THIS, from today's "Faith Food" by Kenneth E. Hagin sounds so simple and logical, but it is really of utmost importance!
SETTLED
"For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar…" (Romans 3:3-4).
To establish a firm foundation for your faith, I suggest you adopt the following motto which I wrote in red ink in the flyleaf of my Bible many years ago.
To establish a firm foundation for your faith, I suggest you adopt the following motto which I wrote in red ink in the flyleaf of my Bible many years ago.
- The Bible says it.
- I believe it.
- And that settles it.
Don't try to read things into the Word just because you want to believe those things that way. Study the Word - and accept it just as it is written.
For example, the denomination I was reared in didn't teach faith and healing. I was bedfast sixteen months as a teenager, and five doctors said I had to die. But I turned to the Word of God, and the more I studied, the more I saw that the Word is true.
I declared, "I am going to walk in the light of what the Word says, regardless of church teaching, because the Word is God speaking to me today." When I settled that issue in my mind, sixty percent of the battle was won: I was on the road to divine healing.
Confession: God's Word is true. I believe God. I walk in the light of what the Word says, because the Word of God is God speaking to me today.
AMEN! I can make his three points even more simple!
- The Bible says it.
- That settles it!
The TRUTH of God's Word is FOREVER settled! MY believing it qualifies ME to be a partaker of it! BUT, whether or not anyone ever partakes of these promises, it is still FOREVER settled in the mind of God! He has already done everything that is needful to do in order for us to live in the fullness of His eternal LIFE! John 10:10:
10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
AMEN! Now all that is left is for US to learn the Word, meditate on the Word until it becomes REAL to US, speak the Word and receive the answers! THEN go tell the world of all the wonderful works of God! HALLELUJAH! Here is Hillsong with "Tell The World":
Shalom in Him!