It’s  not  enough  to  know  God’s  Word  as  it’s 

contained in the written pages of the Bible; you 

have to release power through speaking! That’s how 

it works! With the Word on your lips, you’ll live over 

and above all limitations and circumstances. 

Voicing  your  faith  is  a  fundamental  spiritual 

principle,  without  which  even  the  gift  and  blessing 

of  salvation  can’t  be  received  or  activated.  Notice 

the  opening  verse  again:  “For  with  the  heart  man 

believeth  unto  righteousness;  and  with  the  mouth 

confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:10). 

The salvation package is delivered upon satisfying 

these  two  conditions:  Believing  and  confessing  the 

Lordship  of  Jesus.  To  believe  isn’t  enough;  there 

must be the corresponding verbal communication or 

affirmation of your faith. 

When you speak the Word, what you’re doing is 

releasing the power of God into action on your behalf. 

For  example,  God  instructed  Joshua, “This  book  of 

the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou 

shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest 

A young man told the story of how he hadn’t 

attended church services for about four years, 

due to his tight work schedule. Moreover, there was 

no  local  assembly  close  to  where  he  lived.  That’s 

unacceptable.  If  you’re  a  Christian,  you  MUST  be  a 

member  of  a  local  church,  and  have  no  excuse  for 

missing church services. 

If  there’re  peculiar  situations  or  challenges  that 

hinder church attendance protractedly, there’re ways 

to go about them. You can participate live in church 

services  through  several  online  platforms  that  are 

available.  If  the  constraint  is  distance  or  even  the 

unavailability of internet service, you can request from 

your local assembly to pioneer a branch where you are. 

You can even volunteer your home as the venue. 

Moreover,  if  you’re  sure  you  have  the  spiritual 

maturity to be the coordinator, that’s okay too; just let 

the authorities in your local assembly know. There’s no 

reason good enough for any Christian to keep skipping 

church services. 

The  church  is  a  place  of  hope,  succour  and 

solution. It’s a place of solution because in church, the 

Nothing in life, including the weather and its 

elements,  is  set  to  your  disadvantage.  The 

different  seasons—summer,  winter,  autumn,  spring—

were all created for your benefit. 

In Genesis 8:22, the Lord said,  “While the earth 

remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, 

and summer and winter, and day and night shall not 

cease.” All the weather conditions have come to stay, 

because God made it that way. Nevertheless, He made 

them subject to you. It makes no difference how harsh 

the weather may be, you can rise above it. 

Someone  says,  “I  decided  to  take  things  easy, 

because I’ve been ‘under the weather’”; how could 

you be under the weather? Be above it! If you confess 

you’re under the weather, the debilitating effects of the 

atmospheric conditions will buffet you.   

Some believe that during winter, there’s a sharp 

rise in the incidence of respiratory infections, such as 

the  “colds”  and  the  more  severe  “flu.”  Thus,  many 

never  look  forward  to  winter;  they  dread  it.  No!  If 

you’re born again, you’re to rise above the weather 

and  all  its  limitations  and  effects,  with  your  words. 

This doesn’t necessarily mean that during winter the 

One of the ways to make the Word of God 

effective in your life is by acting quickly on 

it. Never be hesitant or slothful to act on God’s Word. 

Many miss too much without realizing it when they’re 

slow or hesitant to act on the Word. 

Whatever  instruction  the  Lord  gives  to  you, 

whatever  inspiration  comes  to  you  as  you  study  the 

Word  or  listen  to  it  preached  and  taught  in  church, 

respond swiftly. That’s the kind of faith-response that 

gets God’s attention. When you respond swiftly to God, 

He’ll always respond quickly to you as well. 

The  Bible  says,  “Quench  not  the  Spirit”   (1 

Thessalonians 5:19). That means you can quench the 

Spirit, after He has tried to no avail to stir you up and 

have  you  do  something  for  which  you  were  either 

hesitant or unresponsive. When your faith is stirred, it’s 

an indication of the Spirit of God working in you; don’t 

suppress His work in you. Act immediately on whatever 

instruction, guidance or direction He gives you, even 

when such doesn’t seem to appeal to the senses.  

Think about it: To the man who had a paralyzed 

limb, and couldn’t move his hand, Jesus said,  “…Stretch 

Being in Christ or now that you’re born again, 

everything about your life is brand new and of 

God. If you found anything that’s not of God in your 

life — something  that  hurts,  binds,  demeans  or  limits 

you — rebuke  it  and  it’ll  be  gone.  That’s  because  all 

such things (old things) are passed away. The failures, 

sickness, poverty, and defeats of the past are all gone. 

That’s what the Word says. 

The  things  that  are  permissible  in  your  life  are 

things  that  “are  of  God,”  and  that  cancer  isn’t  of 

God. That pain, frustration, or crisis that has brought 

despondency  isn’t  from  God.  Reject  it.  You  have  a 

new life in Christ, and this new life destroys sickness 

and disease, because it’s the life of God.  

You may say, “But I still feel the pain or effect of 

sickness or disease in my body, even though I’m born 

again”; refuse to cower. Rather, keep affirming, “I have 

a new life, and it’s the Christ-life; it burns up every trace 

of sickness and disease from my body.” 

Keep vocalizing your faith like that, trusting what 

Are you aware that you can change hopeless 

situations and effect positive changes in your 

life through the creative power of God’s Word in your 

mouth?  You  can  change  anything  through  the  gift 

of prophecy. To prophesy means to speak words of 

divine revelation and potency: words that have, and 

give life. 

In  our  opening  scripture,  Ezekiel  found  himself 

in a valley full of dry bones, and the Lord asked him, 

“Can  these  bones  live?”  Ezekiel’s  response  was, 

“Lord, you alone can tell”; it was a hopeless situation. 

Nevertheless, God said to Ezekiel, “Prophesy to these 

bones”; He needed Ezekiel’s cooperation. 

Now, here’s the interesting thing: the first thing 

God  said  would  happen  to  the  bones  following 

Ezekiel’s prophecy was that He would cause breath 

to  enter  into  them.  But  read  what  happened:  “ So 

I  prophesied  as  I  was  commanded:  and…when  I 

beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon 

them,  and  the  skin  covered  them  above:  but  there 

was no breath in them” (Ezekiel 37:7-8). 

As  Christians,  we  belong  to  a  real  spiritual 

kingdom: the Kingdom of God’s love-Son. In 

that kingdom, we have our peculiar Kingdom language. 

We don’t just talk; we speak the wisdom of God; that’s 

the  language  of  our  Kingdom:  “Howbeit  we  speak 

wisdom  among  them  that  are  perfect:  yet  not  the 

wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, 

that come to nought” ( 1 Corinthians 2:6). 

Too  many  Christians  don’t  understand  how  to 

speak the Kingdom language, because they’ve never 

been rightly and adequately taught, and as a result, they 

talk fear, and unbelief. Some of them call it “reality”; 

“Let’s face reality” they’d say, referring to the things 

that their senses can perceive. The only reality is God’s 

Word. 

Don’t  say  you’re  broke  just  because  there’s  no 

money  in  your  pocket  or  bank  account.  Instead, 

affirm, “The Lord is my shepherd and I lack nothing; 

He’s brought me into a large place, a place of wealth 

untold. I’m supernaturally supplied, and all my needs 

are met; I have no consciousness of lack, because all 

things are mine!” That’s speaking the language of our 

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Many Christians have lived in the sense-realm 

for too long. If they feel a headache, the first 

thing that comes to their minds is the medication to 

take. They’re not conscious that they have power over 

sickness, disease, and infirmity; they’re not conscious 

that they have the divine life. 

The Christian is a partaker of the divine nature; 

an associate of the God-kind. You have the very life 

of  God  in  you;  that  makes  you  more  than  a  mere 

man. Sickness really can’t, and shouldn’t thrive in your 

body, because Christ is the life of your physical body. 

His presence in you already gave life to your mortal 

body. 

Why then are many still burdened with sickness 

and  ravaged  by  one  health  issue  or  the  other?  The 

answer  is  clear:  ignorance.  The  psalmist  said,  “They 

know  not,  neither  will  they  understand…”  (Psalm 

82:5). Jesus said concerning the believing ones,  “They 

shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly 

thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on 

the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:18). 

The  above  verse  is  a  sovereign  declaration  of 

Deity; it’s a present-hour reality, guaranteed to produce
results. Believe and act on it. Practise it for yourself, and
on others. Believing the Word and acting accordingly
is the way to make the Word effective in your life.
Faith is acting on the Word of God that you’ve
believed. If there’s no action, then there’s no faith, and
without  faith,  it’s  impossible  to  please  God.  Faith  is
standing your ground on the reality of the Word.
Yes,  hearing  the  Word  produces  faith  in  you,
(Romans 10:17), but acting on it, living it out, is what
causes you to excel, prosper, and make progress in
life with giant strides.
PRAYER
I worship you, precious Lord, for your kindness and
infinite mercies. Thank you for making me a partaker
of the divine nature, an associate of the God-kind.
Your life and nature in me makes me more than a
mere  man;  I’m  supernatural,  excellent  and  full  of
glory. I walk in, and manifest the dominion of Christ
today, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
James 1:22-25; James 2:20-26

In  the  verse  above,  the  Apostle  John  wasn’t 

prophesying; he was affirming the life we have 

in  Christ;  a  life  of  dominion  over  satan,  the  world, 

and its systems. The Christian is unconquerable; he’s 

a victor on every count; he’s born into the glory-life, 

and could never fail. 

Read Jesus’ assertion about your impregnable and 

invincible nature—your authority and dominion in Him: 

“Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents 

and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: 

and  nothing  shall  by  any  means  hurt  you”  (Luke 

10:19). In Mark 16:18, He said you shall tread upon 

serpents; and if you drink any deadly thing, it’ll have 

no effect on you. This means you can’t be poisoned. 

What a life! 

He overcame the world and gave us the victory, 

the power to subdue this world. That’s what John affirms 

in our opening verse. The word, “overcometh”means 

to  have  victory  over,  to  subdue,  conquer,  and  to 

prevail over. You’ve subdued, tamed and conquered 

the elements of this world; the circumstances of life; 

therefore, walk in dominion over them. 

The  Word  doesn’t  say,  “You’ll  overcome  if  you