GOD’S
WORD STANDS FOREVER
BREAD
8 “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our
God stands forever.”
Isaiah 40:8 (NIV)
17 “Do not think that I have come
to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to
fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not
the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear
from the Law until everything is accomplished.” Matthew 5:17-18 (NIV)
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath;
the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and
its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my
righteousness will never fail. 7 “Hear
me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your hearts: Do
not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults. 8 For the moth will eat them up like a
garment; the worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last
forever, my salvation through all generations.”
9 Awake, awake! Clothe
yourself with strength, O arm of the LORD;
awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Isaiah
51:6-9 (NIV)
10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do
not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so
that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my
mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and
achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:10-11 (NIV)
89 Your word, O LORD,
is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. 90 Your
faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and
it endures. 91 Your laws endure to
this day, for all things serve you. Psalm 119:89-91
(NIV)
144 Your statutes are forever right; give me understanding that I may live. Psalm 119:144 (NIV)
21 “Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the
one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will
love him and show myself to him.” 22 Then
Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself
to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus
replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching.
My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These
words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. 25 All this I have
spoken while still with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send
in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have
said to you.” John
14:21-26 (NIV)
24 For, “All men are like grass, and all their glory is
like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25 but the word of the Lord stands
forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you. 1 Peter 1:24-25
(NIV)
12 For the word of God is living and active.
Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and
spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from
God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to
whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:12-13 (NIV)
BUTTER
“We may be certain
that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous
in our lives.” Charles
Spurgeon
“Jesus
told us in His Word that if we know the Truth, the Truth will set us free. Jesus came to set us free from bondage to sin
and death and God has given us His eternal Word to teach us the way. We are the losers if we neglect such a high
calling.” BHY
“As
we habitually hide God’s Word in our hearts, claim those special verses that
seem to have our names on them, ponder and picture them, and turn them into
unceasing praise and prayer, we will practice the presence of God – and He will
transform us into agents of audacious boldness for His gory.” Robert J. Morgan
“If you wish to know God, you must
know his Word. If you wish to perceive
His power,
you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.” C.H. Spurgeon
you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.” C.H. Spurgeon
“The Word of God well understood and religiously
obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages
to the exclusion of others.
Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.” A.W. Tozer
Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.” A.W. Tozer
“The rabbis spoke of the text being like a
gem with seventy faces, and each time you turn the gem, the light refracts
differently, giving you a reflection you haven’t seen before. And so we turn the text again and again
because we keep seeing things we missed before.
When you embrace the text as living and active, when you enter its story,
when you keep turning the gem, you never come to the end. Inspired words have a way of getting under
our skin and taking on a life of their own.
They work on us. We started out
reading them, but they end up reading us.” Rob Bell
“Herod wanted to be the king of his own life, but he really was a slave. He ended up being not the King of the Jews but the king of fools. Herod ended up on the ash heap of history like dictators before and after him, reminding us that those who live wicked lives eventually will reap what they sow. Adolf Hitler went into his bunker and shot himself as his nation crumbled around him. Saddam Hussein was found hiding in a hole and was eventually executed by his own people. Muammar Gaddafi was hunted down by his own people, beaten, and shot to death. All those who blaspheme God, fight with God, or try to stop the work of God eventually will fail. Yet God's Word ultimately will prevail.” Greg Laurie
“Immerse yourself in the Word of God. The more you know the mind of
God, the more you will begin to understand what He wants for your life. As you
pray for specific requests, always check them against Scripture. You can be
sure God's desires for you will never go against His Word. As you read God's
Word and study it, ask the Lord to give you a greater awareness of specific
promises that He wants you to pray about and believe. We must pray with praise
on our lips, a confession of our sin, and a petition that God will act in the
way that accomplishes His purposes and brings Him glory. Then, we must listen
very closely to what God may lead us to say or do. God uses individual people
to accomplish His purposes. Be willing to be used.” Michael
Youssef
“They can try to put the Bible out of business,
they can try to amputate bits of it, reinterpret it, belittle it, dismiss it,
or distance themselves from it — but it’s the very Word of God that breathed the
cosmos into this choreography of glory and His words on the page form an oxygen
for flame in the soul, in the bone, and it is what resuscitates the alienated
and the subordinated and the agitated and it breathes warm breath of relentless
resurrection into the dry bones of dying marriages.” Ann Voskamp
“Our hearts don't burn when we meet Jesus on
the road; our hearts burn when when we meet him in his Word.” Paige Benton Brown
“The
surest road to wisdom is not speculation, reasoning, or reading human books,
but meditation upon the Word of God. The readiest way to be spiritually rich in
heavenly knowledge is to dig in this mine of diamonds, to gather pearls from
this heavenly sea. When Jesus Himself sought to enrich others, He mined in the
quarry of Holy Scripture.” C. H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair
Begg
“And the only way to know the God of the Word
is to know the Word of God.” Donna
Evans
HEART
SAVOR
- · God’s Word is eternal – it stands firm in the heavens.
- · God’s Word is alive, powerful and effective judging the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
- · Jesus speaks to us through His Word. We are to prepare our hearts to hear from Him. Read with expectation.
