WHEN GOD GIVES YOU A WORD

MONDAY 06 JANUARY 2025

When God gives you a word concerning any area of your life, embrace it, write it down, think through it, and confess it cogitatively. When such an important word comes to you, through church sermons, through personal devotion or word of knowledge, don't take it for granted.

No matter how much you stay mentally active, writing it down makes you remember it easily, otherwise much of it would slip through your semantic memory over time. Writing it down, re-visiting it and confessing it over your life show that you take the Lord seriously. So it doesn't really matter how spiritually-minded you are, if you're not smart enough to write it down, you can lose sight of what God speaks to your heart, especially when you get so busy with daily activities.

Reference: Luke 2:19 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

"But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart."

In accordance with the above versified reference, Mary exercised absolute faith in the words given to her by the Lord, and the spiritual exercise came from her innermost being because she treasured all the things she heard. She didn't just store them in her heart, she pondered them. In essence, she invested them in her memory, and activated the understanding of their denotative influence, just the way she had heard.

Beloved, don't just hear the Word of God concerning you and take it for granted. Always remember what you have heard from God, as well as all He has done for you; more so, make your heart a golden storage for preserving the Word as you feed on them. Let your memory treasure up everything about the Lord that makes up your belief system, and hold fast to them often. I can assure you by induced demand that through contemplative knowledge of concrete source of eternal truths, you can evidently practise and bring any self-contained truth to pass, without doubt or sensory observation, and that is living in a heightened presence of spiritual reality in the natural world.

When the Angel of the Lord came to Mary to deliver the news concerning her future, Mary responded, "I am the Lord's servant. May everything you have said about me come true." And then the angel left her (Luke 1:38 NLT). She affirmed the Word from God without any single doubt. For indeed, God knows the future better than man, so take Him seriously! He does not speak without a purpose; He has a plan mapped out for you, but He needs you to cooperate with the plan, just like Mary did by avowing it with her words. So when He gives you promise prophetically or guides you with a perceived sense of direction, pray it through from the standpoint of certainty, and do not let any word escape your memory until you see it come to pass.

In a versified statement numbered as Isaiah 55:10-11(NIV), God said, "As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."

When God sends a word to you, it comes with all the power to fulfil it, but you must demonstrate your faith in that word consistently and pray it through. Every Word He drops in your heart is a latent seed filled with His DNA, and waiting to happen. In other words, it is full of His life and His creative force. To that effect, Luke 1:37 (NIV) reads, "For no word from God will ever fail. It will surely deliver intended result."

Therefore, an apt cogitation upon what you read, hear, and receive - with ardent alacrity - is of paramount importance. That's how to treasure the Word and establish it in your own life. In Romans 4:20-21 (NKJV), the Bible said concerning Abraham, "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God." Just like Abraham did, always treasure the Word concerning you cogitatively. Shalom!

Scripture Reading: Psalm 33:4; Matthew 24:35; Luke 11:28; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Hebrews 4:12.

Exuberant Declaration:

I am a well watered garden, whose springs do not fail not, because the ceded authority which I exert in declaring of God's Word, produces the exact description in my life today and always. I habitually align myself with God's purpose and vision for my glorious destiny by standing firm on the Word. Hence, the revelation of the Word reflects as the cheerful expression of my dispositional and all-round wellbeing, meaning that as I speak forth the gracious truths, I establish the revelatory insight and manifest the realities of God's perfect will for me in my world. Therefore, I'm strong in the Lord, upholding everything concerning me with the Word of His power. Glory to God!