“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63

God’s Word is Spirit and life, and it is able to quicken. Remember, it is “the Spirit that quickeneth” and is able to give life to anything called dead. It can also invigorate everything that is dying. Thus, the Bible enables us to partake of that divine nature of God that gives us dominion over the things that corrupt the world.

By the Word, we become partakers of the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world through lust. It infuses the nature of God into us, and confers us with dominion over everything that is molesting the world (2 Peter 1:4).

Thus, God’s Word is Spirit-born, because the Word is a product of the Spirit and like begets like. Therefore, God’s Word is Spirit and every statement of Scripture is gathered by the Spirit of God

It is written: And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Ephesians 6:17).

Therefore, when we engage the Word, we are engaging the Spirit of God as a standard against the attacks of the enemy. The Spirit of God is our guarantee for victory in every spiritual conflict and when the enemy is defeated, our turnaround is guaranteed (Isaiah 59:19).

It is written: Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them (Isaiah 34:16).

Remember that when the devil tempted Jesus on the mount of temptation, He tackled him with “It is written,” and the devil left Him. There is no force against our path of turnaround that will not bow to the right Word, because we encounter the raw power of God from His Word.

God’s Word is His power in print and we cannot engage the sword of the Lord and still be grounded. When we engage the Spirit of the Word against the operations of hell, our victory is sure.

Empowerment in the Word

God’s Word is self-anointed and it is divinely empowered. God’s power is in His Word (John 6:63). This can be understood particularly when we know that God is omnipotent; which means that He is All-powerful.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1

If the Word is God and God is Omnipotent, that means God’s Word is all-powerful. Therefore, every genuine encounter with the Word empowers people to do the impossible. Apostle Paul said: 

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:16).

It is also written: “...as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12).

When we receive the Word, we are empowered by it to manifest our true sonship. That is, every Word we receive empowers us to become what it says. Every revelation we encounter empowers us for manifestation.

God’s Word is as omnipotent as He is, because in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Therefore, whatever God is, that is what His Word is. God’s Word can, therefore, be defined as omnipotent because it is all-powerful, invincible and undefeatable in any conflict. God’s Word reigns supreme.

For instance, we understand that God rules by the power of His Word forever. The Bible says:

“The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.” Psalm 110:1-3

Most of our battles, if not all, are against the powers of darkness and until we allow the Word to rule our hearts, we remain in darkness. It is written:

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12

The wickedness of the enemy is always in the realm of darkness and what it takes to deal with that is light, which has rule over darkness any day, anytime and anywhere. When I refer to light, I mean the light of the Word.

“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” John 1:5, 9

Hence, every genuine encounter with the Word lightens us up and turns us to spiritual “illuminants”. This empowers us to dominate all the powers of darkness around us.

In 1996, a woman who lived in Port Harcourt (a city in Nigeria) and was an evangelist was suffering from insomnia. She couldn’t sleep because some evil forces attacked her at night. When she complained to me, I told her that I would give her three tablets that would make her sleep like a baby from that time. I gave her three scriptures that entitled her to sound sleep.

When the demon came that night, she rose with one of the scriptures and the demon was suspended in the air. That gave her confidence. She shut another arrow of the Word and it fled forever. After that, Jesus conquered that spirit of insomnia and she began to sleep normally.

God’s Word lightens us and that light empowers us to conquer the forces of darkness. It is this darkness that is responsible for the stagnation of God’s children. Every true encounter with the Word empowers us to overcome the forces of darkness…

This text is an extract from the book “TURNAROUND POWER OF THE WORD” written by David O. Oyedepo. 
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