Walking with God

When should we think and speak about the Word of God? 

"Teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, 

and when you walk, when you lie down, and when you rise up." 

Deuteronomy 11:19

The Word of God is Jesus in the flesh. That is why the Word is so powerful. Memorization of God’s Word is one of our most powerful spiritual weapons (in addition to prayer and fasting, in my humble opinion). I think things would have turned out much different for Eve if she knew God's Word and spoke it to the serpent in response to the temptation. In the Garden of Eden, the devil promised Adam and Eve that if they ate from the Tree of Knowledge, they would be like gods: discerning the difference between good and evil. Of course the devil was deceiving Adam and Eve by not telling the whole truth. If only Eve would have said instead: "It is written (Leviticus 20:22) You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, where you dwell, will not spit you out." Adam and Eve could have avoided the sin that cast them out of Eden and cursed mankind to labor and pain. If Eve would have had to say, wait a minute, serpent. I must look up an appropriate verse on my phone to respond. Well, you can surmise that not memorizing the Word of God is just as ineffective as not even knowing the Word of God. 

We must know the Word of God “by heart” so that in the moment we are told something, we are able to test that something against the Word of God. We must often make a critical decision in the moment if that something is beneficial or deadly. Jesus illustrates this perfectly. 

"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit 

into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, 

he was afterward hungry.

And when the tempter came to him, he said, 

If you be the Son of God, 

command that these stones be made bread.  

But he answered and said, 

It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, 

but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

Then the devil took him up into the holy city, 

and set him on a pinnacle of the temple,

And said to him, If you be the Son of God, cast yourself down: 

for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning you: 

and in their hands they shall bear you up, 

so you will not dash your foot against a stone.

Jesus said to him, It is written again, 

You shalt not tempt the Lord your God.

Again, the devil take him up into an exceeding high mountain, 

and show him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

And saith unto him, All these things will I give you, 

if you will fall down and worship me.

 Then say Jesus unto him, Get you behind me, Satan: 

for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, 

and him only shall you serve.

Then the devil left him, and, 

behold, angels came and ministered to him."

Matthew 4:1-11