FAITH CAPSULE: Taking a position of vacation from hearing and understanding the word is a route of termination.
Joshua 3: 9-17
Having knowledge of the word of God is captivity impossibility and deliverance assured. It is written in Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” Isaiah 5:13 also mentions, “Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” Obviously, lack of knowledge sent the people of God into captivity. Knowledge has its source in the hearing and understanding of the word of God. When hearing of His word is backed with obedience, it becomes impossible for captivity to have its grip over the life of one that hears and understand the word of God. Whatever is being heard clearly and constantly will determine how one gets over forces of destruction. Also, whatever is being heard with understanding will create a way of escape where there is no escape. Indeed, hearing and understanding the word of God is by every means a great asset to growing in the knowledge of God.
The word of God is true and when a believer is true walking the word of God then the word will work for a believer. What are you constantly hearing? After the journey of over years; having heard so many times from God through Moses, the children of Israel had to continue to hear in order to be able to continue in their journey. For every believer to arrive safely at divine destination, taking a position of vacation from hearing and understanding the word is an unfailing route of termination. At the point of crossing the Jordan River, God gave Joshua directions that the children of Israel needed to hear as they progress in their journey to the Promised Land. Joshua called on the children of Israel and said, “…Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God.” A clear and compelling direction was laid down for the children of Israel when Joshua stated, “Come here and hear”. It is important to always go to where God’s direction is waiting, but it is even more important to also hear. If you have been going and not hearing it is incomplete. In the next verse, it is also clear in the word of Joshua that what they hear is what delivers the knowledge of what God was about to do. “And Joshua said, ‘By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites.’”(Joshua 3:10) Begin to spend more time in the word of God. Make hearing and understanding unfailing in your life.
Prayer for today: Ask God for deliverance over every distraction that is denying man from hearing and understanding the word.