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Hi! I would like to talk about The Word. It has power. You know, when I think I have known enough about the Bible, I, then, realize there is a LOT more to learn. It’s like opening a can of worms, and oftentime people want to close it. This one, you don’t wanna close it! It’s also like onions- you peel, then find out you gotta peel some more, and you peel and peel. Exactly why the Bible says,

“Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding;”-Proverbs 3:13

We are made of flesh and bones. We also got a mind; a soul. We have a spirit and that is another being inside us. Flesh and bones. Soul. Spirit. That’s us as an individual. God’s like that. God is a Spirit. Yahushua (Jesus) was God in flesh and bones. Holy Spirit is the Word. They all three work together. God used the Word to create the universe.

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”-Genesis 1:3

Here, we will see the works of the Spirit. We have The Word in us and we have power within our tongues. When God spoke, light acutally appeared. God made us in the same image as Him.

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:” -Genesis 1:6

You know, this verse says  ”US” and “OUR”. Not “I” and “MY”. This means more than one person involved. Plural. Certainly God was not talking to Himself, He was talking to someone else. Yup, Yahushua (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit were there as the universe was being made.

Look at yourself. You’re made in the like image of God. You got a skinsuit, a soul (mind/tongue), and a spirit.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”-John 1:1

The Word was the beginning. The Holy Spirit talks to us and convincts us. The Holy Spirit is God. The Word is God. Adam and Eve would have been immortal had they not eaten the forbidden fruit. They WALKED with God. We have the same opportunity to do so after believing in the Messiah.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold back there…The Bible says “No man has seen God.”

“No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.”-John 1:18

Oh, does this mean Adam and Eve did not walk with God? Oh yeah, they did. Take a closer look at the verse.

“And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day”- Genesis 3:8

Hmm, check out the underlined of the verse. Voices don’t walk. But that’s Word. God, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a being. It is Word. Adam and Eve walked with the Word. Amazing. And just at the instance of saying out loud you believe in God and the Messiah, you’re saved. The power of Word.

“that if you confess with your mouth the Messiah and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”-Romans 10:9

No rituals. No deeds. Just believe in it and say it. The power of Word and you’re saved. Yahushua (Jesus) has forgiven you of your sins. You are now a new creature in Messiah and will walk the Walk.That’s why faith is so important to God. Nothing can please God unless a person walks in faith and lives righteously by diligently seeking Him.

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”-Hebrews 11:6

I have to remind myself that it is i.m.p.o.s.s.i.b.l.e to please God without faith. It does not matter if I have done thousands of good things and without faith, it is NOT going to please God anyway. It requires faith. I gotta have faith.  No wonder Isaiah shared this:

“If you will not believe, Surely you shall not be established (stand).”-Isaiah 7:9

It’s really important to believe- say The Word. Yahushua says in the Bible that you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. However, you have to know first what the Truth is by reading the Bible before the The Word can start to work to set you free. I realize that there are zillions of different books and it can get confusing on what is true. Just give yourself the opportunity to read the Bible and seek God for the Truth. The Word will actually work in you and show you the Truth and it will set you free. Do not look onto other people–even Christians–They are not always a reflection of who God is. Do not always assume at whatever a Christian is doing or has done is the work of God.  There are many different factors. Are you able to see the person’s faith? Can you measure it? Do you know the relationship the person has with God? Is it deep and real? Does the person 100% actually believe and confess The Word? We doon;t know much, we can only tell from the outside–the fruits of the person. We also can see the Truth from the Scriptures. The Word will tell us what is true. If the person’s walk matches the Scriptures, then Praise God. If it doesn’t, stand on the Word, not on the person. The Word is what God says. I will trust in Him, not in people.

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”-Hebrews 11:1 

I tend to use my pregnancy as an example of faith. I have been pregnant more times than the average American woman. When I find out that I am 6 weeks pregnant, I believe at the moment that I have a human child in my womb even though I do not feel the baby kicking nor do I see the baby in my arms. When I tell other people that I am pregnant, they tell me, “Congratulations!” even though they do not see a baby in my arms nor do they see my stomach as big as a basketball. Faith is the same way. I know that there is God and that I believe I will go to Heaven even though I’m not in Heaven at this point. I just believe, walking in faith. Also, if I am sick, I see that the Word says I am healed. Sickness has no right in my body. I need to walk in faith saying that I am healed knowing that I WILL be healed.  In fact, The Word says…

“..let the weak say, I am strong.”-Joel 3:10

That’s faith. Though I may be weak, I must say the power of The Word: “I am strong.” My inner spirit being gets connected with God and it lines up with The Word as I believe in it. That’s the power of The Word.

“The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” -Proverbs 18:21

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Hello!

At our church we have a daily Bible reading planner and the goal of this planner is to read the whole bible in one year. Here is my checklist *shows list*. It is a blessing to me to have this daily Bible planner checklist. The checklist keeps us on our toes. I have to keep up with my reading everyday because it is very easy to get behind or even so when we do not have anything else to measure to show us how behind, on time, or ahead are we. It’s a good measurement tool.

Anyway, today I was reading Acts 14 and I thought it was very powerful and I would like to share it with you all.

You know, the gun itself can be very explosive. It is very powerful. It has the ability to kill. It has the ability to maim body parts. It can do so many things, but the gun itself as an object is harmless. You have to pull the trigger to make the gun harmful. If you do not pull the trigger, the gun will do nothing.

This concept is the same with God’s principalities. God is so powerful and has great abilities. He has countless of things that are available for us BUT if you do not trigger God, He becomes nothing to you.

Now, what can trigger God’s available power for us to activate?

Our faith.

You might ask me, “Our faith?”. Yes, our faith. We can see that in chapter 14 of Acts. This chapter talks about Paul’s missionary trips with Barnabas to different countries throughout Europe and Greece.

“And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.” -Acts 14:8-10

Starting on verse 9, oh, I mean verse 8, we see that a man was born cripped. He was not born with normal feet and he could not walk. The crippled man was sitting in the audience listening to Paul preach. As he was listening to Paul and watching him preach, their eyes made contact. Paul, a Holy Spirit filled man, was touched and knew that the crippled man had faith. Paul could sense the faith in the crippled man- it just needed to be activated. So to activate the crippled man’s faith, Paul said to him, “Get up and walk now.” The crippled man decided to get up and walk and as a result, the crippled man actually could walk. The crippled man was born a cripple. He was born unable to walk because of the abnormal feet he had. The crippled man did not have an injury that caused him to be crippled. No! He was BORN a crippled person and was able to walk because of his faith. His faith TRIGGERED God’s power to work in him. That chapter touched me! And because of what happened to the crippled man, the crowd rejoiced. They were very glad. Now, the trigger touch is very important. If not for that trigger touch, the power God had for that man would have not happened. Wow. This is a good Word of God.

At the same time, as I think of a gun, the gun, if the safety button is on and we attempt to pull the trigger, it won’t work. The safety button has to be turned off in order for it to work. This has the same concept in our lives. We cannot just do things we want just for ourselves, live however we want, or have a wild, rivilous, and self-boasting life and when things turn for worse, we attempt to try to use faith. It’s not going to work. This is because God has clearly said in Galatians 6:7:

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”

So, in summary, I feel this 14th chapter of Acts was a good chapter as it explains to us what we are capable of doing when we have complete faith in God’s power in us.

Be blessed today.