This document provides guidance on how to build your life on the Bible. It discusses the importance of listening to God's word with humility, reading and studying it intently, meditating on scripture daily, and most importantly, putting what you have learned into practice. Quotes from Psalms, Matthew, and James emphasize establishing your life on the unchanging truths of the Bible and not just hearing but doing God's word to become wise and blessed.

2. Psalms 119:89-90 (MSG)
What you say goes, God, and stays, as
permanent as the heavens. 90 Your truth
never goes out of fashion; it's as up-to-
date as the earth when the sun comes up.

3. •Build your life on the Bible
•Why you can trust the Bible
•How the Bible changes you
•How the Bible speaks to you
•How to study a passage of the Bible
•Understanding the text
•Integrate the Word God gives you into
your life

4. Matthew 7:24 (NIV)
..Therefore everyone who hears these
words of mine and puts them into practice
is like a wise man who built his house on
the rock.

6. James 1:19-25 (NIV)
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be
quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become
angry, 20 for man's anger does not bring about the
righteous life that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of
all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and
humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save
you. 22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive
yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to
the word but does not do what it says is like a man who
looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at
himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he
looks like. 25 But the man who looks intently into the
perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do
this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he
will be blessed in what he does.

7. 1. Build your life on the Bible
Hearing

8. My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be
quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20
for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that
God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the
evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word
planted in you, which can save you.
1. ‘Be quick to listen’
2. ‘Humbly accept the word’
3. ‘Planted in you’

9. From ‘listening’ to ‘hearing’
 Be quiet
Be calm
Be clean
Be humble
‘quick to listen’ / ’slow
to speak’
‘slow to become angry’
‘Get rid of all moral filth
and the evil that is so
prevalent.’
‘Humbly’

10. ‘Humility is not thinking
less of yourself but
thinking of yourself less.’
(CS Lewis)

11. 2. Build your life on the Bible
Seeing
25 But the man who looks intently into the
perfect law that gives freedom, and
continues to do this, ….

12. S = Scripture: Read a chunk, look for the
verse(s) that spoke to you that day & write
them out.
O = Observation: What do you think God is
saying to you in this Scripture.
A = Application: Personalise, how does it apply
to your life
P = Prayer: Write out your prayer and then
pause and listen to God. Write down what He
says to you.

13. 3. Build your life on the Bible
Hands (touch) & Mouth (taste)
John 5:39 (NLT)
39 “You search the Scriptures because you think they
give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!
Acts 17:11 (NLT)
11 And the people of Berea were more open-minded
than those in Thessalonica, and they listened
eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the
Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were
teaching the truth.

14. 4. Build your life on the Bible
Smell 
‘not forgetting what he’s heard…’

15. Joshua 1:8 (NIV)
8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart
from your mouth; meditate on it day and
night, so that you may be careful to do
everything written in it. Then you will be
prosperous and successful.

16. 5. Build your life on the Bible
Do
James 1:22 (NIV)
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so
deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
‘You only believe the parts of the Bible
you actually do.’

17. Jesus’ Conclusion
Matthew 7:24-27 (NIV)
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of
mine and puts them into practice is like a wise
man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain
came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew
and beat against that house; yet it did not fall,
because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But
everyone who hears these words of mine and
does not put them into practice is like a foolish
man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came
down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and
beat against that house, and it fell with a great
crash."

18. Get a GRIP
Listen to the Word
Read the Word
Study the Word
Meditate on the
Word
Do the Word