Receiving His Word

0:02 Hello everybody, welcome once again to Deep Things. Oh dear. And yes, this is episode 3 of Deep Things of His Word. So today we're looking at a topic, receiving His Word. So what has God said concerning your life? What has God said concerning your business? What has God said concerning your spiritual life? What has he said concerning your career? What has he said concern your academics should What has God said about everything that concerns you? Note, if you want to receive from God, you must know what God said.

0:51 The Word of God carries the power of God. So if you pay attention to the Word of God, then you have found the key to securing the power of God in your life. You have to be hungry for the Word of God. That's the secret, that's the key. According to Psalm 130, verse 5, it says I wait for the Lord. My hope being waits, and in His Word I put my hope. The raw material to producing results in this Kingdom is the Word of God according to John chapter one verse 3. Through Him all things were made. Without Him nothing was made that has been made.

1:37 So everything has been made by the Word. That's through Jesus. Nothing has existed that was not through Him. When God gives you His word, He gives you Himself. I come again. When the Lord gives you His word, He gives you Himself. It is one thing to be given something, it's another thing to receive. The kids make rest reference to deep things of mercy. The entire series we are speaking about how to receive mercy and we kind of spoke about how to receive so you can make reference today. OK, so earlier I asked the question about what has got it concerning your life, your career, your spiritual life and various aspects of your life.

2:24 God can keep speaking over your life, but if you don't claim it, you would never see the result. According to John chapter one verse 9 to 12, it says the true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his aunt did not receive him. Listen yet to all who did receive him to to those who believed in his name, He gave the right to become children of God.

3:10 Take note, there's a connection between receiving the Word and believing the Word of God. You cannot receive the Word without first believing. See Matthew chapter 8 verse 13 that says then Jesus said to the centurion, go let it be just as you believed it would and his servant was healed at the moment. Now this is story of a centurion that asked Jesus to just pick a word over his servant instead of coming to his house. He believed God's Word was powerful enough to heal His servant from any location.

3:48 Now God's Word contains His promises and His principles. One way of believing His Word is to know His Word. If you don't know it, how then will you believe what you don't know? According to First Kings chapter 8 verse 56 B, not one word has failed of all the good promises He gave through His servant Moses. Again, Jeremiah chapter one verse 12, the Lord said to me, you have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled. Now imagine knowing all these truths about God's Word while we're believing His word be heard.

4:31 When you know that he's looking at the promises to make sure they come to pass and His word make sure they're fulfilled. Now for today's episode, What does it mean to really be to really receive his word? What does it mean to receive his word? It means to receive light. So Psalm chapter 119, verse 130, it says the entrance of your word gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. And that translation says, break open your word within me until revelation light shines out. Those with open hearts are giving insight into your plans.

5:15 So those that receive His word receive light. Now how do we receive His word? I like how this is going. So the first way is by acting on it by your fate. So there are many ways. You have people that have ways of receiving the word. There are many ways, right? But I just highlighted just three. OK, there are many other ways, but this three, I've seen it work, and I trust God in your life. If you use it, it also work in your life too. So #1 by acting on it, by your fate. So when you act on the Word, it shows you have caught it, you have received it according to Hebrews chapter 4 verse 2.

6:05 For we have heard the good news of deliverance just as they did, yet they didn't join their faith with the world. Instead, what they heard didn't affect them deeply, for they doubted. OK, so your faith should be mixed with the world if you want to see results. So how will you receive it if you receive with your faith? Now receive the word with your feet another ways you receive His word or light. Like we've already said earlier on with joy, according to Isaiah chapter 12, verse three, with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

6:51 You know, when I initially saw this scripture a while back, I envisioned Joy to be a fetcher. You know, for those that already know they're not about well or maybe a bowl for those that you start. So you want to get butter and you don't have made from the well and you don't have a fetcher. You can't fetch anything from there. You can't get anything from there or you go into the tap. I want to pick up water to probably do something with you want to transport the water and I want a bucket or a bowl.

7:26 You cannot take water out of there. It's literally going to slip away from your hands. So in this case from this scripture, it say with joy you will draw waters from the wells of salvation. So with joy you can receive. How do you do that? When you rejoice, your spirit opens up and like an antenna, it picks the world. This is a cue to this is a cue to rejoice more at the world. So what do I mean by this? If you don't redress at the word of God, that means you don't honour or believe the owner of the world.

8:03 Imagine if someone tells you, I'll give you, I'll give you a scholarship to further your academics or maybe to do whatever you want to do or maybe give you a business scholarship as an entrepreneur. You are. And you're like, Oh my gosh, thank you Jesus, thank you. Oh, Amen. Thank you. Oh, I intend the person so much. You have not seen it here. The person said I will. OK, but the fact you're even happy the person said it, that means you believe the person is capable of doing it. Then imagine someone or the child walks up to you and says I will buy you biscuits.

8:44 You don't say OK sure. Or maybe you never said anything. You just look at the child and I'll be like hey yeah right. You don't believe that child can do it. And besides, what will child give you that will actually be interesting to you? OK, so if you don't rejoice at the word of God, that means you don't honour or believe the owner of the world. So I feel like shaking the table right now. So just follow me. So as simple as shouting Amen or I, I receive it, that that's a way to rejoice at the world.

9:19 So you're studying the world and illustration, other illustration. So you're studying the word and you stumble on, let's say, draw chapter 2, verse 26. That's it. And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord your God who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never be put to shame. Ah, my default response to this will be Hallelujah, and not just modding my head in silence. No, think about it. I just hope you understand now. So as you rejoice at the received world, it seeps into your spirit because when you rejoice, your spirit opens up and we now rejoice at God's Word, a spirit opening up, and then the world is not entering your spirit.

10:04 That's another way of receiving. I like this method actually. OK, so the third way, third one is write down this word, meditate on it and store it in your spirit or store it in your heart. They mean practically the same thing according to Joshua chapter one, verse 8. Keep this book of the law always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you'll be prosperous and successful. So there's something I usually do. I have this little sticker notes.

10:45 So sometimes when I'm studying the scripture and there's a verse that does hits me or maybe verses then hits me. I mean, or maybe a chapter, I can break it into verses. I'll write it to my sticker note and I'll paste it in front of my wardrobe. I'll paste on my wall. So some people come and just enter my round. They're like, why is this here? I say I I caught this word and I want to keep looking at it. So what I do is that every day, I know I will surely wear clothes every day. So as I approach my wardrobe to bring out my clothes, I will see this sticker notes on it with the scripture, whatever scripture it is.

11:32 Is it Jeremiah the 33 verse 3? Call unto me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know. It builds my feet, and looking at it continuously, I will receive the word. I will receive what the Lord has already said about say call unto me. That means I'll receive that deep things, the great and mighty things that He said He will reveal unto me. OK, so it also means keeping the world before you. That is to focus on the world, not mixing it with information from outside.

12:07 Not after reading the Bible. close the Bible and then you now open social media and then whatever someone else now types there. You told you. Now taking the word that you studied that day and taking on it, you will now mix it with information that you get it around and the information you get it or not. Even the scripture. Might be news, might be 1 ideology or something. You now mix it together. At the end you say the word is not working for you. You never receive did and you never received the word OK, so just like you're listening, or let's say paying attention in a class or in a meeting, your attention is fixed.

12:48 Imagine you're in a meeting and your mind is not there. Listen, they call your attention and be like, OK, So what do you have to say about this? Of course you won't have anything to say because your mind wasn't there in the first place. But imagine you are paying rapt attention, not probably thinking about something else or doing that thing, just an illustration. Even though they call your attention, you're very stating about what you say a long time ago because you are following the discussion.

13:14 OK, so the purpose of receiving the word is to keep it in your heart. And from keeping it in your heart, like we read earlier in Proverbs, from your heart flows the issues of life, or from your heart it determines how you act in everything. OK, that is Proverbs chapter 4, verse 23. OK, above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. So that's the purpose of receiving the word, to keep it in your heart. So from your heart lie through the Word as it flows out. Everything you do is flowing and you're seeing the Word of God in your entire action, your life.

14:03 OK, so to know that you have received the word in your heart, your actions will be directed by the Word of God. Finally, Proverbs chapter 4, verse 4B, take hold of my words with all your heart. Keep my commands and you will leave. Amen. So that's the end of this episode. Please come and listen to episode 4. All right, the next episode I'll listen to this again. There are some truths in it. And I really pray the Lord grant to your heart desires as you endeavor to engage and receive His Word, Jesus name, Amen.