PROFITABLE LIVING BY THE WORD!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

THURSDAY MAY 18, 2023.

SUBJECT : PROFITABLE LIVING BY THE WORD!

Memory verse: "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path" (Psalm 119 vs 105).

READ: Psalm 119 vs 97 - 105; 129 - 130:

Psalm 119:97: Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.

119:98: You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; For they are ever with me.

119:99: I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.

119:100: I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Your precepts. 

119:101: I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word.

119:102: I have not departed from Your judgements, for You Yourself have taught me. 

119:103: How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 119:104: Through Your precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way.

119:105: Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.

119:129: Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

119:130: The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. 

INTIMATION:

Life by the Word makes for a profitable living. God's Word makes us wise—wiser than our enemies and wiser than any teachers who ignore it. True wisdom goes beyond amassing knowledge; it is applying knowledge in a life-changing way. Intelligent or experienced people are not necessarily wise. Wisdom comes from allowing God's teachings to guide you.

The practice starts with your believe in the Word. Believe is having trust in, or firm conviction about something. To believe in the Word is accepting its existence, recognizing its value or advantage, and to have faith in its ability. The Word is the same as God (John 1 vs 1), therefore, believe in the Word is believe in God. All God's attributes are also associated with His Word. Believing that God exists is only the beginning. You have to have faith in what you believe, and demonstrate that faith by practicing what you have believed. 

Even the demons also believe, but fail to practice that believe (James 2 vs 19). God will not settle for mere acknowledgement of His existence. He wants a personal, dynamic relationship with you that will transform your life by demonstrating your faith in His Word. God assures us that all who honestly seek Him—who act in faith on the knowledge of God (the Word), putting into practice or action the Word they believe, will be rewarded by Him (Hebrews 11 vs 6).

The efficacy of the Word of God is described in the Bible in Hebrews 4 vs 12 thus:- "For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." The Word of God is not simply a collection of words from God, or a vehicle for communicating ideas. It is living, life-changing, and dynamic as it works in us. His Words are purposeful hence it accomplish what He please, and prospers in the things for which He sent it, and never returns to Him void (Isaiah 55 vs 11). 

In this life, we walk through a dark forest of evil. But the Bible can be our light to show us the way ahead so we won't stumble as we walk. It reveals the entangling roots of false values and philosophies. Studying the Bible, and practicing what it tells you, makes you able to see your way clear enough to stay on the right path.

God means what He says, and what He says goes. His powerful Word is superbly sharp, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense. It lays us open to listen and obey. Nothing, and no one is impervious to God's Word, and cannot get away from it, no matter what. When we live our life in the Word—doing what God says we should do, we rest assured of a profitable living. This is because we can't go wrong since God can never go wrong. The Lordship of God is undoubted. He is unique in His knowledge and in His control of all things, including the future. His consistent purpose is to carry out what He has said, and planned. 

All that is written in Bible are God's Word, and are for our benefit. Remember the instruction of the LORD to Joshua in Joshua 1 vs 8, "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success." Live the Word life, and rest assured of good success in all areas of your life, and the numbers of your days on this earth God will fulfill (Exodus 23 vs 25).

Prayer: Abba Father, the entrance of Your Word illuminates my path, and gives me understanding. Therefore, give me the grace to resist evil plotting of the enemy to take away Your Word from me, in Jesus' Name I have prayed. Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!