What Is the Word of God?

The writer of the book of Hebrews says concerning the Word of God:

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick [living and active], and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

What is the Word of God that is so powerful? Is it the Bible?

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Listening from Within

My husband and I are visiting Bowling Green, Ohio, where we lived for over 30 years before moving away. Waldemar had expressed the desire to visit Amish country and buy some garlic knocks to take home with us. He wanted to go home via our son’s house and have him make a bonfire to roast the knocks as we had so often done when he was a child and we were camping. We had decided some days ago that we would go yesterday. But night before last we looked at weather.com and saw that the high temperature for the day was to be 56 degrees and that it was to be mostly cloudy and 17mph winds. Since our reason for choosing this time of year for our visit was to see the autumn colors, it didn’t seem like a very good choice to go yesterday. We saw that Monday was supposed to be sunny and 64 degrees; so we went to bed believing that we would go Monday.

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Listening to the Holy Spirit

When Jesus was teaching, He would often say, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear (Matthew 11:15).

In the letters to the seven churches recorded in the book of Revelation, the ascended Christ would end each letter with, He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches (Chapters 2-3).

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