Saints of the Living God, GREETINGS!
It is another week, and we thank and rejoice in the Living God, our Heavenly Father, through the Lord Jesus Christ, for His provision, love, care, and his indwelling peace in us by the Divine Person of the Holy Spirit.
Main Bible Scripture: Proverbs 18 v 20-21
Other Associated Scriptures: Romans 4 v 17, James 3 v 10, Luke 6 v 43-45, John 6 v 63, Mark 5 v 25 – 34, John 6 v 63 and so on.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for another week of divine health, divine peace, divine provision and divine wisdom and revelation of God, the Father of spirits. We come today, this very hour, in our own accord, to feed our born-again spirit-beings with the rich nutrient of God’s Holy Word. We agree that your Word is the truth. We trust the Holy Spirit to bring the light of God’s Word into our minds and the direction of that Word into our spirits. We trust you, the Lord Jesus Christ, that we will be doers of your Word and not hearers, readers or speakers only. In Jesus Name. Amen
Theme/Subject: My son is alive
Our theme or subject is “my son is alive.” Those were the words of a tired looking father whose son was pulled alive from under the rubble after six and half days following the earthquake which struck parts of Turkey and Syria in the early hours of Monday 6th February 2023.
A journalist asked this tired looking father “Did you ever think this [your son pulled alive after six and a half days] would happen? How do you feel?” This tired looking father replied “I kept telling myself, he’s alive, he’s alive, my son is alive.”
As soon as I heard those words from this man, I screenshot his words, the journalist questions and his son laying on a stretcher on my phone. This is because I was watching the news of the earthquake on my phone, so it was possible to screenshot.
Why did this tired looking father’s words touched me so much and I instinctively screenshot those words? This is because the Holy Spirit immediately brought to my remembrance a scripture from Proverbs 18 v 21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”
I will invite you to just imagine the circumstance surrounding this tired looking father. He stood for days looking at a destruction of an enormous scale caused by the earthquake.
He was at the scene not as a volunteer or a spectator but he stood there looking at the collapsed storey building where his son once called home and lived. He stood there knowing that his son was underneath the heap of rubbles. He stood there looking at the rescuers pulling up dead bodies after dead bodies beneath the rubbles. He stood there looking and hearing other families crying for their loved ones, some even gave up hope because six and a half days have passed by since the buildings collapsed caused by the earthquake. But whilst this tired looking father stood and looked on, he kept telling himself amid all the ‘natural giants’ starring at him - the collapsed building, the bodies being pulled out, other families crying and even given up hope. This man stood there and looked on saying to himself “He is alive, he’s alive, my son is alive.” This father was not overwhelmed by what he saw but he was overwhelmed by what he believed and what he spoke – he is alive, he is alive, my son is alive!
In the midst of total devastation and destruction, this tired looking father chose to speak LIFE instead of DEATH. He spoke LIFE into a DEAD situation. He could not find anyone in the midst of all that devastation to share those words of life with, so he kept telling himself “he is alive, he is alive, my son is alive.”
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, the Word of God teaches, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Certainly, this tired looking father chose to speak life in a ‘dead’ situation and he surely ate the fruit of life. That is, his son was pulled alive six and half days from under the rubbles of a collapsed storey building. He did not start saying his son was alive when he saw the rescuers pulled him alive but he started saying so before they pulled his son alive.
This tired looking father could be a born-again child of God or he could not but he surely understood the spiritual force behind the words we speak. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. If a person chooses to speak life and believes (acts on) what he or she speaks; he or she eats the fruits of life. On the other hand, if a person chooses to speak death and believes what he or she speaks; he or she eats the fruits of death.
Let me ask you, saints, in the current challenging situation that you find yourself, are you speaking life or are you speaking the situation? I encourage you to speak life. Meaning find some scriptures concerning the situation and speak them over the situation and act upon them. For the Word of God is life.
Remember! God’s Word teaches that “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” I have chosen to speak life, to speak God’s Word to eat the fruit of life and to impart grace to my listeners– have you?
Closing Prayer
Heavenly Father in Christ Jesus we thank you for your incorruptible living Word, that Word has come to us, help us to be doers thereof. In Jesus Name. Amen.
To God be the glory forever and ever in Jesus Name by the power of the Holy Spirit. I know that you are blessed by these teachings, why don’t you share them with others to be blessed also? It is also important to get your feedback and how together, through these teachings we are growing in faith in God’s Holy Written Word.
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