Daily Dime

Every one of us needs to train ourselves to speak God's Word.  It is not good enough just to read his word, we need to memorize.  This will not only help us have  better knowledge of God but it will help us in our prayer life.  Ephesians 5:1 tells us "to be followers of God, as dear children...." The word "followers" in Greek means to imitate.  We are to imitate God as a child does his father.  If a child imitates his father, he will walk like him, talk like him, and pattern his every move after him.  We should do no less after our God.  When you study the life of Jesus, you find several important facts that caused Him to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.  One was he spent much time in prayer, but He never prayed the problem: He prayed the answer -- what God said is the answer.  He spoke accurate, never crooked speech.  His conversations always consisted of what God said.  He always spoke the end results, not the problem.  Never did He confess present circumstances.  He spoke the desired results.  The last of many others is he used the written Word to defeat Satan.  Challenge yourselves to pick a theme each week that you would like to work on in your life and find a verse in the Bible that pertains to that.  Memorize that saying it through out the day and see how much better your prayers become!