OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL... DATE : WEDNESDAY 6th MAY 2015.....

THEME : POWER IN THE SPOKEN

WORD

Memorise:

The centurion answered and said,

Lord, I am not worthy that thou

shouldest come under my roof: but

speak the word only, and my servant

shall be healed. Matthew 8:8

Read: Matthew 8:8-13

8 The centurion answered and said,

Lord, I am not worthy that thou

shouldest come under my roof: but

speak the word only, and my servant

shall be healed.

9 For I am a man under authority,

having soldiers under me: and I say

to this man, Go, and he goeth; and

to another, Come, and he cometh;

and to my servant, Do this, and he

doeth it.

10 When Jesus heard it, he

marvelled, and said to them that

followed, Verily I say unto you, I

have not found so great faith, no,

not in Israel.

11 And I say unto you, That many

shall come from the east and west,

and shall sit down with Abraham,

and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom

of heaven.

12 But the children of the kingdom

shall be cast out into outer

darkness: there shall be weeping

and gnashing of teeth.

13 And Jesus said unto the

centurion, Go thy way; and as thou

hast believed, so be it done unto

thee. And his servant was healed in

the selfsame hour.

Message

There is power in the spoken Word

of God, and this power produces

unspeakable wonders. In fact, the

entire universe was formed by the

spoken Word of God (2nd Peter 3:5).

Hence, we must give more earnest

heed to the spoken Word of God

emanating from genuine men of

God.

Many people have missed their

miracles because they mistook the

Word of God for the words of a

pastor. They fail to realise that God

will not come down to speak His

word, but He speaks through His

genuine servants. The onus is now

on whoever wants God’s Word to

perform wonders in his or her life to

identify genuine ministers of God

through whom God speaks. The Bible

in 2nd Chronicles 20:20b says:

“Believe in the LORD your God, so

shall ye be established; believe his

prophets, so shall ye prosper.”

How then do you identify a word as

being genuinely spoken by God

through His servants? The written

word, which is the Bible,

authenticates and must align with

the spoken word (John 16:13,

Galatians 1:8). After you have

ascertained that the source of a

spoken word is clean, and that the

word is directly from God, it is your

responsibility to believe it. Only

then will you receive the miracle you

so much desire from God, as it is

written in Psalm 107:20:

“He sent his word, and healed them,

and delivered them from their

destructions.”

Without controversy, there is power

in the word of God as spoken by His

genuine ministers. However, this

power can have a positive or

negative effect.

We must therefore comport ourselves

with wisdom so that the spoken

word does not affect us negatively.

The spoken word of God which came

to the widow of Zarephath through

Elijah in 1st Kings 17:14 is a case in

point; it says:

“For thus saith the LORD God of

Israel, The barrel of meal shall not

waste, neither shall the cruse of oil

fail, until the day that the LORD

sendeth rain upon the earth.”

We see the power in this spoken

word, working positively in 1st King

17:16:

“And the barrel of meal wasted not,

neither did the cruse of oil fail,

according to the word of the LORD,

which he spake by Elijah.”

Elijah also spoke concerning the

shameful death of the wicked King

Ahab in 1st King 21:19 and the

wonder-working power of the spoken

word produced the negative effect of

Ahab’s death in 1st Kings 22:38.

Prayer Point :

Father, grant me grace to live my life

in such a way that it will attract the

positive wonders of Your spoken

Word.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : 1 SAMUEL 8-9

and MARK 4:21-41

AUTHOR : Pst E. A ADEBOYE.