Gain Possession of God’s Word

My son, attend to my words, incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the middle of your heart, for they are life to those that find them and health to all their flesh.                                                                                                                  -Proverbs 4:20-22

God is telling us here how to find healing, health and abundant life. But these benefits we read about don’t work for everyone. God’s promises are conditional. What’s the condition? He said His words and sayings are life to those who find them.

I used to think when God said, "to those that find them,”  that He meant to those who look up three or four Scriptures in a concordance and read them a few times and maybe even make some notes. But you won’t qualify as one who has grasped the Word just by reading a few verses a few times and making lists of Scriptures.

To find doesn’t mean just to locate. Quite awhile ago, I did a study to discover what the word find really meant. I learned that it meant everything but locate! To find means “to attain or acquire, to get a hold upon, to have, to take hold on.”

God is telling you to do more than just locate Scriptures. He said His words are life to those who attain or take hold of them. He wants you to stick with His Word until His Word sticks with you!

Jesus desired the same thing for His disciples. In Luke 9:44, He instructed them, “Let these sayings sink down into your ears…”

The Word of God begins to work for you when it becomes rooted and grounded in your heart. So gain possession of the Word in your heart, and watch the Word come to pass in your life!

CONFESSION:

As I obtain, take hold of and gain possession of God’s Word, it becomes life to me. I believe God's promises with all my heart, and they come to pass in my life!

From: A Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999