Hearing, and Hearing

 Happy Sunday!

Isaiah 55:8-11 says, "This plan of mine is not what you would work out, neither are my thoughts the same as yours! For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than yours.  As the rain and snow come down from heaven and stay upon the ground to water the earth, and cause the grain to grow and to produce seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry, so also is my WORD. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It shall accomplish all I want it to and prosper everywhere I send it."(Living Bible).

Don't miss this!  God's Word Always Produces Fruit!  No Ifs, Ands or Buts!  If God said it, that settles it.  Faith is believing the Word.  Romans 10:17 says, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."(KJV).  My girls and I laughed as I recounted standing in the next room in fear trying to remember what my mother told me to go in there and get or do.  I had heard her voice giving me instructions, but I had not listened and concentrated on the instructions.  This explains why the scripture says, "hearing, and hearing".  We need to hear the Word over, and over, and over again.  We need to become skillful and confident with it.  We need to be so full of it that when the enemy says anything opposing the Word we are able to refute it.

We are in a battle, a battle for our lives and the lives of our children.  Ephesians 6:12 says, "For our fight is not against any physical enemy: it is against organisations and powers that are spiritual. We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world, and spiritual agents from the very headquarters of evil."(Phillips).  2 Corinthians 10:4-6 says, "The world is unprincipled. It’s dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn’t fight fair. But we don’t live or fight our battles that way—never have and never will. The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity."(Message).

God's plans will prevail.  God's Word will come to pass.  Will you participate and partner with Him? Or will you side with the Devil?  There are only two sides; good and evil.  Proverbs 16:25 says, "Before every man there lies a wide and pleasant road he thinks is right, but it ends in death."(Living Bible).  Proverbs 3:5-8 says, "Place your trust in the Eternal; rely on Him completely; never depend upon your own ideas and inventions. Give Him the credit for everything you accomplish, and He will smooth out and straighten the road that lies ahead. And don’t think you can decide on your own what is right and what is wrong. Respect the Eternal; turn and run from evil.  If you depend on Him, your body and mind will be free from the strain of a sinful life, will experience healing and health, and will be strengthened at their core."(Voice).

Love and prayers, Cynthia