Words transmit Images

Excerpt from Charles Capps teaching about the Power of Words.

"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteh nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63)  Jesus said there is spirit life in the spoken word.  That;s why it is important for us to confess what God has already said about us in His Word.  Words carry spiritual forces.  Words can transmit faith.  They transmit images after their kind to others.  God's Word transmits the image God wants you to have.  The devil's words transmit the image he wants you to have.

Your words are powerful transmitters.  Be careful what you say to yourself and others.

Faith is Transmitted by Words

In Romans 10:17, Paul said, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."  That is "A truth," but it is not the whole truth.  When Paul made that statement, he was talking about faith in God and in His word  Faith in God's word come by hearing what He said.  But there is a reciprocal of that truth.  Just as Faith in God comes by hearing and receiving the Word of God, faith in the devil comes by hearing the words of the devil.  The opposite of faith is fear.  Most of the time,  fear is actually faith in the devil.  Don't take "A truth" and make "THE truth" out of it.  For if we dogmatically declare that the only way anyone can obtain faith is by hearing the Word of God, that's not the WHOLE truth.  You can have faith in the weather man by hearing him predict the weather.

The truth is that Faith comes by hearing, Whether you are hearing me or hearing the weather forecast, faith comes by hearing.  Spoken words transmit a corresponding spirit.  Fear-Filled words produce fear in those who hear and receive them.  Faith-Filled words produce Faith in those who hear and receive them.

The Integrity of the Word of God

Excerpt from "Advanced Bible Course"

 by E.W. Kenyon

"The WORD is god speaking to you.  "Thus saith Jehovah" is repeated over two thousand times from Exodus to Deuteronomy.  God and his Word are one.  The Word is always now. Jesus is the Word.  Jesus is the living Word.  Hebrews 4:12 "The Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joint and marrow- scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart." (Moffat)

And now notice carefully the next verse: "And no created thing is hidden from Him; all things lie open, exposed before the eyes of Him with Whom we have to reckon."  The Word is called the Logos.  Jesus is the Logos, and the Logos is a living thing- not in the book, not on the written page, but in the lips of the believer."  There is no created thing hidden from Him, this living Word.  The Word searches us out, find us.  The Word is our Contact with God the Father.  It is His contact with us. Christ and the Word are one.  It is the Word dwelling in you which is equivalent to Christ personally being in you.  Letting the Word have right away in your life is letting Christ have right-of way.  The Word dominating you is the Lordship of Christ in you."

The Holy Spirit in the Life of Jesus Christ

"I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance; but He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire."—Matt. 3:11

These words from the lips of the Forerunner intimate that there was to be a great distinction between the old Dispensation which he was closing, and the new, which Jesus Christ was about to usher in.

The distinction was to be very marked in connection with the manner and measure in which the Holy Ghost would be poured out upon the people of God and manifested in connection with the work of redemption.

The two natural emblems of water and fire are used to denote the difference between the two dispensations.

We have seen that the Holy Ghost was present on earth during the Old Testament age, speaking in the prophets and messengers of God, and working out the Divine purpose in the lives of God's chosen agents, and instrumentalities. But the New Testament is pre-eminently the age of the Holy Ghost, and we might, therefore, expect that there would be a great and infinite difference. The principal difference between the old and new dispensations, with respect to the presence and manifestations of the Holy Ghost, might be summed up in the following particulars.

1. In the Old Testament, the Holy Ghost was given to special individuals to fit them for special service; and in the New Testament, the promise is that the Spirit shall be poured out upon all flesh, and they shall not need io say one to another, "Know the Lord, for all shall know Him," through the Divine unction, "from the least to the greatest."

The universal outpouring of the Holy Ghost upon all believers is the striking feature of the New Testament.

2. The Holy Spirit was with men and upon men rather than in them in the Old Testament. In the New Testament Dispensation, the Holy Ghost comes to dwell in us and to unite us personally with God, and to be in us not only a Spirit of power and a preparation for service, but a Spirit of life, holiness, and fellowship with The Divine Being.

God's measureless measures part III

"We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise." 2 Corinthians 10:12

II.—HIS WORD.

"Behold the handmaid of the Lord!" is the sublime response of Mary to the angel's astonishing message, "be it unto me according to Thy Word." Never was faith put to a harder test. Never was woman asked to stand in so delicate a place of peril and possibility, of humbling shame and glorious everlasting honor. Realizing, perhaps, with every instinct of her maiden heart all that this might cost her, she meekly, unhesitatingly, without one question, one faltering breath, accepted the stupendous promise and responsibility and rose to meet the divine measure, "according to Thy word," and like an echo came back the heavenly benediction, '' Blessed is she that believed, for there shall be a performance of those things that were told her from the Lord."

Beloved, are you living up to this great measure? Is faith resting and claiming, not according to signs and feelings, but according to His word? Is obedience walking, not according to the course of this world, or the moods of our capricious hearts, or the standards of men, or the example of others, or the traditions even of the church, but according- to His word? Are we Bible Christians and determined to believe and obey every word within these inspired and heavenly pages? Then we shall be found in '' the way everlasting," for "the grass withereth and the flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever," and "he that doeth the will of God abideth forever."