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Anchored Scriptures: Jeremiah 23:29

Last week, I explain to you, the power, the centrality and the importance of the word of God, and why everybody should be a Bible student. It’s not enough to just be praying, the prayer must be backed up by the word of God.

Jeremiah 23:29, listen to what it says about the word of God.

Two symbols there about the word of God:

- Fire: the word of God is a great purifier, which destroys all that is unclean and dirty, which removes the false from a metal and leaves only the genuine metal inside. The word is like fire.

- The word is like hammer, which strengthens our life and conscience, crushing everything that is evil in heart.
There are other symbols of the word of God in the Bible. I will give you a list, what the word of God is, so you know the importance of what we are saying.

The Bible also tells us:

- The word of God is a mirror, a mirror to reflect, something you use to repair yourself. James 1

- The word of God is a seed to multiply. You find that in 1 Peter 1

- The word of God is a laver, to cleanse in washing soap.

- The word of God is a lamp to guide. Psalm 119:105

- The word of God is like rain and snow to refresh.

- The word of God is like a sword. Hebrews 4:12

- The word of God is like a bow to revenge.

- The word of God is like a gold to enrich a person.

- The word of God is like food, to nourish. That is why you find the Bible calling the word of God ‘milk’ for babies, ‘bread’ for the hungry, ‘meat’ for the people, ‘honey’ for the dessert. That’s the word of God.

- So, the word of God will give you victory in every battle.

- That word of God is the last bus stop in every situation.

- The word of God will defend you where you cannot speak.

- The word of God will bring you joy.

- The word of God will deliver you from bondages.

- The word of God silences your enemies.

- It destroys hopelessness. No matter the situation the enemy has prepared, the word of God will work for you in that situation.

- It is the word of God that stops restlessness.

- His word brings wisdom. If you reject the word of God, then you cannot retain wisdom.

- The word of God brings victory over sins.

- The word of God gives power to revive.

The power, the centrality of the word of God is totally undebatable.

The great apostle Ayo Babalola, was in a town in the western part of Nigeria. He started a crusade, nothing was happening in that crusade. The crusade looked dry, no fire, nothing, so he got concerned. He prayed that “Father, what is going on here, I have never been to a place where there is no moving of Your power like this”? The Lord said ‘you should have asked me. At midnight, you see that river that crosses the town, go there, and you will know what the problem is. When you get there, begin to sing praises and call on the name of Jehovah’.

So the great apostle went to this river at 12 midnight. He started praying, he started singing praises.
All of a sudden, there was a rumbling in the water, a giant thing was trying to come out of that water. Very soon, a giant creature came out. The figure was the figure of a woman. It was a giant woman with a long breast. The breast were so long that they were touching the ground, and this principality looked at the great apostle.

She said “man of the Living God, what do you want”? The great apostle responded that ‘I want salvation of God in this city’. No woman responded that “no problem, let us negotiate. From this side of the river to this side, you can have that one, but this one, leave it to me, so that way, both of us will not have any problem. You face this place, I face that place”.

The man of God said ‘no, there will be no negotiation. Jesus died for the people here, Jesus died for the people there’. Then the demon got angry, and said “what do you mean? Who are you? where were you in the beginning when I started here? I have been here before this river came here, so what do you mean? Where were you at that time”?