WHAT DOES GOD’S WORD CONTAIN?
Joshua 1:8
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
5 Things that God’s Word Contain
1. God’s Power
You can’t make it in life without God’s power! It is possible to know God’s plan and purpose for your life, but have no fulfilment! Why? It takes power to work the plan and purpose of God for your life. You need God’s power to succeed in life. Some people can have some success without believing in this power, but the success we are dealing with in this book is the one called “good success”. And it needs the raw power of God drawn from the living Word of God (1 Corinthians 2:1-5).
“Good success” is mentioned in Joshua 1:8. It is a success based on the Word of God or ways of God. Everyone can have some success, but the one based on God’s word is called “good success”. This kind of success is the one that gives God the glory and honour. Listen to this! God’s Word contains the power of transformation and success – only if believed!
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
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.
2. God’s Spirit
God’s word contains God’s Spirit! And we know that it takes the Spirit of God to make it in life – to have good success! Without the Holy Spirit success is impossible. The Holy Spirit is God’s power at work! No wonder the Bible says in Romans 8:11:
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
There is nothing that the Holy Spirit cannot do. All the creation was garnished by God’s Spirit (Job 26:11-13). The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of success and creation. That is why God’s word has the power to transform and make you succeed. All you need is your own cooperation! The Spirit of God is in the Word of God. That is why studying, meditating, confessing and acting upon God’s word in faith will empower and prosper your life as a believer.
2 Timothy 3:16 (AMP)
All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage].
No wonder Jesus said:
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.
That is why spending time in the Word of God fills you with the Spirit of God.
Ezekiel 2:1-2
And He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.” Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me.
Mark the phrase “Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me”. Where was the Spirit entering Ezekiel coming from? It was coming from the word that was spoken to him. This makes me understand and conclude that the Word of God is a container of the Holy Spirit for your success and liberty.
2 Corinthians 3: 16-17
Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.