Summary: A part of the spiritual armor of the believer is the sword of the Spirit. As the we speak God’s Word by the Holy Spirit, the anointing in that Word divides between soul and spirit, joints and marrow and brings forth that word in the power of God. Show Notes:

• The sword of the Spirit is wielded by the Holy Spirit not us.
• It’s the anointing through the Holy Spirit on the Word of God that you speak that becomes the sword of the Spirit.
• The sword of the Spirit divides between soul and spirit.
• The Holy Spirit activates the Word of God.
• We must hunger after God’s Word.
• The Word of God must be our meditation and our source of victory.
• As we read and meditate on God’s Word it will come alive to us and we will be changed.
• I know the Word of God is thorough as the sword of the Spirit is being applied. I won’t have to go this way again. He’s capable of doing it the first time if you’ll submit to it.
• We must be filled with the Holy Spirit to speak the Word of God with power.

Quotes:

• The sword of the Spirit is not our sword to be used. It's the Holy Spirit's sword, and He draws it out when He chooses.
• There is a time and an anointing when the Word of God you speak absolutely becomes the sword of the Spirit.
• You'll never be defensive against the word It'll cut through all of the flack all of the things that you put up all your ideologies everything else, because the Word of God is eternal.
• The sword of the spirit comes in and divides soul and spirit.
• ...when the word is executed by the spirit of the Living God it breaks through every barrier and creates something that you could never create any other way.
• ...what you're saying is the Bible was never meant to be a book that was understood by human wisdom.
• ...the word of God itself is something that God says that you must hunger and thirst after it in order to have it, in order for it to be effective in your life.
• The carnal mind will never come to the conclusion of what is in the Word. Only the Spirit of God reveals to you, by the Spirit, what God is talking about.
• Let the word be your meditation. Let the word be your portion. Let it be your guide. Let it be your source of victory. Your source of overcoming.
• That sword of the Spirit, run it deep, Lord, because Father, I want not to fight, what You're doing. I want it to work to its fullest extent.
• ...there's coming a time when, as you're seeking the Lord with all your heart and reading the Word, that will penetrate your very being and cause something to come alive in you that was not alive before.
• It's not just reading a scripture or quoting a scripture, that doesn't have anything in it. But it's when it's filled with this Holy Spirit. That's when the power comes.

References: Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” Matthew 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Psalm 19 (Read about hungering after God’s Word) Psalm 119:9-16 (Read more about hungering after God’s Word) Joshua 1:7-9 (Read about how to meditate on the Word) I Corthians 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in words, but in power. John 5:39-40 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. Acts 2:14-41 (Read how the Word of God was spoken with power by the Holy Spirit) Revelation 2:16 (read how the Holy Spirit activates the Word)) Takeaway: As we give ourselves wholly to God’s Word, it penetrates our hearts, dividing from soul and spirit, joints and marrow and judges the issues in our hearts. This same Word then becomes within us His sword that the Holy Spirit can bring forth in the power of the Spirit as we speak it forth to do His will in the earth.

The sword of the Spirit is not our sword to be used. It's the Holy Spirit's sword, and He draws it out when He chooses. Of course, He uses us, but nevertheless, it's really Him drawing it out, and I think that's the proper way.

There is a time and an anointing when the Word of God you speak absolutely becomes the sword of the Spirit. We're called ambassadors of Christ, but an ambassador represents another kingdom. And so as we speak the word of the Lord, as He gives us a commission to speak it, then that word becomes something that just cuts through all the crap that people put up in a place of trying to be defensive against the word. You'll never be defensive against the word It'll cut through all of the flack all of the things that you put up all your ideologies everything else, because the Word of God is eternal.

That the sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. Capital W, the Word of God. And see, that's what's beautiful about it. It's His sword. He's the one wielding it. So many times people, the old saying, a guy holds up his Bible and says, this is the sword of the spirit and all this kind of stuff and turns it into something religious.

And that's because he's trying to bring it down to a human level. You can’t bring the sword of the spirit down to a human level. The sword of the spirit comes in and divides soul and spirit.

God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Yes, the word is a literal word that's written, but the Spirit of God is the activator of that word. You just simply put that word out there, so many times people will look at it and say, “I don't understand what that means I don't get it.” But when the word is executed by the spirit of the Living God it breaks through every barrier and create something that you could never create any other way.

The word, the written word as it is, is like any other book. It's a black and white word. It's just a book. But when the Spirit of the Lord brings it alive, because it was written by the Spirit, then it explodes into something with power and authority. People say I know the word, or I read the word, or I memorize the word, and all that's fine.

It doesn't mean that they know the Lord. There's a difference between memorization of the Scriptures or reading the Scriptures, and there's nothing wrong with all that. It's just that unless the Holy Spirit fills your words, and makes alive what you're reading. It's just a dead letter. It's just a book.

I'm reminded of a story about two people that read the 21st Psalm, or 23rd Psalm. One got up and read it perfectly. He was an orator, and he read it perfectly. Then, a little old pastor that knew the Lord, loved Him with all of his heart, and he read the Word, and it caused the whole assembly to break and cry out to the Lord, tear up. There was an impact because of the Spirit that was in the Word.

The Bible was never meant to be a book that was understood by human wisdom.

Because I know the Shepherd, and I know His voice, then I can take up the word as the sword of the spirit. The sword of the spirit comes as an aggressive thing against the enemy.

The Holy Spirit will lead you and watch as the Father wields it for today. The sword for today is complete. The sword of the Spirit is eternal.

How can you come to the place where the word is as effective as we're talking about? Can you learn by education? Can you dissect the word based on your intellectual examination?

Is it only for those who have such a keen mind that they can tear it all apart? It's interesting, because the word itself says, unless you become as a little child, you can't even enter the kingdom. And the word of God itself is something that God says that you must hunger and thirst after it in order to have it, in order for it to be effective in your life.

You can't get it the way you want to find a way to get it based on your own thinking. The carnal mind will never come to the conclusion of what is in the Word. Only the Spirit of God reveals to you, by the Spirit, what God is talking about.

The captain of the Lord of Hosts met Joshua. And He said, “be strong and courageous. Do not let this word pass from your mouth, but meditate on it day and night.” Let the word be your meditation. Let the word be your portion. Let it be your guide. Let it be your source of victory. Your source of overcoming.

Have you ever had that piercing feeling in your heart? The sword of the Spirit, when you feel that piercing of your heart, what is your reaction? That sword of the Spirit, run it deep, Lord, because Father, I want not to fight, what You're doing. I want it to work to its fullest extent. I know the Word of God is thorough, and what I'm going through now that the sword of the Spirit is being applied, I won't have to go this way again, because He's capable of doing it the first time, if you'll submit to it.

A lot of people say why do you want me to read the Bible? Why do you want me to open my heart to the Word continually and stay in the Word? Because there's coming a time, my friend, when, as you're seeking the Lord with all your heart and reading the Word, that will penetrate your very being and cause something to come alive in you that was not alive before.

When we talk about the sword of the Spirit, the only way that is alive and powerful is because of the Holy Spirit and Him moving through you. I was thinking about Christ for one, and Paul for another one. The Scripture says that the kingdom is not in word but in power. It's not just reading a scripture or quoting a scripture, that doesn't have anything in it. But it's when it's filled with this Holy Spirit.

That's when the power comes. That's when the Word of God becomes living and active, that's why it's so important for us to be filled with the Holy Spirit. If we're going to be channels of a living word from God, the only way that's going to happen is, yes, we have to be, we have to meditate on the word. Yes, we have to reach in to the word, but really it's a two sided coin because you must be filled with the Holy Spirit. . I don't know if it was a blind side to the Pharisees, and of course they knew the scriptures backwards and forwards, but Christ says, you search the scriptures. for in them you think that you'll find eternal life, but you won't come to Me. Christ was the embodiment of the Holy Spirit. And if they would just have opened their hearts to Him, all the scriptures that they thought they knew so well, they would have become alive. We are going to speak words that have never been spoken before with power, not just revelation, but with power and authority.

That's what happened on the day of Pentecost. It wasn't just Peter speaking by revelation. But revelation in itself is not going to do the job, but it's the power and the authority behind that revelation, when you're overflowing with the Holy Spirit. And that's why there was such an effectiveness when he spoke the Word of God.

It cut right to the quick of everyone that was hearing. So it wasn't just revelation to them, but there's something of God being imparted to their spirits. That's a great demonstration of the sword of the Spirit right there.