SCRIPTURE:

but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. (1 Peter 1:25)

DEVOTIONAL:

Although the Holy Spirit was moving upon the face of the waters, nothing was happening. God  was God; the Holy Spirit was the Holy Spirit. Yet, nothing happened until God released the Word. For God to repair the earth, or start His restoration of this earth, He spoke to it. He used words to create the universe. Once God spoke to the earth, the Holy Spirit went to work. The Holy Spirit’s job is to manifest whatever the Word says. Nothing can stop this. As you can see, if something could stop the Word it would have done so at the beginning in Genesis 1. Nothing can stop God’s Word from manifesting, when spoken as God would speak it.

Here, God spoke and the darkness had to go. It had to disappear. Genesis 1:3 reads: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” In Hebrew it’s translated, “Light be.” God actually spoke directly to the thing He wanted to manifest; He commanded it to come forth—and it obeyed Him. Did God spend any time talking about how dark it was? No. He did not deal with the darkness. He used His authority to deal only with light—the thing He wanted. Once it appeared, God continued to “say” and everything He said came to be. 

Finally, in Genesis 1:26, God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” This means He was making man to operate as He does. It is normal for sons and daughters to take on the attributes of their parents. Talking like God should be viewed the same way. This perspective is critical to victorious living.

PRAYER:

Dear Lord, thank you that Your Word brings forth what You spoke. I am made in Your image and will speak according to Your Word and I will see those things come to pass. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s must-read book, Power of the Tongue. To order your copy now, click here. In Canada? Click here.