Just as sunscreen won’t help protect your skin if you don’t apply it — the same goes for the Word of God in your life.

Satan DOES NOT want us to know the Word of God.  There is power in those God-breathed Words and he knows it.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The Word is LIVING.  Can you wrap your minds around that?  When you speak the scriptures out loud something WILL happen in the atmosphere around you.  That is the truth.  

God has really been showing me the condition of the world around me this week.  Today is Wednesday and I have already had TWO different people look me in the eye and proclaim to be non-believers. 

What can I do to reach more people?  Do you ever feel like this?  Do you see the condition of those around you?  

What about the Christians who look no different than the non-believers?  They don’t realize WHO they are in Christ because they don’t read their Bibles.  Maybe they read the scriptures, but they don’t apply them to their lives.  (They don’t use the Word of God as their swords.) 

So many people are walking in defeat.  So many are filled with wounds and haven’t allowed God to touch those “infected” areas.  People are perishing for a lack of knowledge.  They just don’t know what the Bible has within it’s Holy covers.

We must KNOW the Word of God and APPLY it.  
Nobody can do it for us.  
Our pastor’s can’t do it for us.  
Our spouses can’t do it for us.  
Our prayer partners can’t do it for us.  
This is one area of our lives that we MUST handle ourselves.  

Nobody can use your faith for you.

For many years I was TRULY bound by fear.  The irony of it all is I had authority over fear the whole time.  Knowledge of the scriptures was KEY.  Understanding what God had to say about me was KEY.

What are you allowing to bring defeat and sorrow your way?  Guess what?  Whatever it is, you have authority over it through Christ.  He bore EVERYTHING on the cross for you.  


God can change us.  He can change our situation.  He can change our marriages.  He can bring our prodigal children home.  

He STILL performs miracles.

Do you believe?   Do you believe He can change any bad situation that you’re in right now? 


I challenge you to spend time reading God’s Word each day.  Ask the precious Holy Spirit to unlock the scriptures and give you fresh revelation as you read.  

When you see your reflection in the Word of God, you will find areas that need some fine-tuning.  I know I ALWAYS do. 

Begin to obey the scriptures and see what happens in your life.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.