What has the Word said to you? Whatever the Holy Spirit has shown you in the Word is settled in your life. It’s God’s will for you.
Settled means “established, stable, solid, firm, matured, and complete.” God’s promises are established. They are solid. They are complete and settled in His Word just as they are settled in heaven.
“Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven. Your faithfulness endures to all generations; You established the earth, and it abides” (Psalm 119:89-90).
God’s Word abides. It is unchanging. God’s Word reveals His promises, and He is faithful to accomplish His promises in your life. How you believe the promises of God in your heart determines whether His truth is established, solid, and complete in your life or not.
God has given you His Word to know His will. His Word is His will. It is His final authority in your life. To experience the power of the faith that is yours in Christ, you need to know what His Word reveals. When you believe God’s truth is “settled, established, stable, solid, firm, matured and complete in your life,” you know it is your final authority. It is your final truth. It is the end result. You receive it as your truth by faith.
Stop the doubt in your heart. It will keep you from receiving God’s truth. It’s your intentional choice to constantly renew your mind with His Word and stand on it. It’s your choice to believe without wavering (Romans 12:2, James 1:6-7) and put on the new life that Christ has given you (Ephesians 4:24).
When you are renewed in your mind with the Word and guard it as the final authority in your heart (Ephesians 4:23, Romans 12:2), you mature in the finished work of Christ. When you believe God’s Word in your heart, you receive its settled and final authority. You believe by faith the incorruptible seed of God’s final Word.
The enemy will come and try to steal God’s truth which has been sown in your heart. Perhaps, you once received God’s promise with joy and believed it for a while. But when tribulation came—either from circumstances or the opinions of others, you let go and doubted God’s final authority on your promise. The cares of life and the deceitfulness of riches choke out the Word and keep it from bringing forth the abundant life the Word promises. However, when you receive the seed of God’s Word in your heart and continually nurture it, you truly “hear” what the Word says and understand it. Then it “indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty” (Matthew 13:23).
Is the Word the settled and final authority in your life? Do you believe God’s truth? What has God’s truth birthed in your life? Not what you try to birth. Not what the world or the opinions of others try to birth. It’s His Word that births the fruit of His truth in your life. What has His truth birthed in you?
You have been born again, my friend in Christ, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever (1 Peter 1:23). His Word is the final authority in your life. It is His truth. It is mature and complete. The living and active Word of God transforms your life when you believe the Holy Spirit’s revelation of its truth above what you sense and experience.
God’s Word is settled. His promises are His final say. “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach)” (Romans 10:8). Seek to hear and believe God’s Word of faith in your heart. His faithfulness endures forever (Psalm 119:90). He accomplishes His Word (Psalm 119:90). Hold fast the confession of your hope without wavering, for He who promised, is faithful (Hebrews 10:23).
God’s final Word is Grace.
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