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, Word is like a two-edged sword. It cuts one direction to bring about changes we desire and another direction to halt devil. Just as Jesus used Word to defeat Satan in dessert (Mathew 4:1-11), so should we.

Jesus knew Word, and He applied it. Obviously, you must know 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 apply Word of God to live a victorious life and experience all good that God has for you!

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 to potter's house. The process he saw there was same one you can see today: 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 to mystery), we have difficulty with idea of God focusing 100% of his attention on each of us. Just take Jesus's word for it that hairs on your head are numbered. God's attention is 100% focused on what He is doing with you. And with me.

In Old Testament, Amos rhetorically asked "Doth clay say to potter 'What makest thou?'" with obvious answer being "No" and proof of what happens to non-submissive clay lying in shards in field around every potter's house. In New Testament, we have advantage of not having to ask question. We know into whose image we are being shaped. More importantly, since purpose of OT was to teach us lesson of law (we all fall short), 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 to standards of potter. Nor is it a coincidence that Matthew describes Kingdom of God as being like a treasure hidden in a field which "for joy thereof" one might sell all that one has to buy field. Note Hebrews 12:2. "...Jesus author and finisher of our faith; who for joy that was set before him endured cross...." No matter how badly flawed or even broken we may be, we are treasure for which Christ willingly laid down his life. We have right to submit ourselves (or once again to resubmit ourselves) to hand of Potter. We can do this with confidence, knowing that 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.