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LET GOD’S WORD FILL YOU WITH LIFE
November 7, 2025My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to all their body. Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life. Proverbs 4:20-23
1. GOD’S WORDS ARE LIFE AND HEALTH. God’s Word never returns to Him empty, but it accomplishes what it’s been sent to do (Isaiah 55:11). He sent His Word and healed them (Psalm 107:20). Jesus is described as the Word made flesh (John 1:14). He is the Sustenance, the Provider, Manna Bread (John 6:31-35). He saves us, and when we meditate on the promises of God, He puts an IV drip of healing into our system.
2. GOD FILLS YOU WITH LIVING WATER. Jesus spoke about living water to the woman from Samaria while they were standing at a well in an arid desert climate. He compared physical hydration to the waters of eternal life (John 4:14). This living water means not only being satisfied yourself, but also refreshing others – what God does to us, He wants to do through us. When we believe in Him, out of our “innermost being will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38).
3. GUARD YOUR HEART. We have our physical heart which pumps blood, but it’s a picture of a deeper spiritual truth. The word heart in Proverbs 4 means that spiritual center that perceives the promptings of the Holy Spirit. When we get saved, we become born of the Spirit (John 3:6), and we walk out what God has worked in us (Philippians 2:13). So that’s why it is so important to put a guard on our hearts (Isaiah 12:3) – so that from our innermost being will flow those rivers of living water to a parched, lost, hurt bunch of people called the world.
DEFINITION: heart (Greek: leb), noun
The power or faculty of the mind, by which it distinguishes one thing from another, as truth from falsehood, virtue from vice; acuteness of judgment. God bless you,
Pastor Jeff Perry
PRAY THIS OUT LOUD:
God, Your Word never returns empty, but accomplishes what it’s been sent to do (Isaiah 55:11). You sent Your Word and healed me. (Psalm 107:20). Thank you for being my Sustenance, my Provider, and my Bread of life (John 6:31-35). Thank you for saving and healing me, in Jesus’ Name, amen.
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