The Word is Spirit and Life

     In John 6:63 (Amplified) Jesus says, "It is the Spirit Who gives Life (He is the Life-Giver) the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it) The Words (truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
     Jesus tells us in the above scripture that the things we say and act on determine what will happen in our lives.  When we were unsaved and without Jesus, we were dead in trespass and sin.  If we were dead, then life didn't enter into us until we were born again.  Your "life" comes from your spirit.  Life isn't something that is in our flesh, but in our spirits.
     Speaking and acting on God's Word puts life into our spirits.  Our spirits then, will minister life into our flesh.  One must have a strong, healthy spirit in order to have a strong, healthy body.  Jesus said that His Words are "Spirit and Life."  All healing and strength originate from your spirit into your flesh.
     3John 2:1 (Amplified) says, "Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in every way and (that your body) may keep well, even as (I know) your soul keeps well and prospers."  John continues in  Verse 4 saying, "I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my (spiritual) children are living their lives in the truth."  We just read where Jesus said that, "The Word is Spirit and Truth."  It seems abundantly clear that John's spiritual children were living, walking and speaking the Word.
     Words are decisions we choose to either speak or not speak.  I'm not implying that only scripture should come forth from your mouth, but we should keep our words in line with the Word.  We are to "agree" with what God says us and not with what the world or others say about us.  If God has said you are righteous, then it doesn't matter what your flesh or someone else says about you.  You must agree with what God says.
     We have removed the power of the Word in our lives, by allowing the world to determine how much of it is true in our lives today.  The same God Who spoke this universe into being, is the very same God Who spoke us (the new creation) into being.  His Word brought everything into being and brought about our new being when we were saved.  Since you were "born of the Word," your spirit responds to and lives by the Word.
     1Peter 1:23-25 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from One that is immortal by the Ever living and Lasting Word of God For all flesh (mankind) is like grass, and all its glory (honor) like (the) flower of grass, the grass withers and the flower drops off But the Word of the Lord (Divine instruction, the Gospel) endures forever. And this Word is the Good News, which was preached to you."
     Your life is sustained and strengthened by the Life of the Word that you bring into it.  All of your natural and spiritual life comes from within your spirit.  Even if you're eating right and exercising, your body (your natural man) will still die.  But, if you are born again, then when your natural body dies, the promise of the Word and the Life thereof will raise this natural body into life again.  The unsaved do not have this promise, even though they might eat correctly and exercise often.
     Through God's Word, your spirit is your source of life in Christ Jesus, because HE IS THE WORD.  We've somehow overlooked what the scriptures say and haven't allowed them to be Spirit.  Jesus said in Mark 11:22-24 (Amplified), "Have faith in God (constantly) Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain; Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him. For this reason I Am telling you, Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will get it."
     Jesus said that "Whatever we speak, believing in our hearts that it will come to pass, we can have it."  Do you realize that this will also work on the negative side of things?  In other words, faith filled words will produce what we are saying.  Jesus said in Mark 4:14 (Amplified) that, "The Sower sows the Word!"  We've failed to understand how all words are seeds.  In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus spoke about the Word of God being a seed and your spirit or heart, is the soil.  The soil has no say about what it grows.  It will take the seed or words that are spoke and will cause them to grow.
     What seeds are being sown into your heart?  Do you have more faith in the negative things the world says, than you do in God's Word?  Do you have more faith in "nothing works for me" than you do in "I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me (Mark 11:23-24)?"  Do you speak and believe more in being sick than you do that, "By His Stripes I am healed?"  Both can be faith-filled words and both will grow in the soil of your heart.
     In Mark 4:23-24 (Amplified) Jesus said, "If any man has ears to hear, let him be listening and let him perceive and comprehend, And He said to them; Be Careful what you are hearing. The measure (of thought and study) you give (to the truth you hear) will be the measure (of virtue and knowledge) that comes back to you-and more (besides) will be given to you who hear."
     In the natural, we plant backyard gardens with peas, green beans, carrots and other seeds.  We have weeds grow in the same garden.  We never intended for the weeds to be growing there, but they came up anyway.  The ground (your spirit) doesn't have control over what was sown, but it will grow whatever "seed" falls into it.
     Your spirit (your soil) will grow negative seeds (words) as well as the good seeds, which are the seeds of God's Word.  Be careful what falls into your heart!  Be careful what you speak!  Your spirit will grow whatever seed (word) you allow to be sown into it.  If you are hearing "These things don't work for you," then stop listening to those seeds that will bring a crop of unbelief and doubt into your "Garden of Eden." 
     Read and meditate on Jesus' Words in Mark 4.  The world is sowing seeds (words) of doubt and unbelief into people continuously.  All words are seeds.  When we listen to what the world says (or even to what some Christians are saying), then we are being "planted and seeded" by words that will produce in good soil.