Receiving the Word with the heart (Victor's Mentality 51)
Glory to God. It is a pleasure and a privilege to be here to share God’s Word with you. My prayer is that God's word will bless every heart. As we draw toward the close of this series, we have been considering for over a year the victor’s mentality of a believer. Right now, we are looking at the sword of the Spirit as the divine weapon God has empowered us with to keep winning in life. From Ephesians 6:17: “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” For the past two articles, I have been sharing the characteristics of the Word of God from Hebrews 4:12: “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” The final characteristic I want to share regarding the Word of God is this: the Word of God is a discerner of the heart. Last week, we saw how the Word of God affects ...