PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME Dsc. Dsc. DD.
GOD’S WORD IS GOD
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1).
God’s Word is not merely what God says; it is God Himself. The Word of God is God in expression. When you hear God’s Word, you’re hearing God. When you receive His Word, you’re receiving Him. He’s in His Word, just as His Word is in Him.
This is a truth many don’t fully grasp. They think God’s Word is separate from Him, like someone saying something and then walking away from it. But that’s not how it is with God. His Word carries His person. It expresses not just His thoughts but also His power, His presence, His glory, and His life.
How do we know someone’s personality? It’s through their words. Words reveal who a person is. In the same way, God reveals Himself in His Word. His Word transmits divinity. The life of God is in His Word. That’s why when you receive the Word into your heart, you’re not just getting mere information or instruction; you’re receiving God Himself. You’re fellowshipping with the very essence of life.
His Word creates, heals, transforms and delivers. No wonder the Lord Jesus is called the Word made flesh (John 1:14). He said, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). He is the living Word. “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:3).
Did you observe that the Word is referred to as “Him” and not “it”? That’s because He’s a person. Any time you hear and receive the Word of God into you, you’re receiving more than doctrine or teaching; you’re receiving God. Therefore, honour His Word, because to honour His Word is to honour Him.
PRAYER
Dear Father, I thank you for your life, power and glory that’s in your Word; the same power, presence and glory that I experience because your Word is in me, producing what it talks about. I live by your Word and experience continual transformation, progress and victory, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
If you’re blessed by this devotional, believing every words you heard by faith in your heart, and would love to make Jesus the lord of your life, then speak the confessions below out loud, and mean them with your heart:
“O Lord God, I believe with all my heart in Jesus Christ, Son of the living God. I believe He died for me and God raised Him from the dead. I believe He’s alive today. I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life from this day. Through Him and in His Name, I have eternal life; I’m born again. Thank you Lord, for saving my soul! I’m now a child of God. Hallelujah!”
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FURTHER STUDY
John 1:1–3 (NIV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
John 1:14 (NIV)
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Hebrews 4:12–13 (KJV)
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 (KJV)
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
DAILY SCRIPTURE READING
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
1 Peter 4;
Ezekiel 33-34
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
John 14:22-31;
1 Chronicles 25
