An example would be, “and God said to Abraham, “I will make you a great nation I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing.” Genesis 12:2. It’s possible to say the written words with our mouth and not gain anything. When the word of God is yet to be personalized, it remains logos, just as it’s written, and probably not well understood. So, what do we do with God’s written word, someone may ask? The word of God was given to us for our use and in using the word of God, it means there is always a need to personalize the word and apply it to our daily lives or circumstances. We can also say that RHEMA is what we do with the logos or the written word of God. While “Rhema” means the spoken word of God or the “now word”. Firstly, we have two words to look at here “Logos”, which means the imprint, or the word of God written in pages or the compiled word.
The question is what does the word RHEMA, really mean? Well, in today’s article we are going to take out time to understand what RHEMA truly means. But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and wisdom of God…” -1 Corinthian 1:22-24 (NKJV)Īgain, and again, we see in the daily devotional a heading for “TODAY’S RHEMA”. But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and Greek’s foolishness. “…for the Jews request a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom.