A teaching by Rev. Barbara Williams, President of the Ministry of the Watchman International
Week of October 30-November 3, 2023
MONDAY
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
Isaiah 55:8
God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. Ways or actions emanate from thoughts, so His ways are higher than ours. Every word of God is full of power. What a blessing! We can depend upon God’s word. It is solid, stable and full of action. Whenever we meditate on God’s word, our thoughts become full of His power. God’s word has the power to do everything it says. When God said, “let there be,” there was. Whatever He says will happen, happens.
God’s word is full of power because He is full of truth. Truth is the highest power. Truth is pure. Whenever there is darkness in something, it is unstable, flawed, and subject to decay. God’s word is not like that. Because if it’s purity, it cannot be replaced. God’s law is the highest law, because His word is forever settled in heaven. It is so pure that it cannot be refuted. There is no arguing God’s word. It settles every dispute.
If you are in need of healing, there is good news! Proverbs 4:20-22 SAYS:
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
So there is life and health in God’s word. Since God’s word is medicine, we must take it like we would a prescription. I suggest three times a day, like you would your food. Remember, healing is the children’s bread. Consider this your “dose” for today. Remember, read, and meditate three times a day the following:
Rx: Mark 6:56 ~ And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
2 Timothy 2:15
If you’ve never studied the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, we invite you to join us as we read through the Bible in a year. Read and meditate on these chapters this week:
October 30: 2 Kings 11-12, 2 Timothy 2, Hosea 3-4, Psalms 119:121-144
October 31: 2 Kings 13, 2 Timothy 3, Hosea 5-6, Psalms 119:145-176
November 1: 2 Kings 14, 2 Timothy 4, Hosea 7, Psalms 120-122
November 2: 2 Kings 15, Titus 1, Hosea 8, Psalms 123-125
November 3: 2 Kings 16, Titus 2, Hosea 9, Psalms 126-128
November 4: 2 Kings 17, Titus 3, Hosea 10, Psalms 129-131
November 5: 2 Kings 18, Philemon 1, Hosea 11, Psalms 132-134
TUESDAY
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:9
God’s word originates in a perfect place, heaven. Because His ways are higher than ours, it is impossible for us to attain to His level of thinking or to overtake it. Whatever is highest cannot be topped. We cannot outdo God. His power is the highest power. God reigns supreme and sovereign. Where the Word of the King is, there is power.
Wherever the Words of the One who has all power reside, there is power there to see to it that the Word is carried out. The highest power has the most power. The highest power supplants all lesser powers. The highest power nullifies any words that oppose it.
This is why it is important that we speak God’s word and come into agreement with what He says. When we agree with God’s word, we become heir to what we agree with. We inherit what the Word says will happen. This is an amazing fact about the Word of God spoken by the believer.
Jesus said that if we do not doubt in our hearts, but believe that what we say is happening, it will happen. God’s word is a happening thing. It is working somewhere in the spirit to accomplish what it says while we are yet speaking.
WEDNESDAY
“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
Isaiah 55:10-11
God’s word is as right as rain. This is an interesting analogy. God says His word not only emanates from heaven, but is as sure as the snow and rain that also come from heaven. The purpose of the snow and rain coming down is to water the earth. The purpose of sending His word from heaven is to water the earth with His power. The rain and snow come down faithfully and do not return back to heaven.
God’s word never returns to Him without doing something to the place where it is sent. This makes His word different from ours. His word will not return void, or empty, but it brings forth bud, and gives seed to the sower. This means that if we speak the Word of God, it will always produce what it says, and give seed to us who sow it.
What is the seed that we receive? The seed is the Word growing inside of us. When we first had the gospel preached to us, we received the seed of the Word of God growing inside of us. This happened to the person who told us about Jesus. When John the Baptist first came preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, that Word had been placed inside him by the Holy Ghost. That Word came to him faithfully from heaven. It was placed inside of him and prospered and produced many seeds which John then planted by preaching or declaring them to others.
This Word of God is so powerful that it is being reproduced even today. The gospel never stops producing because it is eternal.
THURSDAY
“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
Isaiah 55:10-11
The Word of God also gives bread to the eater. How does this happen? When we pray “Our Father, who art in heaven… give us this day, our daily bread,” what are we expecting to happen? Since this prayer is taken from the bible, it is God’s word. He has instructed us to pray that way.
How many of us really expect food to show up solely based on our prayer? How many of us depend heavily on our jobs for our supply of daily bread, but we say our prayers as some type of insurance? How many of us would dare believe that just the Word of God prayed in faith would produce food for us every day?
This happened to George Mueller, who ran an orphanage in early twentieth century England. One day they were out of bread. Mr. Mueller was not in the habit of telling anyone of the needs of the children. This is a common practice sometimes with people of deep faith. Mother Theresa had done the same for the provision for herself and the sisters in her order. Knowing there was no bread for the morning meal, Mr. Mueller prayed before going to bed.
At five o’clock in the morning there was a knock at the orphanage door. The man who owned the village bakery was asking if there was a need for bread. He said he was awakened with the thought that the children needed bread at the orphanage.
This demonstrates the power of God’s word also to produce what it says it will produce, and give bread to the eater.
FRIDAY
“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
Isaiah 55:10-11
So this is how God’s word operates. It is full of power. It originates from heaven, so it is higher than our words, which originate on earth. It is pure so there are no mistakes in it. His word is also specific, so it prospers in the target where He sends it. God’s word never makes a mistake. If we pray to God, He sends His answer to us either by illuminating it to us in scripture, speaking it to our hearts, or speaking to us through another vessel. He may even speak the answer to us before we pray. Then when we pray we have the assurance that we are praying His will.
God’s word then, because it contains His life and the power to accomplish what it says, will do exactly what it says. It can never return to God with an excuse. Excuses are a sign of powerlessness. God’s word can never make the excuse that it could not do what He said it would, but the Word itself will produce after its own kind.
God’s word always causes the thing that it is sent into to prosper. Whatever God breathes upon or speaks into prospers. We serve a God who can only increase and not diminish. God is love. Love is a giving force. God’s word gives its own qualities to whatever it touches. His Word causes the sick to be whole, the lame to walk, the blind to see.
His Word never comes back void or empty, because His Word is not empty, but it is full of the power to produce itself and prosper in us.