A Nugget from New Life Network
(by Chris Musgrove of Future Now)
Scripture for the Day (January 5, 2016)
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (Colossians 3:16)
Colossians 3:16 in the Amplified Bible says, “Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts.”
We need to allow God’s Word to have its’ home in our hearts and mind so richly that it’s spilling out of us in conversation, and even singing, onto everyone we come in contact with.
Deuteronomy 30:14 says, “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
Psalm 119:11 says, “Your word I have hidden in my heart,That I might not sin against You.”
Psalm 37:31 says, “The law of their God is in their hearts; their feet do not slip.”
Psalm 40:8 says, “I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”
In Acts 13:22 the Apostle Paul in speaking of David said, “After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.”
David was a man after God’s own heart because he was a man after God’s word. He was so full of the word of God that it flowed out of him in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. David was making a melody in his heart to the Lord.
In Luke 8:15 in talking about the parable of the sower it says, “But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.”
Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Putting God’s word in your heart cleanses, purifies and is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart. In other words, God’s word, which is the truth, will filter out anything that is contrary to the word of God (like lies from the enemy).
Again, David prophetically spoke Hebrews 4:12 out when he said in Psalm 119:11, “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.”
