HOW TO FIND GOD’S WILL–SEEK HIM–KNOW HIM & TAKE THE NEXT STEP

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THE POWER OF SCRIPTURE (PART #2). When we proclaim that the scriptures are powerful, we mean the power to:

Transform
Make New
Convert
Cleanse
Fill with peace, joy, love, and hope!

Yes, life-changing, heart cleansing, future-shaping power.

Last week, we briefly noted the first aspect of scriptures power it:

A. Claims that exposure to it changes us

Did you catch that and note these references? Let’s look at that list another way and add some key scriptures to remember?

The Word of God claims that exposure to its truth has a:

1. Removing Power

John 17:17 – Sanctify (make holy) through truth, Thy Word is truth.
Heb. 9:14; 10:22

How do we see the removal of sin, error, false teaching, filthy habits, and spiritual laziness?

By exposure to God’s truth.

The Word of God is truth. So it removes falsehood.

2. The Word of God by contact with our lives has a restoring power.

Jer. 15:16 – Thy words were found and I ate them and they are the joy and rejoicing of my heart.

So – How do we see our lives restored from the sadness of defeat, sorrow of wasted years, and scars of ruined lives?
By exposure to God’s source of happiness. His Word is that which can remove the hopelessness of earth and give the happiness of heaven.

3. Remember, the Word of God has a refining power.

Have you seen this? It is God’s way of bringing us to the race of maturity as we grow.

It is the way God causes us to see a decreasing frequency of sin and an increasing frequency of righteousness and obedience.

How?
1 Pet. 1:7 – trying of faith
1 Pet. 2:2 – as newborn babes long for the sincere milk of the Word
2 Tim. 3:16-17 – All scripture…that we may be complete

By exposure to the source of growth and maturity – the Word of God.

4. The Word of God has fourthly a reviving power to it.

Are you aware of this in your life?

Heb. 4:12 – the Word of God is quick and powerful…

How?
It enters our very lives and natures and divides and gets to the heart.
Rom. 1:16 – it is the power of God (Dunamis – explosive energy) of God toward salvation!

So what are the scriptures?
A source of – Truth
Happiness
Growth
Maturity
And here – the source of divine power!!