Work the Word Part 2:
Bishop Joseph W. Walker, III
August 9th, 2026
Psalm 107:20 (NKJV)
He sent His word and healed them,
And delivered them from their destructions.
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Prayer:
We give You glory and praise today for Your Word. Let Your Word speak to us today. Let our lives be blessed. Let us, God, leave here better. We open our hearts that we might receive this Word today. We give You glory and praise, that somebody’s life will be changed forever in Jesus’ name.
I. INTRODUCTION
We have to testify today that we live in a culture that seeks healing everywhere except where God placed it first. We trust prescriptions, we trust procedures and professionals — and thank God for all of them — but we often ignore the prescription that God has already sent. Many people discover relief without revelation, recovery without responsibility, and that’s a dangerous combination. Because what this verse is going to show us today is that before God changes our conditions, God always releases a communication, because He always speaks before heaven moves. Healing does not begin with a miracle. It begins with a message.
Therefore, it is important to understand this, because too often we pray for God to touch what God has already addressed. We often don’t realize that God has a pattern, and that pattern is clear: before God solves, God speaks. Before God strikes, God speaks. God is sending a word into your life, but more importantly, He is administering treatment to your situation. The tragedy is not that people are sick. The tragedy is that people refuse the prescription that God has sent to make them whole, because the Word of God is not supplemental — the Word of God is essential.
What if I told you that the breakthrough you’ve been believing God for is on the way? In one sentence — imagine that God can speak one sentence, one word, and your entire situation could be turned around. Because of distractions, apathy, sometimes you could miss what God is about to release in your life. Healing happens when you stop waiting on a sign and start receiving the word that God has already spoken.
Now, we don’t fully know the occasion Psalm 107 was written for — we are not certain of the exact backdrop — but this psalm helps us understand that this is bigger than physical healing. It is about God’s pattern of rescuing people who have wandered away from Him. What has caused this distance, this disconnection? There are underlying reasons why people disconnect in relationships, and particularly why they disconnect from God.
Think about it from a scientific or physiological perspective. Every single day your body is striving for homeostasis. Your body is fighting for equilibrium, for balance, every single day. Everything is moving in your body because your body is attempting to regulate itself and stay in balance. Whenever you do not eat properly, rest properly, or take care of your body, then your body does not move into a place of homeostasis, of balance, of equilibrium. Your body moves into a place of dysregulation. Your body is not at ease — it causes dis-ease.
The same is true spiritually. When you are not properly aligned with God — when you are not praying like you should, not reading His Word like you should, not obeying like you should — then you find yourself in a place of dysregulation. You’re not hearing from God. Things are not moving like you want them to. Why? Because now you are drifting, and the distance begins. Now you find your relationship with God not at ease, and you find yourself spiritually diseased in that moment.
God sends a word because He recognizes that the distance has come, and it’s His desire to bring you back to your rightful place. That’s what this sermon is about today — God wants to bring you back into a place where every promise over your life will come to pass. But it will not happen while there is misalignment. So God sends a word, and the psalm says He sent His word to heal them and to deliver them from destruction.
The people who first heard this text were recently on their way back from exile — they had been in Babylonian captivity, and now they’re coming back with this word. What happened to you was your own doing, don’t blame anybody else, you did it to yourself. This psalm opens up about the faithfulness of God, because Psalm 107 begins, “Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endures forever.” The only reason you’re even here today — no, you haven’t done everything right, you haven’t crossed every T. It’s because of the mercy of God. If you have nothing else to give God glory for, you ought to thank God that mercy kept you, mercy sustained you.
So the psalm begins to give us classifications of various kinds of people who walk away from God, various ways people distance themselves from Him, and then it shows us how people find themselves in desperate situations because of life’s bad decisions and because of outright rebellion. In every story there was a pattern, and that pattern is the same: the people cry out in their distress, and God responds with mercy rather than condemnation.
Now, verse 20 describes them as fools, because their suffering was connected to their own foolish choices. Their physical affliction reflected a deeper spiritual problem. They had rejected God’s wisdom, and now they were experiencing the consequences of being disconnected from Him. So before God sends a miracle, before God sends an angel, God sends a word — and the text says God was so concerned about them that He sent the word to do something comprehensive: not just to heal them, but to deliver them from the very thing that caused them to be disconnected in the first place.
Can I tell you something, people of God — God’s Word carries both the diagnosis and the prescription. I need somebody to hear this today, because you’re not watching this by accident. God told me to tell somebody: whatever you brought here today, there is healing in this house. Whatever you’re dealing with today, there is healing in this house for you. If you brought fear, if you brought anxiety, if you brought grief, if you brought brokenness, if you brought disappointment, if you brought confusion, if you brought a weary spirit, if you brought a fractured family, if you brought financial strain, if you brought a sick body, if you brought a wound — whatever it is, I know you don’t understand it yet, but by the end of this message, God is not just going to heal it, you’re going to leave here whole today.
II. GOD SENDS HIS WORD BEFORE HE SHOWS HIS POWER
A. Healing begins when revelation is received, not when symptoms leave.
So let’s talk, because the first thing I want you to get clearly is: God sends His word before He shows His power. What do I mean by that? God does not waste power before His instructions are given. God wants to make sure you receive the word before He releases power. The text says He sent His word — which means healing travels on truth, and transformation is always carried by revelation before the symptom even changes. Understanding has to change first, because what you know determines how you live.
Think about it for a moment, people of God — nothing apart from His Word is going to move our situation while we ignore what God said about our situation. God’s power flows through His Word, not around His Word — which means you cannot bypass Scripture and expect a supernatural breakthrough in your life. Revelation precedes manifestation. The word positions you for the miracle that’s on the way. If God gave you the miracle before He gave you the message, you would celebrate the miracle, but you would miss the revelation wrapped up in the message.
Think about it — this is important to understand. When Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness, Satan tried to get Him to overcome everything by leaning on power. But Jesus did not lean in with power — He leaned in with the Word. Every time Satan tried to say, “If You have that much power, do this, do that,” Jesus said, “It is written, it is written, it is written.” Because He always begins with the Word.
He begins with the Word, because healing begins when revelation is received — not when your symptoms leave. Symptoms are often the last thing to change. Whenever God gives you a revelation, that doesn’t mean the healing has not begun, because God heals from the inside out. And if you’re not careful, you’ll start measuring your progress based on your pain threshold, not realizing that the moment you receive the word is the very moment God begins to heal your situation.
Some of you right now — it may not look like it’s changing in your family, it may not look like it’s changing in your finances, it may not look like it’s changing on your job — but the moment you get a word, you’ve got to believe God would not send that word if something wasn’t about to happen in your situation.
Too many of us miss this — Psalm 107 does not say that God sent a distraction; it says God sent a word. That’s important, because it speaks to the order of how God does what God does. Watch this: the phrase is significant because it implies that God’s word is intentional, dispatched with a specific assignment. God does not waste His word. When God sends His word, it is dispatched with a specific assignment attached to it. It was not a casual conversation or empty encouragement. God’s word is commissioned with purpose. God’s word will find you wherever you are in your situation. I don’t care if you’re in the lowest valley, His word will find you. I don’t care if you’re in the roughest storm, His word will find you. I don’t care if you run from Him, His word will still find you. And before healing ever arrives, God releases a word — and God will do it, because the Bible says His word does not return to Him void, but His word accomplishes what He sends it to do.
So He sent His word — the Bible says — to heal. Let’s break that down. In the Hebrew, “to heal” is Rapha. God sent His word to restore, to repair, to make whole. It reminds us that biblical healing is never limited to your body. God heals your mind. God can heal your disappointment. God can heal your soul. You have to understand — God isn’t just trying to heal one part of you, God is trying to heal every part of you.
And what’s important to understand, people of God, is that the Bible says He delivered them from their destruction. Notice the word is “delivered” — the psalm is showing us that God is not only healing the problem, but God is rescuing you from the patterns that have been shaping your life, because God is not just after your pain, God is trying to get to the source of your pain. God is trying to help you get to the root of what is causing all the trauma and stress in your life.
I want to talk to this generation for just a moment, because we’ve become experts in managing pain, but amateurs at healing it. We need something to get us through Monday, something to take the edge off on Tuesday, something to help us sleep on Wednesday, something to get us through Thursday, something to help us forget about it on Friday. For some of us it’s a substance, for others it’s a full bed at night for the wrong reasons, for someone else it’s a cigarette, for someone else it’s an edible you’ve got in your pocket right now — I’m not judging you — but for somebody else it’s just one glass of wine, except that glass becomes two, and three, and four every night. I’m not standing here in judgment, because all of us reach for something when life gets heavy. But the real, deeper question is: why have you become dependent on it? Because anything I reach for before I reach for God has become a malfunctioning savior.
B. What God sends must be believed before it can be beneficial.
- Believe the Word above how you feel.
Sometimes you don’t need another escape — you need an encounter with God. God isn’t saying, “Stop, because I’m angry.” He’s saying, “Come to Me, because I have something deeper than what your temporary comforts can give you.” A drink might numb you for the evening, alcohol might quiet you for the night, but only God’s Word can heal the war inside you, and only God can help you rest at night.
Who am I talking to? Because what God sends has to be believed before it can be beneficial. The word doesn’t mean anything unless you believe it. The word doesn’t mean anything unless you actually walk in agreement with it. Remember Israel and God’s promise concerning the Promised Land — their unbelief kept them wandering too long in the wilderness. You’ve got to get to a point where you say, “Lord, I believe what You say, I’m in agreement.” Because faith isn’t just a feeling — miracles flow through faith, your breakthrough flows through faith, which means you’ve got to believe God’s word above how you feel.
Some days you’ll feel like it, some days you won’t. Some days you’ll look at your situation and say, “I don’t feel like things are changing, I don’t feel like things are progressing.” But you’ve got to have something inside you that says God’s word is greater than how you feel. The facts of God’s word are always greater than your fluctuating emotions. And you’ve got to speak God’s word until you see God’s word — I told you last week, you’ve got to call those things that be not as though they were. I don’t care what it looks like — I’m not going to let my reality be determined by other people, because other people look at your situation and try to diagnose it or conclude what it is, but you don’t look at it the way other people do — you look at it through what God has promised.
- Speak the Word until you see the Word.
Let the weak say, “I am strong.” Let the poor say, “I am rich.” You’ve got to learn how to talk to yourself, and you’ve got to learn how to agree with what God says, and you’ve got to act on the word before you even see results.
- Act on the Word before you see the results.
I want to talk to you for just a moment, because it’s important to hear this. The priests stepped into the Jordan before the water parted — that’s what even parted the water. The blind man started walking before anything even happened to his eyes. The leper started walking before anything even happened to his leprosy. You cannot tell me you don’t know how to walk by faith and not by sight. You’ve got to know how to put yourself in position — fill out the application before you get the job, clean out the garage before you get the car. You’ve got to start walking on the property you’ve already been given.
Who am I talking to? That’s got some audacity in it, that’s some radical faith — I’m acting on what God told me to do. I’m putting myself in position even before that thing comes to pass.
III. THE WORD HEALS WHAT MEDICINE CANNOT REACH
• Science explains God’s creation.
Now watch this: the word heals what medicine cannot reach. I want you to hear this. Doctors treat your body, but God treats your being. God deals with every layer of who you are. Some pain has memory, history, and trauma attached to it, and no machine could ever fully measure that. And I want you to hear me clearly on this, church, because I don’t want anybody to misunderstand what I’m about to say — God is not against doctors, God is not against therapy, God is not against counseling, God is not against medication. In fact, every good and perfect gift comes from God, which means the wisdom to perform surgery, to discover antibiotics, to develop vaccines, to understand the brain and create treatment, is a gift from God. God has allowed humanity to discover that — it’s a gift from God. Science is not the enemy of faith. Science is not the enemy of faith. Science is not the enemy of faith — it’s just a way God allows us to understand the world He created.
• Medicine treats God’s creation.
As a matter of fact, Luke — the disciple who became an apostle, who wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles — was not only an evangelist, he was a physician by trade. Jesus never asked him to stop practicing medicine. He used his profession and his faith to serve the kingdom. So hear me well: I believe in doctors, I believe in medicine, I believe in therapy, I believe in taking care of your mental health, I believe in getting second opinions, I believe in counseling — because God can use all of those things. But Psalm 107 teaches us that there comes a place medicine cannot reach.
• The Word transforms God’s creation.
The surgeon can repair your heart, but only God can heal your heartache. The psychiatrist can prescribe medication, but cannot prescribe purpose. The therapist can help you process trauma, but cannot forgive you. The cardiologist can regulate your blood pressure, but cannot remove bitterness. The oncologist can help you fight cancer, but cannot restore your wholeness. Science can explain how the brain works, but only God can give you the perfect peace that comes from keeping your mind stayed on Him.
A. Some wounds are internal, emotional, and spiritual.
Can somebody help me understand this — medicine treats God’s creation, but only God can transform His creation, because some wounds are internal, emotional, and spiritual. Some of the things we are dealing with are much deeper than they appear.
I’m going to say something today that may shake some things up, but it’s important to hear. I am a Bible teacher. I took my calling so seriously that I went to school to study the craft, to study Scripture, to read the Bible. Unfortunately, people love to say you don’t need training if you’ve got an anointing. They’ll counsel people out of culture, claim to have a doctorate they never earned, sending people off with a whole “doctor” title in front of their name. I’m not saying this to tear anybody down — I’m trying to help you understand that I took very seriously what God assigned me to do, because I recognized that the people I’m called to pastor don’t need shallow interpretations of Scripture. I recognized that the way I teach isn’t for everybody, because if you’re looking for “abracadabra, shazam” ministry, this isn’t your church — because the problem with abracadabra-shazam ministry is that it produces a high rate of relapse. Some of the people you pray for in the name of Jesus on Sunday are right back the same way the next Sunday, and the next, because nobody wants to address the deeper issues giving rise to the struggle. It’s easy to string Scriptures together and treat people at a surface level.
So here I am, thirty-four years into this — sitting in Starbucks the other day, minding my own business, staying in my lane, when two young people walked up to my table. I didn’t reveal who I was on purpose, and they started asking me about my relationship with God, going through all kinds of statements. I just sat there and listened, and it didn’t take me long — because I’ve been at this a long time — to realize I was in front of a cult recruiter. When I began to realize some of the questions and how they were looking at me, I began to realize: you’re the problem — somebody has deceived you, you’ve found comfort in a place that has actually harmed you, made you feel like you’re part of a family, and you’re coming to me with a shallow interpretation of the Bible. Then when I opened my mouth, one of them said, “I think my Uber is here.” And the other one just stood there in shock as I began to break down the Word of God in a way they had never heard before.
I began to realize how easy it is for so many people to be fooled by a shallow interpretation of Scripture — but it’s a lie. So I am unapologetic about how I teach, because when I wrote my book, I stayed rooted — this was my burden. My burden was to help people understand that Scripture must be understood in a holistic, spiritual space. Because the people receiving this word, the people who first heard this psalm, understood the body as all-encompassing. Old Testament believers never separated the physical from the spiritual from the mental. We do that; they never did.
That’s why you’ll see in the Old and New Testament, when someone came to Jesus with a sickness, sometimes there was a spiritual conversation attached to it. This might sound strange to us, but that’s how their mindset was, because they believed that if something was wrong physically, there was some disconnect between the person and God. It could be spiritual, it could be relational. They never separated any of it.
And the reason I brought that up is because some of the things people are dealing with, why they smile in church, is much deeper than what shows on the surface. And what you’ve got to stop asking is “what’s wrong with you” and start asking “what happened to you,” because if all you ever ask is “what’s wrong with you,” you’ll prescribe the wrong pill, you’ll prescribe the wrong word, and you’ll miss the deeper thing inside them. Some people you may look at and say, “What’s wrong with her, why does she act like that?” Well, maybe you ought to ask, “What happened to her?” Maybe she was a young girl whose father left the house, and a crazy uncle or the male figures in her life left a level of trauma. “What’s wrong with him” could be because he never had a model growing up. Until you deal with the root of the matter, you’ll never get to the right fruit that should come from that person.
People of God, I want you to hear this clearly — God wants to get to the root of it. Now, I’m from Louisiana, I’m from the South. Down there, when we used to get sick, my grandmother had a medicine cabinet with this stuff we dreaded because it was going to clean you out. She’d get this little bottle, and when she turned it over, it was thick and crusty — I don’t know if all of y’all know what I’m talking about, because you’re “hospital people” now — but it was called something like Cod Liver oil. It was so thick, when you poured it on the spoon it moved slow, like it was doing its own kind of therapy. It would make you sick just looking at it. But the moment it hit your tongue, everything in your body responded, and thirty seconds later, whatever needed to come out, came out.
B. Refusing the Word delays deliverance you are praying for.
- Receive the Word without debating it.
- Apply the Word before you analyze it.
- Remove what it competes with it.
- Respond to it immediately.
Can I tell you something — that’s why it’s time to stop with these “cheesecake” sermons. God is trying to give you something that will clean you out. Look at your neighbor and say, “I need it all out.” Whatever it takes, Lord, give me a clean heart. God wants to give you a spiritual version of that same cleansing tonic, to get it all out — because if you refuse the word, then what you’re praying for takes longer, because you keep rejecting the word of God. You want to fix your marriage, but you won’t forgive. You want to fix your finances, but you keep buying things you don’t need — you’ve got a whole closet full of stuff and no money right now. What is wrong with you? Because what we want is for God to give us a word, but we want to control how it’s distributed in our lives.
The doctor tells you, “I’m going to put you on this blood pressure medicine because I don’t like what I see, and I want you to come back in six months.” And you know what you do? He tells you to take three pills, and you say, “Well, I don’t like how three pills make me feel, so I’m just going to take two.” You’re trying to control the method of how the word should be taken — like Naaman did in 2 Kings, when the prophet told him to dip in them muddy Jordan and his skin would be made clean. Naaman didn’t want to do it, because he wanted to control how God worked. Sometimes God tells you, “I want you to be alone.” But God, I can’t just have one date. God says, “Stay by yourself, fast, seek Me” — but you’d rather scroll social media, because you want to do what you want to do. But there comes a moment when you have to do exactly what God tells you to do. You’ve got to receive the word without debating it, apply the word without over-analyzing it, remove whatever competes with it, and respond to it immediately.
IV. DELIVERANCE IS ACTIVATED BY RECEPTION
Let me close this out, because I’m about to bless you. Deliverance is only activated by reception. Deliverance will never happen if you don’t receive what God is trying to do. The Bible says He sent His word to heal them and to deliver them from destruction. Healing and deliverance are not the same thing. Healing removes the wound; deliverance breaks the cycle. Healing touches the wound; deliverance stops the pattern. God doesn’t just want to remove your pain — He wants to remove the pattern, because the pattern is what keeps producing the cycle that keeps holding you back. God’s goal is not simply to make you feel better for a moment. The goal is to make you free for a lifetime.
Can you imagine what that feels like — truly free? We just want a quick result. Your blood pressure needs to come down, you finally do everything right, you come back in six months and your numbers are perfect, and you get so excited you reach out and celebrate — and then your first meal afterward is fried pork chops, because you went right back to the habit that created the problem in the first place. You got the healing, but you went back to the cycle that caused it. Are y’all getting this? Medical science can help you cut across the field, but if you don’t change your mindset and your habits, you’ll go right back to your own baseline in six months.
Are y’all getting what I’m telling you? Receiving the word isn’t just about hearing it — it’s about embracing it, applying it, doing it. Can I tell you something — the reason some people never break a cycle is because once they hear the word, that’s all they do. They shout over the word, but they never want to do the heavy lifting. Deliverance requires doing the real work. As long as the pattern remains, the cycle will continue.
I’m talking to somebody right now who doesn’t understand that God wants to break the cycle in your life, and here’s how He does it. Let me break it down from John chapter 5 — Jesus heals a man at the pool of Bethesda, and Jesus says, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” He was no longer lame, but Jesus said, “Take up your bed” — that’s your responsibility now. “I can heal you, but the deliverance is going to require your work.” You’ve got to take up the bed, you’ve got to walk it out. That’s what happens — many people just want somebody to say “it’s already done for you,” but you’ve got to do the real work. It takes work to build a marriage, it takes work to get through school, it takes work to accomplish the thing you’re called to do. Somebody’s got to put in the work, because without the work, the word only delivers you from destruction. It doesn’t develop you so you don’t return to it. You can have it for a moment, but the deliverance is maintained through continued reception of God’s word.
A. The Word only works where it is welcomed.
You’ve got to receive the word — you’ve got to say, “Whatever it is You want to give me, I welcome it. Whatever You want to address in me, God, I’m ready. I’m not going to be angry, I’m not going to be frustrated — whatever You want for my life, I’m open.” Come with an open spirit, because an open spirit hears.
B. You cannot be healed from what you refuse to confront.
Here is the word of God for your life. Are you ready for it? You cannot be healed of what you refuse to confront. I’m not going to be a Christian who only tells you what you want to hear — I’m going to tell you what God told me to tell you. One of the hardest things God will ever ask you to do is face the thing you have spent years trying to avoid. You cannot be healed of what you refuse to confront. Avoidance makes you feel better for a little while, but it never makes you better — it only preserves your pain. It keeps you living in the same cycle that God wants to break in your life.
Here’s the deal — God’s word is like a mirror. He’s helping you see yourself. He’s not trying to judge you, He’s inviting you to come to your day of reckoning. If you’re listening to me right now and you’re tired — tired of carrying this private thing around, tired of living a duality, looking put together in the spirit around everybody else, but then going home knowing there’s something broken in you — something you’ve wrestled with, some generational curse you’ve carried — how long will you keep resting like that? How long will you keep struggling like that?
Some of us have become experts at managing what God wants us to overcome. We manage our anger instead of letting God change it. We manage our loneliness by staying in the wrong relationships. We manage our anxiety by staying busy instead of learning to trust God. Let me help you understand — you can cover a wound, but if you never clean it, it will eventually become infected. What stays hidden will always be hurting.
Can I ask you a question — what if you’ve gotten comfortable carrying what God intended for you to let go of? Is it pride? Is it unforgiveness? Is it fear? Is it an addiction? Is it a secret, a habit nobody knows about? The place you were protecting may be the very place God is trying to heal. So if you don’t face it, God can’t fix it.
Think about what happens, people of God, when you stay in denial about what’s wrong. “I’m fine, everything’s good, praise the Lord” — hallelujah, all is well, because it’s easy to protect your image before people while your integrity is eroding before God. Your personality is who people think you are, but your integrity is who you really are. Some people come to church smiling while their household is breaking; some hold hands in the pew while being bitter toward the person next to them. It’s amazing how you can shout in the sanctuary and then get in the car and cuss each other out all the way home. And it’s amazing how you can keep doing that, because the devil doesn’t mind you coming to church, as long as you stay in the cycle.
But I’ve come today to tell you — God is about to break a cycle in your life. God is about to break a generational curse in your life. Somebody shout, “It’s about to break!” It’s about to break.
Let me tell you something — a man was diagnosed with high blood pressure. The doctor handed him a prescription and said, “If you take this every day, it will protect your heart, but if you ignore it, you may not notice the danger right away, but it will happen over time.” The man felt fine, so he went home and set the prescription aside. Months later, with no warning, he suffered a major stroke. When the doctor visited him in the hospital, the doctor didn’t say, “I wish I had written you a prescription.” The doctor simply said, “Why didn’t you take what I gave you?”
How long are you going to stay on the struggle bus? You’ve got a first-class ticket on that struggle bus, and you won’t take what He gave you. I know some of you have been sitting in church a long time, and some of you are here for the first time — but ultimately, it took you fifteen minutes to hear what you needed. God is your pharmacist, filling a prescription that the Great Physician already wrote for you. If you got a prescription from a stranger, you’d give them your birthday and go fill it — but God got you here today, God got you tuned in at just the right time, with a simple question: I see you struggling in your marriage — why won’t you take what I gave you? I see you struggling with your mental health — why won’t you take what I gave you? I see you going from one bad relationship to another — why won’t you take what I gave you? I see you with your anger problem — why won’t you take what I gave you? I see you with your jealousy — why won’t you take what I gave you?
I declare over this house today: every revelation is a prescription, every warning is a prescription, every promise is a prescription. I want to clear your life today — whatever you need, God says, “I’m ready to heal you from the root to the fruit.” Whatever it is, whatever you call it, there is healing in this house. I just want to know — who’s ready to receive today? Who’s ready to receive everything God has for your life?
Lord, heal my soul, heal my heart, heal my body, heal me — every area of my life. I’m not leaving here unless I know God has touched my life. The goal is not just healing — remember the woman with the issue of blood came looking for healing, but Jesus said, “Your faith has made you whole,” because if He had only healed her flow of blood, she would have left still bitter about how people treated her when she was sick. So God is trying to heal your heart, God is trying to deliver you from your destruction, because He loves you so much, He put you in the right service at the right time to hear this word.
I didn’t know your situation, but God did — it’s not a headache but a foot-ache for somebody else, because pain shows up in different places for different people. How can we all sit in the same room and hear the same word, yet God meets us all differently, at different points in our lives, because He knows the specifics of the pain in each spirit sitting here. God knew exactly what you needed today.
I want to challenge you today. This is an invitation for you to come into a greater relationship — this word from Psalm 107 was about why we’ve disconnected. You can be present but still disconnected. I’m not talking about your title, I’m not talking about how people see you — I’m talking about you saying, “I want an authentic encounter with God, I want to feel His presence all over again.” Pastor’s not asking you to be perfect — none of us are. I just want you to want a deeper, authentic relationship with Jesus Christ.
Listen — the pharmacist can prepare the prescription, but you’ve got to take the medicine. So today I’m telling you, God has already given you what you need, but you’ve got to take it. You’ve got to say, “Lord, I’m not leaving here the same way I came.” Somebody shout, “Let go.”
Have a blessed new week with the Lord! ❤️
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