Feed Yourself for Life

Part: Feed Yourself · the gate into Part 2

Look back first. Did you obey? Who did you tell? Both halves now — that second question is the bridge into reaching others.

Here’s the conviction that frees you:

You don’t need an expert to open the Bible. You need the Word, the Spirit, and a habit.

Hold that as you read John 15:1–8 aloud, twice, and retell it. Then run the four questions — you’re fluent now, so run the whole cycle with as little help as possible.

Land the last move of the method: 🌱 Grow. The fruit is God’s doing, not your striving — “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth” (1 Corinthians 3:6–7). We eat and digest; He grows us.

I used to think I needed a trained teacher to understand the Bible. The turn: the Spirit teaches through the Word — you are qualified to open it.

Practice: build your own next-4-weeks passage plan. Choose passages and commit to them, so the habit keeps going without anyone prompting you.

Your “I will”: study weekly, unprompted — and tell one person each week. That’s the gate commitment: a self-sustaining habit that already points outward.

Close: “You can feed yourself now.” Part 1 is done; next we point it outward.