Giving The Word First Place !

GIVING THE WORD FIRST PLACE : The training, and development, and education of our spirits comes back giving the Word of God first place in our lives. (Proverbs 4:20--22) . Just as faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God .(Romans 10:17). "My son, and you ladies are included; attend to my words: consent and submit to my sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh." God says in this passage, "attend to my words [give heed to them--- put them first]; incline thine ear unto my sayings [listen to what I have to say]. Let them not depart from thine eyes [keep looking at the word of God]; keep them [my words] . . . In your heart." And the way that you keep his words in your heart, the apostle Paul says, "But what says it ? The word is near the, even in thy mouth, and in thine heart; that is, the word of faith, which we preach: to preach is to say or declare. There are rich dividends for doing this. Why is it that God tells us to put his words first, to listen to what He has to say, to keep looking in His Word, and to keep His word in our heart ? It is because "they [His words] are life unto those that find them, and to all their flesh." The margin of the King James reads, "and medicine to all their flesh." Notice that there is healing in the Word. It is strange to me that some people won't put God's Word first in their lives. It is also deliverance, safety, soundness, and preservation in the Word of God, which is salvation. In the 15 years and pastored, there were numbers he would sick, go to the hospital and asked for prayer. I am not saying that it is to have a doctor, certainly not. The thing God for them. But I'm saying why not put God's Word first. A Baptist minister who didn't particularly believe in divine healing at that time, told how he had had problems with his tonsils. His doctor kept telling him that they must be removed, so the date was set. Each morning he and his wife would read the Bible and pray with the children before school. On the very day he was scheduled to enter the hospital, their scripture passage was the one which tales of King Asa who got a disease in his feet, and instead of seeking the Lord, he saw physicians and died. The minister said that he was struck by this. He realized that he hadn't even prayed about his tonsils. He shared this with his wife and children and asked that they pray together about his tonsils. When they pray, the Lord told him not to have them removed. To his astonishment, the Lord healed his tonsils and he has had no more trouble with them. There is a lesson to be learned here. The Bible does not imply that King Asa Dodd because he put the physicians first. However, it does imply that he should have put the Lord first. We should train ourselves to put the Lord first. We should train ourselves to ask concerning any matter, "What does God's Word have to say about this or anything that is affecting our lives ? We should ask ourselves what God has to say about anything that may come up in our lives--- and then put that Word first. Sometimes family and friends were trying to rush you into things, but you need to think about what the word of God says. Put God's word first in every area of your life.