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    GODSPEECH
    GODSPEECH
    GODSPEECH
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    GODSPEECH

    By Edwin Walhout

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    Forty short meditations on the variety of ways God speaks.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdwin Walhout
    Release dateJan 1, 2011
    ISBN9781458033086
    GODSPEECH
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    Edwin Walhout

    I am a retired minister of the Christian Reformed Church, living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Being retired from professional life, I am now free to explore theology without the constraints of ecclesiastical loyalties. You will be challenged by the ebooks I am supplying on Smashwords.

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      GODSPEECH - Edwin Walhout

      GODSPEECH

      Forty Meditations on the theme: The Word of God

      by Edwin Walhout

      Published by Edwin Walhout

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      Copyright 2010 Edwin Walhout

      Cover design by Amy Cole (amy.cole@comcast.net)

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      1 Then God Said

      2 The Word Of The Lord

      3 God Speaks To The Earth

      4 By Faith We Understand

      5 Thunder

      6 Firmly Fixed In Heaven

      7 The Earth Melts

      8 Stand Forever

      9 It Shall Accomplish

      10 God’s Image

      11. Subdue The Earth

      12 Israel

      13. Making Wise The Simple

      14. The Word Spoken Against You

      15. Like Fire And A Hammer

      16. A Word For The City

      17. Fire In My Bones

      18. I Will Gather Them

      19. Buy A Farm

      20. A New Covenant

      21. A Son

      22. The Word Became Flesh

      23. What To Say

      24. Keep His Word

      25. Not Abiding In You

      26. Not By Bread Alone

      27. Making The Word Void

      28. Bearing Fruit

      29. Sanctified In Truth

      30. Born Through The Word

      31. Living And Active

      32. The Power Of God

      33. The Word Spread

      34. Not Peddlers

      35. An Orderly Account

      36. Moved By The Holy Spirit

      37. Search The Scriptures

      38. Useful

      39. His Name

      40. Righteousness At Home

      1 Then God Said

      Then God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

      Genesis 1:3

      The song says, How great Thou art. Why is God great? Thy power throughout the universe displayed. The whole universe displays the power of God. What awesome power is God’s when the vast array of stars and planets and galaxies have all been created by him.

      However, that is not where the Bible begins when it tells us about God. The Bible does not tell us only about God’s power, it tells us about God’s speech, about his word. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and he did this by speaking. We normally think the way the song goes: how powerful God must be. But the Bible points us not only to his power but to his speech. Then God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

      At least nine times in Genesis 1 we read that God spoke. Every time something new appeared in the universe it was because God spoke. Everything that exists, from the beginning of time, came because God spoke it into existence, item by item, until the earth was created as a suitable place for human life.

      Our speech does not carry that kind of power. I cannot snap my fingers and say, Let there be a hamburger on the table. Well, I can say it, but I am perfectly sure that it won’t happen. I cannot tell a glass of water to turn into lemonade and have it happen.

      But God not only can do such things, in his Son Jesus he did do them. Turn water into wine. Multiply loaves and fishes into a dinner for thousands. Tell a thunderstorm to stop. The power of God in Jesus is the same power that God exercised when he created the world by speaking.

      In this series of devotional meditations we will be examining numerous passages of the Bible that mention the speech (word) of God. What an amazing thing is his word!

      PRAYER: Creator Father, help us not only to see your great power in the universe, but to hear you speak also in the glories of the creation. Amen.

      2 The Word Of The Lord

      By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.

      Psalm 33:6

      We sometimes think that speech means communication, one person communicating with another person. This may be true enough for us humans, but it is not true for God.

      There were no people, no other gods, when God spoke the words that created the heavens and the earth in the beginning. God was not communicating with some other person, he was simply speaking and thereby causing something to happen. Let there be light, and there

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