MANIFESTED GLORY 31

Trusting the Word of God in Crisis

Pastor Sally Snow – 7/26/20

I. TRUSTING THE WORD

1. The Word of God is proven!

Proven: demonstrated by evidence to be true or existing; tried and tested; found to be true

2 Sam 22:31-33 NKJV As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. 32 "For who is God, except the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? 33 God is my strength and power, And He makes my way perfect.

Ps 9:10 NKJV And those who know Your name will put their trust in You

Jehovah – Self existent eternal God who is revealing Himself!

Jehovah Rapha – The Lord my Healer

The Good Shepherd

The Door of the sheep

Adoni – the Lord

Way, Truth, and the life

Light of the World

My Helper

Waymaker

Miracle worker

Promise Keeper

Light in the Darkness

The Secret Place

Covenant Keeper!

A Carpenter

A Holy King

Mighty God; Everlasting Father; Prince of Peace; King of Kings and the Lord of Lords

Immanuel – God is with us!

Fairest of 10,000

El Shaddai – All Powerful All Mighty God

Protector

Rock

Savior

Deliverer

Messiah

True Vine and the Vine dresser!

Balm in Gilead

The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost!

Lord of Hosts

Lord strong and mighty

The Lord mighty in Battle

God of the Angel armies

Lilly of the valley

Rose of Sharon

He is the Oil and the Wine

Bread of Life

The Living Word

Water of the word

Elohim – My Strong Creator

Jehovah Jireh – The Lord my Provider

Jehovah Rapha – The Lord my Healer

Jehovah Nissi – My Banner of Victory!

Jehovah Tsidkenu – The Lord my Righteousness

Jehovah M’keddish – The Lord my Sanctification

Jehavah Shalom – The Lord my Peace and Prosperity

Jehovah Shammah – the Lord Who is Present!

Jehovah Gumelua – The God of Recompense

Lion of the Tribe of Judah

And the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world!

Ancient of Days

The Son of God

Redeemer

The Great I AM

JESUS

And He is CALLED… the Word of God!

1. His name is called the Word of God.

John 1:1-3 NKJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

John 1:14 NKJV And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

2. We can trust the Word of God because His word is truth and will never end.

John 17:17 NKJV Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

Num 23:19 NKJV "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?

Matt 24:35 NKJV Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

Ps 138:2 NKJV For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.

Mal 3:6 NKJV "For I am the Lord, I do not change…”

Heb 13:8 NKJV Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

3. The Word gives me patience, comfort, and hope!

Rom 15:4 NKJV For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

4. The Word of God is alive and powerful.

Heb 4:12 NKJV For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

MSG God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon's scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. 13 Nothing and no one is impervious to God's Word. We can't get away from it — no matter what.

Rom 1:16 NKJV For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes

Rom 10:17 NKJV So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Matt 4:4 NKJV 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'"

5. When I become a doer of the word it has the power to strengthen me for the crisis.

Matt 7:24-25 NKJV "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:  25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

6. The Word is our armor and the sword of the Spirit.

Eph 6:12 Protecting power! Proactive Power!

Helmet of salvation

2 Cor 5:17 NKJV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Breastplate of righteousness

2 Cor 5:21 NKJV For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Belt of Truth

John 8:32 NKJV And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Feet Shod

1 Cor 15:3-4 NKJV …Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures…

Shield of faith

Prov 30:5 NKJV Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.

MSG "Every promise of God proves true; He protects everyone who runs to him for help.

How did Jesus quench the fiery darts?

It is written - Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God!

It is written - you shall not put the Lord your God to a foolish test!

It is written - that you shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve!

The Sword of the Spirit – which is the Word of God!

7. The word makes us fully equipped for serving Him!

2 Tim 3:16-17 NKJV All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

8. Angels respond to the Word of God in crisis!

Ps 103:20 NKJV Bless the Lord, you His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word.

9. God cannot and will not ever break His word or promises!

Heb 6:13-18 MSG When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. 14 He said, "I promise that I'll bless you with everything I have — bless and bless and bless!" 15 Abraham stuck it out and got everything that had been promised to him. 16 When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they'll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. 17 When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee —   18 God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable.

Isa 55:11 NKJV So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Ps 107:20 NKJV He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.

10. His word promises that He will keep me in crisis.

Isa 43:1-3 NKJV "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. 3 For I am the Lord your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior

Ps 68:20 NLT Our God is a God who saves! The Sovereign Lord rescues us from death.

Matt 6:31-34 NKJV "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'  32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.  33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.  34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matt 6:11 NKJV Give us this day our daily bread.

11. Absolute trust in His promise and His faithfulness to bring it to pass will cause me to receive it!

Heb 11:11-12 NKJV By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude — innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

Rom 4:18-21 MSG When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made the father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!" 19 Abraham didn't focus on his own impotence and say, "It's hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child." Nor did he survey Sarah's decades of infertility and give up. 20 He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, 21 sure that God would make good on what he had said.

Ps 61:2 NKJV When my heart is overwhelmed; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Habakkuk 3:19 AMP The Lord God is my strength, my personal bravery, and my invincible army. He makes my feet like hinds feet and will make me to walk, not to stand still in terror but to walk and make spiritual progress upon my high places of trouble, suffering, and responsibility.

Isa 26:3 NKJV You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You Because he trusts in You.