Having the Word of God in your heart and speaking it truthfully is like having Fire to burn off the lies that cannot endure the test, and like a Hammer to break the most stubborn resistance.
Jeremiah 23:29 is a foundational scripture I found to utilize the very power contained in the Word of God.
Fire is a purifier and clarifier; it burns off all the dross that is clinging to the truth, trying to hold its power back. The truth purified holds in it the power to accomplish what it was sent out to accomplish enlarging our realm of influence and minimizing our realm of resistance!
With a true heart and a purified mind, our faith is unstoppable and ignites the fire that we use to resist the enemy with his own tactics, “fighting fire with fire”. The devil knows nothing about our fire, so his defense is quickly engulfed, and our victory is obtained by using a more intense fire, God’s Word!
The fire we are wielding is coming from a fire kindled inside, a spiritual fire, set ablaze by an anointed Word of God. Lit and directed towards a bold-faced lie and even blown towards any deception.
The enemy of our soul has no place in a spiritual battle set ablaze by our spiritual awareness, our revelations, and our interpretations directly from our Creator and Father, God!
The Holy Spirit gives us the purification process that allows us to decipher truth from lies, and truthfulness from reason.
The fire that burns in us longs for a kindling and even a cuddling from Jesus, this inferno that comes out of love is quickly overpowering the enemy and he has no equalizing force.
We burn away every weight that would hold us back from our rightful place, a place in eternity! Selah!
We pass the litmus test by being purified by fire, instead of being consumed by it!
All of this “Fire Power” and we haven’t even got to use the hammer yet.
The Lord said His Word was like fire and a hammer, the hammer is used to keep the resistance in check, and to keep the framework nailed in place.
We need to keep hammering away with the Word to keep our faith at the fiery level, and hold onto those promises that in God are “yes and amen”. 2 Corinthians 1:20 says “For all of God’s promises find their “yes” of fulfillment in Jesus. And as Jesus’ “yes” and our “amen” ascend to God, we bring Jesus glory.” Amen!
The hammer part of the Word would break things off of our life that is holding us back from the purification process, from being sanctified, freed from sin.
We need the Word of God to hammer away at the bad deposits that are keeping the Word of God from having its rightful, first place in our lives.
Old worldly and even misguided spiritual conditions sometimes need a little help to fall off, some get stuck to our heart and need extra force, chipped as from a hammer, to be eliminated.
The Word of God is like “Fire and a Hammer” for two reasons; one is to keep the prophetic Word of truth progressing at a pure level and two to keep the resistance, or lies, and deception at bay.
We need to ignite our hearts to the passion found in the Word of God, never letting our fire weaken in strength. By faith and truth we keep our fire “white hot”, always up for the tests that come from any negative resistance.
Keep swinging the hammer at anything that tries to exalt itself above the Word of God, and at all times we need to keep the “Fire and the Hammer” stored up and at home in our hearts, policing all that pulls us into any shadow of darkness.
In all of our daily activities remember to start with a good dose of the Word of God. Open up your sword, the Bible, because under its cover you will find “Fire and a Hammer”!
“Open often and use wisely.”
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Scriptures of content and encouragement: Jeremiah 23:29,
Matthew 5:8, Psalm 24:4-5, 1 Corinthians 2:12, 1 Peter 1:7, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, and Ephesians 6:16-17, “Lift up over all the covering shield of saving faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God” Amen! AMPC version.