🔴 That's why they can quote scripture for years and nothing moves.
The Bible is not broken.
Their understanding of how it works is.
🔴 The Greek language in which the New Testament was written has two distinct words for "word."
🔴 The first is *logos* — the written, revealed Word of God.
It refers to the totality of God's expressed thought, His character, His nature, His plans and purposes as captured in Scripture.
When John 1:1 says
> "In the beginning was the Word,"
that is logos.
🔴 When Romans 10:17 says
> "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God,"
that is logos.
🔴 Logos is the written Word that is available to every believer who opens a Bible.
The second word is *rhema.*
🔴 *Rhema* is the active, living, personally addressed Word — God speaking a specific thing to a specific person for a specific situation at a specific time.
Both are real.
Both are necessary.
🔴 But they operate differently.
🔴 And until you understand the difference, you will keep wondering why the Bible seems to work for some people and not for others.
*So how does logos become rhema?*
🔴 Through meditation.
🔴 Through consistent, sustained, verbal engagement with the written Word.
🔴 When you take a scripture and you stay with it — muttering it, speaking it softly, turning it over in your spirit, praying it back to God — something happens.
🔴 The general word begins to illuminate specifically.
🔴 A verse you have read fifty times suddenly becomes alive in a way it never was before.
🔴 It drops from your head into your spirit.
🔴 It stops being information and becomes revelation.
🔴 That is the moment logos becomes rhema. That is the moment the sword of the Spirit is fully drawn.
Ephesians 6:17 calls the sword of the Spirit "the rhema of God" — not the logos.
🔴 *The weapon you use in spiritual warfare is not the Bible in your hand.
🔴 It is the rhema in your spirit.
🔴 The written word becomes the wielded weapon when you meditate until it becomes personal.
Click on the link below to study the article: It Appears God will do nothing except we pray by Pastor Chris.
👇👇👇
Comments
Post a Comment