TODAY! 21 day Devotion by: H.R. Lister
Day 16: “The Word of Life”
Proverbs 4:20-22 “My Son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. 21) Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; 22) For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.”
(Knox translation) “The Word will bring life and healing to his whole being.”
(Leeser translation) “to all his body a healing.”
(Rotherham translation) “To every part of one’s flesh they bring healing.”
This Word is alive and it brings life and health if you’ll hear it, believe it, and act on it!!!!
Hebrews 4:12 “The Word of God is living and powerful…”
(NIV) “….The Word of God is ALIVE & ACTIVE!!!!!
What is the Word of God alive and active to do???? “THE WILL OF GOD!!!!”
What is the Will of God????
2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering toward us, NOT WILLING that any SHOULD PERISH but that all should come to REPENTANCE.”
Acts 11:18 “When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, "So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life."
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
“Jesus is the Word of God, and was the Will of God in Action here on the Earth…”
John 1:1-4 “In the beginning was THE WORD, and THE WORD was with God and THE WORD was God. 2) He was in the beginning with God. 3) All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4) IN HIM was LIFE, and the LIFE was the LIGHT OF MEN!!!!”
THE WORD IS LIFE!!!!!
THE WORD IS HEALTH AND HEALING….. TO ALL YOUR FLESH!!!!
-When we gather under the preaching and teaching of the Word, We are subjecting ourselves to LIFE! HEALTH, Healing, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually!
Back to Proverbs 4:22 “For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.”
The Word health translated in the original Hebrew is “MEDICINE”
So the Word of God is Medicine to our flesh!!!
-It’s not enough to just believe that divine healing is available for you, just like it would do you no good to only believe that there is man made medicine available for your sickness!
-Most people make the mistake in that they believe the Word contains healing power, they believe it’s the will of God to heal and that it’s available for them…. But they never take their MEDICINE!!!!!
The Word of God is Life and Medicine to all those who “FIND THEM!”
Jeremiah 15:16 “YOUR WORDS were FOUND, and I ate them, and YOUR WORD was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart….”
Proverbs 3:1-2 “My Son, do not forget my law (my words), but let your heart keep my commands (my words), 2) FOR LENGTH OF DAYS AND LONG LIFE and peace they will add to you….
The Word has to be a part of You to work, it has to be IN YOU!!!!!
-It goes into our eyes and ears, we consume it and it drops into our hearts and then it’s pumped throughout our bodies, just like man-made medicine, it searches out sickness and disease and attacks it because it’s contrary to LIFE!!!!
Remember-Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
Exodus 15:26 “…I am the Lord who heals you.”
(Leeser) “…I the Lord am thy Physician…”
-If He’s our physician, what is the Medicine He’s prescribing???? HIS WORD, THE WORD THAT HEALS YOU,
(When you find them,eat them, consume them!!! And Let it take effect!)
-Don’t just let the Medicine sit in your medicine cabinet and expect it to work!!!! TAKE YOUR MEDICINE!!!!!!
-God’s Word possesses in itself the capacity to Heal! It contains in and of itself Power to affect this physical world and our physical circumstance!!!
-In Genesis God “SAID” “Let there be LIGHT!!!!! and There Was!!!!!
-His Word (Medicine) Contains in and of itself Healing Power, Power to change sickness into health!!!
Psalm 107:19-20 “Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. 20) HE SENT HIS WORD and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Matthew 8:5-10 (Speak the Word ONLY) ” Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, 6) saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.” 7) And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” 8) The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. 9) For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 10) When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!
God always sends His Word to change things!!!!
-God wanted to create the universe, He sent His Word…..
-God wanted Light, He sent His Word….
-God wanted fish in the sea and birds in the air, He sent His word….
-God wanted beast in the field and all creeping things on the earth, He sent His word….
-God wanted a Man to love and bless, He sent His Word….
-God’s Man forsook Him, betrayed Him, brought death and destruction on himself and the World He created……and God sent HIS WORD!!!!!!!!
-And if you’re sick and in need of Health and Healing, GOD SENDS HIS WORD!!!!
-FIND THEM, EAT THEM, Be a Consumer of THE WORD!!!!!!!
Isaiah 55:11 “So shall My WORD be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
(KNOX) “So it is with THE WORD by these lips of mine once uttered; it will not come back, an empty echo, the way it went; ALL MY WILL it carried out……”
The Word (Jesus Christ) Carries out ALL THE WILL of God!!!!
-Jesus was the Will of God in Action!!!!