Stand on the Word
and Reach the Window
By Pastor Justin Cooper
There's a story — whether it happened exactly this way or not, the truth in it is real — about a woman trapped in a house fire.
The room was filling with smoke. She made it to the window, but she couldn't reach the ledge to pull herself out. Too short. She tried standing on a chair. Still not quite enough.
She thought it was over.
And then she saw it — the big family Bible sitting on the table. She grabbed it, set it on top of the chair, and stood on it.
When she stood on the Bible, she could reach the window. She got out.
They asked her later, "How'd you make it?"
She said: "I stood on the Word."
Now listen. You and I are in a battle. The devil wants to destroy you — not inconvenience you, not make life a little harder, but destroy you. He hates you. He hates your family. And in spiritual warfare, you're going to find yourself in moments where nothing feels like enough. Where you've tried everything you know to try. Where the smoke is rising and the window seems just out of reach.
That's when you stand on the Word.
"All you have to do is go to your Bible, find a text, and hurl it at Satan like a stone from David's sling and watch the giant fall."
Think about what Jesus did in Matthew 4. Forty days in the wilderness, no food, completely exposed. The devil came with everything he had. Three temptations, carefully targeted.
Every single time, Jesus answered the same way: "It is written."
Not I think I remember a verse about this. Not somewhere in the Bible it says something like...
It. Is. Written.
Specific. Certain. Unshakeable. That's how you fight. You take the Word in its context, you make it apply to exactly what you're facing, and you speak it out loud like you mean it.
When he tries to drive a wedge between you and your spouse — it is written. When he tells you that you're not really saved — it is written. When he whispers that God has forgotten you — it is written. When your world is falling apart and you can't feel anything — it is written.
Y'all, Psalm 119 verse 11 says, "Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee." That's not just a Sunday school verse. That's a battle strategy. The reason you can say "it is written" with confidence in the worst moment of your week is because you put it in there when everything was calm.
"Are you right with your Bible? Because if you're not right with your Bible, then you're not right with God."
Here's your next step — and this one is action, not just reflection.
Pick one battle you're in right now. One specific thing. Then go to your Bible and find a verse — just one — that speaks directly to it. Memorize it. Put it somewhere you'll see every day. And every time that battle shows up this week, you speak that verse out loud.
Not because it's a magic formula. Because it's the Word of the living God, and the enemy has never once won a fight against it.
The smoke is rising.
The window is within reach.
Stand on the Word.
Gospel Light Baptist Church | Walkertown, NC
