The POWER of the WORD OF GOD

In these scriptures, much emphasis is given regarding the “power of God’s WORD.”


“They were amazed at his teaching, because his message had authority”….. Jesus spoke “come out of him!” “All the people were amazed… with authority and power he gives orders to evil spirits and they come out!”

God’s word shall not return unto him void; therefore we are to rest in God’s
promise, trusting HIM to work HIS WORD that we speak; and He will give us the WORDS to speak in that same hour.

Isa 55:11 “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

Mt 10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

Lu 24:49 “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”

Note the name Jerusalem means foundation of peace, or founded in peace,
teaching peace, duel peace shall be taught, lay/set ye double peace.

Jesus is our foundation. He is the PRINCE of PEACE. He is the WORD. We are to tarry in the WORD until we are endued with power. Worshiping Him in TRUTH (the WORD) and in SPIRIT. God works his WORD two ways: inside us as we read and hear the WORD, and when it flows outward as we speak to others. God WORKS his WORD in and through us. It’s a domino effect: once spoken to someone and they hear the Word, God works His Word on the inside of them, and so on. The point is that we are to tarry in the WORD until we are endued with power.  You cannot give what you do not have:  Read it, hear it, chew on it awhile, then share it:  speak it outloud outward. 

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

SWORD OF THE SPIRIT. This is the word (rhma) of God, what His mouth has spoken, and is the only offensive weapon given to Christians with which to fight the Lord’s battles. #Eph 6:17. The word (logov) of God is likened to a two-edged sword, #Heb 4:12.

Speak the simple WORD of GOD trusting the LORD to work HIS WORD. Yield to the Holy Spirit so that God’s Word flows out of your mouth, as you rest your faith in God, trusting HIM to work HIS WORD, and God’s power will flow through you. God will work his WORD in those who hear the WORD you have spoken to them, long after you have left their presence.

Heavenly Father draw your children to you like a magnet with a deep desire to seek you and your WORD, to tarry until they are endued with power. In Jesus’ name. AMEN!

God Bless you.

March 2011 Just Thoughts and Thankfulness

What a long Winter of ups and downs of cold and colder, of snow and more snow and even more snow.  So many have the flu or viruses and colds.  Thank you Lord for our health.  Thank you Lord for the warmth of our home, for the roof over our head; for shoes on my feet so I can tread through the snow .... to search for clean snow to make snow ice cream.  Thank you for my family and friends and their warm hearts and love they share.  Thank you Lord for the cleansing that comes with being cooped up inside during the Winter seasons of our lives.  Thank you for the hope of Spring to come and the expectations in my heart.  Winter makes one appreciate Spring even more!  Oh the seasons of our lives!  Thank you Lord for the years and years of seasons of my life and the experiences and teachings that finally soaked in.  Thank you for your presence that I feel in my heart and spirit  ... especially when I'm all alone in the quietness and stillness of nothingness of my thoughts, in the darkness.  Thank you LORD for the HOPE you have always given me and continue to provide.  Thank you LORD that you are my source and supplier of all the necessities of this life and eternal life to come.  Until then I continue onward toward you, my "master" LORD JESUS!       

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Thankful for another New Year: 2011

Thankful for another NEW YEAR ... for my family:  husband, children, grandchildren, great granddaughter, parents, sisters and their families, and all our extended family of brother-in-laws, sister-in-laws, cousins, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, and for a long list of friends and acquaintances.  There are lots of things on the burners .... lots of projects to work on and enjoy.  Some will have to simmer longer than others as priorities take center stage. 

Thank you LORD for every blessing you have given me.  Thank you for the peaceful quiet times in the wee hours, in the day hours, to ponder, plan, dream, and to be thankful for all that I have and for every talent you have given me.  I pray you will keep me in balance to do the important things first.  Thank you Lord for leading and guiding and gently correcting me as I prod forward to create, paint walls and decorate rooms, paint artwork for friends and family, sew, quilt, crochet, accomplish, assist, aid, endeavor, and "love my neighbor as myself"  in this journey called life.  Help me LORD to cast every care and worry upon you now, and tomorrow, and Lord please hold my hand tight as we journey together. 

Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."     

MOMENT BY MOMENT

Live each moment,

not with resentment of the past,

not with an anxious spirit of the future,

but with an open mind, eyes, ears, hands and heart

so you do NOT miss the present opportunity God puts before you.

Live moment by moment, not day by day.

♥ Sharron Gray Atkinson 09.13 © 2010 byWords ♥

The TRUTH Hurts

♥ ♥ ♥ TRUTH Decay has been spreading across the nations.... EXTRACTIONS have been unnecessary ... CAVITIES have formed ...the WORD has fallen by the wayside. BUT you can PREVENT this by BRUSHING up on the WORD daily so you don't lose any more TRUTH! Don't settle for PARTIALS; SEAL the CROWN with the Holy Spirit! BRIDGE the GAP between you and GOD through JESUS CHRIST: He is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE; and the WORD BECAME FLESH! Covered in the BLOOD of the LAMB you and you're smile will be WHITE as snow. BRACES are not necessary: JESUS will go before you and make CROOKED PLACES STRAIGHT (Isaiah 45:2). Why settle for DENTURES when JESUS is the REAL THING! He will correct any and all OVERBITES. X-Rays are not provided: Jesus sees you on the INSIDE. Don't forget your check-ups: Jesus CLEANS and POLISHES to reveal the real you. Just in case you're wondering: it's OK to LOOSE the TRUTH. By the way: if you have a TRUTH ache .... run to Doctor JESUS as quickly as you can ! ♥ ♥ ♥
　

♥♥♥ You must KNOW the WORD of GOD, in order to KNOW what's NOT THE WORD (THE TRUTH) ♥♥♥

..... @byWords ... written by Sharron Gray Atkinson, August 25, 2010

Isaiah 45:2 "I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel."

John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

IT"S RIGHT THERE, IN FRONT OF YOU

Ever get in a hurry trying to find something, but can't? Today I was doing that very thing, hurrying to get ready so I could leave, trying to find my perfume bottle for the last touch before leaving. There were several other bottles of "stuff" sitting all over the counter and I could not SEE the perfume bottle I was looking for (although it was right in front of me)! I took a deep breath and tried to look again, only s-l-o-w-e-r ! There it was ! Right in FRONT of me! I told the LORD thank you! finished up and went on my way.

The LORD then spoke to me: "That's what happens sometimes when you read my WORD. I have something there for you, that is RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU and yet you just can't see it! You can't see it because "stuff" is in the way. You get in a hurry, or have something else on your mind, or you are just not LOOKING ! Slow down, clear out the clutter of your mind, take your time, and spiritually SEE what is in my WORD. Open your spiritual eyes to SEE the mysteries I have there for you. Come closer, draw nearer, sit a while longer, ponder and receive all I have for you. I love you and want to spend time with you in the secret place."

♥ ♥ ♥ Jeremiah 33:1 ¶ "Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; {the LORD is: or, JEHOVAH, etc}
3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. {mighty: or, hidden}"

♥ ♥ ♥ Deuteronomy 29:1 ¶ "These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God."

♥ ♥ ♥ Deuteronomy 12:28 "Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God."

♥ ♥ ♥ Deuteronomy 13:18 "When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God."

♥ ♥ ♥ Ezekiel 12:3 "Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house."

♥ ♥ ♥ Psalm 81:7 "Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah." {Meribah: or, Strife}

♥ ♥ ♥ Psalm 91:1 "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." {abide: Heb. lodge}

♥ ♥ ♥ Proverbs 20:12 ¶ "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them."

♥ ♥ ♥ Psalms 5:3 "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up."

♥ ♥ ♥ Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."

♥ ♥ ♥ 1 Corinthians 2:12 "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."

♥ ♥ ♥ It's time to dwell in the "secret place" with our Lord Jesus Christ ♥ ♥ ♥

♥ ♥ ♥ "It's right there, in front of you !" ♥ ♥ ♥

♥♥♥ @byWords, by Sharron Gray Atkinson 08.05.10 ♥♥♥