Jason Helopoulos

Memorize the word so that it's so in your mind that then you can just turn it over and turn it over and turn it over in your mind.

I think of it like a piece of good chocolate.

You put it in your mouth, you're just going to suck all the goodness out of that thing before you swallow it.

You're just turning it over in your mind.

But you have to have it memorized to be able to do that.

Or it's here.

And you can just keep looking at it and every kind of facet, like it's a diamond with all of these different facets on it.

And you're just trying to get everything you can out of it.

And then you allow your life to be impacted by that.

So I'll do this.

I'll be like Jacob with the Lord.

I'm not going to let you go until my affections are stirred in some way for you.

I'm going to wrestle with you in prayer.

and upon the word until you stir my affections in some way for you.

And so I'll just take a passage like Colossians 1, where you have this great hymn of Christ here in Colossians 1.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for by him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.

Whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things were created through him and for him.

I'll just take a phrase.

For by him all things were created.

If all things were created by him, then that means that he is uncreated.