God Performs His Word Through People

By Dutch Sheets (Polished Adaptation)

After Jeremiah receives his prophetic commission, he records:

“Then the Lord said to me, ‘You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it’” (Jeremiah 1:12).

Please don’t miss this vital truth:

God’s Word—what He watches over to perform—was going to be spoken through a human being. As verses 16–17 confirm:

“I will pronounce My judgments on them… Arise and speak to them all which I command you.”

The pattern is unmistakable: God’s Word, declared through human vessels. This has always been His way.

Consider Hosea 6:5:

“Therefore I have hewn them [My people] in pieces by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth; and the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.”

Here again, we see that God’s decrees and judgments are released through the mouths of people—those entrusted with His Word.

Now, some might say, “But that was the Old Testament.”

Yet God’s methods have not changed. The New Testament affirms the same principle: He still works through His people to release His purposes on the earth.

Look at Matthew 16:19 in the Amplified Bible, where Jesus speaks of His ekklesia—His Church, His governing body on earth:

“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind—that is, declare to be improper and unlawful—on earth must be already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose—declare lawful—on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.” (emphasis added)

(Incidentally, the Amplified footnotes this passage with Isaiah 22:22—the same verse I once referenced at the White House concerning governmental authority to open and shut doors.)

In this declaration, Jesus commissions His Church to speak with authority—declaring, based on His will and Word, what is lawful and unlawful, permitted and forbidden.

It’s a remarkable concept—yet perfectly reasonable. How could we possibly govern on God’s behalf without such authority?

God has always used the voices of His people to bring forth His plans and purposes—just as He did through Jeremiah. And let me be clear: the “enemies” God confronts through these declarations are not people—they are spiritual forces of darkness.