Chapter 5

The Word of God

            How is our destiny intertwined with the Word of God? Without it, we won’t know what our destiny is - how we are supposed to be living. We need to read the Bible daily to see how our lives are supposed to be. It isn’t called the Word of God for nothing. It is God speaking to us … into our very lives. In the last chapter, we looked at the Holy Spirit intervening in our lives. He needs something to activate His power in us. That something is the Word. Without it we have no direction; no GPS to guide us. The Spirit uses the Word to keep us on the right path and to show us what our destiny is.

           

            Speak the Word with boldness:

           

Acts 4:31

31 And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

            The Holy Spirit combines with the Word to bring about boldness in Christians’ lives. It’s like sticking the fire of the Spirit to the gun powder of the Word. When you do, there is an explosion. This explosion caries us into the world to preach the Gospel to unbelievers and unbelieving believers (they are born again, but they don’t believe in what the Word says). They gathered together; they prayed; the place was shaken; they were filled; they spoke the Word with boldness. This is what we should be doing today. If you look at the places where it says someone was filled with the Spirit, afterwards words came out of their mouths. Normally it’s only the first two things that happen in churches. People gather together and they pray. The people in Acts couldn’t have spoken the Word with boldness if they hadn’t know what the Word said.

If you could hear God speak to you, I believe this is what He would say:

            "You believe in Me; believe also in My Word. My Word is what will make you an overcomer in this world. The world does not care what happens to you. It is only interested in itself. You are what has to make My Word active in this world; for it will never come to know Me apart from you. You are to activate it in this world for the world to know Me. You are to speak forth what I tell you to speak. Then you will see many great miracles happen in your life as you activate My Word. It is like many of the products you buy. It is not good by Itself. You must activate it for It to operate the way It is supposed to. Trust in My Word as you activate It in your lives. Then you will see My power operating in your lives and in My Kingdom.”

            53. I will be filled continually with the Spirit and will know and speak the Word of God with boldness wherever I go.