Text: Isaiah 55:10-11: For as the rain cometh down and
the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but watereth the earth, and
maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to
the eater: so shall my word be that goes
forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
It is the 23rd
book of the Bible, with 66 chapters, 1,292 verses, and 37,044 words. The purpose of the book was to make God’s
message clear to Israel to warn them of judgment for persisting in sin and to
reveal the final dealings of God with them in complete restoration under their
Messiah.
Isaiah, the son of Amoz, was prophet during the reign of Hezekiah, king of Judah. His name means “Jehovah is Salvation”, assistance and support of hardship and distress.
God said, “So shall my word be that goes forth out of
my mouth: it shall not return unto me
void (empty), but
it shall “accomplish” (achieve,
complete, successfully manage, fulfill, realize, attain, execute, perform,
consummate, conclude) that which I
please, and it shall “prosper” (flourish physically; grow strong and
healthy; thrive; bloom; blossom; progress) in the thing (a word; a matter [as spoken of]) whereto I sent it”.
The power and effect
of God’s Word are never cancelled or rendered void to those who receive it nor
is it rendered void to those who reject it. (Mark 16:16) He that believes and is baptized shall be
saved; but he that believes not shall be damned.
Activate means to make (something) active or
operative. Synonyms for activate are: operate; switch on or turn on; start up;
trigger off; set in motion.
Everything was set in
motion when God said “Let there be”.
When God speaks there is not a single word of God that is without
power. And guess what! As we speak God’s WORD, things will
happen. That’s why it’s time to “activate the Word of God”!
When Isaiah spoke it
was God’s Word. As the apostles and
prophets of God spoke it was the Word of God!
When they spoke things happened.
When and as we speak, it is the Word of God. Everything Jesus spoke was the Word of God.
·
John
12:49: For I have not spoken of
myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should
say, and what I should speak.
Luke explicitly said
in Luke 5:1: And it came to pass
that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the
lake of Gennesaret. Jesus introduced His sayings “I say unto you”.
Jesus had divine authority within Himself to speak the Word of God. We have divine authority within ourselves to speak the Word of God. Are we not Him in the earth? Did He not say that “As he is, so are we, in this world”? (1John 4:17)
· Deuteronomy 30:10: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. Vs 11: For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. Vs 12: It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, “Who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it”? Vs 13: Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, “Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it”? Vs 14: But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Now is the time for
us to “activate the Word of God”!
He commanded that we go! (Mark
15:16): And he said unto them “Go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature”!
SAME WORD THEN, SAME WORD NOW!!!
God’s Word is a
proceeding Word – it still stands, it still performs, it’s still manifesting
His power! The same Word is still
warning, and it’s still saving! God’s
Word is still convicting, and it’s still changing the stony hearts of men into
flesh! God’s Word is still healing, and it’s
still alive and well!
·
Hebrews
4:12: The word of God is quick and
powerful (in the sense of being
alive), and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing (to reach through; penetrate)
even to the dividing asunder of soul (nephesh) and spirit (ruwach), and of
the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart.
Soul in Hebrew
is ne’phesh, meaning a breathing creature, ie animal of
vitality; or (fig) sense (bodily or mentally); life, self, mind, heart, person,
will, desire, man, any appetite, lust, pleasure. In the
Greek it is psuche’, meaning breath, ie spirit – it’s irrational
and mortal.
That’s all Adam was doing in Genesis 2:7, breathing oxygen until the LORD God breathed into his nostrils
(aph’) [face, countenance, forehead] the breath
of life, and made him a living soul.
Keep in mind when CPR
is being administered, you do not breathe into the nostrils of an adult, you close
the nostrils and breathe into the
mouth. In the definition of “nostrils” is the word “forehead”. There are four lobes in the cerebrum
of the brain: frontal; parietal; temporal; occipital. I just want to touch on the “frontal lobe”. The “frontal lobe” controls personality; higher intellectual processes (concentration;
planning; decision making); verbal communication. Genesis 2:7, The LORD God breathed [(naphach’) puffed; inflated; scattered;
kindled (set on fire)], into man the breath [(neshamah’) wind; breath; divine inspiration (any stimulus to creative thought or action)] of life.
Adam was set on fire
by the very wind of God and was impelled
through divine influence with the intellect to not just understand
knowledge, but to also accept the knowledge of who he (male & female) was in
God as God’s representatives or ambassadors in the earth! It was this breath of life that made man a living (alive) soul
(ne’phesh).
· Job 32:8: But there is a spirit (ru’wach) in man: and the inspiration (breath) of the Almighty gives them understanding. This word "understanding" is the Hebrew root word "biyn" (bene), meaning to separate mentally (or distinguish); consider; perceive; discern; instruct: not on the level of being judgmental, but righteously.
This “ru’wach” is God’s breath or wind that causes man to smell (discern), perceive, or be made of quick understanding of
who God is in them and who they are in God and all they have access to in
relation to dominion, authority and power!
Ru’wach is the breathing in of God’s Spirit, wind, His mind which is
rational and immortal. This is what Adam
was breathing that made him a living soul.
This is what we’re breathing that has made us living souls! SAME BREATH THEN, SAME BREATH NOW!!! This is all because of the Word of God and we
must “ACTIVATE THE WORD OF GOD”!!!
It’s time to “activate
the Word of God”! Didn’t He say “I am the LORD thy God who brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide and I will fill it”? (Psalm
81:10). God means what He says!
God describes very
well what His Word will do when it comes out of the mouth of the Body of
Christ:
· [Revelation 19:8] And to her (the Lamb’s wife /we the church) was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white; for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Revelation 19:14: And the armies which were in heaven [not out beyond the blue – but in the higher realms of spiritual elevation] followed him upon white (light) horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean [the righteousness of saints].
·
Vs 15:
And
out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of
iron: and he treads the winepress of the
fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
[The “nations” that are smitten are
the “abominations”, “condemnations”,
“imaginations”, and the “damnations” that people are bound
with]! God wants His people free from all the bondages of the enemy!
The “sword” which is the “Word” of God will smite them to
pieces and it’s coming out of the
mouths of the Body of Christ (the Church)! Are we not the
“Body of Christ”?
·
1
Corinthians 12:12: For as the body is
one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many
are one body: so also is CHRIST!
·
Ephesians
5:30: For we are members of his
body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
IT’S TIME TO ACTIVATE THE WORD OF GOD!!!
WHY MUST WE ACTIVATE THE WORD OF GOD?
This is how we
access God’s creative power.
·
John
7:38: He that believes on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
·
John
14:12: Verily, verily, I say unto
you, “He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father”.
The Bible contains
His Word. (Though that is the written
Word, but we are the “living Word”)!
·
2
Corinthians 3:2-3: You are our
epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: forasmuch as you are manifestly declared to
be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the
Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the
heart.
·
1 Peter
2:5: You also, as “lively stones”,
are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
The Word contains
His promises.
·
2
Peter 2:4: Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having
escaped the corruption that is in the world (systems of men) through lust.
God’s Word
contains His guarantees for provisions.
·
Ephesians
1:3: Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings
in heavenly places in Christ.
·
Philippians
4:19: But my God shall supply all
your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
The Word contains God
creative ability. There’s nothing
“magical” about it (well, unless you want to look at from the stand point of it drawing you into situations, and then you wonder how you got there) and it’s not mystical.
It is His revealed plans and purposes as He has revealed them to
humanity.
God’s miracle working
ability is contained within our thoughts and words just waiting to be released
into the earth. The creation is waiting
on us, the sons of God, not Jesus.
·
Romans
8:19: For the earnest expectation (intense anticipation) of the creature (creation) waiteth
for the manifestation (uncovering; appearing; revealing) of the sons of God.
[Not for Jesus to come back because
He is already here in us by the Spirit. He finished the work His Father sent Him here to do (John 17:4). But the creation is waiting for us the sons of God (male
and female) to stand up and do that which we’ve been assigned to do in the earth as kings and priests]:
Revelation
5:10: And hast made us unto our God kings
and priests: and we shall reign on (over)
the earth.
Jesus said in John
5:25: Verily, verily I say unto you, the hour is coming and now is,
when the dead (spiritually dead) shall hear the voice (phone’)[disclosure;
articulation of the revelation truths of the Kingdom] of the Son of God and they that hear
shall live.
HOW DO WE ACTIVATE THE WORD OF GOD?
STUDYING THE WORD
OF GOD:
·
2
Timothy 2:15: Study (spouda’zo)[to use speed ie to make effort,
be prompt or earnest; endeavour; do diligence; labor; be forward; eagerness] to show thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly (orthos’)[in a straight
manner, (fig) correctly; plainly] dividing
(orthotome’o)[to make a straight cut, to dissect (expound) correctly (the
divine message)] the word of truth.
Mediate IN THE WORD OF GOD:
·
Joshua
1:8: This book of the law shall not
depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate (hagah’) [to murmur [in pleasure]; to ponder; mutter; speak; study;
talk] therein day and night, that thou
mayest 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.
CONFESS THE WORD
OF GOD: [Confess is from the
Greek word homeloge’o, meaning “to say the same thing as”].
· Psalm 81:10: “Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it”! As we speak by the "Spirit of Truth", we will be saying the same thing God’s Word is saying or the same thing "God is saying"!
·
Luke
12:11-12: And when they bring you
unto the synagogues and unto magistrates, and powers, take you no thought how
or what thing you shall answer, or what you shall say: for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the
same hour what you ought to say.
·
Luke
21:14-15: Settle it therefore in your
hearts, not to meditate before what you shall answer: for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which
all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay (antep’o) [to refute or deny; say against;
oppose] nor resist (anthis’temi)
[stand against; oppose; withstand].
BELIEVING IT: In order to get results we must “believe
the Word”:
·
Mark
16:17: These signs shall follow them
that believe (pisteu’o)[have
faith in; entrust one’s well-being in; commit unto/(pis’tis) [be persuaded;
convicted of this truth; rely upon; be constant; be assured]: in my name shall they cast out devils; they
shall speak with new tongues; vs
18: They shall take up serpents; and
if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on
the sick, and they shall recover.
BY DOING THE WORK:
·
James
1:22-25: But be ye doers of the word
and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word and not a
doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself and goeth his way,
and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of
liberty and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of
the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
·
James
2:26: For as the body without the
spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ACTIVATE THE WORD OF GOD?
We open the door
of knowledge for others so that they are able to know the truth:
·
John
8:32: You shall know (ginos’ko) [understand; be aware of; can
speak; be sure of] the truth and the
truth shall make you free.
What truth is it
that will make you free?
·
The “truth” that: “As he
is, so are we, in this world” (1 John 4:17). [Not beyond the blue].
·
The “truth” that: we are “CHRIST” in the earth: (Romans 12:5): So we, being many, are one body IN CHRIST, and every one members one of another. (1 Corinthians 12:12): For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is CHRIST! (Ephesians 5:30): We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones!
·
The “truth” that: in reality the creation is waiting for the
manifestation of the sons of God, and not Jesus: (Romans 8:19): For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God.
·
The “truth” that: Jesus isn’t coming back in that flesh body as
many supposes because God is through with that body: (2 Corinthians 5:16): Wherefore henceforth know we no man after
the flesh: yea, though we have known (past tense) Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth (from here on) know we him
no more! [We must know Him by the Spirit].
·
The “truth” that: when I see you I see Him: (1 Corinthians 13:9-11): For we know in part, and we prophesy in
part. But when that which is perfect is
come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I
understood as a child, I thought as a child:
but when I became a man (matured and was separated from the religious system), I put away childish things.
Vs
12: For now we see through a glass
darkly; but then face to face:
now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. [We know now as we are known by God through His Spirit]. (As he is, so are we, in this world) [1
John 4:17]! [When we see one
another, we are seeing Him]!
·
The “truth” that: “For as
the body is one and hath many members, and all the members of that one body
being many are one body: SO ALSO IS
CHRIST” (1 Corinthians 12:12).
Jesus was one “Man” in the body He had, but
the body He has now is a many membered body which we the true church
are, and are called “CHRIST’S BODY”!
·
The “truth” that: He was born “Jesus” but He
was called and made “CHRIST”: Matthew 1:16: And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus,
who is called CHRIST! (Acts
2:36): Therefore let all the house of
Israel, know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom you
have crucified, both Lord and CHRIST!
Jesus was the individual man (or body) that
God chose to suffer and die in, but CHRIST is the many membered body that God is
glorified in: (1 Corinthians 12:12):
For as the body is one, and hath many
members and all the members of that one body being many are one body: so also is CHRIST.
That word “made” in Acts
2:36, is from the Greek root word poie’o, meaning to bring forth. He was “Jesus” before the resurrection, but after the
resurrection, He was made, became, or brought forth as CHRIST and that is because He was “brought
forth” in the many-membered body
of people that we the sons of God, the true church are become (present
tense).
When we “activate
the Word of God”, it will tear down fixed traditional religious thoughts that
follow the letter of the law rather than the “truth of God – the Living Word”:
·
Mark
7:7-8: Howbeit in vain do they
worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, you
hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things you do.
God’s people will
come to know that we must know Christ by the Spirit. God can only be known by means of a
supernatural revelation of Himself.
Jesus made it clear in:
·
Matthew
16 (Peter’s confession of faith): Vs
16: And Simon Peter answered and
said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God”. Vs 17: And Jesus answered and said unto him, “Blessed art thou Simon
Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not
revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven” (higher realms of spiritual elevation) (not
“up yonder”) !
·
St.
John 3:3: Except a man be born again,
he cannot see (know; understand;
be aware of) the kingdom of God.
·
Luke
17:21: Behold, the kingdom of God is within you!
·
1 Corinthians 4:20: For the kingdom
of God is not in word but in power.
This
word “power” is (exousi’a) [the sense of ability: privilege,
force, capacity, freedom, jurisdiction, authority, superhuman] [this is also
miraculous power – a miracle itself].
Supernatural
knowledge of God produces a supernatural experience and this is something that
we already very well know. We know that
this is something to which multitudes of church members are total strangers
to. Most of religion today is but a
touching up of the “old Adam”. It’s merely a garnishing of sepulchers
full of corruption.
·
Matthew
23:27: Woe unto you scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like
unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within
full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
It’s an outward
form. Religion knows Him by the flesh but the Sons (male and female) know Him by the Spirit.
IT’S TIME TO ACTIVATE (set in motion) THE WORD OF GOD!!!
When we “activate
the Word of God”, it will impart new life!
It will release grace, power and revelation by which believers can grow
in their faith and commitment to Jesus the Christ!
When we “activate
the Word of God”, Luke 4:18-19 comes into fruition:
·
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because
he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal
the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of
sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
The time is NOW! Let us go and “activate the Word of God”!
·
Romans
10:14: How then shall they call on
him in whom they have not believed? And
how shall they believe in him in whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? Vs 15: And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet
of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good
things”!
ACTIVATE THE WORD OF THE LIVING GOD!
Evangelist Mary Perry