When God activates a text of Scripture

Sometimes when God activates a text of Scripture to apply it in some way to my life, I mark that text with a comment and a date, in order to remember it and use it as a guiding force during the various processes of my personal spiritual pilgrimage.

This resource has been a great blessing for my life, especially when I have seen the content of some of these texts come true over time, and I have been able to verify that it was not a mere emotional impression, or a projection of my meat.

At a certain time of crisis in my life God gave me a text, Psalms 40: 1-3, where it says,

1 I waited patiently for Jehovah,

And he leaned over to me, and heard my cry.

2 And he brought me out of the pit of despair, out of the muddy mud;

He put my feet on a rock, and made my steps straight.

3 Then he put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God.

Many will see this and fear,

And they will trust in Jehovah.

I had entered a time of great personal trial that lasted for months. The same word, the same text, came to me from different places during that time.

I held on to that word. Every part of that text told me and promised me something that encouraged me and gave me hope.

The last thing that text declared was: "Then he put a new song in my mouth." I felt like God was saying to me, “When you've been through this test, you're going to be a different man. Your ministry will have other qualities, and I will put a new message, a new theme, a new song, in your mouth, in your life and in your ministry. And those who know of your battle and have seen the before and after, as it says in the text, 'will fear and trust in Jehovah'. "

Because, you know, when you go through the test, there are a lot of people looking to see if you're going to sink. There are many waiting to see if God is going to get you out of trouble, or if you are going to succumb under the weight of trial. And there are still others who secretly wish you to sink! We have a large number of witnesses always around us. And God tells us, “Don't worry. When they have seen your process, and have verified how I took you out and put you on solid ground, on safe rock, many will see this, and they will fear, and they will trust in Jehovah ”!

Those texts that we harvest from our devotional life speak to us and give us strength. We can stand on them. They become our battle cry. When I use the sword, I use it standing in that sacred and prophetic territory. The sword strokes that you strike when you are standing on the rhema word of God are ten thousand times more powerful than when you are merely battling supported by generic spiritual principles.