FAITH CAPSULE:Having life and having life more abundantly is not in memorizing and quoting the Word.

Luke 4, 5:1-27
 
At Nazareth, after Jesus was done reading from the book of prophet Isaiah, He closed the book and gave it back to the attendant and sat down.While sitting, the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. It is written, “And He began to say to them, ‘Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.’So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth…” (Luke 4:21-22) The point here is that the Word of God is gracious and it will answer to those who receive and believe it. Just as the ones who were present in the synagogue could not receive and believe it then, today many have also taken a position not to receive and believe it as gracious. Many today have made the choice to reject His Word. In fact, the Bible records the reaction of the people in the synagogue after they heard from Jesus, “So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff.Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.” (Luke 4: 28-30)
Jesus, having been rejected where He had been brought up (Nazareth), went to Capernaum teaching. At Capernaum, the response to His teaching states that, “…they were astonished at His teaching, for His word was with authority.” (Luke 4:32)Under His teaching there was deliverance from unclean spirits. Evidently, the reaction to His Word was the result of deliverance from unclean spirit. The miracle of deliverance from unclean spirit points out here that the Word of God is with authority.
Jesus, the living Word of God, came to give life and to give it more abundantly. (John 10:10) Clearly, the point is that He is not on His way coming to give life and to give it more abundantly. He already came and the psalmist buttresses this by stating, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” (Psalm 107:20)
The graciousness in His Word is to forgive our sins so that deliverance might come to manifestation. This is true in the way He forgave and then delivered the paralytic man by His word. The Bible documents that a paralytic man was dropped through the tiling into the place where Jesus was ministering. Jesus responded and He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” (Luke 5:20) After speaking graciously, He spoke healing deliverance by stating, “…arise take up your bed, and go to your house.” (Luke 5:24) In the Word of God, there is healing and there is deliverance.

Prayer for today:Ask for a hearing ear and seeing eyes that enables to receive and believe the Word.