Believe And Do The Word! Monday September 13,2010

A young man once
asked me, “Pastor
Chris, how can I make
the Word of God
effective in my life ?”
This question is quite
similar to the one the
Jews put to Jesus in
John 6:28-29: “Then
said they unto him,
What shall we do, that
we might work the
works of God? Jesus
answered and said unto
them, This is the work
of God, that ye believe
on him whom he hath
sent. ” Believing the
Word, and then doing
what it says is the way
to make the Word
effective in your life.
It ’s not enough to
believe the Word, you
must act on it. Acting
on God ’s Word is what
faith is.
To believe in the Word
is to believe in Jesus,
for Jesus is the living
Word. Doing the Word
is proof that you
believe it. Jesus said if
you love me, keep my
Word (John 14:15);
that means do my
Word. The Word of
God is for doing. It has
the potentiality and
capacity to reproduce
itself and bring about
whatever it talks about
if we act on it.
The blessings and vital
experience of the
realities of the Word
of God is for the doer.
The Apostle James
revealed this in his
epistle: “But whoso
looketh into the
perfect law of liberty,
and continueth therein,
he being not a
forgetful hearer, but a
doer of the work, this
man shall be blessed in
his deed ” (James
1:25). The blessing is
in doing the Word, not
just believing it.
Believing is not enough,
for the Bible says even
the devils believe and
tremble (James 2:19).
God’s Word has
creative power that
comes into effect once
ignited by the force of
faith! So hearing the
Word produces faith in
you, for faith comes
by hearing (Romans
10:17); but acting on
it causes your life to
move from glory to
glory.
Prayer
Dear Father, thank you
for making me a
partaker of your life-
changing Word. I ’m
made a better person
daily by the power of
your Word. The Word
is working mightily in
my life because I ’m a
doer and not just a
hearer. I thank you for
empowering me to
impact my world for
Jesus Christ through
the power of your
Word and your Spirit
working effectually in
me, in Jesus ’ Name.
Amen.
Further Study:
Joshua 1:8
This book of the law
shall not depart out of
thy mouth; but thou
shalt meditate therein
day and night, that
thou mayest observe to
do according to all that
is written therein: for
then thou shalt make
thy way prosperous,
and then thou shalt
have good success.
James 1:22-24
Jas 1:22 But be ye
doers of the word, and
not hearers only,
deceiving your own
selves.
Jas 1:23 For if any be
a hearer of the word,
and not a doer, he is
like unto a man
beholding his natural
face in a glass:
Jas 1:24 For he
beholdeth himself, and
goeth his way, and
straightway forgetteth
what manner of man he
was.