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What does the Sword of the Spirit look like when used in the life of a believer?
The Scriptures give us many amazing examples to learn from.
Each one found the Scriptures profitable for doctrine (what’s right), reproof (what’s wrong), correction (how to get right with God), and for instruction in righteousness (how to stay right with God). Those four truths Paul says are the underlying purpose for God giving to us His Word.
Anywhere we look we can find doctrines, reproofs, corrections, and instructions in righteousness.
God’s Word Protected Joseph’s: Stress-Filled Life
Psalm 105:17-19 He sent a man before them— Joseph—who was sold as a slave. 18 They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons. 19 Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him.
Hated by his brothers; Abused, enslaved, sold, and deported for the financial gain of family members; Unjustly accused, and imprisoned by his own employer; Chained, and forgotten in jail; Vindicated, elevated, and used, because his life passed the test of God’s Word.
God’s Word Protected Joseph’s: Stress-Filled Life!
Are you allowing the Sword of the Spirit, God’s Word to protect you from the stresses of life?
God’s Word Protected David’s: Danger-Filled Life
Psalm 16:11 You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
David was in a dangerous situation since his boyhood. He became a man of fierce hand-to-hand warfare, constantly surrounded both by dangers and by the presence of God.
David’s life protected by God’s Word made him into the man after God’s own heart.
God’s Word Protected David’s: Danger-Filled Life!
Are you allowing the Sword of the Spirit, God’s Word to protect you from the dangers and fears of life?
God’s Word Protected Paul’s: Affliction-Filled Life
Romans 15:4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
Paul was stoned, shipwrecked, and sleepless; hunted, and heckled; imprisoned, and beaten, but he never stopped hoping in God’s Word.
God’s Word Protected Paul’s: Affliction-Filled Life!
Are you allowing the Sword of the Spirit, God’s Word to protect you from the struggles, persecutions, and afflictions of life?
God’s Word Protected Jeremiah’s: Tragedy-Filled Life
Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.
Maybe one Biblical figure was the neediest. Known as the weeping prophet, partly for his compassion, and partly for his condition of sadness. Jeremiah’s woes were unimaginable to our relatively peaceful lives.