The Lord Is Faithful and True

 

REVELATION 19:11

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He does judge and make war.

    HIS FAITHFULNESS

He Keeps His Promises

Psalm 96:12-13

Let the fields exult, and all that is in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, for He is coming—He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:22-23

It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

2 Timothy 2:13

if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

    HIS TRUTH

He speaks Truth because He IS Truth

John 14:6

Jesus saith unto him, I am The Way, The Truth and The Life: no man comes to The Father, but by Me.

John 1:14

 And the Word was made 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.

Numbers 23:19 (Balaam's response to Balak) 

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

    Every promise of God will be fulfilled. Whether to bless the faithful or judge the faithless. There are over 400 prophecies in The Old Testament concerning The One Whom God would send to deliver His people and reign as King. Just as the prophecies are several years apart, so, too, are the promises of God. It hasn't even been 2000 years since Christ, but we're getting close. Still His Name is proclaimed to the nations. Still He saves the sinner seeking His grace and mercy. Still The Holy Spirit is poured out upon they whom The Lord God has chosen to receive Him. 

    The promises of God are many and ALL will be fulfilled at some point in time. When King Jesus returns, according to the detail available in this verse, His Authority will be evident (the white horse - purity). He is not coming for a party, but for war. War against the people who chose not to follow Him and who remain after the event in which His people had been "caught up in the air" (1 Thessalonians 4:17); and after the dead in Christ have risen (1 Thessalonians 4:16). 

    His Name is Faithful (unwavering adherence to the truth, steadfast {committed,  unswerving, unyielding}) and True (in accordance with fact, reality; verifiable, accurate). He is Judge and Jury, for He will war against the unfaithful with His Righteousness: the divine approval of God. 

    So very thankful that this Righteousness covers me. See, it's nothing that I accomplished. But it's through my faith on, my belief in, The Only Name Under Heaven by Which We Must Be Saved, through JESUS CHRIST The Only Begotten Son of God, that I am made approved by God to be God's child. 

    His Righteousness is the spiritual garment I wear. I clothed myself in His Righteousness when I repented of my sins and turned away from a living a sinful life to living a holy life. It's not a perfect life, but a lifetime of small achievements in grace which make me holy. In His Righteousness is where I live. I became a  child of God through God's grace ( Galatians 3:25-27; John 1:12). 

    If you are not already in His Righteousness, it's not too late. As long as you have breath in your body, there's still time to place your faith in Christ Jesus. For the day is fast approaching when the decision to choose wisely will no longer be yours to make; for death will have snatched your soul and the opportunity to choose Christ will be gone from you for ever. 

SPEAK LIFE - TobyMac

JESUS HAVE IT ALL - Jeremy Riddle

NO OTHER NAME BUT JESUS - Victory House Worship

A Crucified Life - - Answers The Call to Serve Faithfully

 

    2 Chronicles 19:9

He commanded them, saying, "You must Serve Faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of The LORD."

    As stated in yesterday's study, God requires wholehearted service. But He also requires of us faithfulness. Many of us long to hear those precious words someday, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." (Matthew 25:21). 

    To serve faithfully is to be steadfast. 

1 Corinthians 15:58

"Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."

Steadfast: morally fixed; firmly, securely positioned; not given to fluctuation (does not pay heed to lesser doctrines; is not doubleminded {James 1:8})

    To serve God faithfully is to serve with fidelity. His Name is Jealous and He desires to be first in our lives: in our hearts, in our thoughts, in our desires. As a husband and wife demand fidelity in the marriage, so, too does God demand it in His relationship with His people. It is faithfulness in every aspect of service to The LORD.

Galatians 5:22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith."

    When we love with the Love of The LORD, we love wholeheartedly. When we serve in the Love of The LORD, we serve faithfully. Let us then serve The LORD with every part of us that we may receive such a blessing as the servant who invested the master's wealth and doubled it. Let us bless The LORD with our talents and our gifts that He would receive the glory and honor from them. 

CALLED TO SERVE FAITHFULLY 

Faithful Now - Vertical Worship

Find Me Faithful - The Perrys

Faithful - Ryan Stevenson

Belong To You - Here Be Lions

Walk By Faith - Jeremy Camp

My God Is All I Need - CityAlight

Guard Your Heart - - Guard Your Marriage

 

Malachi 2:15

Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. 

*Strong's Ex. Conc. No. 898

Break Faith: to deal treacherously with, betray, deceive

From the Hebrew word 'bagad' (pronounced baw-gad'): to be unfaithful, to depart.

    Before the flood the sons of God, the men who followed God, turned from God's ways and God's Word to go after the daughters of men, men who worshiped gods they had created. They polluted themselves and their worship was unacceptable to God. They brought destruction on themselves and their families by bringing idolatry into their tents, their homes. 

    They were unfaithful to both God and to their wives. For it is God who ordains the marriage covenant having set it up from the beginning. God created Adam. Then from Adam God created Eve. This joined them together: bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh. Created from a rib near Adam's heart was Eve. Her he would love forever. He loved her so much he disobeyed God when he, too, ate from the forbidden tree. He was unfaithful to God and by disobeying God, Adam was unfaithful to Eve, as well. Who knows how God would have reacted had it been only Eve who disobeyed. 

    We, as God's peculiar people, set apart for Himself, set apart in His love by His love, are to be faithful to God, to His Word in His Spirit. We, the born again believers, the church, the saved Gentiles and the saved Jews, are created in Christ to be the bride of the bridegroom. And in this union we are to create godly offspring: by our witness and our testimony other people will hear the Word we speak, see the works which we do, and glorify God by coming into this union as well. What a miracle of Life that is! Life Eternal. 

    Unfaithfulness begins in the eye. Genesis 6:2 "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." Men of God, men who were serving the Lord, took their eyes off of the God who chose them to be His people and turned their eyes to women who served created gods, gods created by their fathers; they married them and had children with them. They broke faith with the God of their people and whored themselves out to the gods of other people. 

    As God's people, faithfulness is required of us. In our hearts, in our homes/families, in our churches/sanctuaries we are to honor God. We are meant to be different from the world, separated from the way in which the world works (1 Peter 2:9). We are created to worship God and Him only (Exodus 20:1-6). We worship with our hearts, with our spirit, with our bodies (Romans 12:1, 2). 

    Our eyes are to be focused on His Word. Our ears are to be open to His voice. Our hands are to do His work. Our feet are to walk in His way. Our hearts are to be filled with His love, to operate in the Love of God: forgiving even when forgiveness is not asked for or seems to be beyond the scope of forgiveness: for we who know we have been forgiven much by our God must genuinely forgive those who have sinned against us. 

    We worship God with everything we have within us for HE IS OUR GOD and there is no room for any other in our hearts. The LORD joys over His people with singing (Zephaniah 3:17). The LORD delights in the people who fear (revere) Him. We take refuge in The LORD GOD (Psalm 91:1, 2). 

    Psalm 128 tells us that a man who fears the Lord will be blessed in honoring and loving his wife. Their children will be many and the LORD will bless them from Zion, from the hill of His sanctuary, from the mountain of blessings God will bless the man who fears Him and remains faithful in his heart and his life to his God and his wife. 

    Let our eyes not wander, nor our hearts, that we may be found of the LORD in His Word, walking in the Way of Holiness and living a righteous life in His Spirit. 

LET THIS HEART NOT WANDER by Young Oceans

MADE FOR JESUS by John Mark Pantana

I AM YOUR BELOVED by Jonathan David Helser, Melissa Helser

MY REFUGE by Rivers & Robots

IN YOUR MIDST by Allie Paige

ABIDE IN ME by Andrew Marcus

    

Thanks Be To God - - For Answering His Faithful People

 

Psalm 17:5, 6

5. My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped. 

6. I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.

Strong's Ex. Conc. No. 8605

Prayer: intercession (praying for people to be aligned with God's will), supplication (praying for a specific need)

THE PATH OF THE FAITHFUL

~IS WELL LIT

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Proverbs 6:23

For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

~IS OLD

This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

~IS GOOD

1 Kings 8:35, 36

35. When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

36. then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.

~IS STRAIGHT

Psalm 5:8

Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.

~IS LIFE

Psalm 16:11

You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

~IS HOLY

Isaiah 35:8

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

~IS NARROW

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it.

PEOPLE OF PRAYER

WE ARE GOD'S DWELLINGPLACE/HOUSE/HOME

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them, and will walk among them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people."

Exodus 25:8

And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

Leviticus 26:12

I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.

Jeremiah 31:1

"At that time," declares the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people."

John 14:23

Jesus replied, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

PRAY FOR OURSELVES

Psalm 119:10

With all my heart I have sought You, [inquiring of You and longing for You]; Do not let me wander from Your commandments [neither through ignorance nor by willful disobedience]. 

Psalm 119:45

I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.

Psalm 143:1

A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in Thy faithfulness answer me, and in Thy righteousness.

Psalm 31:1

In You, O LORD, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.

PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

James 5:15, 16

15. And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

16. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

PRAY FOR THOSE IN PLACES OF AUTHORITY

1 Timothy 2:1, 2

1. First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be offered for everyone—

2. for kings and all those in authority—so that we may lead tranquil and quiet lives in all godliness and dignity.

Jeremiah 29:7

Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper."

PRAY FOR ENEMIES

Matthew 5:43-45

43. You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’

44. But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

45. that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Luke 6:28

Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.

GOD'S HOUSE

1 Corinthians 6:19

19. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 

20. You were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Mark 11:17

Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ ”

Isaiah 56:7

I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.

THE GOD WHO HEARS

Psalm 4:3

Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for Himself; the LORD hears when I call to Him.

Psalm 3:4

To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah

Psalm 6:9

The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.

Psalm 34:15

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry.

Dear God,

My God, my Father, clean out my heart and make me holy. Remove all unrighteousness from my heart, that I might live. I, too, would like to hear the words from you, saying, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." Please help to walk the old path of Your testimony and Your Word: guide my steps and light the path wherein I am walking.

You are my Strength and my Refuge: Hide me in You. You are my Song and I love to sing Your praise. Strengthen my resolve and help me to stand upright in Your Word, neither wavering or doubting You, nor bending in the vanity of philosophies and theories. 

As these days draw to a close, keep Your people near, ever leading, ever guiding us, revealing Yourself every step of the Way in which we walk. You are my God and I am Your child. Let me not be found lacking in anything that You have desired for me.

And, Lord, thank You for saving, and filling, and being the Strength of, our children, our siblings, our parents and our friends; for saving, and filling, and Strengthening the strangers, the foreigners, among us. Thank You for opening the eyes of our enemies to the glories and wonders of Your grace. Save them, fill them with Your Spirit and Strengthen them in these last hours. Pour out Your Holy Spirit even more so upon our persecutors, tormentors, mockers and captors. Give them dreams and visions of Your mercy and grace. Keep calling them all to repentance and redemption through Your Son. For the conductor is giving his last call and the train is about to depart. 

In Jesus' Precious Name, I pray,

Amen

HOUSE OF PRAYER by Eddie James

BREATHE by Eddie James

LET US PRAY by Steven Curtis Chapman

Arming The Spiritual Warrior -- Trust Your Commander

 1 Thessalonians 5:24

He who calls you is faithful; He will surely do it.

Strong's Ex. Conc. No. 4103

Faithful: reliable, trustworthy, can be relied on

*Strong's Ex. Conc. No. 982

Trust: (you, we, I) put trust in; have confidence in, rely

A faithful people must be called by a faithful God, a God who can be trusted, a God who cannot lie, a God who leads the way.

GOD IS FAITHFUL 

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

1 Corinthians 1:9

God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

2 Timothy 2:13

If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

TRUST IN GOD

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.

God Doesn't Lie

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

Hebrews 6:18

Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

God Keeps His Promises

Genesis 17:7

And I will establish My covenant between  Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto you, and to your seed after you.

Galatians 3:16

The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, "and to seeds," meaning many, but "and to your seed," meaning One, who is Christ.

God Knows Where He Leads Us

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

John 14:6

Jesus says to him, "I am The Way and The Truth and The Life. No one comes to the Father, but by Me."

Hebrews 11:16

Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

John 14:2

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

MUSTARD SEED FAITH

All we need is a tiny bit of faith, faith the size of a mustard seed, to believe and to follow God. And we need to act on that faith. 

Luke 17:6

And the Lord answered, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you."

Matthew 17:20

“Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

Mustard seed faith uproots trees and moves mountains. We just have to speak out our faith in God to see that He uproots the trees in our path, He moves the mountains that block our way. 

Mustard seed faith accomplishes in the spiritual realm what the heart believes and the faithful speak aloud. 

We pray for the impossible and God answers our prayers. We pray for the improbable to happen and God answers our prayers. We seek out God's Word to know our Leader better and see Him more clearly and hear His voice more softly. 

Mustard seed faith is strong faith. It may look tiny on the outside, but great things happen when we plant it in our spirits. It takes root. It grows. It buds, sprouts and rises above the dark places to spread its branches in the Sonlight, in the Day. Mustard seed faith multiplies a thousandfold. 

Matthew 13:31, 32

He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field. Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

Mustard seed faith sees souls saved, diseases shrivel up, bones healed, minds delivered and more. 

 

Faith, Trust, requires us to believe what we cannot see ahead of us. It is as if we walk blindfolded, but not blindly. For we know Whom we have believed and where He leads us we will follow. Faith requires us to be faithful to God. 

Let us place our trust in God that what He has promised He will do. Let us pray for His kingdom to increase. And let us answer the call He has placed on each of our lives to be saved, be filled and be of service in His kingdom. 

 

How to Pray

How To Pray

• Be spontaneous
• Be specific
• Ask the right way
• Pray with all your heart
• Pray continually

     Do you want your friends to practice conversations with you before you actually speak with each other? No? Then why would you do that when you speak with God?

     Clarify what or who you are asking God to do. If someone asks you for help and does not specify what they need help with, are you more or less likely to help them? 

     How would you respond to inbox messages that are demanding? Is insincere flattery going to cause you to respond quicker or slower or will you just ignore the question? God desires sincerity in prayers.

      Mean what you say when you say it to Him, but also make sure your heart is in the right place.

Repent of any sins you've committed, ask God's forgiveness and make a commitment to be more faithful in your testimony. In Isaiah 1:16 and 18 16 Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil ; 18 Come now , and let us reason together , saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. we are shown how to do this. 

     It is entirely possible to pray throughout our days and our nights. We start our day with a thankful heart that God has given us another day. The Holy Spirit reminds us to be watchful and so we pray for someone's illness, someone's desire to grow closer to God, someone's request for salvation and so on, and so on, throughout our day. Everyone has a need and there is never enough time to pray for individuals, so we group our requests. 

  

    I have a small square box on my desk. It is about 6-inches in diameter, is pink, and has images of perfume bottles on it. This is my prayer box. The Word of God says our prayers are as perfume to God, so I think this box is totally appropriate. In my prayer box, are lists of names, wallet size photos and requests. I have had it for several years now and it is not even full. I never empty it. I may not know until I get to heaven just how my prayers have impacted the people I pray for. Sometimes I just ask God to meet the needs of those people in my prayer box. I just lift up the box in prayer. There are hundreds of requests and I would not be able to list them all in prayer on an individual basis. Because the box sits on my desk in plain sight, I am able to lift them all up several times a day. And it is good.

     God is good. God is able. God is. 

     

     

     

Steven Wesley