January 10th, 2022 – When God Speaks, It Is So
Experiencing God Devotional
Isaiah 55:11 – So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please.
When God speaks, nothing remains the same. At the beginning of time, God spoke, and a universe was created out of nothing. God followed a pattern when He created the earth: He spoke; it was so; it was good (Gen. 1:3–4). This pattern continued throughout the Bible. Whenever God revealed His plans, things happened just as He said, and God considered the result “good” (Phil. 2:13). God doesn’t make suggestions. He speaks with the full determination to see that what He has said will come to fruition.
Whenever Jesus spoke, what He said came to pass. Lepers found that a word from Jesus meant healing (Luke 5:13; 17:14). The blind man discovered that a word from Jesus meant sight (Luke 18:42). Through a barren fig tree the disciples saw that a curse from Jesus meant destruction (Mark 11:20). The sinner experienced forgiveness through a word from Jesus (John 8:11). How many attempts did it take Jesus to raise Lazarus from the dead? Only one (John 11:43). There was never a time that Jesus spoke that what He said did not happen.
Have you been reading the words of Jesus in your Bible without experiencing His word that transforms everything around you? Jesus condemned the Pharisees because they assumed that knowledge of the written Scriptures would give them life. They were satisfied with having the words instead of experiencing the person who spoke the words (John 5:39). How powerful a word from God is to your life! As you read your Bible and pray, listen to what God has to say to you about His will for your life.
Blackaby, Richard. Experiencing God Day By Day (p. 11). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Pastor’s Thoughts
Do you believe God and His Word 100% or not?
Don’t just answer the question without thinking about your answer. Really think about your answer.
Is God who He says He is? Did He do what He said He did? Will God do what He says He will do?
The honest truth is I don’t trust myself. I definitely do not trust what I tell myself. I tell myself I believe this or I am going to do this or I won’t do this and then I let myself down by doing the opposite.
I have learned to not just listen to what I tell myself, but to focus more on what I show myself.
There are days where my words and life agree with one another and where I can say I lived a life that was dedicated to God today. But then there are other days where I look at how I lived and I would say, “today I did not live my life fully dedicated to Him.”
The truth is there will be days where you and I live as if God’s Word is true and worth going all in on and then there will be days where our lives will show a different story. My goal is that the days where my life looks dedicated to God increases and the days where it looks questionable or even non existent decreases.
Let’s start our week living like we believe God’s Word to be 100% true. Where people look at our lives and see that we believe that when God speaks it’s truly Him speaking.
Have a blessed Monday everyone!
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