God's Word -- FINAL AUTHORITY  by Gloria Copeland

   Making God's word Final authority is believing what the word says
instead of believing people, Satan or Circumstances. What God says
settles the issues of life as far as you are concerned. You believe
that you are what God says you are. You believe that you can do what
God says that you can do. You know that you have what God says is
yours. He is the authority in your life. Whatever God says to you in
His Word, you will do. You have confidence in your Father that He will
perform for you all that He says.

   Determine in your heart that God's word is to your advantage and
that you will act on His word in Faith, knowing that He is the God of
love. The word will ONLY become alive to you as you accept it as truth
and ACT upon it. Fearlessly commit yourself to the authority of God's
word. Make up your mind to walk by Faith and not by sight. Be ready to
act on God's word even when common sense says to do something else.
Common means ordinary. God's Word gets you out of the ordinary and puts
you into the supernatural realm of God's Power! Making God's word final
authority does not limit your life but makes all things possible to you.

   The scripture tell us of our God. "He is the Rock, His Work is
perfect; for all His ways are Law and Justice, a God of faithfullness,
without breach or deviation, just and right is He" (Deut. 32:4,
Amplified Bible). A God of faithfullness without breach or deviation!
What an assurance it is to have this in a day when men's hearts are
failing them because of fear.

   The world's order of things is unsure and indefinate. Desperate
words of uncertainty are crying out daily from radio, television,
newspapers. Even though to the natural eye everything around us seems
to be in turmoil, God has provided us with the power to take authority
over all these situations. The Jesus generation wants authority. The
"Now" generation has rebelled against the world's double standard.
"Because this is the way the Joneses do it" does not mean anything to
them. They don't care what the Joneses are doing. They just want
something to depend on that will relieve the pressures of life.

   God says "I am the Lord, I change Not"(Mal. 3:6) In the authority of
God's word there is certainty. The young people are flocking to hear
the authority of the word. They quickly realize that God has NO Double
standard. The word does not say one thing today and something else
tomorrow.

   Jesus Christ, The same yesterday, Today and forever, is a message
they are ready to hear. For the first time in their lives many are
finding that the Rock of the Word of God is the fail-safe in this Hour.
The word does not comprimise before them and neither do the Christians
who have made God's word final authority.

   They refuse the social religion that they have been handed in the
name of the Lord. Who could Blame them!!! It is full of holes and does
not work when you need it. For the most part it has been tradition and
more talk, with little action and few results. What God says changes
things. The Word Works.

   Psalm 112:6-8 says "SURELY HE SHALL NOT BE MOVED FOR EVER: THE
RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE IN EVERLASTING REMEMBERANCE. HE SHALL NOT BE AFRAID
OF EVIL TIDINGS:HIS HEART IS FIXED, TRUSTING IN THE LORD. HIS HEART IS
ESTABLISHED, HE SHALL NOT BE AFRAID, UNTIL HE SEES HIS DESIRE UPON HIS
ENEMIES."

   To any believer who puts God's Word first place in his life, Psalm
112 can be his anthem of victory in this hour!!!

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