TOPIC: THE WORD OF GOD
TEXT: Psalms 119:89
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
FOCUS
Today, we are looking at another way we can access faith and it is via the word of God. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God. How do you get the word into your spirit man that will eventually boast your faith. When you eat the word of God, you become addicted to the word and when you become addicted, you become like the word.
If you are not a student of the word, your faith cannot grow. Your faith grows when you study the Bible. If you don’t study the Bible, your faith remains a dwarf and you know that in this new year, you need a giant faith to move giant mountain. Little faith, little result. Great faith, great result.
When it comes to building faith by God’s word, there has to be eating, meditation and digestion. When you begin to digest, that is when you begin to extract the juice in the word just like the way you extract natural fruits. Until you find the word and finding it is by reading it. What you have not read, you can’t listen to and you can’t meditate on. It is a process that just be understood by you.
LESSON
Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God but in the process of hearing, there are many things you heard that you have forgotten. So, there is another process that establish the word of God in your spirit and it is called meditation.
The first process is that you hear it then you sit to read what you have heard then meditation. So many children of God does not know how to meditate. Meditation is, you are pondering on it, you are thinking it through, analysing it. Meditation is an act that engages your spirit, you mind, your soul. It makes you to think critically and analyse what you have read.
If you don’t meditate how will you discern, how will you understand and how will you know what you are supposed to do. Meditation is what takes you from hearing to studying, from studying to analysing and from analysing to application.
Many just hear the word of God but don’t know how to apply it to daily life. Until you know how to apply it before the word becomes profitable. Until the word becomes profitable, faith cannot grow. So, the word of God we have said it’s from hearing to studying, to meditation, to confession, to application and then your belief system behind to take from the inside to the outside.
PERSONAL CONFESSION
I receive fresh appetite for God’s word.
PRAYER FOCUS
Father deliver me from laziness that will not allow me to study your word.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
God’s Word is a requirement for your faith to remain relevant.
Until you know His Word, your faith can’t be active.
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