Choosing a Life Changing Priority

Daily life is reflective of the things that we consider most important. We set our priorities regarding activities such as work, leisure, and even being with those we love. There is one activity, however, above all others, that should be considered the vital necessity of our lives. It might be said that it is actually the foundation of success of all other priorities.

Imagine for a moment, if you learned that this priority provides the following:

• health

• wisdom

• hope

• guidance

• strength

• life

• comfort

• victory

• success

• knowledge of true self

Knowing this, everyone would certainly make this a priority in life. So, what exactly claims to provide all of these benefits? The Word of God! The Word itself confirms that it provides all of these benefits to those that will hear it, meditate upon it and believe what it says. The expression of God’s heart is revealed by His Word. He communicates to each of us through His Word that is actually alive and full of power (Hebrews 4:12). Each of us makes the decision, however, to seek the Word of God as our vital necessity, making it our priority or dismissing its value and placing worldly things first. We decide if we are too busy or maybe even too overwhelmed with life to spend time, reading or meditating upon it. Perhaps, we just don’t believe it has enough value to make it first place in our life.

Let’s look at the benefits noted above and consider what the Word does say:

• By the Word we are made wiser than our enemies (Psalm 119:98).

• The Word is our foundation of hope (Psalm 119:49).

• The Word gives life (Psalm 119:50; Proverbs 4:20-23).

• The Word is health to the flesh (Proverbs 4:20-23)!

• Meditating daily on the Word will make us prosperous and cause good success (Joshua 1:8).

• The Word provides a “lamp to our feet and light to our path” (Psalm 119:105).

• We identify our true self, as God created us to be, by the Word (Ephesians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17).

• It causes us to be like a well-watered tree, fruitful and prosperous no matter the season or the conditions of life (Psalm 1:3).

• It helps us to believe God, to believe who He is, and what He says; it starves unbelief and promotes believing (Hebrews 3:12).

• It is the cure for a hardened heart that resists God (Hebrews 3:7,8).

• The Word provides true rest (Hebrews 4:1,2).

• Hearing the Word, believing it and doing what it says is building our life on a strong foundation that even the greatest storm cannot damage or collapse (Matthew 7:24-27).

• Faith comes from hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17) and faith is the substance of our hope; it perceives as real fact what is not revealed to the senses (Hebrews 11:1).

• It deprives hopelessness from taking root (Hebrews 11:1).

The Word is reliable; we can depend upon it in all circumstances. God will not break His Word or alter it in any way (Psalm 89:34). Once He has spoken it is an oath and He cannot lie (Psalm 89:35). His Word is settled in heaven (Psalm 119:89). Not a single Word from His mouth will be void or fail to fulfill its purpose; every Word “shall accomplish that which God pleases and purposes, and it shall prosper in the thing for which He sent it” (Isaiah 55:11 Amplified).

Jesus shows us the power of His Word. When Jesus spoke:

• Storms calmed; circumstances changed (Matthew 8:23-26).

• Demons fled (Matthew 8:29-32)

• Evil spirits were cast out (Matthew 8:16)

• The sick were healed (Matthew 8:16; Matthew 4:23)

• Bread and fish were multiplied (Mark 6:35-44).

• The dead were raised (John 11:38-44).

• Hearts were changed (John 4:9-40).

God has elevated His Word above His name (Psalm 138:2), that is how important and valuable it is! But we must make a choice. Is the Word of God our vital necessity? How much priority do we give to something that is vitally necessary in our life? Each day we choose our priorities. The foundation of our success in all areas of life is based on the Word of God. But we must believe that God’s Word is true and that He is not a man that He would lie (Numbers 23:19).