You can not love Him unless you know how much He loves you.
  102. Jesus came to His own possession (nature responds : the water blush and turn into wine, the water of Galilee hush and was still before the master, sickness bow before Him, donkey that never sat on usually rebel and it was not. Some people only want the miracles but not Him. He is the One, you get Him, you get everything else.
  103. Stop looking at the flock of His companion and look at the Shepherd. Forget the flocks, they just distract you. You are still under the vanity line if you still look to other people.
  104. Don’t be someone buried in the world, and barren in your soul.
  105. Our heart is too big for the world and the Beloved is too big for our heart. Pray that God enlarge your heart to see Him and to see His beauty.
  106. God sees you as the most beautiful among women even though you are ignorant.
  107. Find the old path, where the great men of God before you went.
  108. Pattern of Christians from Acts 2:42 : 1. devoted to the apostle’s teaching : our teaching today has to be new covenant based 2. fellowship. There is always uplifting when God’s people gather together. What the devil do is to cut a Christian from fellowship. Something about being together. 3. breaking of bread. 4. the prayers. There is a definite prayer in the new covenant, the tongues. The model of the Father’s house, the green pastures.