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What Is "Word-Empowered" Faith?

Today's devotion is about faith and having faith in God's Word. When we were created in God's image, God empowered us with His Word and gave us dominion over all living things on earth, the fish of the sea and the birds of the air (Genesis 1:27-30). Adam forfeited this authority over to satan when he and Eve disobeyed God. But thanks to a loving Father Who gave us His Son Jesus, when Jesus died at Calvary, He reclaimed for man the dominion Adam forfeited, and He willed it back to believers as part of our precious inheritance. God empowered us through His Word with "mountain moving" faith. What is that? In order to have "mountain moving" faith, we must allow God's Word to empower our faith. All we have to do to make this "Word-Empowered" faith produce for us is to believe God's Word and act upon it. In Joshua 1:1-9, when God gave instructions to Joshua to lead the people of Israel across the River Jordan and into the Promised Land, He instructed him to meditate on His Word day and night, and to be very courageous in the face of the enemy. Joshua's faith in God's Word exhibited by his courage,would be the ingredients needed for Joshua and the people of Israel to succeed in claiming the Promised Land that their lack of faith had escaped them 40 years earlier. God knew that Joshua would need to exhibit "Word-Empowered"" faith to succeed in driving out the Canaanite people who inhabited the land. And Joshua proved himself to be deserving of the responsibility set before him because of His faith in God's Word.. Mark 4 (Parable of the Sower) teaches us that because we are empowered by God to exercise dominion on earth, we can have an 100-fold return of whatever we ask of God and are believing for. What we can truly believe for will determine our rate of return when we plant the Word securely in our spirit man. If we cannot believe for 100-fold, we might be able to believe for a 60-fold return-- and if not, a 30-fold return? It's really our call. When the Europeans first settled America, the discovered that the native American Indians were excellent farmers. By putting a piece of fish in the same hole where they planted their seed, their return was almost unimaginable and incalculable! If we plant the seed of the Word where we are planting garden seed, we can always count on a big return. Mark 10:17-30 teaches us about the rich young ruler who could not part with His great possessions. The key to the story is this: we must be willing to let go of what we own-- believing that by giving away what is precious to us, we can be assured that God, Who is in the business of restoring souls (Psalm 23:3), will surely restore us a multifold.amount-- if we are willing to surrender all, That's "Word-Empowered" faith.. If we are willing to surrender all of our goods to Him, God will surely restore to us what satan has stolen-- not just 30-fold or 60-fold, but 100-fold-- if we can believe for it. If He restored Job, making him twice as rich as he was before he lost it all--. with Job as an example (Job 42:10), we can surely expect God to restore what satan has taken from us multifold. Yes, the hundredfold return-- with its infinite, incalculable production, is possible for us today if we can believe for it. That's "Word-Powered,""mountain moving" faith. Like the example of the fig tree that withered from its roots when Jesus spoke to it and cursed it (Mark 11:22-24), God has empowered us to do likewise, and has given us dominion over all plant and animal life on earth-- even over the seeds from our plants and fruit trees, if we will just believe God's Word is for us. But we must believe that His Word has empowered us to fuel and act on our own words to understand and comprehend that nothing is impossible with God.