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Word for Today:  February 7

It would be a close guess that out of the next five people you talk with, at least four of them will be hurting.

In pain.  Emotionally, physically, spiritually or financially.  Upset.  Wounded.  Heart-broken.  Desperate.  Wondering.  Wishing.  Hoping.

So, for the sake of these, we must know how to get results from the Word that will heal their hurts and solve their problems.

And it may be you.  You may be the hurting one.  If you are not hurting right now it is a good possibility that soon you may be.  What will you do?  What can you do?  What must you do?    For every Believer, God has provided a Way of escape.  Listen to the Word:

There hath no temptation (test, trial) taken you but such as is common (not unique or unusual) to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer (allow) you to be tempted (tested, tried) above that ye are able; (more than you can bear) but will with the temptation (test, trial)  also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1Cor. 10:13

I like to read it this way:

 There hath no OPPORTUNITY been presented to you that is UNCOMMON (to a Believer)… God is faithful who will not allow you to be CHALLENGED with anything that will be IMPOSSIBLE for you to accomplish.  With every OPPORTUNITY, God will provide a way for you to succeed so that you will never suffer failure or defeat.  (Free translation)

Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.  Mr 9:23

Only Believe

Word for Today:  February 5

God wants you to Think Right.

Your biggest problem is a thinking problem.   In fact, you are the sum total of what you think (Pro 23:7).

Where you are, how you are and what you are are all determined by how you think.   What you will be is determined by how you think.     Successful living comes from successful thinking.    The highest quality of life comes from thinking and living out of a mind that is renewed by the Word of God.  The mind is renewed by Revelation Knowledge that comes from the Word.

Man is a Triune Being.  Just as God is revealed through the Mystery of the Trinity, man is understood through his triune nature.  Man is a Spirit.  Man has a Soul.  Man lives in a Body.  Therefore, man is (1) Spirit (2) Soul and (3) Body.

The Spirit is the Real man.  The Soul is the mind, will and emotions.  The Body is the physical, biological living tabernacle of flesh in which the Spirit and Soul lives.

Your Mind is the key to the Power that is in you.  That is why satan attacks the mind… he knows if he can get you think wrong or faint in your mind you cannot draw from the Power within.  (Eph 3:20)

When you faint in your mind:

• You forget what you know (the Word)
• You become caught up in the problem… you become moved by circumstance and situation
• Doubt is born and fear sets in
• You fall into this six-fold temptation:

1. Discouragement
2. Depression
3. Despair    (“Nothing will help… it will always be this way”)
4. Acceptance of Failure
5. Condemnation, guilt, inferiority
6. And ultimately, Death

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;  Eph 4:23

The mind is where the battle is.

Word thinking guarantees victory

Word for Today:  February 4

The Word of God is True

It is perfect and it is complete.   It is from God and it tells us about God.  It was written by men who lived in the first century.  These men were inspired by God and they recorded exactly what God told them to write. This record has been preserved by the Holy Spirit and the Power of God through the centuries and we have it today… it is called the Bible and it is the Word of God.

It is more than just a book.  It is more than just an historical record.  It is more than literature.  It is the very Word of God and it is alive and full of Power.

It tells us about God.  It reveals the Nature of God.  It uncovers the mystery concerning God.

It tells us that God made Man in His own image

It tells us that man sinned against God.

It tells us that God sent His Son, Jesus, into the world to die in behalf of man and because of man’s sin.

It tells us that all men everywhere can be forgiven of their sin and restored to God through Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

The Bible, the Word of God, tells us how to live.  It tells us how we can live life abundantly.  It tells us how we can overcome hardships and change circumstances.     It tells us how to be happy and filled with joy in times of sadness and depression.  It guarantees us that we can win over any situation in life that is bad.

The Bible, the Word of God, tells us how to be well and not sick.  It tells us how to be healed from sickness and disease and infirmity.  It tells us how to overcome any adversity.

This is why you and I need to know the Word of God.  The Word of God is TRUTH and TRUTH has more power than FACTS.

When we know the Truth and do the Truth, the Truth will make us free.  John 8:32

The Word is GOD written down

Word for Today:  February 3

Never lose confidence in the work that God began in you.

Being confident (peitho; inward certainty) of this very thing, that He (God) which hath begun a good work in you will perform it (epiteleo; fulfill completely), until the day of Jesus Christ… Phil 1:6

You are Called, Selected, Elected and Chosen.  You are important and you are loved.  God has begun a work in you and He will complete it.  You are not what you were but you are not what you are going to be.

Always expect every situation to turn around for your good.

For I know that this (situation, circumstance, defeat, etc.) shall turn to my salvation, (Soteria; rescue, safety, deliverance, health) through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ… (Phil 1:19)

The battle is not yours… it is the LORD’S and He always wins.  Anytime, every time and all the time.

Never allow satan to intimidate you.

And in nothing terrified  (pturo:  to frighten, to scare) by your adversaries… Phil 1: 28

Where there is no fear there is no devil.  Perfect love “casteth out fear” and “fear hath torment” and “torment” is exactly where the devil lives.

Stay humble before God and expect Him to exalt you in due season.

(Jesus) made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant…. He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death… Phil 2: 7-8

The example Jesus set for us is awesome.  He literally became what we are in order for us to become Who He is.

Never let go of God’s Word… no matter how impossible things seem.

Holding  (Epecho: to pay attention to; to retain) forth the Word of Life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain neither labored in vain…  Phil 2: 16

God keeps His Word.  God honors His covenant.  God fulfills His promises.  God does what He says He will do.  You can trust His Word.

Never hang on to your past.  Keep reaching forward.

I c0unt not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before… Phil 3:13

Be Confident

Word for Today:  February 2

Demonstrate satan’s Defeat

 And having spoiled principalities and powers, He (Jesus) made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it…  Col. 2:15

God is a God of demonstration.

He is a God of power, authority and might.

He operates in great success and triumph.

We are called to demonstrate satan’s defeat…  satan is the illegitimate and illegal ruler of this world…  he is a sqatter on our turf… he is a defeated enemy.  he is a liar and a cheat.  he is a bigot and an intimidator.  he barks but Jesus has removed his bite.

We have been given Power over the devil and his demons.

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils…  Mark 16:17

satan gets his power from ignorant Believers.  he cannot do what we will not allow him do.  We have been called into the kingdom to demonstrate satan’s defeat.  We have been saved to make an open show of satan’s limitations and to parade him before the world in an open display of his powerlessness.

We can do it because Jesus did.  Jesus destroyed the works of darkness once and for all.

satan’s defeat can be demonstrated daily by every believing believer.

he roars like a lion, but he’s toothless

Word for Today:  February 1

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word…  Eph 5:26

It is the Word that is the washing and cleansing agent for the Church.

And the Word also the way to get our minds renewed.  When we do, we think right.  Wrong thinking always gets us in trouble.  Carnal thinking or natural thinking leads to death.  Spiritual thinking leads to life and peace.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Ro 8:6

When we renew our mind with the Word, we are enabled to think right.

Right thinking is Word Thinking.

To be spiritually minded is to think in agreement with the Word of God.  When our thinking is influenced by the Word, the world and the world system think we are unbalanced.  And Unlearned.  Or out of touch with reality.  Living in fantasy.  Foolish. And in some cases crazy.

The Word is so far above the world in Truth that when we live our lives by the Word, the world just can’t understand us.

We are Peculiar (I Pet 2:9)

Word for Today:  January 31

What we desire, we acquire.

Our life is governed and controlled by what we value.  Those things we value most occupy most of our time and energy.  Those things we value least are things that are generally ignored.  I am assuming that everyone has placed a very high value on Knowing God.  Notice the extremes in the Scriptures regarding things we value (love) and things we devalue (don’t care about).

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ…   Phil 3:8

When Paul explained his Value System, he said compared to Knowing Christ, everything else he counted as loss and considered them nothing more than dung (nice word for a commonly used expletive).  Jesus touched on the vast chasm between Loving God and even loving family members…

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Lu 14:26

Compared to the Value placed on Loving God, the value placed on loving family members is almost off the page in the opposite direction.  Knowing God (really “knowing” in an intimate, intense and complete way) is the key to receiving and releasing the Gifts and Callings that have been given to us.

Knowing God is the way to receive “all things that pertain to life and godliness…”

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge (epignosis: knowing with understanding) of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 2Pe 1:3 

He made known his ways (methods) unto Moses, his acts (deeds) unto the children of Israel.  Ps 103:7 

Understanding the “Ways” of God comes from Knowing God.

Understanding the “Acts” of God comes from Knowing About God.

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation (a disclosure of Truth) in the knowledge (epignosis: knowing with understanding) of him. Eph 1:17

Word for Today:  January 30

It’s up to you.

• You will never do what you do not decide to do.
• You will never get what you do not decide to get.
• You will never get what you do not make up your mind to get.
• You will never receive what you are not committed to receive.

It is up to you.   God has given it.  Jesus has paid for it with His Blood.  Now, refuse to waver, to be moved aside, to take your eyes off your goal.  Refuse to back down. Refuse to compromise.  Refuse to be nice to the devil.

Refuse to “calm down” or “understand”… Be determined… get mad and be violent.  The “Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force…”   (Mat 11:12).

Just how mad are you at the devil?  How determined are you to take back what he has stolen?  How ferocious are you in this pursuit?  How enraged are you at the deeds of the devil and the kingdom of darkness? How much do demonic forces fear your resolve to overcome?

“Let not the sun go down on your wrath…”  In other words this can mean “Never let the sun go down on being mad at the devil….”

The ONLY legitimate avenue to release your wrath is to release it on the powers of darkness.

Get mad

Word for Today:  January 29

Words are carriers.

We speak words and the words we say become carriers.  When our words agree with God’s Word they will carry God’s Power with them.  When our words agree with the negative world system, they will carry the power of the world system with them.

If we could ever learn to talk right, speak the Word and only what the Word says instead of what we see and feel and think, we could experience a radical transformation in our situations and circumstances.

The Devil and his demons must submit to the Word of God that we speak.  When we come to see that all the death stuff that is happening to us is caused by the devil and his demons and then get a real revelation of the Power of the Word of God we will be on the road to recovery.  We will be positioned to change things in us and around us.

But as long as we set our tongue in agreement with death, we will have what we say.

We can Search out and find those God Words that contradict our particular problem.  They are in the Bible…. Find them!   If we are sick, look up scriptures about healing.  If we are afraid and depressed, look up scriptures that promise peace and assurance.    If we are struggling financially, look up scriptures that promise God’s provision for us.  If we are held captive by habit or addiction, look up scriptures that promise us deliverance and freedom.  Then we make those scriptures a vital and strategic part of our language.  We begin to articulate audibly and forcefully with our mouth what God has already said about us in His Word.

When we do this, we will begin to see immediate changes.  God honors His Word above His Name.  God sends His Word to accomplish and create His purposes.

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish (create) that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isa 55:11  

Word for Today:  January 19

Put off the Lie.   Eph 4:25

• satan never operates in truth.
• he is a victim of the lie himself.
• he was dumb enough to believe that he could be equal with God.
• he was deceived into believing that he could rule heaven.
• he is the father of the Lie and he is the author of the Lie.

Hell is the result of the Lie.

The world system functions by the Lie.

The cosmos is fueled by the Lie.

The fallen human race is cursed by the Lie.

Every evil known to man is conceived in the Lie.

The Lie produces death.  The Lie produces misery.  The Lie produces hopelessness.  The Lie causes pain, and defeat.  The Lie is the nature of satan, the driving force of all demons and the ultimate enemy of the Word of God.

Every failure is the result of the Lie.  Every heartache.  Every addiction.  Every divorce. Every abortion.  Every sickness.  Every defeat.  Every conflict.  Every misunderstanding.  Every broken relationship.  The Lie is every thing in thought or deed that defies the Character and Nature of our Loving Heavenly Father.

PUT OFF THE LIE.  Resist it.  Refuse to believe it.  Deny it.  Hate it.  Never listen to it or give place to it.  The Lie put Jesus on the Cross.  The Lie put Jesus in the Tomb.  The Lie put Jesus in hell.  But TRUTH brought Him out!

The Truth is the antithesis of the lie. The Truth is the death of the lie.  The Truth delivers from the effects  and the results of the lie.  The Truth produces freedom.  Deliverance. Victory.  And Real Life.  Eternal Life.

And you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free   John 8:32