Living by Every Word
Matthew 4:4 (AMPC) But he replied, it has been written, man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.
We are to live by faith every day. There are four scriptures, one in the Old Testament and three in the New Testament, that tell us, “The just shall live by faith.” Being justified by the blood of Jesus, we now are required to live by faith. How does faith come? It comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17). We know that this “Word of God” is not referring to the logos or the written Word, but to the rhema which is a quickened and spoken Word. A spirit of faith comes when it is a rhema. In order to get a rhema, it must come from the logos; there is no other way to get faith. Without the logos, a rhema is not possible.
Jesus said that in the same way we must have natural bread (food for our physical body) to live and survive, we also need spiritual food every day or we will not make it spiritually. We must have a rhema from God. It is how we will live by faith every day. We live by faith, by hearing from God every day.
How can you hear from God every day? We must do some things so we can get rhema from God daily. We must hear the Word of God daily, not just with our physical ears, but with our spiritual ears. We must hear sermons, and there are a lot of sermons available. No other generation has had more access to good preaching and teaching than us. Another great way to hear the Word is for you to speak it out loud. Get one scripture and speak it out to yourself every time you get the chance. Read the Word of God out loud to yourself. Listen to others reading scripture. You must study. Take a scripture and just study it by looking up other scriptures that are similar. Meditating the Word of God is so important. God told Joshua to meditate day and night; to me that sounds like all day. God told Joshua, and is really telling us too, that when you meditate scripture, day and night, you will make your way prosperous and then, you will have good success.
As you do these things, God is able to speak to you by the Holy Spirit. It is not a voice, but a knowing, a revelation, an insight, an illumination, an unction, or a perception. As you position yourself for a rhema, God will accommodate you. The Holy Spirit is the revealer, and He is always ready to give you the revelation, the rhema you need so you can daily live by faith.