The Power of the Word

The Power of the Word

   There is Power in the Word of God.  The Words that came from God Himself contain within them the power to save you, heal you, cleanses you, transform you, and give you life abundantly.  Too many Christians live some sort of freakish half-life in Christ, stumbling through life barely alive.  We need to realize the power in the Word of God and unleash it in our lives.

What do I mean about the power of the Word?

First, the Word is powerful and the Word will prevail.

There is nothing that can resist the power of God’s Word when it is found in the heart and mouth of a new creation believer!

Isaiah 55:10&11 

10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

God's Word is not returning to God void, without producing any effect, empty, or useless.  God's Word is going to accomplish, produce, succeed, and make effect in what God pleases.

God's Word is going to prosper, advance, and make progress everywhere God sends it.

One Hebrew lexicon describes the word prosper as to "go over or through as a river."  Picture a river in flood stage.  Nothing can stand in its way.  It will overflow its banks and take over the land around it.  Let the Word fill you until you find it overflowing you and it will flow onto the land around you.

Too many Christians think they are lakes.  The water flows in and pools up and there it sits.  You need to stop damming the Word up in your life and stop acting like a lake.  Become a river and let the Word flow through you.  Only then can you minister to others.

God's Word is Living and Powerful.  To really understand the inherent power in the Word of God, we need to understand what the scripture says about itself.

2 Timothy 3:16

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

The word inspiration in this text is the Greek word Theopneustos.

This Greek word is a combination word from Theos "God" + Pepneustai "to breathe".

It means literally God breathed. All scripture is the product of God-breathed-ness.

God himself spoke (or breathed) the scripture.

God’s Word has Creative Power.  God's breath produces life.  God's Word also produces life.  God's Word is a living powerful force.  God's Word contains the power to do what it says.

Healing scriptures contain within them the capacity to produce healing.  

Deliverance scriptures have the inherent ability to produce deliverance.

God's Word is forever settled in Heaven.

We need to rest in the knowledge that the Word is established and God Himself empowers it.

Psalms 119:89

For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

God’s Word can keep you in times of trouble.

Psalms 119:11

Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.

God’s Word was powerful even from a distance.  The Roman Centurion in Matthew 8 didn’t feel Jesus had to make a trip to his house.  He asked Jesus to say a word and his servant would be healed. 

Matthew 8:13

Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour.

What can the Word do in your life? 

Stephen Cram                                                  May 4, 2014                 

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, following the tradition of men according to the rudiments of the world, and not in accordance with Christ. 

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Unless otherwise noted all Scripture is from the New King James Version of the Bible.