{"id":10565,"date":"2024-04-16T09:17:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=10565"},"modified":"2024-04-16T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:17:21","slug":"the-word-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=10565","title":{"rendered":"THE WORD WORKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFor the word of God is living and powerful\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/ESV\/Hebrews4%3A12\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hebrews 4:12<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We are empowered to change ourselves from the inside out, not by trying harder. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The word of God indeed is powerful and can:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Make us free<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cause us to walk in righteousness and power<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Create success and prosperity<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Consider this verse:<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>\u201cThen Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, \u2018If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/ESV\/John8%3A31-32\" class=\"bibleserver extern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John 8:31-32<\/a>).<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There is a progression revealed here:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Choose to <b>abide<\/b> in His word &#8211; think it, meditate in it, speak it, memorize it.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This abiding will lead to <b>knowing<\/b> <b>the truth<\/b> &#8211; having revelation, feeling it, being intimate in it.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This knowing of truth will <b>make us free<\/b> &#8211; It is revelatory truth working in us that brings freedom (first in our emotions and then in our experience).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>extract from a blog by Steve Backlund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the word of God is living and powerful\u201d (Hebrews 4:12) We are empowered to change ourselves from the inside out, not by trying harder. \u00a0The word of God indeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,71,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-good-news","category-kingdom","category-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10566,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions\/10566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}