How can it [the sword of the Lord] be quiet when the Lord has given it an assignment to discharge? God's Word is a sword that has been designed to accomplish a specific commission in your life. Read on to understand how it works for you today!Sword of the Lord
By Apostle Aje Pelser
Preched at Harvester Reformational Church, October 2006

Jeremiah 47: 7
“How can it [the sword of the Lord] be quiet when the Lord has given it an assignment to discharge? Against Ashkelon and against the [whole Philistine] seashore He has appointed it.” Amplified Version.

Transitional Sentence:
Studying the scriptures reveals certain commissions of the Sword of the Lord for an appointed time and place in your life.

Charge: H6680 tsâvâh
BDB Definition:
1) to command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order
1a) (Piel)
1a1) to lay charge upon
1a2) to give charge to, give command to
1a3) to give charge unto
1a4) to give charge over, appoint
1a5) to give charge, command
1a6) to charge, command
1a7) to charge, commission
1a8) to command, appoint, ordain (of divine act)
1b) (Pual) to be commanded
Part of Speech: verb

God has appoints His Word to regions and for a specific purpose:
Appoint H3259 yâ‛ad
BDB Definition:
1) to fix, appoint, assemble, meet, set, betroth
1a) (Qal) to appoint, assign, designate
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to meet
1b2) to meet by appointment
1b3) to gather, assemble by appointment
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to meet
1d) (Hophal) to be set, be placed before, be fixed
Part of Speech: verb

So the Sword of the Lord gathers the right people in your life by appointment and is fixed in your life until the assignment or commission is fulfilled.

What about “Ashkelon”?
ISBE states that Ashkelon is a “maritime town between Jaffa and Gaza, one of the five chief cities of the Philistines.” Throughout the Early Christian history and later during the crusades, the seaport was contested as it was an important fortress because of its vicinity to the trade route between Syria and Egypt.
Spiritual connotation:
Considering the history between Israel and the Philistines, this city represents any evil regional power in opposition to God’s people. I Samuel 5,6. One of the gold tumours came from Ashkelon in the Old Testament account concerning the Ark of the Covenant. They sent a trespass offering for stealing the Ark of the Covenant. God had smitten the Philistine people with tumours, and the god Dagon had fallen on his face, head and hands cut off in the presence of the Ark of the Lord.

Specific Commissions of the Sword of the Lord
Psa 107:20 He sent7971 his word,1697 and healed7495 them, and delivered4422 them from their destructions.4480, 7825

Sent: H7971 shâlach
BDB Definition:
1) to send, send away, let go, stretch out
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to send
1a2) to stretch out, extend, direct
1a3) to send away
1a4) to let loose
1b) (Niphal) to be sent
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out
1c2) to let go, set free
1c3) to shoot forth (of branches)
1c4) to let down
1c5) to shoot

His WORD: H1697 dâbâr (daw-bawr')
BDB Definition:
1) speech, word, speaking, thing
1a) speech
1b) saying, utterance
1c) word, words
1d) business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner
Part of Speech: noun masculine

Healed H7495 râphâ' râphâh
raw-faw', raw-faw'
A primitive root; properly to mend (by stitching), that is, (figuratively) to cure: – cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole. See H7503.

Delivered: H4422 mâlaṭ
maw-lat'
A primitive root; properly to be smooth, that is, (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively to release or rescue; specifically to bring forth young, emit sparks: – deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, X speedily, X surely.

The Word of God that brings deliverance is a “spoken word.” Jesus often rebuked demons and they left. Peter walked on water “at His Word.” The very fact that the John writes: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God” gives us an indication of the creative power that has been sustained throughout creation to the furthest ends of the cosmos. We should be bold to speak the Word of God in every situation and use the Sword of the Spirit in our mouth. In the book of Revelation, chapter one, Jesus has a two-edged Sword in His mouth. When we speak the Word it cut both the hearer and the speaker – it reminds the speaker about the truth and it challenges the hearer to conform to God’s standards by the power of the Holy Spirit.

God’s Word has been appointed to your life, to your family, your business, your community. God has given His word a charge and a commission to fulfil in your life, it is fixed on you and will have no rest until that charge is completed. His Sword is programmed for you individually and the Sword Maker’s instructions will be executed to the full!

Allow the Sword of the Lord full access to your sphere of influence and see how it cuts through what is soul and spirit or flesh. See how it removes oppression from your life, and cuts off the chains of the guilt of past sins that Jesus’ blood paid for on the cross. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but are mighty for the pulling down of strongholds in Jesus’ name. Your healing and deliverance has been commissioned, and the Sword of the Lord will execute judgement on enemy territory!