Eight Effects God's Word Can Have in Your Life

I think, in a way, God has been showing me the difference between the carnal and the spiritual. Not in the sense of the wickedness of the carnal or the sin problems, but just that it’s temporary. It’s impermanent. And that we’ve got to learn to live on the permanent. I’ll just give you some beautiful scriptures that have come to me.

In the middle of the night in Jamaica, when my wife was sick beside me in the hotel, there just came to me very, very quietly these words:

“With God all things are possible.”

Praise God. I believe them. I may not always feel it, but I believe it.

“With God all things are possible.”

And gradually, I’ve been building on that, and I tend to quote these scriptures to myself over and over again.

“The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.”

“All things are possible to him that believeth.”

There’s three all possibles.

“With God all things are possible.”

“The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.”

“All things are possible to him that believeth.”

I’d like to then show you, share some other scriptures about victory. For once in a way, I won’t necessarily give you all the references. But in 2 Corinthians 2:14, I think it says,

“Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”

That’s a tremendous statement. I’d like to quote it again.

“Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”

You take those two adverbial phrases, ‘always’ and ‘in every place,’ it leaves out no time and no place. And what is a triumph? It’s more than a victory. It’s the celebration of a victory that’s already been won.

And then in 1 Corinthians 15:57, says,

“Thanks be unto God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

And in Romans 8, it says,

“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors.”

And I read a little statement once about, what does it mean to be more than a conqueror?

And the answer was this: It means that you go into the conflict, and you come out with more than you had when you went in. And I believe that is really what God desires. When we go through times of testing and conflict, that we come out with more than we had when we went in. We don’t just win, but we come out with spoil.

And so, I’m going to read to you some of the passages of scripture that have been very real to me. Some of them I’ve shared with my wife over and over again. At a time like this, sometimes we need to imprint the Word of God on a person’s spirit until it’s right there inside them. No matter what may come against them, there’s something inside them. You know, in visiting people in a hospital, never assume that an unconscious person is not affected by what you say. You know that? I talked with a Spirit-filled psychiatrist once. He said, “Never say anything in the presence of an unconscious person that you don’t want them to hear, because they can receive it.” In fact, he told me this. He’d been newly baptized in the Spirit, and he went into the hospital, and there was a woman there whose kidneys had ceased functioning. I mean, she was terminal. Her body was yellow. There was no medical treatment. And in the boldness of somebody newly baptized in the Spirit, he turned to this unconscious woman in a coma, and he said, “Your sins be forgiven you in the name of Jesus.” He said, “Next week, I met her walking down the street.”

Mentally, she couldn’t receive that, but her spirit received it. When her sins were forgiven, apparently, the blockage to her healing was immediately taken away. So, I’ve been trying to imprint on my own spirit, my wife’s spirit, some scriptures. And I’d like to share some of them with you in the hope that God will bless them to you, too.