ANB 62, Love Thy Word

When I first began to do these email messages I didn’t know nearly as much about God or the
Word as I do today. I read it often and knew many of the stories, but I didn’t understand how it
all fits together as clearly as I do now. I also didn’t understand how to get revelation knowledge.
I knew how to learn something with my mind, but I didn’t know how to learn it with my heart.
However when I began writing these I would learn more and more each week, and it turns out
that really each week I was learning the same thing over and over from new angles. As we
studied love, strength, faith, peace, thankfulness and every other topic, I came to see that our
entire Christian lives are based on God’s Word, The Bible.

The Bible is the incorruptible seed (1 Peter 1:23). When you plant God’s Word in your heart it
will grow up and produce itself within you (Mark 4). There is nothing else on this earth like
God’s Word. God’s Word can come into you and supernaturally change you. This is a spiritual
process, but by feeding your mind with God’s Word you will see your heart change. By reading
God’s Word I have more faith, I have more strength, I have more peace, I walk in love, and even
my natural body is now supercharged and ready to do God’s Will. When you know God’s Word
then you know God, because He is the Living Word poured out onto pages so we can understand
Him (John 1).

Faithfulness to God’s Word is absolutely crucial to a Christian’s life. If a person will truly ever
know the deep things of God then they must learn to hear God’s voice. God doesn’t always
speak audibly, He mostly speaks through your spirit man. Don’t worry so much about how or
why, because God Himself will reveal these things to you Himself. (Read about Samuel’s
learning to hear God’s voice in the first chapters of 1 Samuel). What you have to do is
demonstrate a faithfulness to God’s written Word. First of all, if you don’t understand the
written Word you will never understand His Word spoken directly to you. You wouldn’t
understand the ways God works (which are almost always opposite to the ways our world works)
and you wouldn’t step out in faith and do what He told you to do. Moreover, God has give you
over 1,000 pages of instruction, if you don’t do anything with that will God give you something
that you also won’t do anything with. Of course not. The Bible says in Mark 4 that to him that
has more will be given, and to him that has not even what he has will be taken away. You have
to get into God’s Word and learn about Him, then God will come in and give you revelation and
direct Words. God gives wisdom to the wise (Daniel 2:21). A person becomes wise by getting
into God’s Word and letting it change his thinking (Romans 12:2).

Let us look at two quick verses to show you the importance of reading God’s Word.

Joshua 1:8
This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth. But thou shalt meditate therein day and
night that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make
thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Psalm 1:
Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungoldly, nor standeth in the way of
sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in His
Law does he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that brings forth his fruit in his season. His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he does
shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

I believe the power of those verses is self-evident. When you make the Word of God a priority
in your life then everything you do will prosper. I want everywhere I put my hand to prosper,
and to have this I must base my life on God’s Word. It’s not enough to just read it once, you
must read it over and over for the rest of your life. We must be constantly conformed to the
image of Christ (Romans 8, 2 Corinthians 3:18), and to do this we must be constantly infilling
ourselves with God’s Word.

I will now speak about meditation. Truly, the world changed for me the day I began to meditate
God’s Word. The root of the word meditate is ‘to mudder.’ A person therefore meditates God’s
Word by speaking it out loud over and over, letting it roll over in their mouths. I usually begin
my Word time by reading a chapter or two. I will read it twice most of the time. I don’t just
skim over it, I let it sink in. I might look up a Word or two in the original languages. [Of course
there is no perfect way, I’m just showing you mine.] Then I will stand up and walk around the
room a bit to kind of get the blood flowing. I will start speaking a verse over and over. I won’t
speak the whole chapter. I don’t worry about saying it perfectly. I just speak a verse or a few
verses over and over. I’ll do this for a minute or two and then sure enough another verse pops
into my mind. Then another, then another. I will speak all these verses. After a few minutes I
begin to see relationships and connections that I never saw before. I will understand things in
new lights. This is how I truly get revelation knowledge. The Word is alive within me.

How do you know God’s Word lives within you, when you put it into you and then it talks back.
Like if someone cusses you out and you hear from your inner man something like, ‘love thy
neighbor.’

I have come to a whole new level with God because I finally began to meditate like His Word
commands me. He teaches me things I have never heard anyone preach on. We are working
together to teach me His ways. I am really letting my spirit take control of my Word time,
getting my mind out of the way a bit. This really happens because the Word will speak to you,
and the additional verses, will come to you from your heart, from your spirit man. Over time
you will literally feel them rising to your mouth, not descending from your head.

Last night, for example, I meditated the first four chapters in Daniel. I began by speaking how
Daniel purposed in his heart he would not defile himself. I then thought about how he wouldn’t
defile himself with a sinful nation’s meat. I then thought about the meat we should desire, the
meat of God’s Word. I then thought about how Christ lives in me and I need to feed Him to see
Him grow. From there I thought about that I am the body of Christ. From there God reminded
me about the marriage passages in Ephesians 5 and 1 Peter 3. I remembered that these are
allegorical for Christ’s relationship with the church. I then saw that I should read how a man
should treat his husband and understand that this is how Christ treats me (his wife, for the church
is the bride of Christ). I then thought about how the wife should treat her husband and how I
must treat Christ that way.
You see, this is a deeper layer of God’s Word. This is getting revelation knowledge. God has
shown me here what to study in the future. This is fun and exciting. I know God is here, because
I see myself realizing things my natural mind never could have. I stop looking at the clock, I
stop thinking obligation. I begin growing in God, and I begin having supernatural fun. Glory to
God.

So if I would encourage you in anything this new year, I would say to start spending serious time
reading and meditating God’s Word. Do this and prosper. Do this and please God. Do this and
gain revelation. Do this and be conformed to the image of Christ. Glory to God.

May this new year bring fresh life to your relationship with Jesus Christ. I bless you all in the
Name of Jesus Christ Almighty. The Name of the Lord Jesus Christ be upon you all, separated
unto God for His purposes.