Romans 10:8-10 – “But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); ⁹ because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”

We live in troubled and confusing times.    Even Christians are confused, perplexed, bewildered, and uncertain.  There are so many words claiming to be from God, but they do not satisfy the questioning heart and mind.    

The condition of our world has created a famine—not of food or water but of spiritual drought and famine.    The Word is there—it always has been and always will be.  The problem is the multiple confusing and conflicting voices claiming to be the Word from God.    Spiritual hearing has diminished to a famine state.

Hearing God for ourselves is often absent, and people clamor to get a Word and sometimes open their undiscerning hearts to heresy.   It sounds good.   It is what they want to hear, but they forget or never know the revelation of Romans 10:8-10.    The answer is near each of us.  It is as near as God Himself.   It is in our mouths and our hearts. 

A characteristic of the Last Days is confused and deceived minds.   One Word from God can change everything.   God is the Living and Speaking God.   That is revealed from Genesis to Revelation.

Not unrelated was the Word Jesus gave Peter before the crucifixion.   There would be three denials before the rooster crowed.  When it happened, Jesus turned and looked at Peter.  At that moment, Peter remembered, and after that, Peter was restored and empowered never to waver again.  One Word changed His life.  He also learned to hear God internally, so he never had a famine of hearing of the Word again.

Sometimes, God’s warning and our failure become the catalyst to developing a hearing ear.  A hearing ear eliminates a famine of hearing the Word.  Obedience leads to blessing, and obedience is the pathway to hearing effectively.

Imagine Peter as Jesus looked at Him with a broken heart.  He had warned Peter then and in the Garden.  Pray because the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.  One Word can lift us from weak flesh control to overcoming spiritual confidence.   When we know that, we know that we know Nothing can shake us.

Today is Victory Day.  Rejoice.