RICK WARREN ON GOD’S WORD

Jesus said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32 niv). When you base your life on truth—when you live with the right kind of thoughts, not misconceptions or false beliefs, and you base your life on right thoughts out of God’s Word—you will be set free. You will find your old habits, feelings, and actions falling away. . . .

Meditate on God’s Word. Read through the book of Psalms and see how many times David speaks of meditating on God’s Word.

In Psalm 1 we read, “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.” In other words, that person doesn’t get his input from the wrong sources. “But his delight is in the law of the Lord [the Bible], and on his law he meditates day and night.” As a result, “He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers” (emphasis added).

God says that when we meditate on his Word day and night, we will bear fruit. We will be fruitful, productive people— people full of love, joy, peace, patience, and the rest of the fruit of the Spirit. He also says we will prosper.

— God’s Power to Change Your Life 1

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

JOHN 8:31–32