Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. Colossians 2:6-7.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
People are constantly worried about their future, about their past, and about their life now. If you ask them, they are not sure whether they will be faithful or unfaithful, whether they will have wisdom, whether they will be of sound mind and good health until they pass from this life, whether they will be able to afford what they need, whether they will go to Heaven, and a host of other things.
But really, if you know Me, you will not have any of these worries, or should I say, you will be able to overcome these worries in your knowledge of Me and My promises that are all “YES” to you in Christ Jesus your Lord. In your union with Him, rooted and grounded in Him, you can pull up all you need from Him so that you walk fully supplied and able to do all things in Him who strengthens you.
I can do all things in Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13.
After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. John 14:19.
By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 1 John 4:9.
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:20.
When you have the truth you have the best, and when you know you have the best, you will be at rest. Perfect peace (shalom, shalom—the double shalom) have those whose minds are set on Me for I am your everlasting rock.
Jesus is your master teacher, Lord and Savior, Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life. He only spoke My Words and did My works and He told you that you, like Him, can do the same.
And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying. For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you. Do not live in fear, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. Luke 12:29-32.
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8.
And now let us see how you ask, seek, and knock to have blessed assurance at all times and all places. Like Noah in the ark, the worse the flood of trouble, the higher above it he went in My secret place.
The Name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is safe (sagab (שָׂגַב): to be high, exalted, inaccessible, to make lofty, unassailable). Proverbs 18:10.
“Because you cling to Me in love,” says the LORD, “I deliver you. I protect (sagab (שָׂגַב): to be high, exalted, inaccessible, to make lofty, unassailable) you because you know My Name. When you call to Me, I answer you; I am with you in trouble; I rescue you and honor you. With long life I satisfy you and show you My salvation (Yeshuah).” Psalm 91:14-16.
We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of Him, God keeps (téreó (τηρέω): to keep, to guard, to watch over) him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. Little children, guard yourselves from idols. 1 John 5:18-21.
“But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.” John 17:13-21.
You can feel inadequate, despondent, fearful—ready to lose heart and be despondent but do not give up, give in or back down. Stand up and use your faith in My strength that is in your inner man of the heart. Draw it up.
How do you do this? The same way your life started as a new creation in Christ.
Therefore as you have received (paralambanó (παραλαμβάνω): to take, to receive, to take along, to accept) Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk (peripateó (περιπατέω): to walk, to conduct oneself, to live) in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. Colossians 2:6-7.
How did you receive Him as Lord?
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. Romans 10:8-10.
You believed in what I told you in My Word in your heart, i.e., that I put all your sins on Jesus and Jesus paid the judgment that was on Adam and all his descendants on your behalf and satisfied your sentence to the dust of death, and then was raised with you fully justified, and by substitution you died with Him to sin and paid your judgment, descended to hell with Him, and won over the devil with Him and through Him, and when I raised Him as the first born again glorified man, I raised you with Him, and seated you with Him and blessed you with every blessing in your born again spirit in Heaven. But Jesus left you here physically, in the world but not of the world, as His ambassador, witness, royal priesthood, and as a member of His Body, the Church, to do Kingdom business on earth. And when that was established in your heart by faith, you spoke with YOUR mouth that Jesus is Lord, your Lord. And once you did that it is forever because I sealed you at that moment in Christ by the Holy Spirit as a pledge of your possession of the Kingdom and of the redemption of your body.
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of possession, to the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:13-14.
And Jesus verifies this, for in these days I speak through My Son:
“For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.” John 6:38-40.
And in the first letter of John, I tell you again:
And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:11-13.
So you know once you have done that you are saved forever. Jesus is forever making intercession for you at the mercy seat in Heaven and you are joining your prayers with Him as intercessors as His Royal Priesthood unto Me, your Father.
Now, as you received Him, take care of everything in your life that you are uncertain about in the same way. Find the Word and putting your roots deep down in Him draw that Word up in prayer and when you have it in your heart, fully persuaded that what I say I am well able to perform and speak it with your mouth, trusting Me to complete the good work I have begun in you and to bring you complete and perfect before Me in Christ.
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6.
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24.
I have equipped you in Christ for living a holy life, no fear that you will fail if you do as when you received Jesus.
Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21,
For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted the Word not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. 1 Thessalonians 2:13.
So what is it you do? Let us use wisdom as our first example: You want to have wisdom but you have made so many unwise decisions in your past that you are in despair about it.
First find your scriptures. Why?
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; He saved them out of their distresses. He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions (shechith (שְׁחִית): destruction, ruin, corruption, pit, pitfall). Psalm 107:19-20.
Do not let them [His Words] depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they [His Words] are life to those who find them and health to all their body. Proverbs 4:22.
I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify (hagiazó (ἁγιάζω): to sanctify, to make holy, to consecrate, to set apart) them in the truth; Your word is truth. Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. John 17:16-19.
Why do you need to get them in your heart and in your mouth to have full assurance of the result to take place in your life? To establish a fact and be fully persuaded takes two or three witnesses.
“A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.” Deuteronomy 19:15.
[Jesus said] But if he does not listen, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed. Matthew 18:16.
This is the third time I am coming to you. Every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. 2 Corinthians 13:1.
For the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword (distomos (δίστομος): two-mouthed), and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hebrews 4:12.
Let the godly ones exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword (piphiyyoth (פִיפִיָּה): two mouths) in their hand. Psalm 149:5-6.
Death and life are in the hand (yad (יָד): hand) of the tongue. Proverbs 18:21.
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession (homologia( ὁμολογία): to say the same thing about, homología (from homoú, “the same, together” and légō, speak to a conclusion, lay to rest, properly, a conclusion embraced by common confession (profession, affirmation)). Hebrews 3:1.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16.
The word of the LORD came to me saying, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “I see a rod of an almond (watching) tree.” Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it.” Jeremiah 1:11-12.
So let us look at wisdom and find your witnesses so you know without a doubt that I give you wisdom, in fact all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Christ and He is My gift to you:
For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. Proverbs 2:6.
But by His doing [the Father’s] you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:30-31.
Having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Colossians 2:2-4.
To whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27.
So how do we receive wisdom and know we have it for certain? Just like you received eternal salvation in Christ, by the spirit of faith, believe in your heart and speak with your mouth.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. James 1:5-8.
It is the same for healing, for finances, for strength, for direction, for having a baby and not miscarrying, for having willing and obedient children taught by Me with great peace in their hearts, for moving mountains, stopping storms, finding peace and favor with your enemies, being delivered, being in perfect protection, and being faithful to your marriage vows. There are scriptures on every one of these and much more in the Bible and when you believe them in your heart and speak them together with your great High Priest Jesus in perfect agreement, I watch over My Word to perform it. Two or three witnesses (you, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit). You and the Word (Jesus) together get the impossible done by the work of the Holy Spirit. Just as Jesus did on earth and you can do the works He did and greater. Why do you think that John in His vision of Jesus in Heaven saw a sword coming out of His mouth? Why do you think that the in My armor I give you the Sword of the Spirit which is My Word to wield against the enemy’s lies and bring about the good result of My Word being performed by praying at all times and having no anxiety about anything?
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written. John 21:25.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:14-21.
I love you. As you received Christ, so walk in Him. He us My gift to you.