“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
John 6:63
Notice in the above scripture Jesus calls the very words that he speaks Spirit and Life! In John 1:1-4 &14 the scriptures tell us “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men…And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father;) full of grace and truth.”
1 John 5:7 says: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”
As the scriptures above tell us, Jesus is the word of God. He is the word that created all of creation. He was doing the same thing when He walked the earth that He was doing when He created it. Look at Genesis 1: 1-2 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light…”
There in Genesis, we have the Father, the Son (The Word) and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit hovered over the face of the waters but wasn’t put into action until the WORD of GOD was SPOKEN! Not until GOD SAID, was anything created! But then Light, Life and all that is, was created through the WORD OF GOD!
Jesus is teaching us that the same is true today about the Word of God.
In John 14:12 Jesus tells us: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father: And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.”
How will we then do the works that Jesus did? First, of course, we need the infilling of the Holy Spirit. All that Jesus did was by the anointing, the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling on the inside of Him. This is available to every believer who asks. This is the power, the anointing that the scriptures speak of in Ephesians 3:20, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.”
Therefore God will do exceedingly abundantly above what we can ask or think; how? By the POWER THAT WORKS IN US! How then do we release this power? What is the key to tapping into this great power house of God dwelling on the inside of us? Let’s look at John 14:10. Jesus says: “the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.”
Jesus spoke only what He heard His Father say, then the Father did the works; just like when they spoke the Universe into existence. It’s that living word of God that brought it forth! Let’s also look at Matthew 8:5-10 to see how this power of God is released and how to get the same results that Jesus did: “And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. The Centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but SPEAK THE WORD ONLY, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.”
The Centurion understood that the very words Jesus spoke had the authority to heal. It’s the word of God that released the power. Just as Jesus said the words that He speaks are Spirit and they are life. The actual word of God is Spirit! That is why we call it the living word of God. It is alive! When you speak the word of God you are speaking actual life and the spirit of God. Proverbs 4:20-22 says: “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” That sounds very similar to what Jesus said in John 6:63. His word is Spirit and it is life. It is the Spirit that quickeneth (gives life). When you release the word of God, you are literally releasing the life giving Spirit of God and it will do exceedingly abundantly above what we can ask or think! There is POWER IN THE LIVING WORD OF GOD!
This is why it’s so important to pray the word of God over your situation, whatever it may be. In Ephesians 6:17 scripture tells us to take up “the sword of the Spirit, which is the WORD OF GOD”! This is part of our battle armour. All the rest of the armour listed in Ephesians 6 is for Defensive fighting, but the WORD IS OUR SWORD, it’s how we fight OFFENSIVELY. Find the promise of God concerning whatever you need in the scriptures and then speak it out with Authority, in Faith, knowing that it will not return void! As Isaiah 55:10-11 says: “For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower: and bread to the eater. So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
God’s word will work all the time. We have been given the authority to use it. Trust that it will work on your behalf! Just as the Centurion had complete trust in that life giving word that Jesus spoke. The word of God is what dispatches the heavenly angels. As Psalm 103:20 says: “Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his WORD.”
Jesus again demonstrates the power of the word, and saying what He hears the Father say, when He speaks to the fig tree. He curses the fig tree by speaking to it. He spoke to a tree and cursed it out loud. Indeed the tree responded by dying from the roots up. Jesus explains the authority we have with the word of God when he says in Mark 11:22-24 “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he SAITH shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he SAITH.”
When we pray the word of God we get results! When we say only what we hear the Father say to us in our spirit, then God will do the works. Be sensitive to tune into what God is telling you to say and what not to say. God has given us the authority to get His kind of results. In Luke 10:19 (NLTV) Jesus says: ”Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you.”
The authority that Jesus has over the enemy, He has given to us. We use that authority by saying and doing what God tells us to do. Pray the promises of God in the word of God over your situation in faith! Then stand back and watch as God does the works and does exceedingly abundantly above all you could ask or think! John 1:12; “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name…”
Jeremiah 23:29
“Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?”
Psalm 50:23
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.”
Psalm 107:20
“He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
Ephesians 6:12-17
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God…
