One of my favorite songs we sing during worship has these words, “Words of Spirit, words of life, eternal life giving word. We eat and find our delight, in the word of the Lord!” The longer we live in this physical realm, the more we realize that there is nothing in this world that can satisfy our spirits! Our spirit requires spiritual food. Jesus spoke these words in Matthew 4:4 “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.“

God’s word is Spirit and life. The analogy given in spiritual terms is; the Shepherd is to lead the sheep to the greener pastures of God’s word. As we, the sheep, feed upon, eat of, digest it and speak God’s word to one another, we create one another into living epistles. Literally, we become, like Christ, the Word made flesh. Eventually, we grow stronger in spirit, with the help of the Holy Spirit! God’s word reveals God’s divine nature to us; therefore, we cry out to Him with a hunger to appropriate more of Him in our worship and communion!

What Christ accomplished on the cross, opened the door for all to appropriate the fullness of the Father that is contained in His first-born Son. Now, the many sons and daughters who make up the body of Christ will be filled with the fullness of the Father through appropriation and as a result, we will be enabled to do the “greater works” that Jesus spoke we would do, as we walk out our destiny in the days ahead, thank you, Lord!