John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came through Jesus Christ."
John 1:1-3 (Amplified) says, "In the beginning (before all time), was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God and the Word was God Himself (He was present originally with God). All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being." THIS IS THE POWER OF GOD'S WORD.
Matthew 28:18 (Amplified) tells us, "Jesus approached, and breaking the silence, said to them, All authority, all power of rule, in Heaven and on earth has been given to Me."
Hebrews 1:2-3 (Amplified) says, "But in the last of these days [God] has spoken to us in the Person of a Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and reaches of space and the ages of time. He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order. He is the Sole Expression of the Glory of God, Light-Being, the out-raying or radiance of the Divine, and He is the Perfect Imprint and very Image of God's nature (upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling) the universe by His Mighty Word of Power."
The Power of His Word created all things in John 1:1-3, before the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden. Hebrews 1:23 shows us the Word of His Power, where God has given the Risen Christ all Power in Heaven and earth. This is the Risen King, the Appointed Heir and Lawful Owner of all things. Jesus is the King of Kings, He is the Word of God's Power, and is the Lawful Owner of all things again.
His Word of Power is beyond dispute or doubt. Jesus is exalted above all the Heavens and the earth. The Word of His Power is revealed in Psalm 138:2 (Amplified), which says, "I will worship toward Your Temple and praise Your Name for You Loving-Kindness, and for Your Truth and faithfulness, for You have exalted above all else Your Name and Your Word, and You have magnified Your Word above all Your Name." W read about the magnification of Jesus, the Word, Who is now the Lawful Heir and Lawful Owner and is the Word of His Power.
Hebrews 1:1 (Amplified) says, "In many separate Revelations, each of which set forth a portion of the Truth, and in different ways God spoke of old to our forefathers in and by the prophets." God could only move by His Word and in order to fulfill His will, God needed to get His Word into the earth. God needed to get mankind back into the place God was and He had to do it legally, as not to violate His Own Word. God had prophets and men of old who would speak forth His Word, into the earth. After His Word went forth, God could move in and by His Word, without violating His Ow will from Heaven or His Kingdom.
As God moved on men of old and they spoke forth His Word into the earth, God could move according to that world towards redemption and Grace. God Word is His Power and by it He spoke all things into existence. God gave total authority and dominion to Adam in Genesis 1:26 (Amplified), which says, "And God said, Let Us (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image, after Our Likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame beasts, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth."
Many don't realize the Power of the Word God gave to mankind in the above scripture. God had actually relinquished authority to mankind, over all the earth. This meant that God had no right to intervene and move on this earth, without man and the authority of mankind. This is why He needed men of old to speak forth His Word. Using the men of old, God gained authority to perform His Word again. This is the Power of His Word.
God went on through all the prophets of old and spoke Jesus beginning immediately in Genesis 3:13 (Amplified), saying, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her OFFSPRING; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel." The very first Words of the Messiah, were spoken into this earth by God. From that time, He spoke Jesus, one prophecy after another, until He had completed by Words, the Messiah. God spoke the place where Jesus would be born, the place Jesus would die, and the time of His Ascension. Once His Word had come to the complete Man, God spoke that complete Word into Mary's womb. This is the Power of His Word.
God's Word took upon itself and became flesh, according to John 1:14. A sinless Man had come Who wasn't under the authority or dominion of sin and death. God's Word could be spoken from the lips of a Man and become the Word of His Power. This is why it's vital that we see why the words of a born-again child of God, are so important. Satan couldn't stop the Power of God's Word, but he's attempting to stop the Word of God's Power from coming out of the mouths of God's family. The enemy twists the Word of God's Power, but as ambassadors of Christ Jesus, we are to proclaim the Word of His Power into this earth and bring people out of death and sin. When we speak things that are contrary to God, we're not speaking the Word of His Power, but are speaking our own ideas about what that power is.
Many believers don''t speak His Word of Power about healing, but say instead, "God sometimes puts sickness on us." This isn't the Word of His Power, but the perverted words of the enemy. How can His Power work in our lives, if we speak contrary to them? We diminish His Word of Power, when we speak things that are contrary to it. God can only move by His Word, according to Matthew 28:18 (Amplified) which says, "All Power and authority has been given Him in Heaven and earth." God's Power works by His Word. That's why Jesus told us to "God into all the world and preach the Gospel." It is needed to release His Mighty Power into the earth, like it did it Jesus' ministry.
Jesus asked His disciples in Mark 4:13 (Amplified), "Do you not discern and understand this Parable? How then is it possible for you to discern and understand all the Parables?" The secret counsels of God and the Mystery of the Kingdom of God, is the principle of seeds being words, that are planted into the soil of our hearts or spirits, and then produce the Kingdom of God or the kingdom of darkness into our lives. This simple Truth is the Mystery of God's Kingdom. Words or seeds are sown and produce in our lives and the lives of others into which we have sown.
We've been fearful of sowing seeds of hope or faith into others, thinking this seed might produce something other than what we intended. This is because we haven't heeded Jesus' instructions in Mark 4:24 (Amplified) where He admonishes, "Be careful what you are hearing." Many haven't been careful about what seed (words) they've allowed to grow in the good soil of their heart and produced something other than the Kingdom harvest. Some dismiss the seed principal as being, "Name it and claim it" or "Blab it and grab it," like they've heard taught. Jesus said it is the Mystery of the Kingdom of God and the secret counsels of God.
Everything we see around us or don't see around us (like gravity or the wind), derived from Words. Why would we think that the things being produced around us now, didn't come from words also? When you plant a garden, do you see only the seeds you plant or are you seeing the fruit? We have faith that the seeds we plant won't just remain seeds, but they will produce tomatoes or corn or something else. We don't put the seeds in the soil, because we only see the seeds, but because we know those seeds will produce after kind. Why would the Seed of God's Word be any different? Do you only see the seed when you speak it or do you see the results of that seed?
All words are seeds and they will either produce the Kingdom Harvest or produce what things from the enemy's kingdom of darkness. They will produce and like Adam, we've been called the tend the garden. You can either allow the serpent to enter and cause you to sow seeds of destruction or you can carefully choose the seeds of God's Word to be sown into your heart (spirit) and produce a harvest of God's Kingdom. What is produced from within your heart, is what you allow to be sown into it, according to Matthew 12:35 (Amplified), where Jesus said, "The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and and evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things."
There were 12 spies sent out from the Wilderness into the Promised Land, who came back to report what they saw in Numbers 13:31-32 (Amplified) which says, "But Joshua's fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people of Canaan, for they are stronger than we are. So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the Land which they scouted out." Numbers 14:1 (Amplified) goes on, "And all the congregation cried out with a loud voice and they wept that night."
What we think about evil, and what God calls evil, aren't always the same. What God called, "Evil," were the words (seeds) that weren't aligned with His heart and were sown into the hearts of the Israelites. The evil seeds sown into their hearts, produced a crop of fear and distrust, that prevented God's seed or courage from producing victory. Those evil seeds produced a crop, because the people weren't careful what they heard. Jesus said in Mark 4:24 (Amplified), "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."
What we hear and what we produce, is up to us; not God. We can choose to hear and allow evil reports that are contrary to God, to be sown in our hearts. Or, we can be careful what we hear and allow to be sown in our hearts. The hearer chooses. This is the Mystery of the Kingdom of God and the secret counsel of God. You can choose to hear what I'm saying here or you can receive an evil report that tells you, "It doesn't matter or make a difference what you say or hear."
This is the same choice the Israelites in the Wilderness has to make in Numbers 14. You can enter into the Word of His Power or remain where you are, by receiving the word of the enemy. You have the choice. This is the Year of Understanding, if we have ears to hear.
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