Daily Word 29-10-2013 UNCHANGING GOD....... 2 Corinthians. 2:14(NIV) But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. “God always causes us to triumph in Christ “ is the same Word before you were up for that promotion as well as it was after you didn’t get the promotion! If you don’t get a raise,or get that contract; for example, that doesn’t change the immutability and infallibility of God’s holy written Word. God will take care of you whether the company you work for gives you a raise or not! God can open the door for a better situation than you ever thought possible! But it will be on His terms. In other words, you will have to cooperate with him and his Word so he can do it. MALACHI 3:6 For I am the Lord, I change not . . . . HEBREWS 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. MATTHEW 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my [Jesus’] words shall not pass away. 1 PETER 1:24–25 (NIV) . . . the grass withers and the flowers fall,-25 but the word of the Lord stands for ever . . . . ”The Word of God is forever settled! It is not subject to change! God’s Word is his power unto salvation—or whatever it is you need—if you will believe it (see Rom. 1:16). Yesterday We looked at Habakkuk 3:18 in the New International Version. Now let’s look at that verse in the King James Version: “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” When trouble comes and looks as if it’s there to stay, you don’t have to despair or be discouraged. You don’t have to fold your hands and quit. You can rejoice in the Lord, the God of your salvation. God has provided salvation for us, both spiritually and naturally. Because of Jesus, we have eternal salvation, or eternal life. We are saved spiritually from eternal death and separation from God. The salvation He has provided also includes our safety, preservation, deliverance, wholeness, and soundness in the natural. Some people want to spiritualize everything. I thank God for spiritual blessings, but I live in a natural world. We have to live and function in this world. Jesus said that we who are his are in this world, yet we’re not of this world (John 17:14). We don’t have to live as the world lives, wringing our hands in despair when tests and trials arise. We have “inside information”—information inside the Word of God! We can lift our hands and rejoice in the face of tests and trials. Rejoice about what? About the God of our salvation!The reason people waver in their emotions, depending on whether things are good or bad, is because they have nothing to stabilize their lives. Either they have no salvation—they haven’t received the salvation that God has provided for them—or they don’t understand their salvation.God is our salvation! He is our stabilizer! Yet when we face tests and trials, instead of rejoicing in God and allowing him to stabilize us, we often begin to question him. Some people allow those questions to cause them to fall away from God and the church. FURTHER STUDY: Psalms 23 WORD CONFESSION: Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death; I shall fear no evil . For thy rod thy staff they comfort me.
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