"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness."
"It is written: 'I believed; therefore I have spoken.' Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak."
All Scripture is God-breathed. This does not merely mean that God inspired the writers of the Bible. He breathed the Scriptures into being. The Bible is not merely good thoughts that came into man's mind, but rather the very words of God breathed into man to write down for all mankind.
When God created Adam, He breathed life into him. Genesis 2:7 tells us that God formed Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living being. This same breath brought to life your precious Bible that you hold. The Bible is the only book in the world that the author shows up every time it is read. The Holy Spirit is with you teaching and helping you to understand the things of God when you study His Word.
2 Corinthians 4:13 says, "It is written: 'I believed; therefore I have spoken.' Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak." The Greek word for spirit is pneuma which can also mean "breath." We have the same breath of faith. As I take God at His Word, I am inhaling His truth into my spirit, body, soul, and mind.
When we believe it enough to speak it and not merely think it, then we become dangerous to the kingdom of darkness. We are exhaling God's Word. Watch what you say over the next week. Are you speaking life-giving words, words of victory? Or do you speak complaining, pity-partying, and defeated words? We may have to renounce some evil things that we have attached to ourselves. We must take control of what we, who are created in the image of God, breathe into life.
When you go for a long time without studying God's Word, you are cutting off your air supply. Our power supply becomes drained. We must have the breath of life. It is God's CPR bringing us back to life!
I am absolutely convinced of the power of God's Word and the life that it breathes into me. I know when I've been cut off from my air supply. I know when I breathe more of Him in that I can't get enough because I feel more and more alive. My discernment and my wisdom astound me when I have been equipped by His life-giving Word. My spirit is stronger. Do you understand the life-giving force of God's Word? Have you experienced it for yourself? Have you seen your spirit become more alive?
Pray with me: Oh, Lord, we want Your life giving power. So, breathe on us. Give us Your energy and Your power. We make a daily choice to believe You. We believe Your Word. We believe You will act in our lives. We believe You are beyond our thoughts, and there is nothing common or ordinary about You. Take away our stale, hot air. Make us new! It's in the Name of the Coming King who will defeat His foes with the sword of His mouth, in Jesus' Name, Yeshua's Name, we pray. Amen.
2 Timothy 3:16
"It is written: 'I believed; therefore I have spoken.' Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak."
2 Corinthians 4:13
All Scripture is God-breathed. This does not merely mean that God inspired the writers of the Bible. He breathed the Scriptures into being. The Bible is not merely good thoughts that came into man's mind, but rather the very words of God breathed into man to write down for all mankind.
When God created Adam, He breathed life into him. Genesis 2:7 tells us that God formed Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living being. This same breath brought to life your precious Bible that you hold. The Bible is the only book in the world that the author shows up every time it is read. The Holy Spirit is with you teaching and helping you to understand the things of God when you study His Word.
2 Corinthians 4:13 says, "It is written: 'I believed; therefore I have spoken.' Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak." The Greek word for spirit is pneuma which can also mean "breath." We have the same breath of faith. As I take God at His Word, I am inhaling His truth into my spirit, body, soul, and mind.
When we believe it enough to speak it and not merely think it, then we become dangerous to the kingdom of darkness. We are exhaling God's Word. Watch what you say over the next week. Are you speaking life-giving words, words of victory? Or do you speak complaining, pity-partying, and defeated words? We may have to renounce some evil things that we have attached to ourselves. We must take control of what we, who are created in the image of God, breathe into life.
When you go for a long time without studying God's Word, you are cutting off your air supply. Our power supply becomes drained. We must have the breath of life. It is God's CPR bringing us back to life!
I am absolutely convinced of the power of God's Word and the life that it breathes into me. I know when I've been cut off from my air supply. I know when I breathe more of Him in that I can't get enough because I feel more and more alive. My discernment and my wisdom astound me when I have been equipped by His life-giving Word. My spirit is stronger. Do you understand the life-giving force of God's Word? Have you experienced it for yourself? Have you seen your spirit become more alive?
Pray with me: Oh, Lord, we want Your life giving power. So, breathe on us. Give us Your energy and Your power. We make a daily choice to believe You. We believe Your Word. We believe You will act in our lives. We believe You are beyond our thoughts, and there is nothing common or ordinary about You. Take away our stale, hot air. Make us new! It's in the Name of the Coming King who will defeat His foes with the sword of His mouth, in Jesus' Name, Yeshua's Name, we pray. Amen.
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