Monday, December 12, 2016

Dull Sword, or Insufficient Practice?

Our weapon. 

Do people take care of their weapons? Most do if they want them in good working order. What good is a dull sword in battle? The word of God is never dull. But we who need the weapon- we who so desperately need the Sword of the Spirit, the word of God, need to USE the sword.  By the grace of GOD may we use the Sword!

' (5) Pray and study the Bible. Christians ought to search the Bible with prayer and meditation. They should let God’s Word penetrate thoroughly into their souls so as to enable their natural life to be purified. If they actually do what God says, their soul life shall not be able to continue its free activity. This is the meaning of 1 Peter 1.22: “having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth.” '   The Spiritual Man- Watchman Nee

Joh_5:39  Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Joh 15:3  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 

Joh 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 

Joh 17:19  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 

Psa 119:11  Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. 

1Pe 1:22  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently
1Pe 1:23  Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 

1Pe 1:25  But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. 

Mat 24:35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 

Heb 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 

2Co 2:17  For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 


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