Well, you know, Sunday for those that were here, Pastor
ministered on the bread of life. Amen.
He ministered on the bread of life and it just seemed right
with me and him and the Holy Ghost that I would share a
little bit on one bite at a time.
One bite at a time. Because I say, how do you eat a
loaf of bread one bite at a time?
And you're going to understand why it's one bite at a time in a
minute. All right, as we get into the
Word tonight, and aren't you thankful that He's given us this
daily bread that brings life and nourishment and sustenance to
us? Amen.
Hallelujah. And you know what?
Every time you get to partake of the Word of God, of the Word of
God, you get to partake of life. Come on and nourishment and
everything that you need to sustain you in life.
Amen. Everything you need to sustain
you in life and so he ministered out of Matthew 4 four and it
said where he began to say Jesus man shall not live on what bread
alone by but every word that proceeds out of the mouth of
God. Every word that proceeds out of
the mouth of God. That is what we should live by.
Amen. To get our spiritual nourishment
to get our spiritual nourishment.
And then he also said this out of John 635.
It said Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life.
He who comes to me will not hunger, and he who believes in
me will never thirst, will never thirst.
And you know what will never hunger, will never hunger.
This is important because if you're hungry, then guess what?
It's your fault because you're not eating of the daily bread
because He lets us know, listen, you will never have to hunger
again because I am the bread of life.
And all you have to do is open up the word of God.
Come on and start eating of it. Start eating the Word, Amen.
We know John 11, Jesus said this.
He said Jesus is the word made flesh.
So we know that Jesus was born right wrapped in flesh.
He was in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God
and the Word became flesh. Verse 14 of John says what?
And we beheld him right? Hallelujah.
And so again, when we talk about who Jesus is, we have to
recognize that Jesus was not just the Savior.
Jesus is the Word. Amen, Jesus is the Word, and so
we are not just to have a relationship with Jesus as this
spiritual being outside of reading the Word to discover and
participate and eat from what it is that He needs to give us in
this life. Amen.
To be able to sustain us as is children.
And so it's very important that we recognize this.
And then in Matthew 611, we know this prayer.
What is it? Give us this day, Our Daily
Bread. So what does that let us know
that every day there is bread for us to eat?
Every day there is something in His word that's going to give us
the nutrients, the sustenance, the food that we need for the
day. And it's daily, right?
It's daily and you know, I was thinking about this about how
the children of Israel, how God provided for them in the desert,
the manna, which is a representation of the bread of
life as well. He gave them manna and what he
gave them manna enough for every day to sustain them.
And again, we have to realize that we as believers must be in
a position that we are taking in this day, Our Daily Bread,
reading the Word of God every day so that we can receive from
him everything that we need. That means everything,
everything that we need is going to come from us eating upon the
daily bread. His Word, Amen.
That's where our sustenance is going to come from, to be able
to be the children of God that He desires for us to be.
So really I want to talk about Joshua 1/8.
Why do we see? Why do I say, how are we going
to eat a loaf of bread one bite at a time?
Because Joshua 18, actually when pastor was ministering this,
this scripture sprung up within me.
And Joshua 18 says this, this book of the law shall not depart
from your mouth. Eating has to do with your
mouth. You have to open up your mouth
to be able to eat. And he's letting us know that
the book of the law shall not depart from our mouth.
But you shall what? Read it.
I'm reading out of the amplified Meditate on it day and night so
that you will be careful to do everything in accordance to what
all that is written in it for. Then you will make your way
prosperous and then you will be successful.
We are not going to be successful spending all of our
time in education and getting knowledge because we know the
scripture says what does it profit a man to gain the whole
world and forfeit his soul? So to be successful, this is the
key. There's not, you know, 9
principles to be successful. You know, all these motivational
speakers, all the conferences, all these things, they're going
to tell you how to be successful as a businessman, how to be
successful, you know, in all these different fields of
academia and, and everything in the world.
But he lets us know right here out of his word that the way
we're going to be successful and not just successful, prosperous,
prosperous is what US meditating on the word of God day and
night, but not just meditating on the word.
What else? We have to be careful to be
doing everything the word is saying to do.
So it's not just good just to, oh, I read my scriptures every
day. You know, I do this da, da, da,
da, da, da. But then there's no action
behind what it is that you're reading.
You see what I'm saying? So again, he lets us know that
it's going to take these two steps, actually three steps to
be able to be successful and to be prosperous.
But here I want to just focus on meditate.
It says this book of the law shall not depart from your
mouth, but you shall read it. You shall meditate on it day and
night. What does the word meditate mean
here? It means to chew on it.
To mutter, Mudder brings actual your vocal cords into play with
it. So it also could be that that
mouth has to begin to speak out the word that you're chewing on.
So it's not just chewing on it, it's also muttering it, meaning
you're going to meditate on this word, you're going to chew on a
scripture. Maybe you know, a scripture pops
up on the inside of you because you've been reading the word
every day and a scripture jumps off off the page.
That is the scripture that he's highlighting to you, bringing
revelation to you about that you need for the day.
And so therefore, when you receive that, you should be
chewing on it throughout the day, meaning meditating on it,
reading it to yourself, thinking about it, chewing on it, right.
And one picture that some, you know, people talk about is like
how a cow chews the what the cud.
They just keep it in their mouth and, you know, just keep chewing
on it, chewing on it and chewing on it and chewing on it.
So this is the picture that he's letting us know that this is how
we're going to be able to eat Our Daily Bread.
We're going to do it by 1 chew at a time, one bite at a time.
We're going to receive what the word says to us that day, and
then throughout the day we're going to begin to meditate on
it, chew on it, let it go around in our mind throughout the day
and then also throughout the day.
What what happens? All of a sudden the word will
want to come out of your mouth. This is a byproduct, a by
product of you meditating and chewing on the word is that it
will come out of your mouth. It will want to, it will want to
again, but you have to release it.
You have to open up your mouth and begin to speak it as you are
meditating on it. That's where that mudder comes
in, OK, to where you're going to begin to release it out of your
mouth because you've been chewing on it all day.
And then you can thank him. Father, I thank you that your
word did say whatever it was going to say to you today,
right? Whatever you had been meditating
on. Because a byproduct of that
meditation is, is that it's going to want to come out of
your mouth and you still have to release it out of your mouth.
OK, you have to release it out of your mouth.
So in Joshua 18, we can see several things here.
Is that that word chew on or mudder, meaning meditate on it
day and night. What also, we can say these
three simple things. You're going to have to speak
it. You're going to, you're going to
have to read it right. But then not only that, you're
going to have to do it. We're going to have to because
he says here, he says, now you be careful to do everything in
accordance with all that is written, with all that is
written right. And once we do that, then we
will begin to start seeing success in our life and
prosperity happening in our life.
The things that we've put our hand to will begin to prosper
because we're actually meditating on the word day and
night. We're actually spending time
daily living off of that daily bread that we need for our life.
And this is how we're going to be fruitful.
This is how we're going to be fruitful, right?
Because He wants us to have a fruitful life in him.
Now look over in Psalms chapter 1, Psalms chapter 1 and verse 2.
So meditation is the key, OK? Meditation is the key.
We have to be people that as we receive Our Daily Bread, that we
take that and begin to meditate on it.
OK, Psalms 1-2 says this, but his delight is in the law of the
Lord and on His law, His precepts, His teachings, He
habitually meditates day and night.
You see that habitually. So again, this needs to be a
practice of our life as believers.
If we are going to be people right walking in success from
prospering in our life and enjoying the Kingdom life that
God expects us to enjoy, then we're going to have to get back
to making sure that daily we are partaking of His bread, but not
only partaking of it. We are actually meditating on it
day and night. One of one good practice that I
like to do is I always like to start my day off in the word and
before I lay my head down, I want to read.
I want that to be the last thing in me before I go to sleep
because you know what? He can his your spirits always
awake and he can speak to you while you're sleeping on the
word that was just put in you before you went to bed.
So this is a good practice to do again day and night, right when
the morning when you wake up, you start your day with the word
and before you lay your head down on the bed, you're
meditating on a scripture before you go to sleep.
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
So he's letting us know that this should be a habitual thing
that we we have to be people that meditate on his word day
and night, day and night. And I believe that this is
something that a lot of believers are struggling with
because we're living in such a busy world today.
We're living in such a world that is so distracted, right?
With our cell phones, with the reels.
You know, what did Pastor talk about?
What was it last Wednesday night?
Brain rot, right? That this is a literal thing.
This is literal language that people are using.
And a literal thing in our world today is is called brain rot.
Now listen, your brain will never rot on the word.
And we're going to see this in a minute.
It's never going to rot on the word.
Psalms 11911 says this, Thy word I have hid in my heart that I
might not sin against thee. So we have to be people.
One way that we can hide the word in our heart is through
meditation, is through US daily meditating on the Word of God
day and night. And this is how we get His word.
Listen, His law, He says when we're born again, when we get
our new spirit and our new heart, when we get born again,
He says He writes His laws within our heart, our new heart.
He's written His laws already within it.
So you know what? Our heart desires it.
Our spirit desires the word of God, it desires it.
Before it didn't want it. A cold Stony heart.
Ezekiel talks about before we get born again, we have a cold
Stony heart. But once we get born again, now
he's written that law within our hearts.
So now our heart wants to receive the word of God.
It wants to be fed, it wants to be strengthened, right?
It wants to be built up. And the way we do that is going
to come through US meditating on the Word day and night, daily
participating and taking a bite of the Word of God, the Bread of
Life. Amen.
Look at Psalms 119 and 97. It says, oh how, how, oh how I
love thy law. You see that?
It is my meditation all day. And I've said this in years
past, if you're struggling with wanting to read the word of God
as a believer, just go read Psalms 119.
I just challenge you. And I had, you know, I've had
people come up to me after I've said this through for years.
They say, you know what, it felt like it was always stale reading
the word and I just lost my passion to read.
But when I heard you say, just go read Psalms 19, just focus on
Psalms 19 and just read it every day for 30 days, you know what?
They came back and said I have a desire now for the word.
You see what I'm saying? Because I'm telling you, we were
meant to live off of this thing. We were meant to live by it, OK?
We were meant to be nourished by it.
And it's the only thing that can nourish us and sustain us in
life. It's the only thing that can
nourish and sustain us. So he says that in Psalms 119,
oh how I love thy law, it is the meditation, my meditation all
day long. Psalms 19, not 119, but Psalms
19 and 14 says this because again, this is going back to
seeing that a byproduct of us meditating and part of us
meditating on the word will have to do with our mouth.
It will have to do with our mouth.
It says, Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my
heart. Right, be acceptable in thy
sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
So again, a by product of you really meditating on the word is
is that your mouth is going to begin to say something.
And you know we've said this before in years past.
You know, you can recognize where a person is by the words
that are coming out of their mouth.
What are you speaking? Because I can tell you the
things that you are speaking is what you have been meditating
on, period. It is a result of what you're
meditating on. So how are you talking?
What are you talking like is going to prove what you've been
meditating on, what you've been watching, what you've been
listening to, Everything will begin to come out of your mouth.
It's just a principle because what you take in from out of
your mouth, what flows, it flows.
And so again, whatever you're taking in, whatever you're
meditating on, whatever you're focusing on, whatever you're
spending time listening to, these things are going to come
out of your mouth as a byproduct.
And so we want to make sure that as believers that we are
meditating in the Word so that when we get in situations, in
circumstance, the word is the first thing that comes up.
And that's what my mouth will begin to speak.
That's what my mouth is going to say, right?
It's going to say the word, right?
Isn't that what we say? Speak the word only?
Isn't that what Jesus did when he was up underneath the
temptation of the devil? You know, the devil was tempting
him and all Jesus would say it is written.
He spoke the word because he was the word. 1 But we can say that
is what we know he meditated on because he only did what he said
that his father told him to do. He only spoke what his father
told him to spoke speak, right. So again, what is it that's
going on that you're meditating on is going to automatically, if
you're meditating on the bills and worry, come on and and all
these other things, guess what's going to be dominant out of your
mouth, right? But if you begin to go back to
what the scripture says, come on to give right?
And all these things good measure pressed down, shaken
together and running over. Come on.
Listen, I'm telling you these things, you they're not going to
come up if you've not been meditating on the word for it to
come up. And when it comes up, listen,
when a scripture comes up within you, acknowledge it.
The way you acknowledge it is by speaking it out of your mouth.
You if a scripture comes up and you're in a situation and the
Holy Ghost begins to pull up a scripture for you, acknowledge
it by speaking it out, releasing it, releasing it and speaking it
out because it's no good, just that it came up and it reminded
you it will only have power. Listen, His Word only has power
when it's activated by faith. And the way that it's activated
by faith is not just thinking about it, not just knowing
scripture and verse of it, but actually you speaking it out to
release it into the atmosphere. That's when it goes into effect
for your situation. OK.
And so again, if you haven't been meditating on the Word of
God and eating the daily bread, then the Holy Spirit has nothing
to recall to you when you're in a situation if it's not in you.
And we're going to see the scripture that will prove that
in a minute. Now let's go over to Proverbs 4.
Proverbs 4 is a powerful scripture, Proverbs 420 through
22, which you could go on and read.
It's just awesome anyway. But I just want to focus on
Proverbs 420 through 22 and there's 5 little points within
this. Can you believe this?
Five points within Proverbs 420 through 22.
Now again, remember what we're talking about, meditating on the
word of God. So the first thing we see here,
let's read it. It says this, my son, give
attention to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your eyes.
Keep them in the midst of your heart.
For that here it is, for they are life.
This is that word life, sustenance, right?
This is the life, this is the nourishment that you're going to
need, he says. For in it they are life to those
who find them, and health to all their flesh.
There are 5 promises right here within these two scriptures and
it's powerful when we understand what these two scriptures are
actually saying. So I want to read this also out
of the Amplified Classic real quick.
It says, my son, attend to my words, consent and submit to my
sayings. There's a key there.
You have to consent to the Word of God for it to be activated
within your life and you have to be submitted to the Word of God
and what it is it's saying to you for it to work within your
life. This is powerful.
He says consent and submit to my sayings.
Let them not depart from your sight.
Keep them in the center of your heart.
How do you? We're going to see it in a
minute, OK, Just a minute. For they are life to those who
find them and healing and health to all your flesh.
Wow, so many good things within this two scriptures here.
The first thing I want us to look at is, again, we're talking
about here attending to His Word or meditating in His Word.
This is how we're going to do it.
When we are in a position of meditating in His Word, what are
we doing? We're attending to it.
We're attending to it all right. We're giving attention to it.
We're putting our attention on the word of God, not on the
problem or the circumstance or the situation that we are in.
My attention is going to be on the word of God and for me to
give my attention to his word. Listen to what this means in the
in the Greek, give attention. We're going to hear the word,
We're going to hearken. We're going to take heed.
That's a very powerful word. We're going to take heed to it.
We're going to mark well, mark it well.
We're going to pay attention to it and we're going to listen.
So here we see. He says listen.
To give attention to it or to attend to His word, we're going
to have to open up our ears. And we were taught that they
that we have a ear gate and we have a eye gate.
And this is how things get within our lives and not just
good things. So we can have a ear to hear
ungodly. You know, we, we taught the
teenagers this years ago. If you're listening to ungodly
music, your ear is a gate. And guess what's going to be
coming out of your heart because that's what you're listening to,
right? If your eyes are looking at
things it shouldn't be looking at, like on your phone, you know
what I'm talking about, then guess what?
You're going to be opening your eye gate to that.
And then you're going to want to produce what it is that you're
seeing. So your eye gate, your ear gate
is one way that we receive in information, period information.
And so here for us when he's talking about for us to meditate
on the word, that means why you ought to be listening to the
word when you're driving to work or listening to the word you
know, whenever. This is because you're now is a
part of meditating because you're opening your ear to it,
you're giving attention to it, you're letting it enter within
your heart, right? So meditation is not just
sitting down, you know, being quiet, like, you know, holding
your fingers out like they say meditation is, you know, all
these things. You understand what I'm saying.
Biblical meditation. Biblical meditation is opening
up your ears to hear what the word is saying, opening up your
eyes to read what the Word is saying so that you can what?
Put it within the midst of your heart.
Okay, now when he says listen to let me see it says attend to my
words. Let them not depart from your
site. Keep them in the and then he
also says here, incline your ear out, not in the amplified, but
it's talking about incline your ear.
To my sayings, that word incline your ear means that you need to
bend your ear towards the word. That means you're not going to
let anyone else. Have you ever heard that saying,
oh, they're they have that person talking in their ear.
They've bent their ear to them. Have you heard that saying?
That's what this is meaning. You're inclining your ear to
something else. You're listening to someone
else. You're listening to something
else. And most of the time that's the
enemy. You've inclined your ear to
listen to what the enemy is saying about that situation
instead of here. He's letting us know we are to
incline our ear to what the word is saying.
So that means I'm only going to give attention and incline my
ear. It also means to bend it, to
bend it to hear what the word is saying and not bend it to hear
what anybody else is saying. You see that?
So that's what that word means. So we're going to incline our
ear or bend our ear to the word of God.
We're going to give attention to it and how are we going to give
attention to it? We're going to consent to it and
submit to it back again what I said, we're going to acknowledge
it. We're going to acknowledge what
the word says in that situation above what anybody else has said
or whatever anybody else is saying to me to try to get me
distracted or wait. Maybe it's the enemy as well,
right? But we're going to keep our ear
bent to what the word is saying. Look at Proverbs 4 one through
2. It says here, O children, the
instructions of a father, pay attention.
This is this is clear picture of what he's saying here, where
he's saying give attention to the word.
Incline your ear to the word he's saying.
Listen, pay attention to the instruction of a father and be
willing to learn. So another indication of us
bending our ear or inclining our ear or giving attention to the
word is that we have to want to learn.
We have to be teachable. We have to be people that say,
God, what is your word say? And no matter what, that's what
I'm going to do because I'm learning from you.
I'm going to be teachable in what you're saying to do in that
situation rather than something else.
So he's saying be willing to learn so that you may gain
understanding and intelligent discernment.
For I give you good doctrine, I give you good food, good
doctrine. Listen to what it says.
So do not turn away from my instruction.
See, he gives us good doctrine. He gives us good food to eat.
And we have to be people willing and ready to be a learner, to be
teachable in what the instruction is saying from His
word and give attention to it, acknowledge it, submit to it,
consent to it. You see what I'm saying?
Because it's not going to work for us if we don't.
Just because you sit here and hear the word, it can fall on
what does he say, deaf ears. And it will do you no good.
It will not prosper you and it will not make you successful,
right? And we know actually I believe
it was Sunday Pastor mentioned Hebrews where he talked about
you had become what dull of hearing.
So our ears are very important. And we know in Revelations, I've
said this too, that we need to what have ears to hear what the
Spirit is saying. And we're only going to do that
if we make sure that we're inclining our ear to only want
to hear what the word is saying, not what everything else in the
world is saying, Right. So then Proverbs 2, one through
2 says this, my son, if you'll receive my words, here it is.
You have to consent to it. You have to submit to it.
You have to receive it in your heart for this word to to to
take root and to actually come alive within you for it to
produce. So he says, listen, you have to
receive my words and here it is and treasure my commandments
within you this and we know he says his word is like great
treasure. It's a treasure, and He lets us
know, listen, we're going to have to receive His word and
we're going to have to treasure this commandment within you.
So here it is verse 2, so that your ear is attentive to
skillful and godly wisdom. When we give attention to the
word, when we meditate on the word, when we incline our ear,
when we are learner, being a learner, when we are being
teachable, when we're saying, Lord, give me this bread, I need
this nourishment. Listen to what he's saying.
Then you are going to what apply to your heart, understanding,
seeking it consistently and striving for it eagerly.
So we need to be people that are always being consistent and
daily taking in the bread, eating the Word of God, making
sure our ear is being attentive, becoming skillful to it.
That's very important. You know you're not going to
become skillful or have wisdom if you're not applying the Word
of God to your life every single day.
Every single day. He wants you to apply the Word
in everything in your life, every detail, every single day.
He wants you to live by this Word.
Amen. Proverbs 51 says this.
My son, give attention to my wisdom.
Here it is again. Incline your ear to my
understanding. So these ears are very important
and we have to pay attention. We have to be people that are
going to incline our ear to only hear what the word is saying.
Amen. Let's look at the next point.
It says this. Do not let them depart from your
eyes. This is very important because
he lets us know that our eyes. He tells us that we need to
actually fix our eyes, fix our gaze on what the word is saying.
Do not let them depart from your eyes.
Do you know what this means when you look it up?
Depart from your eyes. Depart.
It means do not let, do not go back.
How about this one? Don't look back.
Don't turn aside because he tells us to look what?
Straight ahead. Keep our eyes fixed on the
prize. Who is the author and finisher
of our faith? Who is it?
Jesus. So he tells us, fix your eyes,
keep them straight. Don't look back.
Don't turn to the side. Come on.
We're supposed to keep our view ahead.
That's what this means actually. Also it means don't go crooked.
How about cross eyed? I mean, I'm adding that I think
it could. I think that word could attain
to this. Don't go crooked.
What are we talking about? Keep your path straight.
Keep your eyes fixed on the word of God.
So our eyes are important in this as well, in this meditating
and keeping it fixed on the word of God.
Don't let it get out of your view.
Don't let it get out of your view, keep it before your eyes.
Psalms 1/19/15. This is the English standard
version. It says it like this.
Psalms 11915. I will meditate on your precepts
and fix my eyes on your ways. You see that?
So as believers, our eyes are important.
Our ears are important. And He also lets us know our
heart is important. We're going to see that in a
minute. Proverbs 3, Proverbs 3, and
verse 3 says this. And then I'm going to drop down
to verse 21. It says do not let kindness and
truth leave you. Bind them around your neck.
Write them here it is on the tablet of your heart.
You know, when the Word of Faith movement came out years ago,
this was really, really something that a lot of people
did. They would write down the
scriptures or even write down a scripture and take a picture of
something that they were believing and put it on the
refrigerator. They would write down scripture
and they would put it on, you know, wherever their mirror.
What were they doing? They were literally keeping the
word before their eyes. And I feel like, you know, we've
all gotten away from this, right?
Because this is part of meditation on the word met.
A part of meditation is us not just reading it, writing it
down, putting it before our eyes.
What's the scripture that we're standing on, right, Putting it
before our eyes and we're going to see that One of the important
things too, about meditation has to do with memorizing.
Memorizing. This is why in Sunday school,
what is the number one thing we try to do is, is get the
children to to memorize little verses, right?
What is that doing? Do you think we're just doing
that just to do it? No, it's getting it in their
heart. It's lodging it within their
heart because that's part of a very important part of
meditation is memorization as well.
And so he says, listen, write them on the tablets of your
heart, my son. Let them not vanish from your
sight. Keep sound wisdom and
discretion. You know what that tells me?
That if I don't keep meditating on the Word, if I don't keep the
Word before my eyes, if I don't keep my ears inclined to the
Word and what it's saying, then I'm going to not have proper
discretion and not have sound wisdom when it comes to a
situation that I'm encountering. I'm not going to have proper
discernment. And so, you know, I know for me,
I want to know that when I'm encountering situations and when
I'm in, in, in a scenario, I want to have sound wisdom and I
want to have discernment and discretion about reality of
what's happening. Because if you're not keeping
yourself in a place of this meditation, then I'm going to
tell you when you get in situations, you're not going to
have sound wisdom and you're not going to have the discernment
that you need. The next thing he lets us know
here #4 this is the fourth point.
I had five. The 4th point was keep them in
the midst of your heart. Keep them in the midst of your
heart. So what does this mean?
You're getting in the Word every day and it's keeping it in the
midst of your heart. You're putting it within your
heart, your spirit man. But listen to what this heart is
letting us know. Don't have a divided heart.
Don't have a divided heart because you can have an opinion
about something that's not what the Scripture is saying and your
heart be divided. So we can't be people that have
a divided heart. We for us, we want just the word
kept within our heart. We want nothing but the word,
right. So help us God, the truth, the
truth of God's Word, That's what we want to keep in the midst of
our heart. We don't want to have a divided
heart with other opinions, other thought processes, other things.
We want to have strictly a heart full of His word, and that's
what that's talking about here. Keeping it in the midst of your
heart. Listen to what it says.
It means this, to guard it, to guard it, to protect it, to
observe, to do it. So again, just because we're
meditating on it and putting in our heart, we have to actually
do it for it to actually be the center of our heart.
We have to be doing what the word is saying.
Because if we're not doing it, we're doing our thought or our
opinion or whatever we want to do instead of what the word is
saying to do because it won't be the center of your heart.
You have a divided heart is what he's letting us know here.
So again, guarding it, protecting it, observing it,
retaining it, or I love this how it said this treasure up, build
your treasure up, get your heart so full of the treasure of the
word of God, treasure up. But in that word, treasure up
means memory. How do you get so much word in
you again that you got it memorized to memory?
Treasure up, get so much of His word.
And we're going to see this in a second.
I'm going to read the scripture that talks about this treasure
up in your memory. And not only that, it means to
keep watch over. That means you're not going to
let because you know, what are the number one things when the
seed of the word is sown in your heart, the enemy tries to come
and what? Snatch it out of your heart?
That's why he tells us to guard it, protect it, because the
enemy wants to snatch it out of your heart so it don't take root
in you to become a treasure, to become so treasured up that it
is in memory. So that means when you're in a
situation, the Holy Ghost, you're just quoting these
scriptures. Come on.
They're just coming up because you're so full of the treasure
of God's Word because you've been meditating on it day and
night. Come on, you're so full of His
word that that's the only thing that can come out of your mouth
now the center of your heart also, because we know the heart
is connected here is talking about your inner man and your
soul realm, which is your mind, your will, your the seat of your
emotions. See if you get so treasured up
in the word of God and so full of it, you will dominate your
emotions because remember First Thessalonians 523.
This is just a side note. He wants us to sanctify ourself
what be blameless spirit, soul and body.
So we need to get and we've talked about this when we taught
on spirit, soul and body. We want our spirit man so full
of the word of God that it dominates our body, our flesh
and it right and it dominates our emotions in our soul realm
so that it would be what two against one.
And when you get your heart so full of the word of God, it will
dominate in both all three arenas and you won't have to
worry about letting it, you know, be the you you already so
full that it's not your flesh is not dominating you at all and
your mind and your emotions are stayed on the Lord on the word.
It's on the word and why do I say that?
Because of this word right here. Colossians chapter 3, Colossians
chapter 3 and verse 16. Listen to what he says.
Let the word of God. I'm reading out of the
amplified, but I'm going to just quote it what it says.
Let the word of God what richly dwell within you, Let the word
of God richly dwell within you. This is richly.
This is that word treasured up. It's richly dwelling within you,
the word of God. You are so full because you've
been meditating day and night. You've been keeping your eyes
fixed on what the word of God says.
Come on, you've been inclining your ear to what the word of God
has said about your situation and you are the word of God is
so richly dwelling within your heart.
Listen to what the amplifies it says.
Let the spoken Word of Christ have its home within your or
dwelling in your heart and your mind, because again, that was
connected the heart and the mind in your heart and mind
permeating every aspect of your being.
As you teach spiritual things, listen to what it says, admonish
and train with one another. With all wisdom, look at the
byproduct of the Word of God richly dwelling within you.
Your mouth is going to open up and sing psalms of hymns,
spiritual songs, making melody within your heart and
thankfulness. So I'm going to tell you, when
you come in here and you act like you can't worship God, you
know what? That lets me know you have not
been meditating on the word day and night so that the word is so
full and richly dwelling within you.
A byproduct of it is that I'm going to open up my mouth and
I'm going to begin to praise him.
Come on, I'm going to begin to worship him.
I'm going to begin to sing a song of praise of him.
Hallelujah. I'm going to begin to give glory
to Him because his word. Oh, it's treasured up on the
inside of me and I can't help but to sing praises to his name.
Hallelujah. It's a byproduct.
What's in your mouth will come out of your heart and come out
of your heart. Come out of your mouth because
it's so rich within you and you'll have a song.
Can't help but to praising, can't help but to sing a song, a
hymn, a spiritual song making a melody.
Come on because the word of God. Listen to what Hebrew says.
We're closing the word of God in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12 says
for the word of God is living and active.
How can you come in here and act dead if you've been meditating
on the word day and night and you come in here like a bubble?
The log, come on. I'm just, it's, it says it right
here. His word is alive.
His word is active, full of power, making it operative,
energizing and effective. It is sharper than any 2 edged
sword, penetrating as far as the division of the soul and the
spirit, the completeness of a person of both joint and marrow
to the deepest parts of our nature, exposing and judging the
very thoughts and intentions of one's art.
Hallelujah, glory to God. Oh thank you Jesus, thank you
Jesus. And look at the last thing he
says about Proverbs chapter 4. It says that his, his word,
those that write it, they are life.
Life to those who find them life.
You should be so energized. Come on, you should be so full
of life. You should be so excited that
the word of God is in you, the seed of God's word, the divine
nature, everything that pertains to life and godliness dwells on
the inside of you. Glory to God, giving you life,
giving you nourishment, giving you everything you need every
single day. Hallelujah.
And you know what it brings? Healing.
It brings healing to your life, healing to your soul, healing to
your emotions. See, when you're in the Word,
come on, you ought to be so full.
Healing health to all their flesh.
That word in the Greek is MARPE medicine.
It's the medicine you need every day, daily.
What do we say? Take your medicine because it's
going to be health and it's going to be healing to you.
And if you are sick, if you are broke down, come on.
If your emotions are controlling you, if all of these
circumstances are going on and you are losing control, come on,
it's because you've got treasured up and eat in your
daily bread. Where is the life source that's
going to flow to you for what you need in that meaning?
Listen, when you look up that word, MARPE, healing for
disease, just reading the word, just meditating on the word,
healing your body, healing your diseases.
This is a result of us being so full of God's word that disease
cannot stay in your body. It's a byproduct.
Healing is the dinner bread or the dinner bell of healing is a
byproduct of our salvation and the one way we need to take our
medicine every day so that disease can be pushed out of our
body. What about the next thing that
word means a refreshing of your body and your mind.
A refreshing, we know Roman said he can quicken your mortal body,
refresh you in your mind and in your body.
And you know what that word also means?
A deliverance from any type of calamity.
You might have had calamity in your life.
You know what you need to do? Just meditate on the word.
Just meditate on the word day and night.
Come on and just receive your deliverance from that calamity
that just happened in your life. Just meditating on the Word,
inclining your ear, observing and doing, consenting and
submitting to the Word of God, the byproduct of it, the last
thing it means. It's the remedy for tranquility
of mine. It's the remedy, right?
We take our medicine for what? The remedy of healing?
And he's letting us know the remedy for a crazy mind.
Come on, is meditating in the word day and night.
You will have tranquility of mind and then you know what
else? It's connected to your mouth
because he says you will have a meek tongue.
Wow, that's what that MARP means in the Greek.
Wow, let's be people this year as believers to say, you know
what? I'm going to meditate in his
word day and night. I'm going to read and partake of
the bread of life. Come on every day and I'm going
to chew it and bite it one day at a time.
I'm going to just take it in. I'm going to meditate it.
I'm going to bite on it. I'm going to eat on it, come on.
And I'm going to begin to be person that's going to just
begin to speak his word in every situation.
Listen, make it your New Year's resolution and I guarantee you,
you will see the result of just you dedicating yourself to read
the word and meditate on it and speak it and believe it and do
it and see the changes that you need in your life.
Amen. Hallelujah in that exciting, in
that good news, he said. Listen, I am the bread of life
and all you got to do is just take a bite every day.