Text: Isaiah 55:10-11
Memory text:
“I will never forget Your precepts, For by them You have given me life.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭119‬:‭93‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Sometimes, after installing a device, it may be corrupted by virus, or you may lose all that you have installed for one reason or the other. When this happens, the installed program is damaged permanently, or it starts malfunctioning, like being sluggish or giving wrong information. What you do at such times is to get the original installation program and reinstall, and thereafter, it begins to function normally again.
The Word of God is the original program. When planted into any dead or dying thing, which was once living and vibrant, it brings it back to life. Many things drain the life in a believer such as sin, worldliness, afflictions, deferred hope, and so forth. These result in the loss of zeal and fervency, replacing spirituality with religiosity, shifting from faith to works, rationalizing sin instead of renouncing it, focusing on forms and methods rather than the spirit, unmoved about eternal things etc. Such was the church of Sardis when Jesus rebuked them. ““… “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God.” ‭‭(Rev 3‬:‭1‬-‭2‬). Some of them were already dead while others were about to die.
God’s word comes to revive dead and dying people. If not for the power of the Word of God, the church would have gone into extinction on earth.
To quicken is to revive, renew, or restore to life or restore it to a former flourishing condition. It is to make alive. The Word of God has quickening power (Psa 19:7; Isa 55:11-12; Heb 4:12). David prayed, “My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word.” ‭‭(Psa 119‬:‭25). The CEV says, “I am at the point of death. Let your teachings breathe new life into me.” Another translation puts it this way: “I am completely discouraged – I lie in the dust. Revive me by Your Word” (Tay). Every man passes through a down time or low ebb. The Word of God pumps life to you at such times (Psa 119:50). It gives life and sustains it (Matt 4:4). Having experienced its power, David determined never to forget His Word (Psa 119:93).
Friends, the Word of God is a refreshing drink. When you feel spiritually drained, return to the well of His Word, read and meditate on it to find renewal. As rain causes grass to begin to grow after a dry season, so is God’s Word for spiritual revival.

Prayer points
1. Father, please let Your church always experience the reviving power of Your Word as we gather, in Jesus’ name.
2. Father, quicken me as I meditate on Your Word, in Jesus’ name.

Today’s declarations
1. When I am at my low ebb, the Word of God ignites me and awakens me spiritually.
2. The Word of God gives me life as I meditate on it.

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