Lesson 8 Trusting In The Word

     Psalms 138:2 (Amplified) says that, "You have exalted above all else Your name and Your Word, and You have magnified Your Word above all Your name."
     God has magnified His Word above all His name.  Think about this statement for awhile and ask yourself how much do we really believe what the Word says.  We realize that His Word has declared us righteous by our faith in His Word.
     If I establish my own righteousness by my performance (even if I could), then it will only last until my next mistake.  If I was to lose my righteousness by my mistakes, then how could I reinstate it?  I can no longer make sacrifices as in the old covenant and I can't send Jesus to the cross again.  The how can I walk in right standing with my Father without believing that Jesus is my right standing?  Am I righteous one minute and unrighteous in the next?  Am I a sinner one time and not a sinner the next?  How can I ever have faith in my right standing with God based on my performance?  The truth is that I can't.     I must trust the fact that Jesus is my righteousness and He doesn't make mistakes.  His righteousness will endure forever and if I am in Him, then so will mine.
     Does this mean that I can live any way that I want?  Of course not.  But, if I fail ( and I will at times), then do I need to be born again, again?  It means that every mistake I've made or ever will make as a sinner is under the Blood of the perfect Lamb of God and doesn't need to be renewed as in the old covenant.
     If a believer can't determine if, or when he's in right standing with the Father, then how can we believe in prayer or anything else He promised to come to pass?  We must establish our Christian life on faith and trust in God's Word.  How can we ever believe that God's Word of heaven is true if His Word of right standing is in doubt?
     Everything in our Christian life is based on trusting what His Word has declared.  We say we believe certain things and not others.  Is only part of His Word true?  And if so, then which part?  What can we really believe about our salvation is only some of it is true?
     We must return to believing outside the box that the devil has so successfully put us into.  We'll never see the mighty things that God has prepared for those who love Him until we begin to trust in what these things are.  If we only believe them to happen when we get to heaven, then how will the unbeliever ever see?
     According to Romans 8:19 (Amplified), "For (even) the whole creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known (waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship)."  Some believe this will occur at the close of the ages, but all of the curse will be lifted from even nature at the close of the age.  If so, there would be no reason for the manifesting of God's sons because they'd already be manifest.
     I believe that the time is coming, and even now is beginning, when the church will finally trust in the Word and God's praises will be seen in all the earth.  The time of miracles hasn't passed away with the early Church, but is waiting for today's Church to walk in the manifest power of our Lord Jesus.  After all, is He not Lord of heaven and earth.
     We keep trying to place ourselves under the curse when all the time the curse has been dealt with by Jesus.  We're always disqualifying ourselves because of our imperfections instead of identifying with His perfection.  We are perfect because He is perfect.  Not because of what we do or don't do, but because of what He did.
     We need to trust in our Lamb on the altar enough to let go of all else and walk free.  Once we learn to trust in Him and not in ourselves.  Do we need to stop learning?  Of course not.  But, learning shouldn't become bondage or Law, but grace.  Everything about the promises of God depend on faith in His grace and not our performance.
     Do you really think God didn't know what He was doing when He sent Jesus?  Do you really think that He thought we would never fail or make mistakes?  Of course He knew.  And His grace is still sufficient for us.  Were it not for grace, we would still be where we were.