The Five Fingers of the Word

Saturday 11 February
READ: Rom. 4: 17-22
MORE LESSON: Matt. 7: 24 - 27

There is no faith outside of the Word of God. Real faith is based upon what God has said. A man can be optimistic and believe that things will turn out well but that is not faith. Faith is when that conviction that things will work well is based on a revelation from the Word of God, spoken or written, that you have received.
This is why you need to keep on hearing the Word. The more of the Word in you, the more faith you have. The more faith you have, the more the quality of your life. There are five things you must do with the Word of God for it to benefit you. They are like the five fingers that work together for a good grasp of anything in the hand. The five fingers are hearing the Word, reading the Word, memorising the Word, meditating upon the Word and doing the Word. You need to do all these five with the Word: hear, read, memorize, meditate and do the Word. When you do all these, your profiting will appear to all, as written in 1 Tim 4:15-16, Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
It starts by hearing the Word but if you merely hear and don't meditate on what you hear, you will soon lose it. Meditation is creating time after hearing the Word to think and ponder upon it. Reading the Word is also important, you can hear someone preach to you, however when you read the Word, God gives you revelations that are very personal to you. A great Word-life is not built on just hearing what others read and preach to you, you also need to personally read and thereby get personal revelation which will benefit you, and you can even share with others. Memorising the Word is storing up scriptures in your mind, making the Word available in the soft copy of your thinking so that it can be available for use at all times. The last finger which, many times, is missing in people's life is doing the Word. No matter how much you hear, read, meditate or memorise, until you do the Word, there will be no change in your situation.
The Word of God is the sword of the spirit (Eph 6: 17). To be able to use it to defend yourself and attack the devil, you need a firm hold on it. The five fingers of the hand are needed to firmly hold a sword in battle. The five fingers are needed for the Word of God to build strong faith in your spirit. This will make you to be mighty in battle and a conqueror in every area of your life. The sword of the spirit will not fall from your hand, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that the Word of God will have its full course in your life, in Jesus’ name.
* Pray for grace to be a doer of the Word, in the name of Jesus.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Shepherd of my soul, I give You full control of my destiny; rule and reign in my life unhindered, in the name of Jesus.