Word of the Day
As you assert yourself according to My Word and the truth therein, many paradigms will shift within the recess of your subconscious thinking. Like a dried up sponge sucks in water with a longing to be what it was originally created to be before being extracted from the ocean floor, you will draw on Me and absorb My Word.
And like the sponge you will be made supple, flexible and your heart will be softened and ready for the infilling of new wine. In order to minister to others without being dry and abrasive you must be filled with Me. Vertical comes before horizontal in order to not try and give away from a depleted state.
Circumstances surrounding you change and conform themselves to the Word released in you and from you. It is double-edged in many ways; it challenges you, changes you, heals you and releases power into your life and environment at the same time. You become a manifestation of the living Word and are no longer enslaved to carnal desires.
The lies you believe in your soul—which is your mind, will, and emotions—are rooted deep into the structure and functions of your life. The only thing capable of separating you from those lies is My living Word and your appropriation of it. Submit to Me, resist the devil and he will flee (James 4:7).
Remember, submission comes first. Let pride be the first to fall for I oppose the proud and give grace to the humble (1 Peter 5:5). My Word lives. I have even put My Word above My name (Psalms 138:2). I must fulfill all I say. I am simply waiting for you to agree with Me, Beloved. I already know who you are. Now I want you to know as I know. Never settle for second best. Arise and proclaim the “Living Word.”
“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7 NIV).
Prayer
Lord, help me to walk in an assertive, aggressive way when it comes to Your Word. So many other things in my life get my undivided attention and when I really want to do something, I do it. I know it is a fact You can tell what is important to a person by what they do. It is the same with me. Please forgive me for being apathetic in my pursuit of Your Word . . . Your heart.
I take the sponge of my heart and dip it into Your Word . . . into Your presence and I will be changed. I will be made flexible and soft. All the hard places of my heart will be softened and tender according to what I feed them.
When I read and speak the Word, I pray, I will be renewed in such a manner that my whole way of thinking changes. Let Your Word go into the deepest hidden places and for my sake, for the Kingdom’s sake, cut anything away that hinders.
Each time You work in my heart, each time You cut away, I will choose to believe, resist the devil and submit to You. If there be any pride, any wicked way in me, I pray it is revealed and cut away. Your Word in me is a living Word with power and authority. All things in me come into subjection to the Word implanted. I walk by faith and proclaim that my life will manifest the plan of Your heart. I have been made new in You. Amen
Reflect and Journal
- Have you felt dry in any area of your life to the point it is almost abrasive to those around you? Have you ever tried to wipe a counter or clean up a mess with a dry sponge? It is virtually impossible. If your heart sponge is dry and you try to minister to another what do you think they might sense or receive from you?
- What have you believed about yourself that is contrary to what God knows about you?
- Reflect on the power of the Word to change not only you but your environment as you dare to mediate on it and believe what it says.
- Ponder the following verse and apply it to your life. Remember, all means ALL. “The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, endure forever–forsake not the works of Your own hands” (Psalms 138:8 Amplified)