Powerful Medicine
To understand how
this prescription works, you must realize that the Word of God is more than
just good information. It actually has life in it. As Jesus said in John 6:63, "It
is the spirit that quickeneth [or makes alive]; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."
Every time you
take the Word into your heart, believe it and act on it, that life of which
Jesus spoke, the very LIFE of God Himself is released in you. You may have read
the healing scriptures over and over again. You may know them as well as you
know your own name. Yet every time you read them or hear them preached, they
bring you a fresh dose of God's healing power. Each time, they bring life to
you and deliver God's medicine to your flesh.
That's because the
Word is like a seed. Hebrews
4:12 says it is "alive and full of power--making it active,
operative, energizing and effective..." (The Amplified Bible). It
actually carries within it the power to fulfill itself.
When you planted
the Word about the new birth in your heart, then believed and acted on it, that
Word released within you the power to be born again. By the same token, when
you plant the Word about healing in your heart, believe and act on it, that
Word will release God's healing power in you.
"But,
Gloria," you may say, "I've met people who know the Bible from cover
to cover and still can't get healed!"
No doubt you do.
But if you'll look back at God's prescription, you'll find it doesn't say
anything about "knowing" the Bible. It says, attend to the
Word.
When you attend to
something, you give your attention to it. You make it top priority. You set
aside other things so you can focus on it. When a nurse is attending to a
patient, she constantly looks after him. She doesn't just leave him lying alone
in his hospital room while she goes shopping. If someone asks her about her
patient, she doesn't feel it's sufficient to say, "Oh, yes. I know
him."
In the same way,
if you're attending to the Word, you won't leave it lying unopened on the
coffee table all day. You won't spend your day focusing your attention on other
things
I call
heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you
life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you
and your descendants may live.
Matthew 11:12
And from
the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven has
endured violent assault, and violent men seize it by force [as a precious
prize--a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and
intense exertion].
Isaiah 55:8-11
[8]For
My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the
Lord.[9]For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher
than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.[10]For as the rain and snow
come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and
make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to
the eater, [II Cor. 9:10.][11]So shall My word be that goes forth out of My
mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless],
but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing
for which I sent it
For this
reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be
confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].
II Corinthians 4:18
Since we
consider and look not to the
things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are
visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible
are deathless and everlasting.
As it is
written, I have made you the father of many nations. [He was appointed our
father] in the sight of God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and
speaks of the nonexistent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they
[already] existed. [Gen. 17:5.]
So be
subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee
from you.
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