MORE POWERFUL THAN A TWO-EDGED SWORD

I have always believed that the word of God can change the mind of man and change the heart of people. The word of God is much more than just information, indoctrination, or education. There has been a lot of education and information, but God has to bring forth a new impregnation to the people of God. We need to come to a new level. In Hebrews 4:12 it says that word of God is more powerful than a two-edged sword. It does not say that it is like a two-edged sword, but it is more powerful than a two-edged sword because the word of word has to produce life. The instruction and enlightenment and revelation of the Spirit can only take full affect in our lives when there is a separation between flesh and spirit.

I have seen many men and women who have served God and loved Him, but there are no guarantees. Just because we love God, it does not mean we are changed in His likeness and His image. When we read about the children of Israel in the desolation and in the desert, they saw miracles every day; their shoes did not get old; water came out of the rock; they did not have to work and God provided food for them, and many of us would think that there could be no better revival. However, that was not the completion of what God wanted to do.

When God brings us into the promise, into a new season there has to be a preparation. The people of God cannot live by miracles only because the miracles themselves do not give us the possession and the power and the life of God to become Christ-like. As children of Israel started to come into the Promised Land, one of the things that God did before they could possess the land was to destroy Jericho, the cursed city, and activate principles of the Spirit. It does not mean that the principles in our spirit are activated in our lives just because we know them. If we do not have the separation between flesh and the spirit, we birth Ishmaels in our lives. We produce something, which we have conceived in our fleshly understanding, and we do not activate our spirit man by the revelation and illumination of Christ.

The first thing the children of Israel had to do was to circumcise their hearts. They had to allow the knife to circumcise the foreskins of the males, and then they could come into the presence of God to grow and become the promise of God. We have to be a confirmation to the revelation. But before that can happen, we have to strive to enter his rest that the word of God can come like a two-edged sword to do the surgery on us that we might cease from our own works and from our own striving.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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