The Word

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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, 'Let there be light, and there was light.' " 
                                                                                                         Genesis 1:1-4. NKJV

Spurgeon commenting on this, is quoted as saying, 'God said, Light be - and Light was.'

To get a fuller picture of the beginning of time and who was there, let us look at the Gospel of John 1:1-2

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God."

The Word is Jesus Christ. He was there at the beginning - at the creation. The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Jesus and the Holy Spirit were with God at the beginning. This is why, God said, 'Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.' (Genesis 1:26.) There was no one else He could have been speaking too.
Jesus Christ is the Word of God and He came to earth as a man and dwelt with us for a time ('And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His Glory'. (John 1:14)

So, the Word is Jesus. The Word is also called Logos, which is the Greek interpretation of The Word of God and The Written Word - the Bible or the written message. There is another Greek interpretation of the Word, which is called Rhema. This is the communication of the Word - the message or the utterance. This can be seen in Genesis 1, where God called the world into being. He said, 'Light be' and that Word became a Word of action. It was!

Rhema is a Word from the Bible that is put into action. If we take for example, Ephesians 6:17 which speaks of the Armour of God. The latter part of the verse reads 'take the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. Rhema puts Logos into action. This is why, we should always speak the Word of God to people whenever we can, very much so when we are under Spiritual attack and we need to exercise our faith as we battle with whatever satan may throw at us.

We may have been reading a piece of scripture with a relevant meaning for us. As we study what God has for us, someone may ring us and say, what we have just read. Alternatively, we may just open a book and a verse can jump off the page at us, confirming what we had read, or felt God say to us earlier. 
This happened to me very recently. I felt God giving me a Word for someone, which I did. There was no reaction from the person afterwards. A short time later, this person showed me something that she had just seen on social media. The piece started, 'You are not reading this by accident. ---'. It then went on to repeat word for word what I had said to her earlier. Co-incidence? I don't think so. It was the Rhema Word of God - the Word in action; the Word that is mentioned in Hebrews 4:12, 'For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword.' The Rhema Word.

When this happens to you, and it will, it is so exciting because there really is no explanation to it. God just wishes to speak with us and when we spend some quality time with Him, the Word of God will come alive. 

Get reading it now and take your spiritual life to another height. 

Bless you

Copyright 2019 Grahame Howard 

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