Declaring the Faithfulness of God

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Declaring the Faithfulness of God

7-29-2012

1 Corinthians 1:4  I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus,  5  that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge,  6  even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,  7  so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,  8  who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.  9  God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

GOD IS FAITHFUL!  It is the faithfulness of God that can be counted on!  What is it that you can count on in a world of chaos?  Those who have come into the kingdom of God can rest in His faithfulness!  We have been enriched by Him in everything!  His divine power has given us everything we need for the issue of life!  It is safe to put absolute trust in our faithful God.  You don’t have to have a backup plan just in case God fails; God can not fail and He will confirm you to the end! What a awesome promise that our God will present us blameless and irreproachable in His sight.

Hebrews 6:16  For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.  17  Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath,  18  that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.  19  This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,

God made a determination, He wanted the heirs of promise to have strong unwavering hope and certain expectation that God was able willing and ready to bring them salvation!  God spoke it and made an oath that it was true!  God can not lie and he spent the greatest commodity in heaven or earth to give you and I an anchor for our soul.  God’s oath sent the blood of His Son Jesus to be applied to the mercy seat in heaven.  God’s greatest commodity spent so you and I can trust in His faithfulness!

1 Corinthians 10:13  No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

God’s intent and purpose is fulfilled by His faithfulness.  His faithfulness will allow you to escape the greatest of all temptation.  Is there a temptation so strong that you can not escape it??  Whose report shall you believe.  Put it in your mouth “No temptation can overtake me my God has made a way of escape”.   Many believer’s fail for no other reason than they are not counting the faithfulness of God in their lives.  I dare you to put the word in your mouth “My God is FAITHFUL!”

2 Corinthians 1:18  But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No.  … :20  For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. 

God is faithful and His promises are Yes, and in Him Amen to the glory of God.  Put this word on your lips instead of the complaint.  Some have not experienced deliverance because the mouth has been filled with complaint.  God is FAITHFUL!  We use to sing a song “Standing On The Promises Of God”  One line in that song I kept speaking for a season.  “By the living Word of God I shall prevail. I’m standing on the promises of God”.  God brought me out and through the affliction!

Psalms 36:5  Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.  :6  Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Here food for your mouth!  God, Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds! 

Psalms 37:3  Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 

We can feed on the faithfulness of God.  It can bring joy in our sorrow and strength in our pain!  Put the faithfulness of God in your mouth in your weakest hour and it can turn everything around.  At the writing of these sermon notes, this past Friday my grandmother passed away after a long illness; it was hard on her and all of our family.  God put a word in my mouth and I have been speaking it to all who will listen!

Psalms 116:15  Precious in the sight of the LORD Is the death of His saints.

In these last few days God has brought me comfort in this one little verse!  It was a precious thing to God to bring my grandmother to her heavenly home!  To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.  Yes, some sorrow in my heart but great is the joy of my grandma’s promotion to glory.  It is in my mouth and even at this moment it is brings joy to my soul!   “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints!”

Psalm 89:1  I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations.

Put it in your mouth saint of God plant it in the heavens and the foundations will be laid in the earth.  Declare God is faithful!

Psalms 89:2  For I have said, "Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens."

Spiritual warfare is being done when we declare the faithfulness and mercy of God!

Psalms 89:8  O LORD God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

Those who walk in relationship with God can’t help but find His faithfulness.  God is so great that there is an atmosphere of faithfulness we the believer can partake in.

Psalm 92:1  It is good to give thanks to the LORD, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;  2  To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, And Your faithfulness every night,

We are called to declare the faithfulness of  God!  Putting His word in our mouth is not an event in our life; His word in our mouth is a lifestyle that causes us to partake in victory!

Lamentations 3:22  Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.  23  They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 

24  "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I hope in Him!"  25  The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him.  26  It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD.

Put in your mouth the compassions of God fail not!  Speak it to God!  “Great is Your faithfulness.”  When your eyes are upon the faithfulness of God you have the strength to declare “The LORD is my portion; therefore I hope in Him!”  Nothing is impossible with God look at His faithfulness!

Romans 4:19  And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.  20  He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,  21  and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

Abraham looked to the faithfulness of God.  He did no consider deadness of his own body nor the deadness of Sarah’s womb.  When your eyes are on the faithfulness of God it does not consider the deadness of the circumstances.  It only considers the possibilities of the promises of God.  Have faith in your God.  God is able to move beyond the impossible circumstances of your life.  Will you believe the report of the Lord and consider His faithfulness?

Hebrews 11:11  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.

Count your God as faithful!  When Sarah made a judgment that God was faithful who had made the promise it brought strength to her dead womb and she had strength to conceive seed and she bore the child of promise!  Declare His faithfulness; you serve a living God!