Text: 45th Book of the
Bible. Romans has 16 chapters, 433
verses, and 9,447 words; “portrays
Christ as Our Righteousness and Our Righteous King”.
Romans 4:21 (KJV) And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he
was able also to perform.
HALLELUJAH!!!!
How many know
what God has promised……He is well able to perform!!!!
Psalms 115:3 (KJV) But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
Luke 1:37 (KJV) For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Hebrews 11:19(KJV) Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
So the word
for the people today is “Fully
Persuaded for a Miracle”
Fully means entirely or wholly
Persuaded means to carry out fully (in evidence); completely
assured; convinced; to bring in full measure, to fulfill, which signifies “to
be fully persuaded” as I
read in Romans 4:21, as of Abraham’s faith.
Abraham had within him the
ability to believe in the miraculous without analyzing it. When God introduced
Himself to Abraham in Genesis 12, He told Abraham to move without even telling him exactly where to go, and
Abraham packed his things without question.
When God told him he would have a child, he believed what God said
even when he and his wife were past childbearing. (Hebrews 11:8 - 12).
Then when Abraham and Sarah finally gave birth to Isaac, their son,
God told him to sacrifice Isaac upon an altar.
Again, Abraham didn’t question; he immediately took steps to obey until
God interrupted him.
He did so because God already promised that Isaac would be the
seed to produce many sons (see Genesis
21:12; Hebrews 11:13). Abraham so believed God’s words that he expected God
to even raise Isaac from the dead if necessary (see Hebrews 11:19)!
Abraham had no proof other than a verbal promise.
He remained fully persuaded for
a miracle even though it took 25 years from the time God first mentioned it
until Isaac was born (see Genesis 12:2-4; 21:5).
So today, people of God, as you look for the miraculous things of
God to occur, begin by believing God based on His verbal promises from
Scripture. Keep rehearsing those promises in your heart. As you practice this
just the way Abraham did, surely you will become fully persuaded for a miracle!
Any time you move with God for a miracle, you must be fully
persuaded. Not partially. Not off and on. But you must be fully persuaded.
Let’s take a look at how Abraham became fully persuaded at 100 years of age to
believe God. Talking about Faith!!!! Look at Abraham.
First let’s look at the word “being”,
which means to be full of a thing. It is a verb of existence. It means
you must have an inner knowledge and an inner knowing that what God says in His
Word is true. It is not good enough just to be able to quote it with your mouth
or with your head. You must be full of it. You must have an inward certainty
that what God’s Word says is true. It
must be a knowledge existing in you that God’s Word is true.
I will give you an example. When we
got the word about our oldest sister having cancer, we just didn’t roll up in a
big old ball and cry. We activated our faith…..through the instructions of
another sister given by God. And all we can say now is “Look at her and God now!!!!”
We stood on the Word of God and began
to give Him praise because we were fully persuaded that God could do
what He said He could do, and He did!!!
I could go on and on about people who
have become fully persuaded. But it’s just like we learned in bible study
Tuesday night; “Keep on Asking; keep on Seeking, and keep on Knocking”; and
also put feet to your prayers. (Matthew
7:7).
It’s imperative for us to keep
feeding on the Word. I said, “Keep feeding on the Word”. As long as we continue
to eat the Word of God, that Word will get so deep inside you, that you will be
able to walk in perfect health. Your mind, your emotions, and everything about
you will become so much at one with God, it will begin to behold the office of
perfection of “being”.
You see the word goes forth and
establishes that which is. In perfection there is nothing to heal! “But
something inside you will say “you will live and not die”!
We know God is able, and we know God
will, but you and I have to be willing to stand upon it for it to happen.
When the Word begins to work in us,
it will produce a condition of knowing
that we are fully persuaded. If you do not know for sure, stay in the Word
a little while longer.
But there will come a time when you will have to act upon it.
I recommend that you reach out in
some area where you may fall short at times, but I strongly encourage you to
get into the Word of God. If you learn the lessons in the little things now,
when the tough ones come, you will have the faith to move into them as an
overcomer.
If you cannot get the little things
by faith, you will never get the big things by faith. If you cannot believe Him
for $50, then you cannot get the $5,000 when you need it. So start learning
with the little things. Start getting the toe aches and headaches healed. Then
you can believe Him for the bigger things.
God wants every Christian to be fully
persuaded. This is a condition that is produced inside of you that you know God’s Word is true.
With God, you do not have to gamble
if you will stay in the Word and learn it. There is no gamble in faith. It is a
cinch (to seize on or make sure of; guarantee). The most cinch deal in
the world is believing God. The only
guaranteed deal with no odds of missing is when you learn how to believe God. God is not a man that He
can lie. It only takes one lie to make a liar. If He lied one time, He is a
liar. But praise God, what He says is
all true, and we can stand on it because God is not a liar. (Numbers
23:19).
With faith come conditions so let us
look at the first condition that came to exist in Abraham’s life.
I. Correct Basis (fundamental principle)
❖ Romans 4:18
WHO AGAINST HOPE BELIEVED IN HOPE,
THAT HE MIGHT BECOME THE FATHER OF MANY NATIONS, ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH WAS
SPOKEN, SO SHALL THY SEED BE.”
❖ Genesis 17:19
AND THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME
ISAAC: AND I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH HIM.
He said, “I am going to establish my
covenant with you, and through the seed of Isaac, I am going to multiply and
cover the world.” Abraham had God’s spoken Word that God was going to take
Isaac, and through Isaac scatter his generation all over the world.
So Abraham had God’s Word that God
was going to use Isaac.
Abraham said, “Well, let’s see now. I
have God’s Word. God spoke. God said that He is going to bless all the nations
of the world through Isaac. And now God tells me to put him upon the altar and
kill him. I know God’s not a man that He can lie.”
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Jeremiah 1:12 I WILL HASTEN MY WORD TO PERFORM IT.
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Isaiah 55:11 SO SHALL MY WORD BE
THAT GOETH FORTH OUT OF MY MOUTH: IT SHALL NOT RETURN TO ME VOID, BUT IT SHALL
ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH I PLEASE.
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I Peter 1:25
THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURETH
FOREVER.
Abraham believed these things about
God even though they had not been manifested yet. He said, “God said He was
going to take Isaac and multiply his seed. Now, God tells me to kill him.”
Paul tells us in Hebrews that Abraham
thought (or believed) God would raise him up. So you see, when Abraham went to kill
Isaac, he told the men that he left down at the bottom of the mountain, “Isaac and I will be back.” He could say
that because God had spoken. God had said, “Abraham, I am going to bless many
generations through your seed Isaac.” Abraham could go and put his son upon the
altar by faith because God had spoken.
This was a man who had learned to walk
by faith and not by senses. This was a man who believed the Word of
God. Abraham already had God’s Word that
He was going to take care of him. You and I have God’s Word today that He will
hasten to perform His Word. The Bible is His spoken Word today.
❖
Romans 4:18
ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN.
What has God spoken to you and I
today?
❖
Matthew 8:17
HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES, AND
BARE OUR SICKNESSES.
❖ Psalms 103:3
WHO FORGIVETH ALL THINE
INIQUITIES; WHO HEALETH ALL THY DISEASES.
This is the spoken Word of God to you
and me today.
God spoke this Word to the men of God
many years ago, but it is still true. SAME GOD THEN; SAME GOD NOW!!! It is
still reality. It is still echoing down through the pages of time. You and I
can take the Word of God and become fully persuaded that it is true, and
stand on it, and get the exact miracle that anyone else ever has. God’s Word
never changes. It is still in existence.
❖ Mark
16:18 BELIEVERS
SHALL LAY HANDS ON THE SICK AND THEY SHALL RECOVER.
When you and I believe what God has
spoken in Mark 16:18, then people
can lay their hands upon us, and we will be healed.
Some people don’t believe in laying
on of hands. That’s because to the natural mind, it is utterly ridiculous. The
carnal, fleshly Christian says, “Oh, I cannot believe that.” But it is
according to the Word of God. If God lied in Mark 16:18, then He is a liar. But
He is not a liar.
I believe it is according to that
which was spoken. I believe that when we lay hands upon people, Jesus will heal
them. I believe it because God said so.
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Mark 11:24
WHAT THINGS SOEVER YE DESIRE, WHEN
YE PRAY, BELIEVE THAT YE RECEIVE THEM, AND YE SHALL HAVE THEM.
He will hasten today to perform Mark 11:24 because Mark 11:24 is His Word. He says, “SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOETH FORTH OUT OF MY MOUTH: IT SHALL NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID (Isaiah 55:11). I do not believe
Mark 11:24 shall return unto God
void when I exercise faith in it. I do not believe Mark 16:18 shall return to God void when I exercise faith in it. I
do not believe Matthew 8:17 shall
return to God void.
Believe that God is able to perform
anything He has spoken. That is what it says in Romans 4:21 AND BEING FULLY
PERSUADED THAT, WHAT HE HAD PROMISED, HE WAS ABLE ALSO TO PERFORM. Abraham
said, “I believe what God has spoken, He is able to perform.” Today God says
for you and I to believe that what He has spoken, He is able to perform.
Believe what He has spoken in Mark 16:18 and Mark 11:24. Believe what
He has spoken in John 10:10 I AM
COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.
Believe what He has spoken in I John 4:4 GREATER
IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD.
Believe what He has spoken in Luke 6:38, where He says GIVE, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU; GOOD
MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN TOGETHER, AND RUNNING OVER, SHALL MEN GIVE INTO
YOUR BOSOM.
That is the basis of being fully
persuaded. Just believing that God will do what He says. There are not any
“buts’” or “supposes.” Somebody has to be wrong if it does not work, and it is
not God. Who is wrong? We are.
How did Abraham come to the place
where he was fully persuaded? First of all, he had a correct basis. He believed
what God said was true and that God was able to perform it.
If you need a healing, base it upon
the Word of God that Jesus bore your sicknesses and your infirmities. Then you
have a foundation that you can get upon and stand upon, and all Hell will pass
away before that Word will pass away. If you have any kind of need, get upon
the spoken Word. It matters not what that need is if you will base it according
to the spoken Word of God.
II. Becoming
Spiritually Educated
The world is filled today with
natural-minded, carnal, fleshly, worldly, earthly, sensual, educated people.
Our churches today are filled with people who are educated intellectually,
socially, and with theology. But God wants us to be educated spiritually as
well. The spiritual truths of God and the natural truths of man do not walk the
same way. There are spiritual truths, and there are natural truths, and the
spiritual truths super-cede the natural truths.
If the spiritual
truths do not super-cede the natural truths, then how are you going to get out
of the grave? It is a natural truth you will die; that is if we don't beleive the word of God because in John 10:10, Jesus said I am come that you might have life and that you have it more abundantly. That means there has to be a
law that will super-cede the law of gravity and change this body. Spiritual
laws are greater.
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I Corinthians 15:44-58
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a
spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was
made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46 Howbeit that was not first which is
spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the
second man is the Lord from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are
earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit
incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at
the last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be
brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where
is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength
of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye
steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as
ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
So you see; we know that last
trump is the message of perfection; the message of the
Kingdom that makes us one with God!!!
How was Abraham spiritually educated?
Romans 4:19 says AND BEING NOT WEAK IN FAITH, HE CONSIDERED
NOT HIS OWN BODY NOW DEAD, WHEN HE WAS ABOUT AN HUNDRED YEARS OLD, NEITHER YET
THE DEADNESS OF SARA’S WOMB.
What do people consider most of all
today? They consider “their own bodies”. The Word says, “You are healed,” but
your body says, “You are sick.” Abraham was spiritually educated. He did not
consider his body.
What do most people consider today
about money? They consider their billfolds or their checking accounts. The Word
says He supplies all your needs. If you are not spiritually educated, you are
going to be going by your billfold or your checking account.
But if you are spiritually educated,
you are going to go by the Word of God, and the Word of God will make your
billfold and checking account line up with the Word of God. God’s Word is the greatest
truth.
❖ Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ
Jesus.
ABRAHAM CONSIDERED NOT HIS OWN BODY,
NOW DEAD, WHEN HE WAS ABOUT AN HUNDRED YEAR OLD…NEITHER THE DEADNESS OF SARAH’S
WOMB.
There are two worlds: I was born of
Willie and Pauline Perry. I had the
natural birth, and I came into this world.
But glory hallelujah, there was a time when the Spirit of God touched my
spirit, and I was born into the spirit world by the Spirit of God (St. John 3:3-5). I had two births.
The Word “considered” in Romans
4:19 means “he took account of.” He carefully beheld. He perceived
clearly. He understood fully that he could not produce life. He knew that his
body could not produce life. He knew that Sarah had passed the age of
reproduction. He perceived it clearly.
That is what “considered” means. He
took account of it and recognized it. He knew in his mind that he could not and
she could not of their own. He carefully looked at it. He understood fully that
according to the laws of man they were past the time of producing life.
But Abraham knew he was not going to
be limited just to the law of the body or to the natural law of man. He knew
God had laws that super-ceded the natural laws.
He denied, he rejected, and renounced
it for the truth of God’s Word. He literally denounced that his body could not
bring forth life. He said, “I know that in the natural my body cannot bring
forth life; but God said it would, so I have a choice. I can either believe my
body or believe God.”
I am sure that if they had had
doctors in that day, and if they had examined him, they would have said, “Well,
Abraham. There is just no way, according to nature. You and Sarah need to go
and adopt you one. That is the only way you will get one with Sarah anyway.
But Abraham said, “I believe God.”
That is spiritual sense. To the world that is stupidity. But I am not
interested in the world. I am interested in the opinion of God. And when we
take the Word of God, and stand upon the Word of God, and obey the Word of God,
then it will override all the natural laws of man, and all the natural laws of
the world and the power of God will be injected into our lives.
You may be sick right now. You have a
choice. Consider your body and be sick, or consider the Word of God and get
healed. It’s a battle. You’re just like Abraham. You’ve taken account of your
body. You perceive clearly that there is pain in your body, or whatever your
situation might be.
If it be mental, you perceive the
confused, frustrated condition you are in. If it is a financial need, you
perceive it. You can figure. You can add. But that is where you come to the
parting of the way. That is where you have to say, “Well, I know what my body
says. I know what my billfold says. I know what my circumstances and my
situation say, but over here I have somebody that says something else and His
name is God.”
Abraham did not consider his own
body. The world considers its body, not the Word. You start telling people
that Jesus heals today like He did a long time ago and many just say, “Oh, no.
If He did, He would heal me.” Well, He will, if you learn how to believe Him
and move in it.
How did Abraham consider not his own body?
Hebrews 12:2 says, LOOKING UNTO JESUS,
meaning we need to be looking to the Word. He looked not to his senses or
feelings but to the Word of God. God told Abraham that he would give him a
son. Abraham perceived it clearly; he
understood it; and he looked at it with his mind, and And he believed in
the Lord. (Genesis 15:6)
And don’t you know that the people in
that day and time thought Abraham was stupid? Just as people think we are crazy
today. I know they think we are crazy, preaching life and not death; and
preaching the kingdom is within us, but that is all right. We believe God and are looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
of our faith (Hebrews
12:2).
We are standing on the Word of God!!!
And in this Word it says, And ye shall
know the truth, and the TRUTH shall make you free. (John 8:32). And I’m fully persuaded that God’s Word is
true.
❖ Romans 8:6
FOR TO BE CARNALLY [Sense] MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY
MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE.
What is it to be spiritually-minded?
It is to believe the Word of God above everything. It is to believe God’s Word
above your body. It is to believe God’s Word above your billfold. It is to
believe God’s Word above your problem. To be spiritually-minded is to believe
God’s Word above everything you know to be true according to worldly standards.
Though the Bible was put together by men yet it is a spiritual book, given of
God:
❖
2 Peter 1:21
For the prophecy came not in old time
by the will of man: but
holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
All the other books we have —
psychological, philosophical, historical, and medical — all come from man. They
are earthly books - sensual books. But the Bible comes from God. It is not
earthly and sensual. It is not like the laws of man. It is higher than the laws
of man when it finds a man or woman who will believe it. But until you get
spiritually educated you cannot understand it. (1 Corinthians 2:14).
❖ John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
When the pain is hitting your body, everything in you wants
to say, “I’m sick.” But there is a man inside you who says, “Say
you’re healed.” The outside man says, “Say you are sick.” The man
inside that’s born again, “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” says you
are healed.
Your billfold says you are flat
broke, but the man inside says you are rich.
Your circumstances say it’s tough and
it’s rough. But the man inside says you are more than a conqueror through
Christ Jesus.
You have to make up your mind who you
are going to believe: the man inside or the man outside.
How did Abraham get to the place
where he was fully persuaded? First of all, he had a proper basis — the
Word of God. Second, he was spiritually educated. He came to
the place where he believed God above his body.
Now suppose he had not believed God’s
Word above his body. Suppose he had believed his body. What do you think he
would have received? Absolutely nothing, because that is not faith. But because
this man was willing to believe the Word of God above his senses, God gave him
a son (who was the seed of promise) just as He said.
III. Maturing in
Faith’s Operation
❖
Romans
4:19 BEING NOT WEAK IN FAITH.
This implies that some are. It is not
that they do not have the faith, but they are not yet spiritually educated.
Every Christian has the measure of faith. The only difference is that some know
how to use it and some do not. Some have been spiritually trained and some have
not. It also implies that once Abraham was weak in faith, but he matured. He
had developed steadily through the years.
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Hebrews 11:6
HE (GOD) IS A REWARDER OF THOSE WHO DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM.
He rewards that man or woman who
stays with the Word of God.
Philippians 4:19 told me God would supply all my needs. I did not know
how, but I just said, “God, You said
it, and I believe it.”
I would say, “God, You said You would supply my needs, and I believe it. God, You
said You would reward those that diligently seek you.”
If you would just be diligent, it
will pay off in time.
Abraham was diligent. He developed
steadily through the years. He didn’t start out that way. He didn’t start out
at the place where he could put his son upon the altar, but he stayed with God.
I’m sure if Abraham had told everyone else he was going to sacrifice Isaac on
an altar, most of them, if not all, would have said, “Abraham, you’re crazy.” Had he told Sarah, Abe himself probably
would have become the sacrifice. But Abraham said to himself, “God told me He
would give me a son and He has – now He wants me to offer my son to Him as a
sacrifice and I will”. Just imagine a 99-year-old man saying, “God said I was
going to have a son.” Can’t you see the people’s reaction to that? A one hundred year old man and a ninety year
old woman bringing forth a son! In this
day some family members would probably try to have you committed to an
institution somewhere. But God can do
anything but fail!
Do you want God to bless you? Do you
want God to call you to do great things? Get to the place where you will
consider neither your body nor your financial situation. Consider only the Word of God.
He will speak to you.
Philip believed Him, and right in the
middle of a great revival, with people being healed and miracles taking place,
God said, “Philip, go down to the desert.” How did that match up with the
senses? How do you think his mind computed that? Most people would not have
gone.
It would not make sense. God does not
make natural sense. He makes spiritual sense. He is not a human being. He is a
spiritual being.
But Philip left a great revival, and
went down to the desert, and God spoke to him. And along came an Ethiopian, a
eunuch riding in a chariot
Acts 8:26-39 God spoke to
Philip and said, Go near, and join
thyself to this chariot. (vs 29). God had a reason for sending Philip into the
desert.
He got up there in the wagon with him
and talked to him of the scriptures opening them up to the Ethiopian with
clarity, and the eunuch said, (vs 36): What doth hinder me to be baptized?
Philip said, “Sure.” Verse 38: Philip baptizes the
eunuch. How did that water get
there? They were in the middle of the desert, so there couldn’t have been any
water there. But for God’s divine purpose He can make rivers in the desert!
Acts 8:36 (KJV) And as they went on their way, they came
unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder
me to be baptized?
Acts 8:37 (KJV) And Philip said, If thou believest with all
thine heart, thou mayest. And he
answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Acts 8:38(KJV) And he commanded the chariot to
stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
But God!!!
IV. Refusing to
Doubt
Abraham just refused to doubt.
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Romans 4:20 HE STAGGERED NOT AT THE PROMISE OF GOD THROUGH
UNBELIEF.
This word “staggered”
means he did not vacillate (waver in mind or opinion, be indecisive). He was not knocked about by his senses or by the way he felt.
I am sure the world would’ve said, “Abraham,
you’re stupid. You’re ridiculous. It’s impossible. It can’t happen.” He didn’t
have a division of opinion. He looked at his body and said, “I know my body
can’t bring forth life, but I know God can. I would rather doubt my body than
doubt God.”
He would not submit to questions. He
would not submit to suppositions/assumptions. He would not submit to
possibilities. He just staggered not at the Word of God.
Genesis 18:14: Is anything too
hard for the LORD? At the time appointed
I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a
son.
When you start believing God for
something, you can be assured that there are going to be questions. Who is
going to bring the questions? The devil!!!
Who is going to bring the suppositions? “But suppose this and suppose
that.”
God does not give you His Word and
then send questions and suppositions along.
There are not any “what ifs.” If you
are still in the “what if’s,” it is not faith yet. You are not fully persuaded. Back up and get
in the Word some more.
James 1:6-7
says you cannot be double-minded.
So you must refuse to doubt. The doubt might come, but you can refuse to accept
it and to dwell upon it. You cannot stop the birds from flying over your head,
but you can stop them from making a nest. You cannot stop the devil from
injecting doubt, but you can cut off the thinking about it.
2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ.
Last……
V. The Outcome of Being Fully
Persuaded
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Romans 4:20 HE WAS STRONG IN FAITH, GIVING
GLORY TO GOD.
How did he give glory to God? By
being strong in faith. Who do the weak in faith give glory to? Who are you
giving glory to? Are you staggering at the promises of God? Are you considering
your body and the pain above God? Are you considering your problems or your
circumstances, and believing that God cannot handle them? Are you staggering
that God cannot work it out?
Jesus says in John 10:10, I COME THAT
YOU MIGHT HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.
The world says, “No. You have to be
up and down, hot and cold.”
But Jesus says, I COME THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.
How do you give glory to God? By
having exactly what the world says you cannot have. If the devil says you
cannot be well, get your health. If the devil says you cannot be prosperous, get
prosperity.
Give glory to God by walking right
over the devil and walking in victory because Jesus defeated him at Calvary.
Give glory to God by living the abundant life.
Give glory to God by giving, and it
shall be given to you.
The Bible says, “LOVE ALL.” The world
says, “No, only those who do you right.”
The Bible says, “WORRY NOT.” The world says, “Impossible.”
How about turning the cheek? The
Bible says Matthew 5:39 Whosoever
shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. The world
says, “Hit him before he hits you.”
The Bible says, “COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU FALL INTO DIVERS TEMPTATIONS” (James 1:2).
Do you want to give glory to God? Turn
the other cheek. Do you want to give glory to God? Stop worrying. Do you
want to give glory to God? Give and it shall be given unto you. Do you want to give glory to God? Count
it all joy.
In Romans 5:3, it says, WE
GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS. Most
people say, “I’m not going to glory in my troubles and problems.” That is why
they do not get out of them. That is why they have so many and stay in them so
long.
The Word says, GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS. It
does not mean that you like what you are in, but you glory because you know God
is in there with you, and God is not going to allow you to stay there very
long.
When a problem arises and you start
praising God when you’re in trouble, then you can watch God flex his muscles.
God is in there with you!!!
He says, “I’LL NEVER LEAVE YOU. I’LL
NEVER FORSAKE YOU.” (Hebrews 13:5).
If you are having problems and
difficulties right now, where do you think God is?
He will not run off and leave you. He
is right there with you. Keep holding on to Him, and when you have held on to
Him long enough, He will bring you out.
But some of you get into problems and
forget God is in there with you, and the next thing you do is start mumbling
and grumbling, griping and complaining.
Start saying, “I believe God,” and
keep on confessing God’s Word, and He will be able to bring you out of that
thing much sooner than you think.
Abraham and Sarah had no power to
produce life. Isaac was not a result of their own physical power after natural
laws.
Genesis 18:14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At
the time appointed I will return
unto thee, according to the time of life,
and Sarah shall have a son.
And what God wants to do today is to
get men and women in situations where they can receive things that are not the
result of their power, but the result of the power of God, so God can
demonstrate His power, and we can give Him glory for it.
This is why you are fully
persuaded for a miracle in your life. If you are going to have victory, physically,
spiritually, mentally, or financially, it has to be in God’s power. You (we)
have to come to the place where you (we) are fully persuaded
that God will take care of everything for you. I believe you will!!! And I am!!!
Prayer:
Father, I
thank You that Your promises are reliable. I receive a miracle regarding
_______________. I declare that I shall not be persuaded by circumstances but
on Your biblical promises alone. I am fully persuaded for a miracle
today! In Jesus’ Name, amen!
~ Evangelist Jackie Burton
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