My Heart Is On Fire By Doug Apple - A Short Christian Devotional To Open The Scriptures And Make Your Heart Burn Within You!

I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire! (Luke 24:32) Are you reading the Bible by rote? I just heard someone say that, that they were just reading the Bible by rote. In other words, they were just being mechanical, doing it because they knew they should, sticking to their schedule...through the Bible in a year, baby! Of course scheduled Bible reading is a beautiful thing, unless you aren’t getting anything out of it. Maybe you are reading the Bible because you know you should, but it’s rote, it’s mechanical, it’s lifeless. The Spirit’s not in it, and by that I mean the Holy Spirit. So what can you do? Here is a sure fire Bible reading plan: read until your heart burns within you. That’s what happens when God opens the Scriptures to you. His Holy Spirit will suddenly leap inside you, basically saying, “There it is! Look at that. Focus on it. Ponder it. Meditate on it. Learn it and let it sink into your heart.” It’s His Spirit testifying with your spirit about God’s truth. That’s what h