The Potency of God’s Word 3: The Therapy

                              Hebrews 4:12,

“For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart”

Let me begin by this fact, knowledge is what activates the benefit or profitability of any practice; it is possible to practice principles without an adequate depth of knowledge and lack its benefits. Many believers are unaware of therapeutic ability of the word of God. This ability works in a chain reaction; knowledge leads to awareness, awareness leads to expectation, expectation then leads experience. In our anchor verse Hebrews 4:12 (Amplified) the Word of God is described as “penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart”. What a powerful description, I have come to discover that every minute I spend under His word in church, on TV or in my personal bible study I tend to feel charged and energized. My Father in the Lord, Dr Paul Enenche describes the God’s word as a factor “that penetrates, animates and saturates”, a very powerful choice of words.

During my time in Bible School is witnessed many individuals experience diverse forms of healing mentally, physically and spiritually without anybody laying a hand on them. The significance of this medium of healing is that it boosts the faith of both the receiver (the healed) and the observer and
also it returns all glory to God and not any man like a Pastor or minister. In this post I’d like to share with you some elements of His word that makes it carry healing ability.

How does the Word heal?
The Word of God is the container of the Spirit of God [Ezekiel 2:2, John 6:63, Acts 10:44]. Every time you hear God’s word, His Spirit is released in a way that is best described scientifically; this process is known as DIFFUSION. Wikipedia defines the word diffusion as the net movement of molecules or atoms from a region of high concentration (or high chemical potential) to a region of low concentration (or low chemical potential). Bro Michael what has that go to do with this topic? Nice question, the Word of God been the container of the Spirit of God is of high concentration and potential compared to the human vessel which is weak and full of deficiencies, the region of low concentration and potential. There’re 3 components of The Spirit of God in His Word;

1.    It is contains healing properties [Proverbs 4:20-22, Psalms 107:20, John 1:14]

2.    [Psalm 43:3] Revelation, principles and insight on every single issue of life that brings results, and results that eradicate frustration (toxic frustration which leads to depression)

3.    Creative properties [Genesis 1:1-24], God says to create; the Word of God has been proven to cause many miracles and healings; Replacing destroyed organs and fixing complex situations.

4.    Light [Psalms 119:105]: this makes up for 90 percent of its content. By direct exposure to the light of God’s Word we absolve energy that strengthens the body and soul (mind, will and emotions) and fuels positive transformation and growth gradually into the perfect man at the final stage of rapture.

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The Potency of God’s Word 2 – The Supreme Will and Weapon

“For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12.

The Word of God can be termed as Light [Ps 119:105 & 130, Jn 12:35-37], promises [2 Pet 1:4], will [Psalm 40:8], law [Josh 1:8] and revelation [Ephesians 1:17].

Firstly, the Greek word for powerful in this verse is ‘ energés ’ which means active, operative and effectual. It also from this word we derive the word ‘energy’.

Secondly, the Word of God is described as ‘sharper than any two-edged sword. It is very important for one to stop ponder on Bible verses to analyse and identify the context in which each word is written. The Book of Hebrews was written 70 – 72 AD, at that point in time; the most lethal weapon was a two-edged sword. Let me paraphrase this verse in modern terms for further understanding. “For the Word of God is alive, active, operative and effectual; The Word is a weapon that is lethal than an AK-47, the Smith & Wesson 500 Magnum, the TOW anti-tank guided missile, the Lockheed AC-130 Spectre Gunship and even the Tsar Bomba, combined.” Oh my! Let me pulse right here and take a short praise and praying break...Halleluiah!!

How is the Word of God supreme and Lethal?
1.    The Word is the seal of authority recognised by any opposition [1 John 5:14, 2 Timothy 2:15]
Jesus despite His position and identity confronted and conquered the devil in Matthew 4:1-11 with 3 words, ”It is written”. It is the authority in the Word the devil and obstacles recognise not the person or prayer [Psalm 138:2]. God hears your cry and prayers but he answers by your confession of His Word.

2.    The secret of effective and answer-guaranteed prayer is prayer offered according to the Will of God [1 John 5:14]
A Pastor told me story of a woman who was seeking to get a fruit of the womb (pregnant) for several years after marriage. Desperate in prayers, she met the Pastor and asked him to pray for her. He looked at her and asked “What part of the Bible is it mentioned that you should be pregnant”, in disappointment she looked down in silence and left. The good part of the story is she searched the Bible and come across Exodus 23:26 and prayed on her own in reference to the Word. She later came back to the Pastor with a testimony. This is where many go wrong, we request without backing. Can a lawyer make or defend a case in court without quoting the constitution to shield his argument? How much more the courts of the darkness and the Supreme High Court of the Most High?

3.    The Word of God is creative. John 1:1 & Gen 1:1
When the Word of God is declared, desires are created. The world was created by the creative power of His Word. Look for relevant scriptures that relate to your needs, in faith confess it out loud and watch the Word create you desires into reality.

4.    The Word produces the strength and shield of Joy. [Jeremiah 15:16, Nehemiah 8:10].
One of the major targets of the enemy, hardship and other unpleasant situations is to attack your joy. Because when they succeed, they reduce your strength and by that they break your defence. Nothing brings people down like depression and anxiety [Prov. 12:25] even medical science has proven this very fact. Joy is an antidote of strength and strength is diffused by the Word of God

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MY NB OF THE DAY

"Your place of weakness and short comings is the perfect and needed ground for Grace (God at work) to function" - 2Corinthians 12:9 (paraphrased)

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The Potency of God's Word 1 - The Living Word

"For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart"

Hebrews 4:12.

The above Bible verse is one of my favourite Bible verse, the word for word content of this Bible verse electrifies me every single time I read it. But before I get into this exciting verse let me share with you my experience in Bible School (Dunamis School of Ministry) a couple of years ago.

Before bible school in my own opinion I was a knowledgeable believer but as the Bible says “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day. [Proverbs 4:18]”, I later discovered my path had indeed became explosively brighter. My understanding reached higher heights, my soul (my mind, will and emotions) was positively transformed, my enthusiasm reached sky high and my spirit was strengthened lecture by lecture. Up until date I am yet to recover from that impact. I believe what I experienced where benefits embedded in the above scripture.

Within the next few days, we will be going through s series titled “The Potency of God’s Word” as we trust that the Holy Spirit breaks down His Word for further understanding.

Ok, let me go straight into today’s message, in Heb. 4:12 the first word of description is “ALIVE”. This brings me to a sup-topic;

 The Living Word
As difficult as the world doesn’t seem to understand, the Holy Bible is not just some old book, He *yep! you heard that right, He* is not only the bestselling book of all time, He is not just an ancient book field with wise sayings and principles neither is He just an interesting story book, He is the Word of God and He is God [John 1:1]. The Holy Bible was, is and forever will be relevant to every time and season. [Psalm 119:89].

What makes the Bible the Living Word?
The Amplified version of Hebrews 4:12 say, “For the word of God is living and active”. In other words the Word of God is living, active, vigorous and animate.

How?

1. The Word of God is ever relevant.

Let me share with you 3 amazing facts of the Bible
A) The Bible actually contains principle and precept on every single issue of life. *You can test it by commenting on absolutely any issue and I will give you a Bible verse that relates to it*

b) The Bible was written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit over a 1600 year period through approximately 40 men. The time of the writing was from 1500 BC to AD 100 and interestingly there are no contradictions in the Bible.

c) The Bible contains more than 3,200 prophetic verses which have been fulfilled during and after the period in which it was written, even till modern times.

So you see no experiment, research and theory can deny that the Bible is the Living Word.

2. The Word of God imparts strength
Last week Wednesday, I misplaced my driver’s license and my debt card, the following day I drove without the license on my way to the repairs to fix my phone, I was stopped by the police and I had to pay my way out. The next day been Thursday, on my return from repairs (which wasn’t successful) existing the parking lot, I broke the side mirror of a lady’s car and she demanded I repair it. So I had to compensate her which I did. After settling that mess heading to church again I was caught without the license and again I paid. Feeling all battered, sad and annoyed of myself for my acts of carelessness, I busted into tears and then I prayed a simple prayer, “Lord I am not happy and I don’t know how you’re going to do it, but use the Senior Pastor through your Word and heal this pain I feel inside now”. When the Word was ministered within a few minutes it hit straight into my heart and instantly I felt relieved and energized.

The Word of God energizes, as a matter of fact, I believe as you this you can feel a fresh sense of energy, isn’t that amazing! No wonder 2 words (Come forth) from Jesus restored, revived and energized a lifeless Lazarus [John 11:43].

Can you please at this moment appreciate God for His Living Word! Halleluiah!!

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4 Keys of Effective Connection to God

1. Prayer in the name of Jesus. (John 14:6)

The name of Jesus is the only password to gain access to God. Like every secured system, that has 2 or more options to log in but the facts is, the secured user account gives you more access to information than the unsecured account. It is therefore possible that many people believe they're connected to God when actually they're not, and also connected to God and yet not accessing His infinite blessings and power.

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The Profitable Connection with Jesus

John 15:5, Relationship with Jesus, is connection to fruitfulness. You cannot be connected to God and suffer lack and exist only to occupy space, irrelevant, inconsequential, useless and unproductive.

How?

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Spirit of Faith

Faith is the catalyst of the Word of God. Faith activates the entire elements of the world of exploits.

But what is faith? Is it positive thinking? A feeling? One’s church affiliation? The belief that Jesus died for your sins? Confidence? Hope? Or is it something far more? Why do millions misunderstand this subject? Here is the Bible answer! 

The Bible states that “without faith it is impossible to please [God]” (Heb. 11:6). This is an incredible statement—yet, it is in the Bible! Take it for exactly what it says. Just think! Anything a person does, in attempting to be Christian, means absolutely nothing, if he lacks faith. For without faith, he has no hope—no possibility of pleasing God. Any who are not pleasing God are Christians in vain. That is serious! Consider yourself. Do you have real faith? Is it sufficient for salvation? Can you know? You can! This booklet will explain how.

A Lack of Real Faith

Through the years, people have often asked, “I lack faith. I do not feel the presence of God or His power in my life. How can I have more faith?”What about you? Do you lack faith to know that God is with you? To overcome sin and guilt? To be healed of disease? To believe all things in His Word? Do you lack faith that “all things [will] work together for good” if you love God (Rom. 8:28)? To believe God will work out injustices you have received? To believe God will provide for you? To believe that you can endure severe trials and persecution? Or that God will deliver you from them? Do you lack faith to see the soon-coming kingdom of God more clearly and that you can be in it?The Bible says that you need not lack faith in any of these areas! You can develop real faith. However, the Bible says that most people, in the age preceding Christ’s Return, will not have sufficient faith to confidently claim any of these or other promises from God’s Word!

Faith Found When Christ Comes?

This world is in trouble. Problems are escalating everywhere on a planet cut off from God. The Return of Christ is imminent. This event will only occur after certain catastrophic events have taken place. Wars, famines, disease epidemics, religious confusion, economic upheaval and catastrophic weather will have first rocked civilization to its foundation.

When speaking of our time—the last generation before His Return—Christ asked, “When the Son of Man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). Think of the incredible implications of this question! Is it possible that true faith could be completely gone from earth at Christ’s Second Coming? Christ was able to look forward, into our time, and know that conditions would exist allowing this to be true—almost!An article titled “A Famine of the Word of God,” by reporter Wendy Griffith, discusses the issue of people’s ignorance of the Bible. Here is what she wrote:“It is clear that many Americans do not know their Bible, and a recent George Barna study backs up that notion.“Barna’s research showed that 60 percent of Americans cannot name half of the Ten Commandments and 63 percent can’t name the four gospels of the New Testament. Eighty-one percent believe that ‘God helps those who help themselves’ is a direct quote from the Bible . . .”What a shame! What a terrible indictment of the most blessed nation on earth. And it is the single greatest reason why so little genuine faith is to be found.


But Christ said that He would build His Church and He promised that it would never be destroyed (Matt. 16:18). His Church—God’s true Church—is where people do have true faith according to the Bible definition. Therefore, the presence of God’s true people on earth will ensure that at least a few people will be found to have faith when Christ returns. (Read our free booklet Where Is God’s Church?)Notice Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” We must establish another important point relating to the life of all true Christians. Real faith comes from the Spirit of God—it is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. No one can have it—or even be a true Christian—without God’s Spirit.But what is faith? Surely God would not state that those lacking faith cannot possibly please Him—and then withhold the real definition of faith from all who seek to know it. Before examining what the Bible says about real faith, one must examine what people think it is.

Various Counterfeits

There are several common ideas about faith. If you doubt this, then merely ask a half-dozen people to explain it—to precisely define it for you. Be prepared for just as many different ideas—probably all of them wrong.I have known many people who believed that faith is an intangible “feeling” that cannot be defined. It is often thought to be personal, mysterious and unique to each person. This feeling usually has no definition, structure, or clear purpose and, inevitably, is whatever people want or need it to be. In other words, for almost every person, there is a different description and definition of faith. It is strange how many people view faith this way, yet the Bible has never said anything of the sort.

“Living by Faith”

There is an Old Testament verse that is so important that it is repeated twice in the New Testament. Habakkuk 2:4 says, “the just shall live by his faith.” This is a powerful statement about faith as a way of life! It is the faith of each person (notice the singular word “his”) that guides individuals through life. This verse is cited to show that God has always taught that His true servants must have real faith. Faith has never been merely a New Testament requirement for salvation. Some of the greatest examples of faith are found throughout the Old Testament. Actually, every one of the examples found in the “faith chapter” (Heb. 11) lived in Old Testament times. This did not keep them from being “witnesses” (12:1) to the awesome power of properly understood faith.Hebrews 10:38 (also Rom. 1:17) repeats Habakkuk almost verbatim: “Now the just shall live by faith.” Take note that the definition of faith follows immediately on the heels of this verse, in Hebrews 11:1. Again, God could not require people to live by faith and then not tell them what it is! Then, in the very same verse 38, God continues, “but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.”Where faith is lacking, God is not pleased!Faith is not merely something you only exercise during life’s moments of crisis. It is not just something to consider when “things aren’t going well.” In other words, faith is not just for the “bad times”—it is full-time! Grasp this vital point. Faith is completely inseparable from the entire spiritual understanding through which you are to confront all the issues you face in the Christian “walk” (II Cor. 5:7).

“Where is Your Faith?”

The books of Matthew and Luke record an important parallel account regarding faith. Christ and His disciples were in a boat when a tremendous storm arose. The disciples became terribly frightened, while Christ was “asleep.” This account reflects the dramatic difference between the faith that Christ had and the FEAR that governs the thinking of most human beings. Notice that the accounts records that they “awoke Him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish” (Matt. 8:25). The disciples actually thought they were about to die. They lacked even basic human confidence that, with Christ in the boat, this could not happen.

If you've lacked faith and want God to restore the Spirit of Faith in you pray the following prayer points:

PRAYER POINTS

(say each of the following 3 times each, then begin to pray)

1.John 8:32,36

The truth of God’s Word is the “buckle” my life is fastened with, I shall walk and live by faith (Hab 2:4) in the name of Jesus Christ.

2Romans 10:9-11 . I confess with my mouth that my faith is growing and grounded and every word of God is true. Every dead situation in my life will live again…In the

3.Ephesians 2:8-9 I am saved and sanctified through the gift of God’s Word. My life is changing, by faith I will accomplish/own/possess what God has promised me…In..

4.Rom. 12:21. I am not conformed to this world my mind is transformed, renewed, I will experience change, blessing, deliverance, victory, peace and power…In the.

5. Mark 9:23 Today I activate my faith, all things are possible to me…

6. Say 12 times: The blessings of Abraham embrace my life today through Jesus Christ. I receive every promise of God through faith. I am an heir to the promises of

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