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It’s true. In church, we’ve nodded our heads up and down and said, “Yes, Amen. God’s Word is true.” Then we walked outside and came face to face with sickness or some other kind of problem and we challenged the truth of the Word of God with our thoughts, our words and our actions. We followed the course of fear instead of simply expecting God to do what He said He would do for us. Some people would say, “Well, it’s not that I thought God was lying. It’s just that we can never really know what He is going to do.” Yes we can! God has told us what He is going to do! He’s literally given us His Word on it. Hebrews 6:16-18 puts it this way: “...An oath for confirmation is to [men] an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.” This simply means that men make pledges or contracts in order to settle disputes. In them responsibilities are clearly defined and obligations made. As long as everyone is true to their word, there’s no room for questioning what anyone will do. Well, God gave us His contract. He is true to His Word so there is no room for uncertainty about it. God will do what He said He will do. You can count on it. It Isn’t Enough to Remember “But Terri, what about those times when things didn’t turn out like the Word says?” I can tell you this: If something failed, it wasn’t the Word of God. Romans 3:3-4 says: “What if some did not believe and were without faith? Does their lack of faith and their faithlessness nullify and make ineffective and void the faithfulness of God and His fidelity [to His Word]? By no means! Let God be found true though every human being is false and a liar...” ("Amplified Bible, Classic Edition"). Everything that has to do with men, everything in this natural world, is subject to change, but the Word of God is not. The Word of God is true even when everything else around you is telling you otherwise. But notice the verse says you must let God be true in your life. To do so, you must settle forever in your heart and mind, there is no fault in God. There’s no shadow of turning in Him. There’s no weakness or shortcoming in His Word. You will never catch God in a lie. You will never get in a situation where you exercise faith in God’s Word and God fails to keep that Word. Never! The Bible says that God is active and alert, watching over His Word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12). Understand, however, that it’s not enough just to know what the Word says. It must be reality to you—more real than the problem you face. I faced the truth of that statement not too long ago. Even though I’ve experienced His healing power many times in my life, a couple of years ago, I found myself in a serious situation where the health of my children was concerned. I was receiving one bad report after another. Over a long period of time, simple runny noses had become serious diagnoses. Finally, I had to sit down and ask myself, Do you believe that Jesus bore your children’s sicknesses and carried their diseases? I had to answer, No. I know it happened, but I don’t believe it. Then I said to myself, Well, you’re going to! And I got my Bible out and meditated on 1 Peter 2:24 that says: By His stripes we were healed. I chose to believe that God cannot lie, that His Word is true regardless of what my circumstances are telling me. In my mind, I pictured Jesus on the cross with Jeremy and Aubrey’s sicknesses. I also saw Him come out of the grave victorious over those sicknesses and then giving that victory to us. I did that for two hours. Two hours. Big deal! Yet those two hours changed the course of my children’s health. * * * * article concludes on p. 14 * * * * * BVOV : 13

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