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If what you think you know isn’t working then you better go back to school. Not the school of man but the school of the Spirit. There’s an abundance of information available but it’s all in vain if you don’t know how to apply it. Education is good but it’s still hard to get a job without experience. And more education doesn’t always equal success. Among modern day “believers” there seems to a growing and disabling mindset – “If I just knew more then I could do more.” But it’s not just what you know, but Who you know. If you know God you know the One who knows everything. If you follow Him He will show you and teach you as you go. Have you noticed that we seem to be developing more students and less apprentices? Everybody seems to know everything but who’s doing something with their knowledge? Most people what to be a teacher and a leader but who can instruct without experience and how can anyone get experience without following? We need to stop just telling people what to do and start showing them. We say we “follow the Lord” but do we actually imitate Him or are we just watching? And if we don’t start doing something, even something small, how will we truly learn anything at all? Students study, disciples do! So which are you? I say it’s time to stop hiding behind education and get some experience. Enter into the apprenticeship of the Master. Begin to do what you believe He’s leading you to do. I know it’s scary, because you don’t know really how, and until you DO you never will.

James 1:22-25
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
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Matt 7:24-29
24 "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

26 "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."

28 And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, 29 for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
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Matt 23:1-11
23 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, 2 saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. 3 Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. 4 For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments. 6 They love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, 7 greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, 'Rabbi, Rabbi.' 8 But you, do not be called 'Rabbi'; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. 9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. 10 And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.
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John 6:45a
45 It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.'
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1 John 2:27
27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
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1 Thess 4:9
9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
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Eph 5:1-2
5 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us…
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Matt 4:18-20
18 And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 Then He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men." 20 They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
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Ps 32:8-9
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will guide you with My eye.
9 Do not be like the horse or like the mule,
Which have no understanding,
Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle,
Else they will not come near you.
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Ps 32:8-9
8 Let me give you some good advice;
I'm looking you in the eye
and giving it to you straight:

9 "Don't be ornery like a horse or mule
that needs bit and bridle
to stay on track."
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Isa 48:17-18
17 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
"I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
Who leads you by the way you should go.
18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
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Isa 48:17-18
17 with this Message from God,
your Redeemer, The Holy of Israel:
"I am God, your God,
who teaches you how to live right and well.
I show you what to do, where to go.
18 If you had listened all along to what I told you,
your life would have flowed full like a river,
blessings rolling in like waves from the sea.
MES