What's the Word

It has been said,  "Our attitude toward God's Word determines the place that He holds in our daily life." Take a moment and let that statement sink in, Why? Because, the Bible should always be received as God speaking directly to us and should never be seen as an ordinary book. The Bible should be as real to us as though Jesus is standing in the room and speaking to us personally. For instance, when Jesus says, "For the Father Himself loves you" (John 16:27), it is a personal message spoken from the lips of Jesus to you and me. It is as though we are sitting at the feet of Jesus, and He is looking down into our face and lovingly speaking to us, in the way that a new father or mother would look lovingly down into the face of their first born infant child. After all we are His children. (John 1:12)

Man's word is usually forgotten within one generation, but God's Word is different. It is filled with the very Life of God, it is eternal, (Mark 13:31), it is God Himself. (John 1:1, 14) According to Hebrews, "For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow - scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart. And no created thing is hidden from him; all things lie open and exposed before the eyes of him with whom we have to reckon." (Hebrews 4:12-13, MNT)

Our greatest contact with God, is through His Word being led by the Holy Spirit. (John 16:13) Notice, that it says in this passage, "the eyes of Him." In other words, God's Word sees our conduct, our attitude toward it, as we see "it is a Living thing." Now we can better understand what Luke was expressing during the great revival at Ephesus, "So the Word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed." God's Word is living. It is God present with us, speaking a living message to us now! His Word is just as powerful and alive today as it was when He first spoke it. His Word in our heart and spoken from our lips of faith makes our ministry and lives limitless. He and His Word are one. (1 John 5:7) 

Jesus said, "According to your faith let it be to you." (Matthew 9:29) As we consider God's Word and act upon it, it will become real to us. Jesus also said, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63) Jesus also said, "Abide in my word." (John 8:31) To abide is to settle into; to remain in. Believers are to settle into and remain in God's Word, because every Word that God speaks has life in it; It has the Righteousness of God in it; It has Recreating power for the unsaved; It has healing power for the sick; It is the very Bread of Heaven to the hungry in spirit; It has the authority of God in it; It is filled with faith building power. 

Mark reveals, "So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen." (Mark 16:19-20) Looking at this passage, there is no doubt in my mind that revival would break out anytime and anywhere if God's Word was as real to us today as it was to those in the Early Church.

With that said, here are some assurances that we can have absolute confidence in...

• "The Lord is my shepherd." (Psalm 23:1) 
• "God is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1)
• "God is my refuge and strength." (Psalm 46:1) 
• "My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth." (Psalm 121:2)
• "Fear not, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God." (Isaiah 41:10)
• "If God is for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31)
• "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." (Philippians 4:13)
• "My God shall supply all of your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:19)

These are but a few of the promises of God that are alive, for us now, that we can feed on and build our faith. (Romans 10:17) When we look to God's Word, read and meditate on it, we will see that it is His message to us individually and He will confirm His message in our life, because His Word is Life. So, as the Apostle Paul said, "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly..." and as the Apostle James tells us, "receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls." (James 1:21) Let us all have an insatiable desire toward God's Word everyday, "For God's Words are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh." (Proverbs 4:22)