11/21/2025 – “I will meditate on Your precepts and think about your ways. I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.” (Psalm 119: 15-16)
The Hand Through The Fire
Friday, November 21, 2025
Once when I was planning a mission trip to China, I went home after a service and laid down to nap. I dreamed I saw a Bible burning in someone’s hand. When I woke up, I saw a fax that had just come in. The fax was about believers in China and how the communist authorities would burn Bibles. It told the story of a burning Bible and how one believer had stuck his hand into the fire and was able to rescue one page. For years that one page was all they had. It was their greatest treasure. They cherished the Word of God so much that they would stick their hand in the fire to save one page. And then, having that page, they treasured it for years. We don’t have to stick our hands through fire to have or read the Word of God – and we don’t have just one page – we have over a thousand. Yet do we truly treasure His Word as we should? How much more should we value the treasure we have, cherish it, sacrifice for it, and, more than anything – live it?
From Message #1439 – The Elijah Generation
Scripture: Psalm 119:16
TODAY’S MISSION – Today open up the Bible, take just one Scripture, one Word, and hold to it, meditate on it, let it soak in, apply it, and live it.
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I added verse 15 so as to share the footnote in my Apologetics Study bible on “Twisted Scripture” Psalm 119:15:
“There is a distinct difference between Christian and New Age forms of meditation. In Christian meditation, the believer’s mind is actively engaged and focuses on the Word of God. The believer is always conscious and never seeks a mystical experience of direct contact with God. New Age meditators on the other hand, attempt to empty their minds through repetitious chanting or yogic breathing exercises. For them the goal is to experience oneness with the universe or attain God consciousness.”
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