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The Value of Memorizing Scripture by John Piper

• Memorizing Scripture makes meditation possible at times when you can’t be reading the Bible, and meditation is the pathway to deeper understanding. If you’re going to meditate on the Law of the Lord day and night, you need to have some of it in your head.


• Memorizing Scripture strengthens my faith, because faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, and that happens when I am hearing the Word in my head.


• Memorizing Scripture shapes the way I view the world by conforming my mind to God’s viewpoint on everything.

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