The Word of God Is Alive!
THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE!
I have looked at the scripture in Hebrews 4:12 for years and have confessed it many times over my life, but it took on revelation for me yesterday regarding its “aliveness.” I want you to think about this. When you say something is alive, what do you mean? You mean it is full of life. It is living. It is pulsating with energy and vitality. When you pick up an insect or an animal which is alive, you can feel the life in it. It moves and demonstrates that it is alive. The Word of God is the same way. When you pick it up with your tongue, it is alive and pulsating and moving with the life of God.
THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE!
Look at the scripture in Hebrews 4:12, Amplified Bible.
For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
The Word of God is alive and full of power. It is active and not passive. It is operating and not lying useless. It is full of God’s energy, full of God Himself. The Word is God Himself according to John 1:1. And the Word is effective; in other words, it produces results. Results-----isn’t that what we are looking for when we pray. Pray the Word and He will produce results.
The Word of God is alive. God’s Word is going to stay with you into the next life. It’s eternal, not subject to change. It’s a solid foundation to build upon. It is like a fire (Jeremiah 23:29, Jeremiah 5:14, Jeremiah 20:9). It’s pure like silver that has been tried in the fire already. (Psalm 12:6) When silver is tried in the fire, all the dross is burned off and all that is left is purity. That is the way God’s Word is. It is pure, without any death, without any fear, without any doubt, without anything to contaminate it. His Word is pure.
God’s Word burns up all other words. All that’s left is The Word, Jesus, God. Our words and works burn in the fire of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. God’s Word is eternal. Our words are temporal, temporary, subject to change; therefore, receive the Word of God and not the word of men (1 Thessalonians 2:13). Why be confessors and doers of the Word of God? We will give an account of every word spoken in this life (Matthew 12:36,37) Thank God for the blood of Jesus which washes away our own idle and inoperative words. I have spoken crop failure more than once to words that I have spoken. When we speak God’s Word, there is no chance of that word being idle because He says in Isaiah 55:10,11 that His Word goes forth and accomplishes what it is sent forth to do. Every time I speak God’s Word, it is giving the Life of God to me and my life and my situations which need His Life imprinted upon them. Let His Word be the imprint on you today.
God put flesh on His Word---made His Word and its workings visible through Jesus Christ. (John 1:1-4)
God has committed us to His Word (1 Corinthians 5:19)
We sow the Word of His Kingdom into our hearts by our confession and meditation and study of His Word (Mark 4, Matthew 13:19-23, Luke 8:15).
Hold fast to God’s faithful Word (Titus 1:9). His Word which is Himself is faithful because He is faithful. His Word will produce the same way the same time for whosoever will believe and receive it as their own and act like it is true in their lives.
I have looked at the scripture in Hebrews 4:12 for years and have confessed it many times over my life, but it took on revelation for me yesterday regarding its “aliveness.” I want you to think about this. When you say something is alive, what do you mean? You mean it is full of life. It is living. It is pulsating with energy and vitality. When you pick up an insect or an animal which is alive, you can feel the life in it. It moves and demonstrates that it is alive. The Word of God is the same way. When you pick it up with your tongue, it is alive and pulsating and moving with the life of God.
THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE!
Look at the scripture in Hebrews 4:12, Amplified Bible.
For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
The Word of God is alive and full of power. It is active and not passive. It is operating and not lying useless. It is full of God’s energy, full of God Himself. The Word is God Himself according to John 1:1. And the Word is effective; in other words, it produces results. Results-----isn’t that what we are looking for when we pray. Pray the Word and He will produce results.
The Word of God is alive. God’s Word is going to stay with you into the next life. It’s eternal, not subject to change. It’s a solid foundation to build upon. It is like a fire (Jeremiah 23:29, Jeremiah 5:14, Jeremiah 20:9). It’s pure like silver that has been tried in the fire already. (Psalm 12:6) When silver is tried in the fire, all the dross is burned off and all that is left is purity. That is the way God’s Word is. It is pure, without any death, without any fear, without any doubt, without anything to contaminate it. His Word is pure.
God’s Word burns up all other words. All that’s left is The Word, Jesus, God. Our words and works burn in the fire of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. God’s Word is eternal. Our words are temporal, temporary, subject to change; therefore, receive the Word of God and not the word of men (1 Thessalonians 2:13). Why be confessors and doers of the Word of God? We will give an account of every word spoken in this life (Matthew 12:36,37) Thank God for the blood of Jesus which washes away our own idle and inoperative words. I have spoken crop failure more than once to words that I have spoken. When we speak God’s Word, there is no chance of that word being idle because He says in Isaiah 55:10,11 that His Word goes forth and accomplishes what it is sent forth to do. Every time I speak God’s Word, it is giving the Life of God to me and my life and my situations which need His Life imprinted upon them. Let His Word be the imprint on you today.
God put flesh on His Word---made His Word and its workings visible through Jesus Christ. (John 1:1-4)
God has committed us to His Word (1 Corinthians 5:19)
We sow the Word of His Kingdom into our hearts by our confession and meditation and study of His Word (Mark 4, Matthew 13:19-23, Luke 8:15).
Hold fast to God’s faithful Word (Titus 1:9). His Word which is Himself is faithful because He is faithful. His Word will produce the same way the same time for whosoever will believe and receive it as their own and act like it is true in their lives.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 8:45 AM
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