James 1:21-24 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

Something terrible happens in the world and officials stand before the media and strongly condemn those actions. Those are just words and nothing happens, nothing changes, because they are just words. Empty and hollow are words if nothing happens.

Have you ever said, “I believe in the Word of God.” Good, what are you doing about it? “I believe in Jesus Christ.” Good, what are you doing about it? “I repent of my sin.” Great, what are you doing about it?

1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

If the Word of God is truly in you who believe, then it is effectual, meaning there is cause and effect. It changes your mind, it changes your heart and it changes how you act. If the Word of God dwells richly in your heart, then it and only it is responsible for the life it produces.

Colossians 3:16-17 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Sounds good, sounds right, let us go to the mountain of the Lord. Before you pack your bags, allow me to point out one minor flaw in that plan.

Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

These are not the last days and the Lord has not taken up residence in the mountain of the Lord. Granted it seems like these are the last days to those who have not understood the proper order of the prophetic history of our future. Prophesy is scattered throughout the bible and it has order, even if it seems chaotic. It seems that way if you read into it what you want to get out of it.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

The classic example of wishful thinking prophesy is this verse. I’m ready, its time, come Jesus come. Where do you stand in the prophetic history of the bible? The church age is the greatest mystery in the bible. Even Jesus did not know when that time would come.

Matthew 24:35-36 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.