Psalms 138:2 (Amplified) says, "I will worship toward Your Holy Temple and praise Your name for Your loving kindness and for Your truth and faithfulness; For You have exalted above all else Your name and Your Word and You have magnified Your Word above all Your name."
We sometimes don't think about the power of God's Word in our lives today. We believe in Jesus as our Savior and Lord, but sometimes fail to realize that Jesus is the manifestation of God's Word today. In John 1:14 (Amplified) we read, "And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we (actually) saw His glory (His honor, His majesty) such glory as an only begotten Son receives from His Father, full of grace (favor,loving kindness) and truth."
God's Word is full of grace, favor, truth, and loving kindness towards us who believe. If His Word has said it, then He will do it. It's not a matter of getting God to do it, but a matter of us believing, through faith, that in His heart, He's already done it through Jesus (the Word). Everything that Jesus did in His death and resurrection has already been said in God's Word. It's already done. Our healing, righteousness, redemption and all that His Word has declared is done. We have a great reverence for God, but we fail in our doubting and dishonor His Word which is our Lord Jesus.
I don't write this to bring anyone into condemnation, but into faith. We need to honor God by honoring His Word. Remember that "God has magnified His Word above all His name." Everything that Jesus was while He was on this earth, the Word still does. Because we haven't been taught much about the power of His Word in our lives, we put off most of it until we reach heaven. We aren't going to need our Bible when we get to heaven. We need it while we're still on earth.
We won't need to be healed, saved, delivered, fed, clothed or anything else when we get home. There will be no more hospitals, police or death in heaven. Now is when we need to believe in the promise of His Word. Grace has provided everything that the family of God will ever need as long as we are here. Matthew 6:10 (Amplified) tells us, "Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
We sometimes overlook His will in our daily lives is to provide for us as if we were already in heaven. If His will for us is just like it is in heaven, then heaven has some poor, sick, hungry, lost and destitute people there.
Under our new covenant, Jesus provided (in Himself) everything that was needed to be brought back into full relationship with our Father. We were restored back (by faith in His Word) to where we were before the fall of man in the Garden. Actually, we were brought (through Jesus) to a better place than Adam had. Now we are seated together with Jesus at the right hand of God in all heavenly places. We read in Ephesians 2:6 (Amplified), "And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together (giving us joint seating with Him) in the heavenly sphere (by virtue of our being) in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."
When God said that we have joint seating with Him in the heavenly sphere, He didn't mean when we get to heaven, but when we allow heaven to get in us. When Jesus walked this earth, we saw the heavenly sphere operate here on earth. The same Jesus (the Word of God) still has the same power now as then. There's no difference except our doubt.
We keep saying that the things Jesus did were because He was the Son of God. That's true! But, now because of Jesus, we are sons of God too. Heaven has come to earth. John 3:21 (Amplified) says that, "But he who practices truth (who does what is right) comes out into the Light; so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are--wrought with God (Divinely prompted, done with God's help, in dependence upon Him)."
All of God's wrath was poured out on Jesus on the cross so that all of Jesus' grace, favor, honor and power (from His place with the Father) could now become ours through faith in Him (the Word). We still strive to become righteous before God when His Word has declared that we're already righteous with His righteousness. We still walk in fear of His retribution when the Word says differently.
We're constantly trying to establish our own righteousness through our works instead of receiving our righteousness by faith in His Word. Romans 10:3 (Amplified) says that, "For being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes (which make one acceptable to Him in word, thought and deed) and seeking to establish a righteousness (a means of salvation) of their own, they did not obey or submit themselves to God's righteousness." The previous verse of Romans 10:2 (Amplified) says, "I bear them witness that they have a (certain) zeal and enthusiasm for God, but it is not enlightened and according to (correct and vital) knowledge."
We, as Christians, have set about to do the same thing in so many ways. Since it wasn't your righteousness (but God's) to begin with, then how can we say we have lost out on it? All we were required to do to become righteous was to believe in Jesus. Just because we make mistakes in our lives, doesn't mean that we've stopped believing in Him. If it's His right standing that I am in, then if I make a mistake does that mean He's no longer righteous? Of course not! Because He will always be righteous means that in him, I will always be righteous too.
Once we learn to really trust in His Word (by faith), we can establish our right standing (without fear) and finally begin to walk in what He has prepared for us. We, as they did in Romans 10:2 (Amplified) have a zeal for God, but are still (as they did) trying to establish our own righteousness by religious laws that we impose on ourselves and others.
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