FAITH CAPSULE: Carry the word of God to be carried by God.
Proverb 30
Are you giving to the word of God for the heart?
Do not dilute the word of God.
Proverb 30:6 warns, “Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.”
Revelation 22:18 o warns, “For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.”
No one should add or take away from the word of God.
How do we carry the word of God?
Carry the word of God in the depth of hearts, not just by the mouth.
Deuteronomy 6:6 records, “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.”
Deuteronomy 11:18 “Therefore, you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.”
Psalm 119:11 “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.”
Ezekiel 3:10 “Moreover He said to me: “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.”
Joseph is a testimony that carried the word in the heart and could arrive at the center of God’s divine assignment for his life.
As he journeyed, sin presented itself to him when the wife of his master approached him to lie with her.
Joseph could not fall to sin against God.
Genesis 39:19 “…How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
Joseph hid the word of God in his heart so as not to sin against God.
Imagine what could have happened to Joseph in life if he had fallen for the sin presented to him by the wife of his master.
The word you in the heart will serve as a key to open the door for deliverance and breakthrough.
One meditating the word of God in the heart will not be a victim of the wicked world.
Word of God promised to deliver the Israelites to the Promised Land, and the word of promise stayed in the heart of Caleb. Joshua 14:7 records the testimony of Caleb, “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.”
Caleb and Joshua did not confess negatively as a spy.
The report by Caleb and Joshua branched out of the heart occupied by the word of God.
Come out of memorizing the word in your head; commit to meditating the word in the heart.
In this wicked world, keep the word of God.
The word of God is alive and is proven.
1 John 2:5 said it all, “But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him.”
Give yourself to the word of God to become a building that stands for God, by God.
Prayer for today: Ask to be carrying the word of God.