The Word Stands

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"Now the Word of the LORD endures forever."    1 Peter 1:25. NKJV

Peter was quoting Isaiah 40:8 here and letting us know that we need to abide by its teaching. We can never water it down. It stands forever. What God has said, He means and He isn't about to change His mind. It is time to live holy lives; to live up to our calling. We need to love people the way Jesus commanded us to. Not in a half-hearted fashion but with a genuine, caring love - the kind that Jesus has for us.

Hypocrisy has to go, as well as envy, deceit and evil speaking. As babes in Jesus, we started on the milk - the milk of His Word. We now need to get into and abide by, the meat - the full Word of God which is our spiritual food.

People over the past centuries have tried to stop Christianity. They've burned bibles and had men and women of God burnt at the stake or murdered in some other evil manner. Today, throughout various parts of the world, men and women are in prison for their Christian faith. They suffer terribly and some are killed and a lot of families are forbidden to read the bible, go to a church or even hold prayer meetings in their homes. Even in our own country, people are facing dismissal from their job because of their faith. I read today of a Christian GP who may be struck off because He spoke to patients about Jesus. 
It's beyond belief in our day and age, but it is true.

The thing this, these people who are out to purge Christianity from our world can try, but they won't succeed because Jesus Christ is bigger and more powerful than they ever could be. His Word will endure forever.

Maybe God has told you something special. It may be a promise about your future or perhaps your family. If it hasn't happened yet, don't give up. It will happen. If God has said it, it will happen. Read and stand on the following two verses in Habakkuk 2:

'Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, it will not tarry.'   (Habakkuk 2:2-3)

If God has told you something that is going to happen with you, believe Him and wait. It's going to come. I don't know when but I do know that it will happen. Stand on this Word from God and pray the promise. The Word of the LORD endures forever!

People may let you down; the world may let you down, sadly, even family may let you down but God is faithful. He will never let you down. He is faithful and can be relied on. Nothing can stop Jesus from fulfilling His Word. Nothing can stop Him from taking you out of where you are and into something or somewhere else if He chooses to. He has a key and when He opens the door, no one, not even yourself, can close it. (Revelation 3:7-8.)

Stand on His Word, the Word that endures forever!

Copyright 2019 Grahame Howard

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