Getting God’s Perspective On Your LifeSample

Steps to Getting God’s Perspective

Now armed with God’s Truth, you can take three practical steps to fully get God’s perspective on your life: summarize, personalize, and vocalize the Word of God.

Summarize It

As you meditate on scripture, hear teachings, or read devotionals, listen for God’s voice as He speaks into your life. When a certain Bible passage hits your ear and becomes life to you, summarize it in your own words. This will cause you to consider every aspect of it, draw out its fuller meaning, and digest it more completely. A great way to begin is to summarize on the back of each index card the scriptures from Day 4 of this study.

Personalize It

The Holy Spirit speaks to us through the Word, illuminating certain truths for us at just the right time. How many times has a verse you’ve read many times before freshly jumped off the page with new life and meaning? That is the Holy Spirit personalizing the scripture to your immediate circumstance.

Pay attention to those moments and meditate on those verses. Give Him time to talk to you about how they relate to your situation. Specifically ask Him what your scripture card verses mean for you and how you can put them to work in your life. Write those things on the back of each index card.

Vocalize It

There is a place for silent scriptural contemplation and reading, but when fighting the enemy’s schemes, you must be aggressive! As Jesus did when He said, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written . . . ” (Matt. 4:10), we too need to aggressively fight the enemy. Put the “nice you” to the side and shout in his face. Fight as if your life depended on it because it does.

When he “roars” (1 Pet. 5:8), roar back! Go ahead—read your scripture cards and your summaries out loud! It may feel embarrassing at first, but over time it will powerfully align your heart and your mind with what God is telling you in and through His Word.

Just as God spoke the world into existence, when you speak His Word out loud, it has power beyond anything we can see. Speaking Scripture aloud plants it inside of you and brings life.

Example:
Verse: John 10:10 -- The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

Summarize It: The devil is a thief who wants to take everything from me, decimate my life, and murder me, if he can. Jesus came so that I can live and have everything I need, including life at its fullest and most satisfying.

Personalize It: God, I know the devil wants to take from me, put an end to my life, and render my work ineffective, but thank You that You came to give me life, and not just life but life at its very best! Please show me how to have that life and how to resist the thief in areas where he is working to destroy me. Vocalize It: (Say it all out loud!)