The Lord has given me many gifts and talents through the years, but I think the two closest to my heart is doing this newspaper and prison ministry. One day when I was preparing for my weekly teaching at the prison, I was seeking the Lord on what He wanted me to share. I would say - “that is a good word to share; I need that too. This is a good subject; they need to know about this, and I need to know more about that too!” “Father, there is so much of your word to share with them. They need all of it and I need all of it!” The Lord spoke to me and said , “Youʼll always need me, and youʼll always need all of me; not just a part of me, but all of me. And they will too! Because you come from me, you are a part of me; even the breath you breathe is my breath. You are my creation, my man. For you to have life and have it more abundantly, you have to feast on me - on My Word, day and night; and keep it ever before your face and in your heart.” As I continued to study, I wanted to know more about what God says about His Word, so I went to Mark 13:31 where He says “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away.” That brought to my mind a time a few years back when the Lord spoke to me again; my heart was heavy about a certain thing, so I was praying and praising the Lord for the answer. Then he spoke to me and said “ If the whole world were to blow up right now, you would still be standing, because My Word dwells big on the inside of you.” WOW!! What a word!! Then I remembered when Jesus was talking with the disciples about the End Times in Matthew 24:32-35. He was giving them a parable of the fig tree: 32. Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh: 33. So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34. Verily I say unto you, This generation (our) shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Jesus is saying; You can count on My Word You can depend and trust My Word. You can know , without a shadow of a doubt, that My Word will still be standing when all else is gone. You can be sure that My Word will be there for you. If you will read the entire chapter of Matthew 24, Jesus gives us a lot of information on the end times and signs to look for. But, He assures us that we can depend on His Word to keep us. What a wonderful Lord! Proverbs 4:20-23 tells us to “attend to his words; incline your ear unto his sayings, let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep you heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Godʼs Word is so important! He is urging us to spend time in His Word, to meditate on it, to keep it close to our heart; to protect our spirit man. Be aggressive in guarding your spirit with His Word, for that is where your life and healing comes from. He is saying, let Godʼs Word become so much a part of you that you will become one with Him. Then down in verse 24 He counsels us to “put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you” because over in chapter 6, verse 2 He says, “you are snared with the words of your lips, you are caught by the speech of your mouth.” If we arenʼt speaking in line with Godʼs Word, if we arenʼt speaking what He says about things, about life, then we are being snared by our words. Negative words have power too! We need to train ourselves to speak words that God says about us; and what He says about the situations of life we encounter. That is the reason some of us do not get answers to our prayers. James says you either do not ask or, if you do, you ask amiss (in error) (James 4:2-3). There is another parable Jesus gives us in Matthew 13:24-30. He is again talking about the Kingdom of Heaven, using the illustration of the good seed and the bad seed. How the enemy will come (while men sleep) and sow weeds into the field with the good seed. But the weeds are allowed to stay to prevent the good wheat from being rooted up. Then at the harvest, they are separated and the bad is burned up. Turn in your Bibles to Luke 8:515. In the first part of the chapter (vs. 58) Jesus is giving a parable about the Sower and the Seed. Then in verses 1015 He explains the parable: The “Seed” is the Word of God, and He shows us the different ways satan comes to steal the Word out of our hearts (spirits). There are five things satan uses to steal the Seed that was sown; affliction, persecution, cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things. And the Bible says that satan comes immediately! That is why we have to guard and protect the Word of God that we deposit into our spirit, so that it can take root and grow. We cannot allow satan to use the temptations of the world to steal Godʼs precious Seed out of our hearts, because it is our life! As Godʼs Word takes root and grows; as it becomes real to us, we begin to think like God thinks and talk like God talks. That is when our prayers begin to become effective in our lives and we begin to see them being answered, and our lives begin to change for the better. Godʼs Word is our contact with Him. He says in Isaiah 43:26 to put Him in remembrance of His Word, placing a demand on His ability in the name of our Lord Jesus; to remind Him that He supplies all of our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. When we use Godʼs Word in prayer, this is not something we just rush through, uttering once and we are finished. Do not be mistaken; there is nothing “magical” nor “manipulative” about it, no set pattern or device in order to satisfy what we want or think, out of our flesh. Instead we are holding Godʼs Word before Him. We confess what He says belongs to us. ... See WHAT GOD SAYS - Page 15 2 GLAD TIDINGS DECEMBER 2025 Non-denominational Christian Newspaper Sharing the Gospel of Jesus the Christ MAIL P. O. BOX 1116 - DOUGLAS - GA 31534 E- MAIL Editor@GladTidings.news OFFICE PHONE (912) 384- 6896 ADMINISTRATION EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.........Quinnelle McRae VOLUNTEERS CARTOONS/JoyfulToons...................Mike Waters EDITORIAL WRITERS .......... 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