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The Power of a Praying Woman
I lose so much so quickly? Of course, there are some Scriptures that are engraved in my brain and soul that I probably could recite in my sleep, but I realized then how important it is for each of us to guard the Word of God that has been deposited in our souls. “Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away” (Hebrews 2:1). We don’t realize how quickly it can be stolen from us.
Be a Doer of the Word
It doesn’t matter how long you walk with God; He always has new things for you to learn. It may be new dimensions of what you already know, or it may be something you have never seen before. Either way, it’s not enough to just learn the truth; you must act on it. “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was” (James 1:22-24). If we don’t do what the Word says, we not only forget it but we also forget who we are in the process. Whenever you read God’s Word, it is essential to ask Him to help you practically apply it to your life. Take a step that indicates you believe what you read and are going to live like it. If you don’t, what you know of the Word will be taken from you. It’s possible to hear the Word, read the Word, and even teach the Word and still remain unchanged and unaffected. All Scripture will teach us, convict us, enrich us, heal us, warn us, and expose our hearts. But we have to act on it. That’s why you have to ask God to speak to you every time you read His Word and show you what you should be doing in response to it.