Guard The Word by Lorraine Ezell
(This is a wonderful Coffee Break message from Lorraine and a great follow-up to yesterday’s Seeds Of Faith post! So guard the Word and you will be blessed and encouraged!)
“And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.” Mark 4:4
We are told in the Bible to read His word, study it, hide it in our hearts, meditate on it, obey it, speak it, be doers of it. But there is something else that we are told to do with the word that we don’t practice as we should. We also have to “guard” the word. When the Lord speaks a word to us- either by His Spirit, when we read it, or when it comes through preaching- we have to be careful not to let “the fowls of the air come and devour it” (steal it).
The enemy wants to steal the word from you. He doesn’t want you to let it get into the “soil” of your heart, because when it does it produces “fruit”. For example, I was reading something yesterday about getting out of “comfortable places” that your flesh wants to retreat to instead of keeping on “pressing on”. Well this morning I was tempted to stay in bed for a while longer instead of getting on up to send out this word. The bed was so comfortable, it’s still dark outside, I had a “long” day yesterday. But as I was laying there, the word that I read kept coming back to me- get on up because the Lord was calling me to do so, or stay in that comfortable place. Was I going to do the word or let it be stolen by neglecting to put it in practice?
The main message this morning is– don’t let the word be stolen from you. Guard it by being a doer of it. If you will guard the word and walk in it, it will produce fruit, it will bring a harvest into your life, it will make your crooked ways straight, it will strengthen you in the Lord, and build your faith. But if you don’t, you’ll suffer loss.
Have a great day. When the word comes to you, guard it and don’t let it be stolen from you.
Coffee Break is a morning devotional written by Lorraine Ezell and it’s sent by email free of charge for the asking from About the Master’s Business Ministry, Inc.
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