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What we learned today is that the Word of the Lord is given to not only inspire, and to instruct, but also given to inform. It shows us God’s perspective on the circumstances we find ourselves in. This dynamic is called prophetic insight, and it is God’s revelation to us of how He sees the situation. God’s Word is still going out and informing us of His will today. How about you? Will you believe the report of the Lord?

What does the God’s love look like? Jesus was and is God’s nature made visible. But what He said, and by how He lived, He demonstrated God’s love to us. What we saw today is that in stark opposition to the world which is always wanting to use others that they may go up, true love willingly goes down in service to others that others may go up.
Why did He demonstrate this principle to us so definitively? Because, once again, we become what we behold. It’s so that we would become like Him and in doing so, truly be a reflection of Him so that we might reveal His love and His glory to the world around us.

The Kingdom of God literally means the rule and reign of God. God is King whether we recognize it or not. When we recognize it and submit to it, we find that the benefits and the privileges of the Kingdom, the promises that God has made to His people then begin to flow into their lives.

Thus far, we looked at how Micaiah was sent with the Word of God to Inspire the King of Israel to fight and to Instruct the King to be prepared for an upcoming battle. What we want to highlighted today is the importance of knowing God’s Word. In Knowing His Word, we become knowledgeable of His Will. Not only must we know it, but we must also understand what the Word of God means. Understanding without doing makes the Word of God ineffective. Therefore, we must be doers of the Word for it to release its power into our lives.

All 3 gospels tell us that immediately after the experience on the mountain where Jesus had been transfigured, Jesus and the three were confronted with a situation in which the rest of the band had been unable to cure an epileptic boy. Jesus asserted his authority over the demons and gave some significant teaching on the importance of faith. When asking Jesus why they could not cast it out, Jesus replied to them that it was because of their “little faith.” The context seems to suggest that their faith is still in an immature stage. It has not yet grown up to what it will be.The emphasis in the passage can be found in the words, “you will say.” In other words, what you were able to do today, is not necessarily what you will be able to do in the future. Your faith today will eventually grow to the point where you will be able to face these same kind of situation and in faith, you will see that it is grown to the place where it can and will with it.

The Word of the Lord is meant to inspire us as well to live for God and trust Him to bring us through whatever battles may lie in front of us. I hope that some of these accounts we shared today inspired you to put your faith in God and trust Him to help you through whatever battles you may be facing.