Dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ Who loved us, gave Himself for us, and washed us from our sins in His own Blood; and to the Church, which is His body.

LUKE 8:11-15
It is through the reading of the Word and the help of the Holy Spirit that we can know Jesus. What a privilege it is to have God's Word in our own language. Six hundred years ago there was no English translation of the whole Bible. Thanks to the efforts of John Wycliffe (1384) and William Tyndale (1523), we are able to read and understand the writings of the apostles ourselves. Men gave their lives to bring us God's Word. What a wonderful privilege!
The piece of armor known as the "sword of the Spirit" is the only piece of armor that we have to cut, wound, and hurt our enemy, the devil. It's not the Bible lying on our coffee table that makes the enemy flee, but it is the Word of God hidden in our heart, activated by the power of the Holy Spirit, and spoken in a particular situation. It's similar to what is spoken when Jesus said in John 6:63, that "...the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." The Word by itself doesn't make us free. It is the Word we know and speak that will free us (John 8:32).
Why is the Word so effective? It's because it is the WORD of God. It has authority, because it is the WORDS of God. God's Word supersedes all authority of the church, of reason, of intellect, and even of satan himself.
It is the Holy Spirit that wields the Word as we speak it in faith. Speaking God's Word in faith brings the Holy Spirit into action. In Luke 4, when Jesus was tempted of the devil for forty days, it was the Word of God, that Jesus used to defeat the enemy in the time He was tempted. Jesus constantly met temptation by quoting God's Word as He repeatedly stated the phrase, "It is written." We as Christian soldiers must avail our self of God's Word by placing it in our heart, so that the Holy Spirit can bring it forth at the appropriate time to give us total victory. It's can be ours!
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