#66 “Understanding the Power of the God’s Word”

(The Word is Preparation for Prayer)

“Blessed are they who keep His statues and seek Him with

all their heart. They do nothing wrong; they walk in His way.

Your word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against You.”

[Psalm 119: 2-3, 11]

King James Version (KJV) 

The word prepares us for prayer; this is my favorite part of studying the word of God. Whenever we sit and meditate on the word of God, we drew closer to God and by doing so it preparers our hearts and spirits for praying. I remember once reading something in Benny Hinn’s book “Good Morning Holy Spirit” he said that he would sit and read the word until the Holy Spirit would show up. Have you ever been reading the word and come upon a particular verse and all of a sudden the presence of God is all over you?  Or perhaps you are reading and all of a sudden you eyes fill with tears as you are reading a particular verse. This is the Holy Spirit and there is where He wants you to stop and meditate on that verse. Sometimes I will even begin to pray that verse. Stop and take the time to really look at that verse and ask God what He wants you to know about it.  This is how the Holy Spirit gets our attention and cause us to stop and examine the passage we’re reading for a deeper revelation or understanding. 

Often time it is at this point that I will enter into intercession, because at that moment the presence of God is there and the Holy Spirit will direct your prayer.  As we read the word we are reminded of the greatness of our God. When we read about other great intercessors it encourages us to pray and believe God as well. The word of God increases our faith to believe God not for what we can see but that which we cannot see. Sometimes the situation doesn’t look favorable; therefore we cannot go by what we see. Faith believes the impossible, when the doctor says there is not hope, the word of God say, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. ” it requires faith in God’s word to believe for the impossible.  “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him”.

God is not a respecter of persons, what He does for one He will do for another.  Let’s look at Elijah for instance; he was an ordinary man just like any other, however when he prayed God stopped the rain for three and a half years because he earnestly prayed. James 5:17-18  Jesus said to his disciples that if they had faith as a grain of mustard seed they could say, “to  the mountain be though moved and cast into the sea and it would have to obey them.”  Where does this kind of faith come from? It comes from reading the word and believing that He is the same God yesterday and today and forever. Another way the word prepares us for prayer is it gives us boldness and confidence in the authority of the word. 

I recently had a situation in which I had to believe the word of God in spite of what I was seeing.  My baby brother suffered a brain aneurism and was in a coma in ICU. Now the doctors were saying that He was gone and that there was no hope. I had to decide whether to believe the word of God or go by what I was seeing and hearing.  Sometimes the situation doesn’t look good but that is not an excuse to not believe God for a miracle. When the doctors give up hope that is the time to stand on the word of God and believe him for a miracle. I understood that the situation was in God’s hand and all I could do is trust him to move according to his divine will and purpose.  This is not always easy when everything and everyone around you is doubting and ready to call in the undertaker. But I like king David held on to my faith in spite of the report I was receiving, and trusting God to do what was best for my brother.  David know that his son was going to die but he prayed to God for a miracle just the same and so did I.  God chose to call him home to be with Him however, I maintained my hope right until the last heart beat. Why, because my faith said God was able to turn the situation around and raise him up out of the coma.  Beloved don’t ever stop believing God just because the doctors give up hope or the other family members don’t believe, you hold on until the very end, because just like David said, “how do you know that God will not relent and bring them back from deaths door?” so don’t stop believing. Continue to stand on the word right up to the very end. 

 

My Prayer: Heavenly Father, teach us to wait on you and to trust Your word. It is by your word that the universe was formed and it will be by your word that we will see miracles happen. Help us to trust Your word and believe that it will do just what You said it will do. We thank you that even in tuff time, difficult times we will trust You Lord. Just like the Shunammite women when her son had died, we will say, “it is well” with full confidence that you have the situation under control. Thank you, in Jesus name we pray Amen!!!

Have A Bless Day…Go in God’s Peace! 

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