Jeremiah TiptonFounder in president of David Hernandez ministries

Read The Bible In The Spirit

30 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this sermon, the speaker argues that genuine comprehension of Scripture requires the Holy Spirit’s assistance; reading the Bible without the Spirit yields only intellectual or emotional results. He shares personal anecdotes of mechanically reading chapters, losing focus, and feeling frustrated when preachers, empowered by the Spirit, extract deep meaning from the same passages. The speaker identifies his former approach as a religious obligation driven by quota‑mindset—counting verses and chapters to earn approval—rather than a prayerful dependence on God. He describes a turning point where he began to ask the Holy Spirit for help, shifting from a self‑reliant study method to a Spirit‑led, prayer‑based engagement with the Word.

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You cannot understand the Word of God. You cannot receive the Word of God in the depths of your spirit without the help of the Holy Spirit. Trying to understand the Word without the Holy Spirit will produce only intellectual and emotional results. When I first began to study the Word, I remember opening the Scripture and I would read a whole chapter before I realized I didn't understand a thing I was reading. Or halfway through, my mind would wander off to some responsibility. And then I realized, wait a minute, I lost my place. I wasn't even paying attention as my eyes scanned the words. I have to go back. And then there were times when I would listen to preachers quote from scriptures that I had read again and again and again, and they would begin to expound upon the word, filled with the Holy Spirit, preaching with fire. And I would say, how did I not see that? Yeah. How did I not get that? I just read that same text, and yet now there they are extracting the meaning of the text and expounding upon it in a Spirit-filled manner. And that was because it was without the help of the Holy Spirit that I was trying to know the word. I was reading it as a religious obligation, trying to meet some spiritual quota to earn the approval that I already had, stressing over how many verses, how many chapters. Instead of doing that, I then switched to just saying, help me, Holy Spirit.