By Pastor Naomi Mitchell
For Carter County Times
George Muller was originally a thief. Through his conversion, God made Muller a man of great faith and prayer. It just goes to show, that God can use anyone for His glory to be made known, even a thief.
George Muller became a missionary who read the Bible through 150 times cover to cover.
He said, “The first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is to obtain food for his inner man. Now what is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering over it, and applying it to our hearts.”
“This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.” John 6:32-33
“My son, attend unto my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” Proverbs 4:20-22.
Notice in this scripture that God’s Word is life. It is also health, or medicine, to all your flesh. God’s Word will heal your body, soul, mind, and spirit once it is conceived there.
You must speak God’s Word to your individual circumstance or situation – someone else can’t do it for you. James 1:21 admonishes us to, “receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.” Once the Word of God is engrafted into your spirit, it produces results in the body as well. Jesus said, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you” (John 517). When God’s Word becomes engrafted or infused into your spirit, it becomes part of you. It cannot be separated from you. It is not only your thought and affirmation, IT IS YOU! The Word made flesh. Then your flesh will reflect the life of that Word. When God’s Word concerning healing or any other situation takes root in your flesh it becomes greater than disease and healing will take place and/or that situation will begin to change.
Faith possesses reality! “Faith is the substance of things hoped for” (Hebrews11:1). Hope is important but hope lacks substance until filled with faith. Hope is only a goal-setter. Your hope might be to be healed, but just having hope won’t heal you. Faith gives substance to your hope.
Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” What you believe and speak will affect your life according to this scripture. It is important then to read the Word and speak over yourself what the scriptures have to say about the matter. Your words become either a blessing or a curse to you.
A continual affirmation of God’s Word in faith will build up a supernatural anointing that is capable of changing things around for the good. Job 22:28 says, “Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.”
Start today letting the light of God’s Word shine upon your ways. AMEN. SO BE IT
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