Sunday 3 August 2014

THE WORD PROVOKES ACTION



READ: PROVERBS 4:20-22
“For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh” (Proverbs 4:22).
What you hear has a tremendous impact on you. In today’s reading, we are told that if only you can hear God’s Word, good health is possible. In other words, divine health is associated with hearing. Psalm 107:20 says, “He sent His word, and healed them and delivered them, from their destructions”. The spoken word of God carries an anointing to heal and deliver. That word has to be heard, believed and received before the power it carries is released to perform its mission. Romans 10:17 says as you hear God’s word, it produces faith in your heart. When the faith in you is adequate, it serves as a foundation upon which the blessing will come.
In various meetings, God sends His word to accomplish specific purposes in the lives of the people, but on several occasions not listening hinders them from receiving. It takes you to hear a word of prophecy, knowledge or wisdom to stir up faith in your heart to believe and receive it before the blessing is released. We need to pay more attention to God’s word. Many sick people have lost their healing just because they were discussing or distracted from the message.
“How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” (Romans 10:14). This scripture establishes the fact that hearing precedes believing and believing precedes receiving. You have more grace and faith to receive what you hear than what you have not heard. Not many people trust God for a car called Lutills because they have never heard of it. But when you hear that such an imaginary car exists and that it drives the owner, is accident proof, goes on road, and during heavy traffic, it flies in the air, and at other times it swims in a river, then you will begin to desire it. You would want to know how much it costs and where you can buy it. All because you heard of it. It is the Word of God that you hear you have faith to receive. From today hear more of the Word.
MEMORIZE: PROVERBS 4:22 –For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.