Sometimes It is All in the Tool

Recently, as I watched a television landscape improvement program (my yard needs lots of help), the female homeowner was trying to break through the plastic covering around the root base of a tree. She just couldn't get the shovel to split open the casing. Thinking she wasn't strong enough, she gave the shovel to the male host of the show to give it a try. He couldn't do it either. He dropped that shovel and reached for a different one. The new shovel broke through the plastic immediately. The host told the homeowner that sometimes it's all in the tool and has nothing to do with personal skill.

 

Praying moms, that is so true! Sometimes it is all in the tool.

 

When we need a breakthrough for our children, Scripture is the tool we should use. God's Word is much more powerful than any words we can muster up. After all, it is the tool Jesus used against the enemy.  Remember? "It is written…" was what Jesus repeated in the face of Satan who wanted to destroy Him.

 

Our words are just not powerful enough to knock out the enemy. But by praying Scripture, we put an "It is written…" punch in the enemy's face.

 

Matthew Henry made two particularly good points when he commented on Matthew 4:1-11.

1.   Jesus is "the eternal Word, and could have produced the mind of God without having recourse to the writings of Moses; but He put honour upon the Scripture, and, to set us an example, He appealed to what was written in the law; and He says this to Satan."

2.  "The Word of God is the sword of the Spirit, the only offensive weapon in all the Christian armoury (Ephesians 6:17); and we may say of it as David of Goliath's sword, None is like that in our spiritual conflicts."

 

The Moms in Prayer International Booklet notes that as we pray Scripture for our children, "the power of God's Word drives out anxiety and fear, and produces faith in us." So, not only is Scripture the breakthrough tool to use for our children, it is a tool that helps us moms stand firm, "strong in the Lord and in the power of His might." (Ephesians 6:10)

 

 

"Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit,

with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty.

To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance,

interceding in behalf of all the saints (God’s consecrated people)."

Ephesians 6:18 AMP

 

 

Sometimes it is all in the tool.