God's Word of Life and Health, Part 1

We make many choices every day of our lives. Over the next several days we are going to talk about the choices we make of what thoughts we choose to think, what words we choose to speak, and what actions we choose to take as a result of our thoughts and our words.

I choose to think on God’s Word, speak God’s Word and take action on God’s Word. I choose to believe God’s Word above what my physical senses tell me and what circumstances scream at me. I choose to place Jesus and His Word as the Lord of my life, above all earthly circumstances and cares and worries and anxieties. I choose to make God’s Word the final, supreme authority in my life.

Today we are going to look at Romans 10:6-8.
In verses 6-8 righteousness based on faith is speaking. Remember that righteousness is right standing with God, right relationship with Him because of Jesus and what He did for us on the cross and when He arose from the dead and ascended into Heaven.

What is righteousness saying? Don’t say this in your heart--------
Who will ascend into Heaven to bring Christ (The Anointed One and His anointing) down?
Who will descend into the deep, the abyss to bring Christ (The Anointed One and His anointing) up again from the dead?
Rather this is what you say in your heart-------------
You don’t have to look for Christ all over the place. He gave you His Anointed Word, full of His Life, full of His anointing, which is near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that is the word of faith, which is preached.
That if you will confess with your mouth
And believe in your heart
That God raised Jesus Christ from the dead,
Then you shall be saved.
We must remember that that word saved is the Greek word sozo which means deliver,
protect, heal, preserve, save, do well, be (make) whole

So righteousness is saying that if you will confess with your mouth that God has raised Jesus Christ from the dead and believe it in your heart, then you are delivered, protected, healed, preserved, saved, are made whole, do well. In other words, as you confess with your mouth what God says and believe it in your heart, this is your consequence: Deliverance, protection, healing, preservation, salvation, wellness, wholeness.

Righteousness is God speaking because we see in 1 Corinthians 1:30 that Christ Jesus Who is of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. Jesus is the righteousness of God and He has made you the righteousness of God.

You might say: Well, Kialeen, it isn’t working for me. Oh, yes, it is. The words of your mouth are working very effectively. You just said it wasn’t working, and it isn’t.

A “Word-of-God” speaking person has to be tough. In the fact of contradictory circumstances, you choose to stand up and say: This is what the Word of God says about my life and I choose to see it only that way. Regardless of what anyone else may think or say to you, the ultimate authority in your life is God and His Word. What does He say about it?

If you don’t know your Bible very well, if you spend little if any time in it, then how do you know what God is saying? You say you don’t have enough time for that. You have enough time to wait hours in the doctor’s office. You have enough time to wait in bank offices to figure out a loan. You have enough time to wait in the attorney’s office for bankruptcy. We could avoid many of those scenes if we made a quality decision to take time for God and His Word every day. I am in the same boat as you are—that quality decision is going to take some determination and effort on my part to do. Busyness is the main robber of all of us today.