HOUSE OF ROBERTS BLOG

Alright, Summer Week 2….How are you doing? Breathing deep? Counting how many summers you have left out loud? It helps, truly! I personally have had to do it maaaaany times over the last week but every time it sobers me up!

I’ve been thinking so much about the power of the Word of God in our lives. I grew up in church my whole life but truth be told I never was much of a reader so the Bible was always a bit of a struggle for me. I mean I would read it but it was like checking a box for a lot of my growing up. When I gave my life (truly) to Christ in High School it was still an up-and-down journey in my faith because my lean was always worship and prayer. I connected with God in those places the easiest, taking the pieces I KNEW of the word and maximizing it there. This approach only took me so far in my faith. Eventually, I got stuck because this approach was malnourished. I mean, HOW could I really know God without knowing His word? How could my faith take root and go deeper, without HEARING the word of God? How could my character possess the attributes of Christ without knowing WHO He was and His nature? How could I stand firm against the enemy’s lies and troubles of life without the belt of truth and the sword of the spirit to fight with?

I remember before the Lord called me to go to bible school, Michael and I had broken up. The Lord had told me that He needed time with me, that there was a call on my life, and that I needed to KNOW Him deeply in order to do it. I WANTED THAT! The Lord gave me such a DEEP hunger to KNOW Him greater in that season, that it surpassed my desire to be Michael’s girlfriend. We broke up and so began the journey of me KNOWING God! You know the first place He took me on that journey with Him? To His Word… And for the first time in my life, I wanted it…BAD! I became consumed with the Bible and sensed the Holy Spirit so close teaching me what it meant. I went to bible school with such a hunger and focus to UNDERSTAND His word, not just in a head knowledge way but in my heart. I wanted it to be real and make sense so that I could truly live it out. You want to know the biggest tangible change that came to my life in getting God’s word in me. STABILITY! Stability in my thoughts, in my emotions, in my decisions, in my reactions. I was no longer living out of “my truth” or “my personality” but out of HIS. I was now hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit constantly REMINDING me of what His word says and how I should then handle whatever was at hand. It brought such a solidness to who I was in all fronts of life. I was no longer easily persuaded by my feelings or emotions because the truth was at home in me and it called me higher. I was always such prayer girl and so now knowing the WORD was like taking steroids for this gift because now I was so aware of His word constantly coming to my heart, coaching me, and leading me to share with others.

Psalms 119 is one of my favorite pieces of scripture. The Psalmists creates a compelling, convicting argument for the POWER of the WORD in our life. The word God is like medicine…You ingest it and you can’t SEE the work it’s doing to HEAL you but as you take it, it's bringing back alignment to your body. It’s the same with the Word of God as you read the word and get it in your heart it's correcting that which is hurt, out of order, immature, lacking, preparing you, strengthening you, encouraging you, teaching you…it’s doing far beyond what you can see.

I’m not sure where you are at with the Word of God but I am praying even as you have read this that the same Spirit that changed my heart to LOVE and DESIRE it is changing yours! I pray and impart my hunger to KNOW Him and His Word to you right now in Jesus' name! That when you open His word it will come alive to you in a greater way through the help of the Holy Spirit at work in you! That you would see the fruit of His Word spring forth in a great way emotionally, physically, spiritually, and financially as you do not just HEAR it but DO it! In Jesus name!!