I draw the life of God into me (into my spirit) through (or by) His Word. If I'm not exposed to the word of God, then I'm not exposed to the life of God. God's life is in His word. If I neglect the word, then I lose touch with the life of God. To be strong in my spirit, I must be filled with the word of God.
Satan's target for the believer is the word of God. He will do anything to keep the believer from the word of God, because he knows the word is the Believer's life source. Satan can steal, kill, and destroy the Believer by cutting off his life source. Satan knows that once the Believer stops consuming the word of God, it's but a matter of time before he will wither and die (spiritually, which then leads to physically). (Read John 15:1-8)
Jesus said in John 6:63. "it is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit and they are Life." My greatest responsibility as a Believer is to keep a steady, continuous flow of the word of God coming into my spirit. When I look upon the word of God, I must realize that I'm breathing God's life into my spirit.
When I was born again (Dec 3, 1979), the Spirit of God came into my spirit, and recreated me. He made me brand new and Jesus' Spirit now lives within me. My spirit now craves the milk and the meat of the word of God, because that is what feeds my spirit and brings God's life to my spirit. Just as the physical man that does not eat food will wither and die, so is the same in my spirit, for without the word of God, it will wither and die.
The word of God is my life source. Prov 4:22 says, "for the word is life unto those that find them and health (and medicine) to all their flesh." God's word is my life source and I must consume it everyday to stay alive in my spirit. But it is the word of God that also keeps my flesh alive as well. When you starve your spirit of the word of God, it will wither, become weak, and eventually die and the body with a dead spirit is dead as well. As the condition of your spirit goes, so goes the body.
The priority of the Believer everyday is to breathe the life of God into himself/herself, so that he can live that life that God desires for him/her. God wants His life to be your life. He wants you to be just like Him, and He has made the way for that to happen. When you breathe God's life into your spirit you will be living your life from the life of God.
What will you look like if you continuously consume the word of God everyday? You'll look just like Jesus, the word made flesh (John 1:14), a living episitle read by all men ( 2 Cor 3: 2-3). You already know that your physical body needs a certain amount of food to survive, and you take care of that need. God is telling us today, that it is the spirit man that gives life to the body, therefore the spirit man must have priority in what you consume each and every day. You must feed the spirit man (the word of God) to live a God empowered life. This is the way God has made it for a man/woman to truly live life. By breathing God's life from consuming the word of God, the man in turn lives his life from the life of God that is now in his spirit, and the end result is that man/woman will look just like Jesus and the light of Jesus will draw men to the Father.
That is the plan of God for a man/woman, now go and breathe His life into yourself. Look at the word of God, consume it (by looking at it and meditating upon it), and live. Then know this, "that no weapon formed against you may prosper (Isa 54:17) and because you have chosen to consume the word of God everyday, no evil shall overtake you, nor any plague come near your dwelling (that's your physical house , the one with a roof on it, but it's also your physical body as well, that which houses your spirit) (Ps 91:9-10).
God has given man a choice on how to live his life. (Deut 30:19) God even tells us what the right choice is. He says, "choose life, that both you and your descendants may live." The way you choose life each day according to God's will, is by making a choice for for His word and consuming it and making sure to consume more of it than anything else you'll do that day. This is God's way to being able to live His life within you. The choice is yours and mine. I'm going to choose life, how about you?
Let me help you get started in consuming the Word. Start with these:
Deut 6:6-9, Joshua 1:8, 8:34-35, 23:6; 1 Sam 3: 1 & 21, Ps 12:6, 1 Kings 8:56, 2 Chron 6:4 & 14-15, Neh 8:18, Ps 1:2, Ps 40:8, Ps 18:30, Prov 30:5, Ps 119:89, Matt 4:4, John 4:50, John 5:24,
John 17:17, Rom 10:17, James 1:21
Now take a deep breath of the word, and breathe in God's life into your spirit and live!!
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