Living Words
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· 14 viewsFather’s words are living, active, sharp, and life-giving to you.
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Father’s words are alive.
Father’s words are alive.
1 Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.
Hebrews 4 is all about rest. It starts with rest, has rest in the middle and ends with rest.
Intertwined in this chapter are bits about God’s word.
A word that is living sharp and piercing.
A substance that goes throughout all of you and shapes and ultimately bring rest.
This word is logos.
A good way to discribe this word is after it has left the authors mouth it becomes something others read.
It can be literal words on a paper to be read.
It can also mean a person who embodies and demonstrates that word with their life.
Jesus is that word made flesh.
12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
7 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
This word is the kind that is spoken to you heart and kept alive in your heart.
It has been spoken, it is being spoken and it will continue to be spoken.
You are loved!
It was spoken to you, it is being spoken to you and it will be spoken to you. No matter what you do.
2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.
The last line in Heb 4:2
“because it was not united by faith in those who heard.”
If you want these words to be alive in you and shape you and who God is, they need to be united by faith.
United by your connection, trust, relationship with God.
They become part of who He is to you and who you are to Him.
It means you keep in conversation with Him.
Counter-fit
If words can be alive and shape what is going on in you, I think that would be true for life giving and life taking words.
Darkness takes the strategies of God and uses the same type to bring death to us.
There are a type of word that we need to remove from our lives.
UN words
As I was praying this morning, I felt led to repent from words that begin with UN.
Unbelief, unforgiving, unhappy, unfaithful, unrighteous, unloved, unjust, unworthy, unwanted, unfinished...
Most UN words or any words that are not from God have to be fed to keep them alive.
They need proof that they are true to keep them alive.
When these words are kept alive in your life they steal life.
The words that God gives you bring life to you.
He is the word. John 1:14
What words has your Father given to you?
Are you letting those words be alive and give life to you?
Are you abiding in those words and letting Him continue to speak and shape?
Are you letting your life become the word that others read?
Does what you say with your life represent those words that He gave you?
You dont become the embodiment of these words by works.
You become the embodiment of these words by letting them in and letting them shape you.
You are loved
You dont prove you are loved by doing works that you think that looks like.
You do embody being loved when you let them in to every part of your being.
Your walk will change because you know that you know that you are loved.
The way and why you serve others will be different and evident because you know that you know that you are loved.
I was given the word ‘hope’ a couple years ago.
I will continue to let that word live in me. It shapes my life more today than it did when I was first given that word.
When I was first given Hope, it was out side of me.
I thought you get hope when God promised you something and hope fulfilled would be getting that something.
But you see, I was given that word hope, and it was alive, sharp and piercing. At first it was a word I was afraid to have. I did not want hope anymore, because hope caused me so much pain and suffering.
I even had scriptures to prove why its not good. Hope differed makes the heart sick.
But Hope has been in me since then. I have been abiding in hope.
Hope is not something I seek to find one day.
Hope is something that is in me and it is growing like a seed that is now a seedling.
One day when someone reads my life it will be obvious that Hope was a living healthy word that my life stated loud and clear.
One day those words that were given to me will have been given to those I impacted.
Closing:
Father’s words are living, active, sharp, and life-giving to you.
Take a look at the words that God has given in you.
Spend some time abiding in God and letting his words come alive in you.
See what else will unfold from those words.
Before you make a normal decision that you usually make, think about the words He gave you. Does that change what you would do?
Example: Loved.
They will love me if I do this. Wait would a person who is already loved do that?
What words has your Father given to you?
Are you letting those words be alive and give life to you?
Are you abiding in those words and letting Him continue to speak and shape?
What words do you need to remove from your life and repent from?
Are you letting your life become the word that others read?
Does what you say with your life represent those words that He gave you?
Other resources:
31 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;
17 “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades, When the breath of the Lord blows upon it; Surely the people are grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.