🎙️ 25-324 — Women and Men in the Word

Every battle we face in this world starts in the mind and ends in the heart. And the only weapon sharp enough to cut through the lies is the Word of God.You can’t fight a spiritual war with emotional weapons. Feelings shift. Opinions fade. But God’s Word stands unshaken.Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Without that lamp, we stumble. With it, we stand.For years, Michelle and I lived by prayer, passion, and purpose — but not always by pattern. We studied the Bible, sure, but we didn’t live in it daily. We loved God but often let the pace of life replace the practice of being in His Word. And when storms hit — they hit hard.There were moments when stress, disappointment, and spiritual exhaustion left us both drained. I’d try to push through with willpower; Michelle would try to carry everything through sheer determination. But we learned something the hard way: when your roots aren’t deep in Scripture, every storm feels like a threat.Then one morning, I opened the Bible not because I had a sermon to write — but because I was starving for truth. God led me to Matthew 7:24: “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”That verse hit like a lightning bolt. I realized I’d been building with emotion instead of foundation. God wasn’t condemning me — He was inviting me to start digging deeper.And Michelle’s moment came too. She told me, “When I opened the Bible again after a dry season, it was like oxygen. The same verses I’d read for years suddenly felt alive.” That’s what the Word does. It’s not a book — it’s breath.We live in a generation drowning in opinions but starving for truth. TikTok theology and YouTube prophets can’t feed a hungry soul. If we don’t know what the Bible says, we’ll believe whatever the culture screams.Jesus used Scripture to fight Satan himself. In the wilderness, He didn’t argue — He declared: “It is written.” If the Son of God needed the Word to fight temptation, how much more do we?Being anchored in the Word isn’t just about reading it — it’s about living it. You can highlight verses all day long, but the power comes when you let those verses highlight you.Every promise in Scripture is a loaded weapon against fear, doubt, and deception. But you have to know it, speak it, and stand on it.When Michelle and I began reading the Word together again — every morning, even if just a few verses — something shifted. Peace replaced panic. Clarity replaced confusion. Our marriage got stronger, our prayer life got deeper, and our faith got bolder.The Word didn’t just change what we knew — it changed who we were.📖 SCRIPTURE ANCHOR2 Timothy 3:16–17 (ESV) — “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”💡 LIVING PRINCIPLEYou can’t stand firm in a world that’s falling apart if you’re not standing on something eternal.⚔️ DAILY ACTIONBefore checking your phone tomorrow morning, open your Bible. Let the first voice you hear each day be God’s.✅ PRACTICE (Do This...)* Read one Psalm and one Proverb daily this week.* Ask your family: “What verse is getting us through this season?”* Write it on a sticky note — put it where your eyes fall often.💥 CHALLENGE OF THE DAYDon’t just quote the Word — live it loud. Be the Bible your friends and family can read through your actions.🙏 PRAYERFather, thank You for the living Word that lights my path. Help me hunger for truth more than comfort. Root my life in Scripture so deeply that when storms come, I don’t move. Speak through every verse, and teach me to live by every word that proceeds from Your mouth. Amen.🔥 IN CLOSINGThe Bible isn’t just ink on pages — it’s the voice of God on paper.Read it until it reads you. Believe it until it breaks you. Live it until it becomes you.Let’s Get To Work!🛡️ Every mission needs supply lines.If this battle cry resonated, help us keep the line strong and the truth loud.Thanks for reading My Reasons To Believe! This post is public so feel free to share it.My Reasons To Believe is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit myr2b.substack.com/subscribe