This means that while God’s Word is always able to change our lives, shift our perspectives, and empower us to live in freedom and victory, it won’t happen just because we have a Bible on a shelf or even go to church and open the Bible to read along with the preacher. When we “work the Word,” we read it, study it, think about it, choose to believe it is true, share it with others, and pray about it, asking God to use its truth to transform the way we think, speak, act, and live. When we don’t understand what the Word means, that lack of understanding hinders our ability to activate it. When we
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