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 WHEN GOD SPEAKS

 "And God said, 'Let there be light!' and there was light." Genesis 1:3

What God says, what He speaks, happens. God's Word always does what it has declared. 

Isaiah 55:10-11 "As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish,  so that it yields seed for the sower, and bread for the eater,  so is my word that goes out from my mouth:  It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." 

When the Lord God speaks, what He says comes into being. His Word does what it says. God is utterly and eternally faithful and reliable. Lord, we cry out to You, that You would speak Your Word in us. Speak Your Word and cause it to saturate and fill us, every part of us, every nook and cranny! Speak Your Word in us and cause it to expand till Your Word fills us and does its Sovereign work in us...and through us.

Remember the "Lazarus work". Lazarus had been dead for four days. All his physical faculties were in decay. His central nervous system, disconnected, his circulatory system (blood dries and clogged in artery and vein), organ failure and collapse on a colossal scale. Muscles rotting...nothing alive; all utterly dead. 

In an instant, all Jesus had to say was, "Lazarus! Come out!" Everything that was dead and decaying, lifeless, and without hope of change (as what it dead can't make itself alive again) was in that moment of Jesus' Word declared, was perfectly alive again. 

All systems were "GO!" and what had killed him was vanquished and washed away by the power of the Word made flesh. That Word that had spoken into being all the things that had never existed, the entire universe and everything in it, had by the power of His Word, cause Lazarus to live again, whole and complete.

When God speaks, what He declares, comes to be. Let Him speak His Word to you, in you, that your mind and perspective on life be renewed, restored, out of any degree of death into the fullness of life.

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