The Word in My Heart

My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
—Proverbs 4:20-22
 
 
This Scripture doesn’t say God’s words are “like” health to us. It says that His words “are” health to us. You may have a million dollars in a bank, but that money doesn’t benefit you if you never withdraw it. You may be told that life and healing are in the Word, but you won’t receive their benefit if you don’t find them.

When we give attention to His words, incline our hearing toward them, and keep His words in our hearts, we spiritually consume healing and health. When we fill our hearts and minds with the world’s evil, anxiety, fear, and despair, we spiritually consume depravity and loss. Many believe in healing, desire healing, and ask God for healing, but their hearts may not be open to receiving the healing God has spoken of. 
 
Look at the story of Paul preaching the Gospel at Lystra. 
 
“And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, ‘Stand up straight on your feet!’ And he leaped and walked” (Acts 14:8-10).
 
Paul was preaching the Gospel and most likely wasn’t even preaching on healing specifically. Yet, this man “heard” healing. It only took the Gospel. It only took God’s words. The Gospel IS the power of God (Romans 1:16). What the crippled man heard reached his heart because faith was born, and it was evident to Paul. The lame man’s miracle came with the “hearing of faith” in his heart (Galatians 3:5). 
 
Have you heard God’s words? Not just with your ears, but spiritually with your heart? His words are life and healing to all who find them. They must first be found spiritually before they can manifest in you.
 
Meditate on Psalm 107:20: “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”

Don’t just accept the obvious in this verse and not be open to what the Spirit wishes to reveal to your heart. Come hungry to the Word. Contemplate and consider each word in Psalm 107:20. Don’t give up and say His Word isn’t working. The Word is alive and active and always working. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal His thoughts. He wants you to find them. Allow His thoughts to paint a picture in your mind. Dwell on it. Envision it. Anticipate it. Believe it in your heart.

“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach” (Romans 10:8).

God wants me to receive the truths of my salvation. Jesus is the Word God sent to heal me. Jesus has delivered me from sickness and every fruit of sin. His Word of healing is near me, in my heart and in my mouth. I am healed within spiritually to receive healing without. I shall seek and receive His Word in my heart and speak its truth out of the redemptive fullness of His abundant life within me.

“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good, and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45).

What do I bring forth out of my heart? Do I bring forth the death of the flesh or the life of the Spirit?  May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in His sight. May they bring forth His life.