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Friday, April 16, 2021

TAKE GOD AT HIS WORD - The Bible says it’s impossible for God to turn against His Word. It will never lose its power nor fail to produce what it’s promised. Don’t allow unbelief and wavering to stop you from putting your full trust and confidence in the goodness of God, and His faithfulness to honour His Word concerning you. Fill yourself with His truth; make it your anchor as you take Him at His Word. - “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” - Numbers 23:19 (NKJV)- The Bible is full of promises concerning us and the life we were created to live in Christ Jesus. All that’s stopping us from stepping into them is ourselves. We must aggressively refuse to accept anything contrary to what the Word of God says about us! When we feel worry and anxiety trying to overwhelm us, we don’t allow ourselves to succumb to fear or wallow in despair. Instead, we turn to God’s Word and declare we are victorious in Christ. We call on His Name and wisdom, choosing to trust Him as His peace guides us to see our way through and into victory. When we feel the symptoms of sickness come on our bodies, we don’t accept it; we declare we are healed by the stripes of Jesus. The Bible says it’s impossible for God to turn against His Word. It will never lose its power nor fail to produce what it’s promised.

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Take God At His Word

..The Bible says it’s impossible for God to turn against His Word. It will never lose its power nor fail to produce what it’s promised. Don’t allow unbelief and wavering to stop you from putting your full trust and confidence in the goodness of God, and His faithfulness to honour His Word concerning you. Fill yourself with His truth; make it your anchor as you take Him at His Word.

By Dr Andre and Jenny Roebert

“God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” - Numbers 23:19 (NKJV)

The Bible is full of promises concerning us and the life we were created to live in Christ Jesus.

All that’s stopping us from stepping into them is ourselves.

We must aggressively refuse to accept anything contrary to what the Word of God says about us!

When we feel worry and anxiety trying to overwhelm us, we don’t allow ourselves to succumb to fear or wallow in despair.

Instead, we turn to God’s Word and declare we are victorious in Christ.

We call on His Name and wisdom, choosing to trust Him as His peace guides us to see our way through and into victory.

When we feel the symptoms of sickness come on our bodies, we don’t accept it; we declare we are healed by the stripes of Jesus.

The Bible says it’s impossible for God to turn against His Word.

It will never lose its power nor fail to produce what it’s promised.

Don’t allow unbelief and wavering to stop you from putting your full trust and confidence in the goodness of God, and His faithfulness to honour His Word concerning you.

Fill yourself with His truth; make it your anchor as you take Him at His Word.

Dr. Andre and Jenny Roebert started their ministry in King Williams Town in 1991 as local youth pastors. After their wedding in 1992 they continued to serve the local church until the founding of Revival South Africa, an itinerant ministry spreading the gospel to the small towns of South Africa.

After seeing thousands saved, set free and set on fire for God, Andre and Jenny followed the Lord’s call to begin what would fast became a structure to touch their nation in many ways – in 1998 River Ministries was birthed. Just two years later God led them into the first of many business ventures, enabling them to finance the ministry and vision God had given them to quicken the body of Christ and bring in the end-time harvest of souls. Today they still pastor The River church, the services of which are broadcast live each Sunday on two satellite television channels. As a result their congregation is literally spread over the continent of Africa and they also connect with thousands of people through Facebook and their various websites.

https://myfaith.tv/daily-devotions/take-god-at-his-word/

Sunday, March 7, 2021

REACHING OUR MOUNTAINTOPS - Jesus Christ walked perfectly, always doing the Father’s will, and thus he provides the greatest example for us to follow. His ability to overcome the most challenging obstacles enabled him to endure to victory. His mind-set, his point of view, was one that extended far beyond the immediate circumstances. Because he trusted God’s Word completely, he won complete victory over every obstacle. Just as Jesus Christ did, we too gain strength and endurance in challenging situations as we maintain a spiritual perspective according to God’s revealed Word. We are to lay aside every weight. A number of things can become weights or burdens. Social and peer pressures, financial concerns, job security and health issues, are all things we may face at times. While it is not God’s intent that we avoid issues when they arise or pretend that they do not exist, we are, however, to lay aside encumbrances, anxieties, or fears about those situations. We are to put off the former ways of our old-man nature. The “new man” is the spirit of God that we receive when we are born again. We put on in our mind that which God created in righteousness and true holiness; then we live it. This is the renewed mind. Thinking the thoughts of God’s Word and acting upon them brings power to any born-again believer, for we now have a mind coordinated and in harmony with our spirit. Putting on the new nature is how we lay aside the weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us.

Reaching Our Mountaintops

Jesus Christ walked perfectly, always doing the Father’s will, and thus he provides the greatest example for us to follow. His ability to overcome the most challenging obstacles enabled him to endure to victory. His mind-set, his point of view, was one that extended far beyond the immediate circumstances. Because he trusted God’s Word completely, he won complete victory over every obstacle.

Just as Jesus Christ did, we too gain strength and endurance in challenging situations as we maintain a spiritual perspective according to God’s revealed Word. We are to lay aside every weight. A number of things can become weights or burdens. Social and peer pressures, financial concerns, job security and health issues, are all things we may face at times.

While it is not God’s intent that we avoid issues when they arise or pretend that they do not exist, we are, however, to lay aside encumbrances, anxieties, or fears about those situations. We are to put off the former ways of our old-man nature. The “new man” is the spirit of God that we receive when we are born again. We put on in our mind that which God created in righteousness and true holiness; then we live it. This is the renewed mind.

Thinking the thoughts of God’s Word and acting upon them brings power to any born-again believer, for we now have a mind coordinated and in harmony with our spirit. Putting on the new nature is how we lay aside the weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us.

by The Way

Have you ever been stuck in a place and felt as though you could not move ahead?

I have. One of those times was while climbing a mountain.

I had reached a point in my climb where I was no longer moving up the face of the mountain.

The longer I stayed in that one spot, the greater my anxiety grew. I began to get bogged down with thoughts of inadequacy and inability.

As the seconds turned to one minute, two minutes, and more, I grew increasingly unsure of how to get up the climb.

I had grown frustrated and exhausted considering thoughts of defeat.

Having allowed myself to become burdened by the immediate circumstances, I was ready to give up and quit.

Not only was I not reaching my goal, I was no longer even moving in that direction!

I needed to change my outlook, get a new perspective on the situation, and get up that climb!

“Perspective” is defined in one dictionary as “a visible scene, especially one extending to a distance.” It also can mean “a mental view or prospect.”

God’s Word clearly tells us the best perspective to acquire and maintain in order to reach heights of victory.

Hebrews 12:1-3:

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

“For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”

We are to look “unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.”

As we consider his ways, we keep from becoming wearied and faint in our minds. What a mental view we can have as we learn from the example set by our Lord and Savior.

Jesus Christ walked perfectly, always doing the Father’s will, and thus he provides the greatest example for us to follow.

His ability to overcome the most challenging obstacles enabled him to endure to victory.

What perspective did he carry in order to accomplish all that was before him?

His mind-set, his point of view, was one that extended far beyond the immediate circumstances.

“For the joy that was set before him,” Jesus Christ endured the cross and is now “set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Because he trusted God’s Word completely, he won complete victory over every obstacle.

As we examine Hebrews 12:1-3, we will gain a greater understanding of the perspective needed to win in life.

Just as Jesus Christ did, we too gain strength and endurance in challenging situations as we maintain a spiritual perspective according to God’s revealed Word.

Hebrews 12:1:

Here we see we are to lay aside every weight.

The Greek word translated “weight” here only occurs once in the Bible, and it refers to a bulk or mass, and thus a burden or encumbrance.

A number of things can become weights or burdens. Social and peer pressures, financial concerns, job security and health issues, are all things we may face at times.

While it is not God’s intent that we avoid issues when they arise or pretend that they do not exist, we are, however, to lay aside encumbrances, anxieties, or fears about those situations.

We are to “run with patience the race that is set before us.”

Would anyone ever strap on a heavy backpack before running a footrace? Just like those running a footrace, we compete in the spiritual competition to win. Additional burdens do not help!

We “lay aside” every weight because weights and burdens can so easily surround one and set one back.

To “lay aside” means to put off from oneself. In Ephesians, our loving heavenly Father tells us what to put off and what to put on.

Ephesians 4:22-24:

“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

“And be renewed in the spirit [life] of your mind;

“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”

The “old man” is a figure of speech meaning the old ways which a person had before being born again. That old-man nature can be like carrying deadweight.

We are to put off the former ways of our old-man nature.

The “new man” is the spirit of God that we receive when we are born again.

We put on in our mind that which God created in righteousness and true holiness; then we live it. This is the renewed mind.

Thinking the thoughts of God’s Word and acting upon them brings power to any born-again believer, for we now have a mind coordinated and in harmony with our spirit.

Putting on the new nature is how we lay aside the weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us!…

This is an excerpt from the September/October 2006 issue of The Way Magazine.

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Published by The Way International, this bimonthly magazine is filled with practical articles about living the Word of God. Beginning with the very first issue over sixty years ago, The Way Magazine has been providing men, women, and young people with timely Biblical truths they can put into practice for consistently powerful results. Today, The Way Magazine continues to help establish spiritual principles in the lives of faithful believers worldwide and is a vital link for them to the rightly divided Word of God as it reaches out worldwide from The Way International Headquarters in New Knoxville, Ohio, U.S.A.
Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille, the founder of both The Way Ministry and The Way Magazine, set his vision for this unique and dynamic publication, and this is still true today:

“The Way Magazine stands alone in its category as the foremost Biblical magazine, reporting the activities and findings of the men and women who are sincerely interested in the great accuracy of God’s Word….We are concerned not with intellectuality, tradition, trend, or the glamorous elements to be found in newsstand periodicals—but that the Word of God might be presented in all of its greatness and simplicity in an attractive, easy-to-read format for the blessing of God’s people.”

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