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.