I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 19th of June, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

We go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 4:4:

"But He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'"

We want to speak today about the power in the spoken word of God. Now Jesus is God made flesh, and yet when He was tempted in the desert by the devil, he could have told the devil just to "push off", but He didn't, did He?  No, He realised the tremendous authority in the spoken word of God, because Jesus is actually the Word of God.

Now, if we look at the Book of Ephesians 6:17, the word of God says:

"...and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;..."

It is the only weapon that the Lord has given us to stand against the enemy. We are not using it enough. I am going to pray for you at the end of this message, that God will help us use the weapon that He has given to us. Little David, the shepherd boy in 1 Samuel 17:45, said:

"But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied." 

He was standing up against Goliath. They say David was just a teenager. He was a young boy. He stood up against a giant, the champion of the Philistines. They say that Goliath stood approximately ten and a half feet high. He had a spear like the shaft of a weaver's beam. He was a very ugly man. What Goliath are you facing today, my dear friend? I want to pray for you:

Father, I pray for my dear friend right now who is facing a Goliath in their life. They don't know which way to turn, they don't know what to do. Lord, I pray that they will do exactly what Jesus did to the devil in the desert when He was sorely tempted after forty days and forty nights of fasting and prayer. He was weak, but He used the Word, "It is written". I pray that my friend will do the same, and Lord Jesus, that You will give him, You will give her, a tremendous victory.

David killed Goliath and got the victory because he came against him with the word of God. Pray the word of God today.

Thank You, Lord, amen.