Paul said, that when he preached, he didn’t not do it in his own wisdom but by the power of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 2:4). In other words, the Holy Spirit gave him the words to say and when he spoke God’s word, the power of the Holy Spirit was released to change people’s lives and to heal them.

In John 6:63, Jesus is recorded as saying that it is the Spirit that brings life and that his words were spirit and life. The Bible is God’s word, inspired by him through the Holy Spirit (2 Tim 3:15-17). The Holy Spirit reveals God’s word (the Bible) to us (John 14:26). The word in our mouths is God’s: “sword of the Spirit” with which we can defeat all the attacks of satan on our lives (Eph 6: 17).

For us to have the power of God’s word to affect change and cause satan to flee from us (James 4:7) we must have the word living and abiding in us (1 Peter 1:23). This means we need to spend time to get the word down into our spirits so that it comes out of our mouths automatically when we need it. Now here is the rub. We need to make God’s word our priority, there are no short cuts.

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