Divine Power

Every Tuesday, we get our verse of the week to meditate and memorize.  I want to encourage you to keep trying to focus on just one verse for the week.  If you stay determined, the Word will take root in your heart.  If you have failed with some of the previous verses, don’t get discouraged and quit, but continue to press on.  This spiritual discipline is worth pressing through our failure!  So free yourself of guilt and let’s go! 

Divine Power

By Shirley Mitchell

“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”

2 Peter 1:3

I have heard my husband Doug quote this verse many times.  He uses this verse to remind people, including himself, that we have everything that we need.  We have been equipped.  God’s divine power has provided all things to us.  We lack nothing.

I think we sometimes forget that because we have been saved, we now have the Holy Spirit indwelling us.  We forget about the Spirit-filled life.  We forget that this divine power lives within us and provides for us.  God has supplied us with everything we need to live a godly life.  We don’t have to walk in defeat.  We don’t have to think that we will never change.  This is not the life that we have to live! 

Through knowing Him, we begin to exercise more of this power.  Through understanding Him and walking by the Spirit and not our own sight or power, we begin to operate in the divine realm.  He called us by His own glory and goodness.  He called us to this life.  He wants us to have it.

My friend, are you tired of living on what you alone can do?  Have you exhausted your own ability and need an infusion of a supply of all power?  Do you want to be equipped?  Choose the Spirit-filled life, and seek to know Him every day and in every way.  Carry this verse with you wherever you go this week – be it written on an index card, recorded on your smartphone, or imprinted in your heart.  Study it, pulverize it, and memorize it!

Memorization Reminders:

Please join me in memorizing these verses and implanting God’s thoughts into our minds.  I’m expecting for God to radically change our lives if we do this.  Redeem your time to make room for memorizing God’s Word.  Take this verse with you wherever you go.  Meditate on it, and pulverize it.

We are blessed to live in a time where we can have the Bible at our fingertips even through the internet or an actual Bible in our hands.  Yet, this blessing can become a curse if we do not treat the Bible with such honor to savor every word of it as those through the centuries who have longed to have His Word so much. They had to memorize every Scripture they had ever been given because their own copy of the Scripture was not possible.

Most of us probably don’t memorize Scripture because we think that we do not have the time.  However, our minds have a lot of wasted space that can be given to God.  We have to redeem the time.  For women, we can use the time while putting on our make-up or blow drying our hair.  For men, use the time while shaving.  For both genders, we can use the time while we shower, stop at red lights, do the laundry, wash the dishes, and mow the lawn.  Let’s face it:  our minds are thinking about something during this time.  Instead of being focused on our obsessions, worries, cares, to-do’s, and problems, give this time to God.

Take your verse(s) with you wherever you go.  You can type your verse out and put it on beautiful sheets of your choice.  You can write it out on index cards.  Many people prefer index cards spiral bound to keep them together.  For iphone users, I’m sure there is an app.  You can write it on your iphone notepad or record your voice speaking it and replay it throughout the day.

Now that we have the verse and we have found the time, let’s focus on the method.  We don’t just memorize it by saying it over and over; we meditate on it.  We spend time thinking about what each word means and what it doesn’t mean. 

Then one of my favorite techniques as taught by Waylon Moore is to pulverize the verse.  Say the verse over and over each time focusing on a different word in the verse to emphasize.  For example, say 2 Peter 1:3 (today’s verse) aloud and say with more umph the underlined and bolded word:

“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”

2 Peter 1:3

“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”

2 Peter 1:3

“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”

2 Peter 1:3

Repeat this process until each word in the verse has been emphasized.

After meditating and pulverizing the verse continuously for a week, the seed planted in our hearts will begin to germinate.  You and I will no longer be merely short-term memorizing, but the Word will dwell within us.  When God’s Word dwells within us, something miraculous happens.  Our minds are renewed and transformed into the mind of Christ.  We worry and fret less.  We are armed for the attacks of the enemy.  Our lips will be full of praise for our God.  My friend, I’m ready for that kind of transformation!