The Power of God’s Word Thought Conditioners

Millions of Christians are living far beneath their rights and privileges as children of
God because they fail to pay the price of constantly studying God’s Word in order to
find out exactly what their rights and privileges are and how to attain them in their lives.

A true revelation of God’s Word is the single most important element of a victorious Christian life.

God’s Word is the highest and best way of hearing from God.  If you delight in the Word of God, you will have a consuming passion to continually learn everything you can from God’s supernatural book of instructions.

My son, pay attention to what I say, listen closely to my words.  Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart, for they are life to those who find them and health to a man’s whole body.  Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.  Proverbs 4:20-23

Only when we have heard, received and renewed our minds to the Word of God is the truth in us. This is the foundation for a prosperous soul. We must accept God’s Word as the highest and the final authority. It is higher than religious traditions, church decrees, family and cultural traditions and every other order of life. God has exalted His Word even above His name. (Ps. 138:2.) Heaven and earth will pass away, but the Word of God will stand forever.

There is only one thing that is needful and that is the Word of God. It is the one thing that a believer cannot successfully do without.

If you will attend to the Word and spend time in it, every other situation in your life will
be taken care of because of the faith, knowledge and wisdom that come from God’s Word.

Receive the Word. The power and blessing that you get out of the Word of God is according to how you receive it. You must receive it literally as God talking to you, as the Word of God and the authority in your life. You must decide that whatever you see in the Word you will act on. If you receive just a little here and a little there, thinking, “Well, now, that could be true,” you will get nothing from the Word.

We have very little control over our emotions, but we do have control over our thoughts, and our thoughts determine our feelings and our responses. That is why it is so important that you fill your mind with the knowledge of God and his Word. You need to see life from God’s perspective and respond accordingly.

The Bible tells us that spiritual power has been affecting this physical world ever since time began. In fact, it was spiritual power released in the form of God’s Word that brought this natural world into existence in the first place.

The Word of God is infinitely above anything on this earth. The Word of God is filled with precious supernatural spiritual seeds that are filled with the living power of God Himself. If you continually plant these precious seeds from God’s Word in your heart, you actually are planting the power of Almighty God deep down inside of yourself.

If God’s Word is planted in your heart, you’ll receive. It doesn’t
matter what you feel — God’s Word will produce a miracle.

Do you “love” the Word of God so much that “it is your meditation all the day?” Do you love the Word of God so much that you cannot get enough of it? Do you find that you have an insatiable hunger for the supernatural living Word of God?

The psalmist meditated on the Word of God to imprint God’s instructions in his heart. He had a deep desire to follow “the paths of life marked out” by the Word of God. The psalmist “delighted himself” in God’s Word. He meditated on the Word of God continually so that he “would not forget” God’s Word.

As you faithfully obey your Father’s instructions to meditate continually on His Word the Holy Spirit will honor your obedience by giving you increased revelation on the Scripture you are meditating on. The Word of God is vastly different from books written by human beings. The Holy Spirit can and will illuminate the holy Scriptures and cause them to come alive in a fresh and new way, no matter how many times you have meditated on the same passage of Scripture.

God’s Word promises to give wisdom to the simple. God’s Word will make you wise even if you have been ignorant in the past. You don’t have to submit to the lie that says, well, my mind just isn’t as bright as somebody else’s. The Word of God will quicken your thinking and give you understanding.

The Best Heaven Has to Offer
The Bible is God’s map of principles that will get us where we want to go—both in day-to-day living and eternally. All the philosophies of the world have proven inadequate and bring failure. The world’s broken marriages, children, economy and nations are evidence of that. And while the Word of God may not be popular, it alone gives the principles that guide human beings on how to have happy families, healthy lives and fulfilled destinies. If we will renew our way of thinking according to the principles in the Bible, we will find the freedom in life we so desperately need.

Jesus gave the Church the best heaven had to offer to clean us up and straighten us up! We get clean by the Word! We get sanctified by the Word! We get better by the Word! We get stronger by the Word! We get bigger by the Word! But it can’t and won’t happen unless we renew our minds ourselves with the Word.

What Is the Value of the Word?
God’s Word is worth far more than gold, even much fine gold. The Word of God is better than honey. How would you treat God’s word if you truly desired it more than money – even large amounts of it – and more than your favorite food?

You’d be able to say along with Job, “I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.” (Job 23:12)  If you were to seek God through his Word like that, your life would be transformed.

How much benefit would it be to your life if you could be warned before you get into a problem, pursue an ungodly relationship, take the wrong job, buy the wrong car, do something that damages your health, or take a wrong turn? How much would it be worth to you if you could see problems before they came so that you could take evasive action? That’s exactly what the Word of God will do. In keeping God’s Word there is great reward!

I encourage you to take the Word of God and center your life around it.  Meditate on the Word day and night. As you do, the Word will cause change to come in your life effortlessly. It will be automatic. As you renew your mind to God’s Word, you too will begin to prove – make manifest to your physical senses – God’s good, acceptable, and perfect will.

God’s Word is alive!
God watches over His Word to perform it.
His presence is ever over His Word to bring it to pass.

If you aren’t experiencing the abundance and victory that the Lord has promised, it’s not God who has failed. Praying longer and petitioning harder won’t change anything. You must take the incorruptible seed of God’s Word and keep on planting it in the garden of your heart.

You will become what you think. (Proverbs 23:7) The reason most people have the problems they do is because they aren’t controlling their thinking. Unless you do something specifically to keep your mind on the Lord, it will naturally go somewhere else. There just aren’t very many things outside of God’s Word that reflect God – pointing us toward and drawing us closer to Him. However, the Word of God is pure light. (Psalm 19:8) When you study and meditate on God’s Word, it changes the way you think. As our thinking changes, so does our life. That’s why we must get to where we are dominated by the Word of God.

A Sure Foundation
The Word of God often refers to itself as a seed. There are a total of forty-four verses in the New Testament where the Greek word sperma was translated “seed.” This is the same word from which we derive our English word “sperm.”

To conceive and give birth, whether it’s for a miracle you need in your body or for the vision God has given you, you must first plant God’s Word like a seed in your heart. Conception, which eventually produces the fruit, cannot take place without first planting a seed.

Take God’s Word like a seed, and begin to plant it in your heart and it
will literally begin to release supernatural blessing/favor into your life.

I constantly meet Christians who pray and believe for God’s intervention in their lives, but remain frustrated with their results. Why? Because they have never conceived their miracles by planting the seed of God’s Word in their hearts. That’s like a woman who prays to get pregnant and then is confused when it doesn’t come to pass even though she has never had a relationship with a man. The seed has to be planted for conception to take place.

In Mark 4, the Lord taught three parables that illustrate that the Word is to the kingdom of God what a natural seed is to a harvest. The first of these parables, the story of the sower, is the key to unlocking all the others (Mark 4:13). If we don’t understand these truths, Jesus said, we won’t understand any of His other parables.

There are many life-changing truths in these parables, but one fact must be understood to get the full benefit of this teaching: The Lord used the comparison of His Word to a law of nature, which is unchangeable, not an institution of man.

Here’s what I mean: Nearly all systems that people have created can be cheated or manipulated. The legal system can be beaten, letting the guilty go free. The educational system can be beaten, passing students who haven’t really learned the material. But the process of seedtime and harvest can’t be changed.

What if a farmer waited until he saw his neighbors reaping their crops before he sowed his seed? Regardless of how sincere he was or the justification for not sowing his seed at the proper time, he would not reap a crop overnight. The law of seedtime and harvest cannot be violated.

This is why our Lord chose to compare the way His Word works to a seed. The germination process of the Word of God in your life takes time and can’t be avoided.

In the second parable of Mark 4, Jesus said, “So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come” (Mark 4:26-29).

The seed is the Word of God (Mark 4:14), and the ground is our hearts (Mark 4:15). Our
hearts were created by God to bring forth fruit when His Word is planted in them. Just as a
seed has to remain in the ground over time to germinate, so the Word of God has to abide in us.

Jesus said in John 15:7, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”

What would happen if you planted a seed in your garden and then dug it up each morning to see if anything was happening? It would die and never produce fruit. You have to have faith that the seed is doing what God created it to do.

Some people put God’s Word in their hearts for a day or two, but if they don’t see fruit almost immediately, they dig up the seed through their words and actions and wonder why it didn’t work. It must be left in the ground over time. Then, there are also different stages of growth.

Mark 4:28 says, “First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.”

Many people are impatient, wanting to bypass the growth cycle and get the full ear right now. I’ve actually had to tell people what they were believing God for was not going to happen, not because the vision wasn’t good, but because they were expecting a complete ear of corn immediately.

God’s kingdom operates on laws, like the laws that govern the fruit-bearing process of a seed. God will not give you the full ear of corn if you haven’t seen the first blade. That’s the way God’s kingdom works.

This is precisely the reason most people don’t see God’s best come to pass in their lives. They have lottery faith. They think that since God loves them, He will just grant their request regardless of whether they put the miracle of the seed to work or not.

God ordained that those who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel (1 Cor. 9:14). Even ministers must live from the fruit of what they sow. Over many years, as I taught the Word of God to hundreds and thousands of people, the seeds of those words took root. The fruit of God’s Word and our efforts came in the form of changed lives and a desire in the hearts of those who had experienced this change to help others.

This law of seedtime and harvest operates in every area of our lives. If we will plant God’s Word in our hearts, then allow the seed to germinate and the plant to grow to maturity, we will reap the fruit of a harvest. That is God’s best!

I cannot tell you strongly enough how important it is that you know God’s Word and that you plant the seed of His Word in your heart long before you need the fruit of the harvest. It could mean the difference between prosperity and poverty, health and sickness, peace and depression or even life and death.

We need to go beyond the “touchy-feely,” emotion-based thinking that many mistake for faith. It’s not about what you feel; it’s about what has been planted in your heart and what will come to full fruit. It’s understanding the power and importance of God’s Word in your life – the foundation to receiving the promises of God.

The forces of life and power coming out of your heart will be
in direct proportion to the amount of the Word going into you.

Jesus said, “If any man has ears to hear, let him he listening, and perceive and comprehend. And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you, and more [besides] will be given to you who hear” (Mark 4:23-24, The Amplified Bible).

We measure to ourselves the blessing of the Lord by the attention, respect and heed we give to His Word. If you give just a little heed to God’s Word, that is all you are going to receive. If you give total heed and attention to God’s Word, the power that comes back to you will be great and it will produce results in your life.

To prosper in the faith walk, you must first make a decision that God’s Word does not fail. If the Word of God does not seem to be working for you, it is not God’s fault. There is something you don’t know. More than likely, you are just not standing firm. The Bible says, “And having done all, to stand. Stand therefore.”

We’re instructed twice in Ephesians 6:13-14 to “stand.” That’s all. It doesn’t say how long. If you catch yourself saying, “Well, the Word is not working for me,” then you can know automatically that you are not standing.

You must have a steadfast faith when it comes to God’s Word. If it is not steadfast, it is not faith.
One thing you must know is: GOD’S WORD DOES NOT FAIL!

Doubt and Unbelief
God wants to move in and through your life in miracles, healings, deliverance, and prosperity. Everything that God is, is now available to you through His Word. You don’t have to beg and plead, and then just passively sit back and wait to see what God will do. The Bible calls that unbelief.

Doubt will rob you of God’s blessings. Unbelief will rob you and leave you sick. There is only one thing that can stop doubt and unbelief in the heart of a man and that is the Word of God. When a person receives the Word, doubt, defeat and discouragement have to leave. Don’t hang on to any doubt or unbelief. Don’t even dwell on it. Let the Word of God expel it.

He could do no mighty works because of their unbelief (Mark 6:5-6).

I absolutely refuse to feed my spirit on doubt and unbelief because I know that my very life depends on the faith of God in my spirit. I will not sit under any teacher or preacher who puts doubt and unbelief in my spirit. What you feed into your spirit is a matter of life and death, a matter of victory and defeat. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Doubt comes by hearing unbelief. It is important what you hear. 

When we believe God’s Word, put it first place, and do whatever it says to do, no doubt or tradition or unbelief can hold us back.

God is wanting vessels that He can use—not vessels tied down by the traditions of men and the things of the world. He wants men and women that He can work through freely. To be that vessel unto honor requires our decision to cooperate with God’s Word, to get in line with it and purge ourselves from the things that would rob us of the power of God.

Effortless Change
If you would go to the Word of God, making it your absolute authority and viewing it as God speaking to you, then the Word will overcome any doubt you have. God’s Word will confirm everything you need to know. It’s the highest and best way of hearing from God.

The whole kingdom of God – the Christian life, your victory, your success as a believer – is as simple as taking the Word of God and sowing it in your heart. If you will just cooperate and let the Word of God germinate, you will change effortlessly.

People who never planted any seeds are disappointed and surprised that they don’t have a garden. They wonder, why am I not healed? Why haven’t I prospered? Why hasn’t God answered this prayer? Why are my relationships falling apart? Why can’t I hold down a job? Why is it nothing in my life ever seems to work? They’ve been praying and asking God for all of these things, but they haven’t taken his Word and the promises therein and sewn these truths in their life.

Many of these people have come to me and said, “I prayed and asked God to heal me.” I’ve asked them, “what Scriptures are you standing on for being healed? What promise or promises – seed from God’s word – have you sown into your life to produce that healing?”  They’ve answered, “I don’t know what the Word says. I just know that it’s God’s will. I believe that God wants to heal me.” But they don’t have a Scripture to stand on. They don’t have a promise. They haven’t sown his Word into their heart!

The number one reason why people aren’t receiving from God is because they
literally haven’t taken the truths of his Word and planted them in their heart.

This is why people aren’t experiencing the victory they are praying for and desiring and begging and pleading for God to give them. This is why the Lord used this kind of a parable of a sower and his seed. He wants us to understand how His kingdom works. The sower sows the Word of God. This seed he’s talking about is not a physical seed. Rather, the Word of God is like a seed.

The kingdom of God works from this truth that the Word of God is a seed. Just like in the natural realm, you must plant seeds to produce a crop. You can’t have a forest without planting any seeds.

You can’t have victory in your life without the Word of God being planted
in your heart. It’s simple, but it’s true. This is how the kingdom of God works.

If you humble yourself and receive this truth, it will provide you with an answer to why you aren’t seeing any more victory in your life then you are. It will explain why you aren’t seeing more of the power of God at work. The average person isn’t meditating in the Word of God. They aren’t spending time – both quality and quantity amounts of time – in God’s Word. The average person doesn’t have a good understanding of the Word of God. 

The Word of God must be revelation to you. It has to be alive in you. It never will be if you haven’t taken the promises like a seed, planted them in your heart, meditated on them, and seen the Word of God work.

You’re wondering, why isn’t God answering my prayer? He’s given us the seeds but we haven’t planted them! That’s like someone praying over their ground and saying, “God, why haven’t you let the garden grow?” They didn’t plant the seeds!

Four Stages of Fruitfulness
The Lord clearly describes four different types of people’s hearts, and how the Word of God interacts with their heart to bring forth fruit – or not. I believe he was also describing four different stages towards fruitfulness.

First, you go through a stage where you hear the Word of God but your heart isn’t set on it. You aren’t seeking after the things of God. The Word goes in one ear and out the other. That’s the first type of person.

The second type of person gets excited about the Word, but they don’t have root in themselves. The end result is they don’t bear fruit either

The third type of person gets excited about the Word, and it takes root. The Word of God begins to germinate and start producing life in them, but then they get distracted by the things of this world. (Mark 4:19)

The fourth type of person is the one who really nurtures and takes care of the Word of God. They focus on it and aren’t distracted by the things of this world. So they produce a bountiful harvest. (Mark 4:20)

If you’re one of this first type of people depicted in this parable, the Word of God just doesn’t mean anything to you. You can hear it and it’s gone before you even think about it. You just can’t seem to retain God’s Word. It’s not time for you to pray and ask God to speak louder. It’s time for you to change your heart and start focusing on the things of the Lord.

Rooted and Established
There is a period of being rooted in the Word that’s necessary for you to be able to produce fruit. There really needs to be a period of time where you take those truths you’ve learned and, no matter how much they’ve excited you, let them take root on the inside of you.

In the spiritual realm, many people don’t like the root stage. They don’t like letting a truth from the Word of God take root on the inside of them and get established in their heart. They just want to skip all this and get right to the fruit as quickly as they can. Therefore, they don’t have very much depth in their life. Their heart isn’t totally committed to the truth they received.

If you want to be someone who really produces fruit and sees the Word of God work, it’s not going to happen overnight. You can’t microwave your miracle. It takes time. There is seed, time and harvest.  Actually, sometimes it is seed, T – T – T – I – I – I –M —M — M – E – E – E and then harvest. It takes a period of time.

You have to let God’s Word just stay rooted on the inside of you. You can’t back off of it. You must keep digging and looking for greater revelation.

Failure to let the Word of God take root on the inside is probably the number one reason why people aren’t seeing greater freedom manifest in their life. They just aren’t giving it time.

Satan would love to get you to where you don’t have any depth of root in your life. Then he can come against you and just steal the Word. He wants to pull it up before it ever gets rooted. However, if you grow a good root system, you’ll be able to stand despite all the troubles, trials, and hardships that come in your life.

I was more concerned about all of this growth above ground, which is the way most people are. They want some visible results – something physical, something tangible. They desire to see lives being changed, people healed, and all kinds of other fruit. However, before all of this growth can occur above ground, the vast majority of growth must take place underground in the root system. It’s actually the root system that determines how big the plant or tree above ground will be.

Once I made this decision to attend to my root system, I actually quit worrying about the visible
results to a large degree. Instead, I focused on taking the Word of God and keeping it in my heart.
I knew that if I kept God’s Word dwelling on the inside of me, instead of just allowing it to come
in and out, that it would literally begin to put down roots through every part of my being and the
power of the Word would start permeating me.

All the good in my life has come as the seed of God’s Word has taken root in my heart and produced fruit. Once that seed has taken root, it just produces. What an awesome truth.

He Knows Not How
In the same way you plant a seed in the ground and don’t really know what’s happening to make it grow, so it is with the Word.  “So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how.” (Mark 4:26)

Despite all our knowledge, mankind has not been able to figure out why a seed does what it does. It does what it does just because God created it that way. However, even though we don’t understand all of the specifics, that doesn’t keep us from taking seeds and planting them in the ground.

This is a tremendous comfort to me. I don’t have to understand everything about how
the Word works. I don’t have to understand why just shutting myself in with the Lord,
studying his Word, and listening to Him speak to me does what it does. The fact that I
 can’t totally explain it doesn’t keep me from cooperating and reaping the benefits of it.

Just start sowing the Word into your heart. Begin meditating on it day and night. The Word of God will germinate, take root, spring forth and grow up of itself.

God put life in those seeds. Man cannot figure it out, but God spoke life into physical seeds. He’s also spoken life into the spiritual seed of his Word.

Proverbs 4:20–22 says, “My son, attend to my words, incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they, God’s words, our life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.”

God’s Word contains His life in it. If you would take His Words, His sayings, and put them on the inside of you, then God’s kind of life would start flowing through you. You would find that healing, prosperity, joy, peace – everything Jesus provided – are contained in God’s Word.

The Bible isn’t like any other book. It’s different. It’s alive.

“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 of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”   (Hebrews 4:12)

God’s Word is alive. It’s different than reading any other book – even books about the Bible. The Word of God is different. There is life in it. If you take it, the Word will give you life where there’s been death. It gives light where there was darkness. It’s that simple.

We need to believe the power and authority that’s in God’s Word. If you understand what I’m saying, then you will realize that the most important thing you could ever do is just take God’s Word and begin planting it in your life.

The Word has to be in your heart for it to begin to release that life. You can’t just read it with your eyes and
take a little truth into your brain. You have to put it deep down on the inside of you. You must meditate on
the Word until it literally takes root on the inside of you. That’s when it will just start supernaturally producing.

Jesus is saying that the kingdom of God is like a man that takes a seed and puts it in the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day. This implies time. You have to exercise patience.

You can’t just take a promise, plant it, and expect to receive and reap a harvest right away. You can’t just hear 1 Peter 2:24 for the first time, then confess “by his stripes I am healed. I claim it in the name of Jesus,” and then if you aren’t healed in the next 10 minutes, go dig that seed up by saying, “well, nothing’s happening.” And then the next day, you go back and do it again. That’s not abiding in the Word, and letting the Word abide in you. (John 15:5)

You must come to a place where the Word is just part of you. It’s not something you study for a little bit and then go out and live your whole day contrary to it. I’m not against specific devotion and prayer times, but you need to keep focused on the Lord and his Word all day long. It does you no good to spend 10 or 20 minutes in “devotion time,” being sweet and kind and listening to God, but then once it’s over you go back to being a piranha the rest of the day – being just as mean, angry, and vicious in your relationships and business dealings as anyone else in the world. You may have planted the Word in your devotion time, but you dug that Word up. It’s not working on the inside of you. It’s not staying in your heart, and because of that, you aren’t going to see it produce. It takes more than that.

You can’t just consider God’s Word during your devotion time and expect that to all of a sudden change the way you act that day.  You must abide in the Word and allow the Word to abide in you, for it to release its power and impact your life.

Yet many people are trying church, trying prayer lines, and trying everything else except taking God’s Word and meditating on it, and they’re wondering why they aren’t getting the results they desire. This truth is so simple to understand, you have to have somebody help you misunderstand it.

You take the Word of God, put it in your heart, leave it there, meditate on it, and it just produces!

Life and Power
We are going to the Lord as a beggar instead of as a son who has already received his inheritance. Instead of claiming what is rightfully ours, we are begging for what He could do but hasn’t done. We think it’s God’s responsibility, it’s His turn to fix this problem, when the truth is that God has done his part. He gave us the seeds of his Word, which will grow the solution to our problem. He’s given words that have life to them. All you have to do is take that Word, stand on it, and begin to release the life that is in that seed – the Word of God.

Do you want to see the power of God? Do you want to see change manifest in your life? God has spoken his Word. He has released his life and power by His words. Every word that comes from God is a faith filled word and has the power in it to change everything.

God is going to speak words out of His mouth, and those words will have much life in them. The Word of God will be the greatest display of power in the history of the universe, and he’s given it to us. The Lord will destroy his enemies and set everything straight by His Word. We have that same Word right now.

What you need to do is take the Word of God, plant that seed in your heart, and let it grow.
Then the supernatural life and miraculous power of God will come right up out of the midst of you.

Meditate the Word
When I studied the Word of God, the Lord imparted truth to me. I could tell that change was happening in my life.

I heard the Lord tell me, “if you will take my Word and meditate on it day and night, then My Word will teach you everything you need to know. My Word will change everything.” (Andrew Wommack)

From that time forward, I just poured myself into the Word of God. I immersed myself for long periods of time in God’s Word.

God is no respecter of persons. If you put His Word first place in your life and meditate on it on a consistent basis, it will change you.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth. (Joshua 1:8) Instead of “this book of the law”, we can say, the Bible, the Word of God.

The Word of God shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shall meditate therein day
and night, that thou may observe to do according to all that is written therein, for then
thou shall make thy way prosperous, and then thou shall have good success. (Joshua 1:8)

Let’s start at the end of this verse and work back. Most people want to be prosperous and have good success. Yet, I find it amazing that the vast majority of people bypass the first part of this verse. They’ll spend their prayer time asking God to “please prosper my business, please cause my marriage to succeed, please heal my body,” but they won’t do what the Word says.

Joshua 1:8 reveals that the way you get prosperity and good success in every area of your life is to take the Word of God and meditate on it to the great degree that it saturates what you think about, what you talk about, and how you act. When God’s Word literally begins to control your life, you will prosper and have good success physically, emotionally, relationally, financially – in every area.

As you meditate on the Word, faith rises. Many people missed this increase in faith because they read the Word, but don’t meditate on it.  Everyone reading this may not be able to spend large quantities of time in the Word but everyone can meditate on it day and night.

Regardless of what your circumstances or problems are, you’re never more than one Word from God away from absolute victory. The Lord knows exactly where you are and how to get you to where you’re supposed to be. All you need is just the slightest instruction, and the impartation of God’s wisdom. All you need is a Word from God!

Receive Wisdom From Heaven Through the Word of God
We will increase our ability to receive God’s wisdom if we continually fill our minds and our hearts with the living Word of God. We are able to receive God’s wisdom from the Word of God because every passage of Scripture in the Bible has been given to us by the inspiration of God. (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

The inspired Word of God contains numerous instructions from our Father that tell us exactly how He wants us to live our lives. The holy Scriptures show us the mistakes that many people will make if they fail to obey God’s instructions. We have been given a standard of measurement for every area of our lives so that we can see where we err. We can learn to make the necessary corrections based upon specific instructions from God.

The Bible is God’s training course for a righteous life. It shows us how to live each day in the righteousness that has been provided for us by the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Father shows us in His Word how to live a holy life in conformity to the individual plan He has for each of our lives.

The Bible is very different from books written by human authors. The apostle Paul and the other human authors of the Bible received the words they wrote by receiving revelation that came directly from Jesus Christ. Paul said, “…I want you to know, brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed and made known by me is not man’s gospel [a human invention, according to or patterned after any human standard]. For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through a [direct] revelation [given] by Jesus Christ (the Messiah)” (Galatians 1:11-12).

One way to be absolutely certain that the holy Scriptures are inspired by God is to study prophecies in the Word of God that were later fulfilled. As you read these examples, you can see for yourself that God really did inspire every word in the Bible. Who else but God could write a Book where so many prophecies were fulfilled exactly as they were prophesied?

God Speaking
God isn’t wringing his hands and wondering how he can pull a situation out for you. There is a simple solution for every situation. Our biggest problem is our inability to hear Gods voice. The way we know what God is saying is through His Word. If we would get into the Word of God and meditate on it, the Lord would speak to us. He could give us wisdom and direction.

In Proverbs, chapter 1, Solomon described why he wrote the book that would follow: “To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding: to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; to give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.” (Proverbs 1:2–4)

Solomon said the book of Proverbs was meant to give wisdom to the simple and understanding to those who don’t have any. Then he spoke about the good this wisdom and understanding will bring you and the bad it will help you avoid. The truths contained in the book of Proverbs alone will instruct you concerning all kinds of things.

Through God’s Word, you can learn how to deal with people. You can gain wisdom if you are a boss, an employee, a salesperson or any occupation.

If you are a parent and you’re struggling with your children, there is a wealth of information in the Bible. I have yet to run across a problem in life for which the Word of God doesn’t provide an answer.

If you will take this Word, meditate on it, and put this knowledge on the inside of you, then
the Holy Spirit will, at the appropriate time, quicken things to you and show you what to do.

The words contained in the Bible perfectly represent the heart of God. When I read the Word, I’m not reading a book about God. This is the Lord writing to me! Even some of these things that were said thousands of years ago to other people, He speaks to me afresh today.

Many people take God’s Word for granted. They don’t respect and honor it for what it is – God speaking to us. That’s why they don’t get the benefit out of it that I do. Believe me, God’s Word has everything in it that you need to succeed. If we would simply do what the Word says, and meditate on it day and night, we would prosper and have good success.  (Joshua 1:8)

The average person doesn’t believe the truth that God’s Word contains everything necessary for success. That’s why they don’t meditate on the Word of God day and night, which is the reason they’re not prospering and succeeding more than they are.

Many Christians don’t honor the Word of God by looking at it as literally God speaking to them. When they read it, they do it more out of religious obligation and duty. They don’t read the Word expecting God to speak to them.

When I open up the Word of God, I literally view it as God talking to me – and he does. These are living words. The Bible is alive, it’s not dead. (Hebrews 4:12) There’s a difference between this book and any other book. That’s why I choose not to read very much else. I might read one or two other books in a year.

My supreme desire is for the Word. Everything I need is right there in the Word of God.

I’m just going to become so single minded, so focused on the Word of God, that I don’t have to have all these supplemental things.

Meditate on God’s Word and try to relate it to different circumstances and situations. If you would do that, you would prosper more accidentally than you ever have on purpose.

“My son, attend to my words, incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they, God’s words, our life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.”  (Proverbs 4:20–22)

You set your affections. This is a matter of your will. You set your mind on those things that gratify your
flesh (five senses), or you set your mind on those things that gratify the spirit. God cannot do that part for you.

Place a high priority in value on the Word of God. Start taking each one of these words as being a direct word from God to you. Attend to it. Incline your ear to it. Then you’ll start getting the results I’m describing.

God’s Word is life. No matter how grave the situation you’re in, God’s Word is life and health to all your flesh!

Transformed
I don’t have to be with you when you plant your garden to see what you’ve sown. All I have to do is be there when the crop grows up to know what you’ve planted. If you have death in your life – if you’re depressed, discouraged, angry, or bitter – you haven’t been meditating on the Word of God. Spiritual mindedness only produces life and peace.

Jesus said, “the words that I speak unto you they are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63)  Since God’s Word is spirit, to be spiritually minded is to be Word of God minded. If you are Word of God minded, this will produce life and peace.

Some might say, but I’ve done all of these things, and I still have terrible problems in my life. I would say that you may have read the Word of God or heard somebody else quote it, but you haven’t attended to it. You haven’t inclined your ear and kept his sayings in the midst of your heart.  (Proverbs 4:20–22)

You’ve let your eyes depart and focus on other things. If you do what God’s Word says, it will produce the results that the Word said it will produce. Proverbs 4:20 – 22 reveals that God’s Word will be life to those who find its sayings, and health to all their flesh.

Do I run to somebody every time I ha ve an illness begin to fight against me? No, I go to the Word of God. Just like if you have a pain, you take a pill. If I have a pain, I take a GOS–PILL. I take the Word of God.

It’s not good enough just to quote those Scriptures from memory. I go back and look them up again because of this principle. God’s Word is life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.  (Proverbs 4:22) The Word of God is health to your flesh!

“He sent his Word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions” (Psalm 107:20)

If I need healing in my body, I take the Word of God and meditate on it. I eat these words because they are life and health to my flesh. I may even quote these words, but I’ll still go back to my Bible and study them. As I do, the Bible reveals that: “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” (Romans 10:17)

Even people who believe that God’s Word is important, don’t really live as though it is important. They don’t meditate on the Word day and night. That’s the reason they don’t have good success and aren’t prosperous.

It is the renewing of my mind through the Word of God that has completely, thoroughly, and totally transformed me. I attribute every bit of the power and victory that I’ve experienced to the Word of God becoming alive and speaking to me.

I poured myself into the Word of God.  It’s the revelation of God’s word that has transformed my life and ministry, and the same can be true for you. 

All 176 verses of Psalm 119 – the longest chapter in the bible- are about the importance of God’s Word.  Consider these excerpts from this marvelous chapter:

How can a young man cleanse his way?  By taking heed according to Your Word.  (Psalm 119:9)
Your Word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.  (Psalm 119:11)
Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble.  (Psalm 119:165)
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. (Psalm 19:7)

Scripture meditation is a vitally important spiritual key that allows us to receive manifestation
of the power, ability and wisdom of God. I believe that we must obey our Father’s instructions
from Psalm 1 and Joshua 1 to meditate continually on His Word if we want to be free and
fully partake of the many other blessings He has made available to us.

So many people carry around baggage – hurts and pains from years before – from all kinds of things like previous marriages, losses, disappointments, and broken relationships. They just never seem to recover. That’s because they aren’t taking the Word of God and properly using it in their life.

Psalm 19:7 tells us that, “God’s word is perfect. It will convert your soul.” It will restore you to your original God-intended condition.  “The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.”

God’s Word makes wise the ignorant – people who don’t think properly and make mistakes.

Do you know what God’s Word says about those who are depressed and defeated?  “The statues of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.”  (Psalm 19:8)

If you aren’t full of joy, peace, and rejoicing, the problem isn’t your circumstances. (1 Peter 1:8) If you have ashes, mourning, and a spirit of heaviness instead of the oil of joy and the garment of praise it’s due to the fact that there is a vacuum on the inside seeking to be filled.  (Isaiah 61:3) You don’t know the truth of God’s Word. The statues of the Lord are right, and they will rejoice your heart. If you are discouraged, take the Word of God. Start speaking the promises of God to yourself. You can get happy in a hurry.

The Word tells you who you are and what you have in Christ. It
reveals spiritual truths and what’s happening in the spiritual world.
If you want to experience life and peace, you need to be spiritually minded.

It is worth the effort of meditating on God’s Word to be able to see clearly instead of having a negative perception that always makes every cup look half empty. What a benefit it is to be able to see the positive side and to see a way through everything.  That’s what the Word of God does.

The Absolute Authority
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.”  (Galatians 5:22) But all somebody has to do is just say the slightest little thing to criticize you and you fall apart.  Whatever has distracted you, it’s time to pull your thumb out of your mouth and grow up! We need to recognize that the Word of God is what is supposed to operate in our life.

Get to where the Word of God becomes absolute authority in your life, and you aren’t going to back off of it regardless of what anybody has or hasn’t done. When you get that kind of an attitude and the Word of God begins to dominate you, then you will overcome doubt. You will be walking in faith.

Some people think that faith is having an absence of any problems, doubts, or fears. It’s not. It’s just learning how to reject these things and not let them control you as you take a stand on the Word of God.

A More Sure Word
Satan can also appear in the spiritual realm. You can see and hear things from him that could lead you astray. But if you go to the Word of God to hear from God, you’ll be safe. The devil can’t discredit God’s word. The Word of God is the acid test for everything supernatural. It’s the number one way of hearing from God.

The most authoritative thing that we could possibly share with you to validate the truth is the Word of God. The Word of God is greater than any other means for you to hear from God.

The Word of God is the strongest, most powerful way that we have to counter our fears and unbelief.

The problem is most people don’t honor the written Word of God the way they would honor a prophecy or word of encouragement from a person, or some audible or visible sign.  That’s backwards, and it’s precisely the reason we have so much doubt. 

Spiritual Laws
God has established natural laws, and He’s not going to break them. He’s also established spiritual laws, and He won’t break them either. God’s Word tells us that the Lord has “sent his Word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions” (Psalm 107:20) All through the Word are promises revealing God as our healer and provider and attesting to how He wants to meet our needs, but to see His healing and provision you must take God’s Word and start planting it in your life.

The parable of the sower says that in the same way that there are laws that govern how a physical, natural seed has to be planted and germinate, there are laws that govern the spiritual realm. One of these laws is that the Word of God is a seed. If you want results in your life, you must plant the Word of God in your heart.

If you desire certain kingdom fruit in your marriage, relationships, finances, health, emotions – whatever it is – take the seeds (promises in God’s Word that speak about those specific things) and plant them in your life. If you will give this seed the proper nourishment and take care of it the way this parable tells you to, then it’s inevitable that you will reap the fruit you want.

If you want results in your life, you must go to the Word of God. You must take seeds –
promises that talk about the fruit you want to produce – and start meditating on them.
Over time, what you have desired comes to pass and you’ll receive the harvest.

God’s Word is Incorruptible
The seed produces the fruit, not the ground. It’s the Word that brings forth the results. This was one of the first truths that God ministered to me out of this parable of the sower sowing the seed.

We are the ground. Our heart is where we either allow the Word of God to have its complete rule, or we can let the Word be choked by the cares of this life, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust for other things. Our heart can become hardened towards God and not give His seed a place to germinate. Our heart can affect the growth, but it’s the seed – the Word of God – that brings forth fruit. All I am is ground. (Genesis 2:7) I’m just dirt – a place for the seed to germinate. I provide warmth and nutrients, but it’s the Word that produces the fruit.

The Lord has given this revelation that it’s not who I am, what I look like, or any other
natural thing that will impact the world for Him. It’s the Word of God that changes people’s lives.

The Word of God has to be planted in your heart for you to effectively change. If you follow the instructions of this

parable, you will find that change is as normal and natural as when a seed is planted in the ground and grows up. If you would take the Word of God and meditate on it day and night, it would change you. The Word would transform your life.

It’s the Word of God that controls your thinking and transforms your life.

In the natural realm, it’s possible to get seed, plant it, and not have it produce the desired results because the seed was bad. However, in the spiritual realm, God’s Word is the seed, and its incorruptible.

Being incorruptible means God’s Word always works. God’s Word never fails. We may fail to understand and properly apply it. We may fail to take the corresponding actions it tells us to. But God’s Word never fails.

Satan isn’t really against you personally. He knows that on your own, you are nothing. You aren’t going to be a threat to him or anybody else.

The Word of God will work the same for anyone. This seed wasn’t the variable in any of these four instances. It was the ground. Now that fact is very, very important.

It doesn’t matter who you think you are or what you think you have, apart from the Lord and his
Word, you are never going to truly change this world and have a powerful impact for God’s kingdom.

But if the Word of God ever starts taking root on the inside of you and growing up and producing, the devil has had it. Satan is petrified of the Word! He’s going to come against the Word of God immediately and try to steal it out of your heart.

You have to be born again by the incorruptible seed of God’s Word. “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”  1 Peter 1:23

The Word of God is incorruptible seed. Satan does not have the power to stop it. Disease does not
have the power to overcome it. In your life only you have the power to stop the Word from working.

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