THE HEALING POWER OF GOD'S WORD!

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY OCTOBER 31, 2021. 

SUBJECT : THE HEALING POWER OF GOD'S WORD!

Memory verse: "He sent His word and then, and delivered them from their destructions." (Psalm 107 vs 20.)

READ: Proverbs 4 vs 20 - 22: 

4:20: My son, give attention to My words; incline your ear to My sayings.

4:21: Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart;

4:22: For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

INTIMATION:

God's Word is medicine. It is medicine to all our flesh. However, you need to learn how to take God's medicine in order to get it to work for you. This is very important, and the wrong application of God's word has been the bane of many believers.

We know that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10 vs 17). But the honest truth is that God's medicine (God's Word) won't do you any good if you hear it over and over again for hours yet still continue to think wrongly and talk wrongly. You have got to believe God and have faith in His Word you heard, and then act out your faith on the Word you heard to draw from God's grace (the power of God) for effective working of the word in your life. For faith without works is dead (James 2 vs 20). 

So, when you are confessing God's Word, if you would think like this: "I am taking my medicine—God's Word. God's medicine always works. It never fails." Say that to yourself and mean what you are saying, think (meditate) on that continually, and you will get God's Word working in your life. It is your faith in the word that draws from the grace of God (the power of God) to accomplish the healing.

Many people claim they have faith while what they have is intellectual assent—agreement with a set of Christian teachings—and as such it would be incomplete faith. True faith transforms our conduct as well as our thoughts. If our life remains unchanged, we don't truly believe the truths we claim to believe.

A careful study of the passage we read today will expose the true attitude or conduct required to bring the power in the word of God to bear in your life. Verse 20 says; "My son give attention to My Words, incline your ear to my sayings." God is speaking to you to concentrate on His word, give every consideration to His word. He goes on to say "do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart." (Verse 21). That is to say meditate and reflect on the word continually. This is because "For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh" (verse 22). God's Word is medicine to all your flesh. That means there is nothing it won't cure. 

Remember Jesus Christ's coming heralded the coming of the kingdom of God on earth, and His wish is that God's Will be done on earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6 vs 10). The Bible says there is no sickness in Heaven. Therefore, we know that it's God's Will that there be no sickness on earth. In Third John 2, the Bible says: "Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers." It is therefore, God's wish that we will proper in all things and be in health at all times, as we believe, have faith in Him, and work out our faith (as our soul prospers).

A sister was sick for some time, and was given a date by the doctors to pass on. She drew from her faith in God's word, and memorized, continually meditated, and claimed the passage in Isaiah 53 vs 4 - 5, and personalized it: "Surely He has borne my griefs and carried my sorrows; ....But He was wounded for my transgressions, He was bruised for my iniquities; the chastisement for my peace was upon Him, and by His stripes I am healed."

Consequently, she received her healing, and lived for many more years. And this is one of the numerous testimonies we have heard of the efficacy of healing characteristic of God's word. 

Prayer: Abba Father, though the grass withers, the flowers fades, but Your word stands forever. You are not a man, that You should lie, You have always done what You say. Your word has never returned to You void, but achieves and prospers in what You sent it. I have found Your word, and my life is in Your word. Endue with the spirit of complete obedience and trust in You and Your Word, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!