Applying the Word is Power

Written by Daniel N. Brown


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As Christians, it is our duty to know God’s Word and what it says about us. We must exercise our faith daily by speaking it over our circumstances if we want to see positive changes come about.

Remember,repparttar Word is like a two-edged sword. It cuts one direction to bring aboutrepparttar 126517 changes we desire and another direction to haltrepparttar 126518 devil. Just as Jesus usedrepparttar 126519 Word to defeat Satan inrepparttar 126520 dessert (Mathew 4:1-11), so should we.

Jesus knewrepparttar 126521 Word, and He applied it. Obviously, you must know repparttar 126522 Word before you can apply it! It has been said that knowledge is power. That’s not true. Applied knowledge is power.

I hope you are currently involved in a bible study group or have a bible-reading program established for yourself. You have got to know and applyrepparttar 126523 Word of God to live a victorious life and experience allrepparttar 126524 good that God has for you!



Daniel N. Brown is the publisher of the "Living the Abundant and Prosperous Christian Life" Newsletter. A free weekly publication that teaches how to live the abundant and prosperous Christian life. Receieve a free copy of Dan's 14 page report entitled, "5 Biblical Keys to Outrageous Prosperity," when you sign up. www.secretplaceonline.com/newsletter


Healing and God's Will

Written by Gordon Owen


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God's word is laced with images of Himself as a potter working His will on clay which has learned to submit. Jeremiah went down torepparttar potter's house. The process he saw there wasrepparttar 126516 same one you can see today:repparttar 126517 artist putting 100% of his attention into fashioning one particular pot. Just as our Western, Aristotelian-based logic has trouble with Jesus as simultaneously being 100% theos and 100% anthropos (and our heresies tend toward 50/50 or 60/40 solutions torepparttar 126518 mystery), we have difficulty withrepparttar 126519 idea of God focusing 100% of his attention on each of us. Just take Jesus's word for it thatrepparttar 126520 hairs on your head are numbered. God's attention is 100% focused on what He is doing with you. And with me.

Inrepparttar 126521 Old Testament, Amos rhetorically asked "Dothrepparttar 126522 clay say torepparttar 126523 potter 'What makest thou?'" withrepparttar 126524 obvious answer being "No" andrepparttar 126525 proof of what happens to non-submissive clay lying in shards inrepparttar 126526 field around every potter's house. Inrepparttar 126527 New Testament, we haverepparttar 126528 advantage of not having to askrepparttar 126529 question. We know into whose image we are being shaped. More importantly, sincerepparttar 126530 purpose ofrepparttar 126531 OT was to teach usrepparttar 126532 lesson ofrepparttar 126533 law (we all fall short),repparttar 126534 New Testament message of grace for all us pots who feel like flawed vessels at best is that a heavy price has been paid -- a price with only token representation by 30 pieces of silver. It's no coincidence that those 30 pieces of silver ended up paying for a potter's field, a place undoubtedly littered with shards of pots which didn't quite measure up torepparttar 126535 standards ofrepparttar 126536 potter. Nor is it a coincidence that Matthew describesrepparttar 126537 Kingdom of God as being like a treasure hidden in a field which "forrepparttar 126538 joy thereof" one might sell all that one has to buyrepparttar 126539 field. Note Hebrews 12:2. "...Jesusrepparttar 126540 author and finisher of our faith; who forrepparttar 126541 joy that was set before him enduredrepparttar 126542 cross...." No matter how badly flawed or even broken we may be, we arerepparttar 126543 treasure for which Christ willingly laid down his life. We haverepparttar 126544 right to submit ourselves (or once again to resubmit ourselves) torepparttar 126545 hand ofrepparttar 126546 Potter. We can do this with confidence, knowing thatrepparttar 126547 single Greek word translated as "it is finished" was commonly used when stamped across a legal judgment to mean "paid in full."

All praise be to Him.

Former teacher, gardener, beekeeper.


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