Precision Pursuit
Day 2 | Speak the Word
One of my favorite treats has always been strawberries and pineapple. When we visited Hawaii and Costa Rica, I feasted on both. They tasted so much better than back home.
How can you tell if someone is telling the truth? When I was a kid trying to win an argument, I would say, “Uh-uh, go ask mamma!”
Mamma was the final authority on just about everything.
Argument over. I win.
Even today, people often begin conversations with phrases like:
“Honestly…”
“Truth be told…”
Personally, I try to avoid those phrases because I hope honesty is already a given.
That tells us something important though. Truth matters.
Cambridge Dictionary added the term “post-truth” to describe situations where emotions and personal beliefs influence people more than objective facts.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
So where do we turn for truth?
The reality is, people often create their own versions of truth based on feelings, opinions, or experiences. But truth does not change just because culture changes.
The Holy Bible is the only source of absolute truth I know.
God cannot lie, and His promises are still yes and amen.
Our words carry power, but God’s Word carries authority.
The Bible says God’s Word will not return void.
In the beginning, God spoke the heavens and earth into existence. Scientists tell us the universe is still expanding today.
Think about that for a moment.
When God speaks, His Word continues accomplishing what He sent it to do.
Even the vastness of the universe still reflects the power of one command from God.
That is why speaking the Word of God matters.
Our opinions may fail. Our emotions may shift. Culture may change.
But God’s Word remains true.
When Jesus was tempted, His response was, ‘It is written.’ Three times He quoted scripture and the enemy left him. Victory followed. The same authority is available to us today.
To speak the Word in prayer, we must know the Word. You may prefer the KJV or NKJV, but sometimes when I quote scripture it comes out slightly translated into the Mike Version.
I’m not saying we can change the Word, but even when we speak it imperfectly, it still carries authority.
When our youngest grandbaby was born, everything seemed perfect. She was beautiful, eating, pooping, and peeing, but doctors wanted to do an ultrasound because they had never been able to see her kidneys in the womb.
Perfection went to pandemonium when we were told she would have to be medevac to Orlando for emergency dialysis and eventually a kidney transplant.
You know it’s serious when even the medical professionals begin speaking fear instead of hope.
I still remember the call from our daughter. One of those life changing moments.
She felt guilty. She felt helpless. Life can punch you in the gut.
The doctors said she had stage 5 kidney disease at birth and would only decline.
We dropped everything and went to Orlando. As she explained to us the situation, I softly reminded her, but God.
Our precious baby went from stage 5 to stage 4 and now to stage 3B. As she grows, her kidney continues improving. Can I get a witness! But God!
We didn’t have all the answers then, but we know where to turn now.
Precision Practice
Today we quote scripture when we are dealing with situations. Especially when we pray.
When fear shows up, speak the Word.
When doubt creeps in, speak the Word.
When life feels overwhelming, speak the Word.
When praying, speak the Word.
God’s Word does not return empty, and neither should the words we speak over our lives.
Precision Passages
Isaiah 55:11 NKJV
(11) So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
2 Corinthians 1:20 NKJV
(20) For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
Hebrews 4:12 NKJV
(12) For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.