TRUTH IS THE WORD OF GOD

What is the truth? That’s the question Pilate asked Jesus and we always go and say you must speak the truth and that only the truth will set you free. The truth, however is not that I am sitting here, the truth is that I am making disciples, the truth is that I am teaching the Word of God.

The truth can either be what you say or what you act. The truth is the spoken Word of God or the acts of the Word. Anything that is not the Word is not truth. When a person doesn’t live according to the Word of God, he is living a lie. When it says the truth will set you free, it means the Word will set you free, so the only truth is the Word of God.

The truth is not that I am wearing black. The truth is what you decern in the spirit, what I am wearing in the spirit. The truth is the Word of God. An act of the Word is the truth. A lie is anything that is not the Word when a person lives not according to the Word, they are liars.

It says “if anyone says he has not sinned he is making God to be a liar”(see 1 John 1:10) but in what sense because the Bible says “all man have sinned and fall short of glory”(see Romans 3:23) when a person says I have not sinned you are saying this verse is a lie.

[John 17:17]

The truth is the Word of God. The truth is not that today you went to work, what will determine whether there was truth today in whatever that you are doing is if you were working as though you work for the Lord.

The truth is not the reality we see, it is not what we know. We always validate things by what we know or what we have been taught and the validation is not the guarantee or a stamp of the truth — nothing can prove the truth.

Sanctification is not only purification but it is being set apart, dedicated and chosen.

[Hebrews 11:1]

We are not Christians if we do not hope. No one can please the Lord without faith, if you want to please the Lord you must live by faith. Any person who exercises faith pleases the Lord. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God (see Romans 10:17), so the truth is the Word of God and hearing the truth makes you to live by faith.

I gave you two definitions; the first definition is that truth is the Word of God. The second one is that faith is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

[Exodus 14:13]

I am showing you another kind of faith. Israel just left Egypt and the Egyptians were chasing them. When they were chasing them, they were afraid and then Moses comes and exercises and speaking out of faith saying “do not be afraid be still and know that the Egyptians you see now you will see them no more”, we call that faith because Egyptians are there, and they can see them but this kind of faith he is exercising is of assurance (surety).

[1 Samuel 17:45-46]

This is still the very same faith that Moses exercised. David’s faith is like “you are going to die” he is not even saying if I get victorious. This is the faith that we exercise. Let me show you another faith that Christians run away from. The faith that goes hand in hand with the Word, with the truth. This is the faith that Christians don’t want. People want to mature in faith in the way that when they speak things must happen now and if it doesn’t happen, they say it is failed faith.

The faith that we know as Christians is the one that says, there is no way, this will happen. Moses said that and David said that and between these two faiths the other faith was for the matured and the other faith for the baby. The Moses faith was for babies, it was to give them courage. The faith of David was for the matured, a man after God’s heart — he knew that definitely it was going to happen so that the Lord of hosts may be known.

[Daniel 3:16-18]

I call this radical faith. Many of you feel like if you put “if” in your faith then it’s not faith. I want to show this kind of faith that Christians lack today, that this generation lack. I believe this is radical faith, they say “we know that God will deliver us”— they are having faith, but they say “if not we will still not serve other gods” and remember, they are saying these words while the men who were escorting them to the fire got burnt.

They Definitely know that this fire is burning, it was so hot that those who were near got burnt too. Faith plus the truth. The truth is not the fire, the truth is that the Word requires them not to bow down to other gods that is the truth. When faith seems like it’s failing, do we still stand for the truth (the Word)?

[Esther 4:15-16]

Esther comes and says I will go and appear before the king but if the king doesn’t raise the sceptre of approval for me to be in his presence it means I am going to die but that doesn’t mean I am going to back down but let’s pray. Esther was trying to protect and stand for her people, the nation of God.

She’s going by faith. She is exercising faith, meaning she is not going empty handed, she is going with spiritual battles believing that her people will be saved by the Lord. This is the faith I want this generation to have. The faith that says we are aware of the negative side of it, we are aware of the consequences, we are aware that it might not work.

We try so much to erase the negativity, but we don’t know that in actual fact the negativity is the one that should make us stand for it because we are for the truth.

The Word of God (Truth) to Esther is that God will not harm His children and when we pray, He will answer. She says even though it doesn’t go her way she will still go and exercise her faith.

Many of us want to have faith in what we know works, we don’t want to have faith in the truth. You can believe in something because it works. Believing is knowing. If someone is sick and we pray for that person and they get healed, we know it works and that there is an anointing in the house to heal the sick, with the next person it becomes easy — we just exercise it and heal the person.

However,  what if you know that this person will not get healed, but you still say I am going to pray for them for healing. It’s something else knowing that HIV doesn’t get healed. It’s something else knowing that God might not heal them, but you still pray for them either way.

It is hard for people to believe in immortality because there is no one immortal and that is why people are afraid of confessing, living and teaching immortality because in our day and age we don’t have anyone who is an evidence of that. Do we exercise, act on things and confess because it’s the truth or because it works?

It is easy for people to believe in resurrection than immortality because in immortality we need to see the evidence of it now, here. There is the kind of faith of “we know I will chop you and you are going to die you Philistine” but there is also the kind of faith that even though He might not save us we will not serve other gods.

These are the kind of saints that are needed in this day and age, that even though I might die but I will still preach immortality. Even though I might get sick, even though it happens that death comes to me I will preach immortality. Who enters even though you know that they might get disappointed? Who prays for the sick even though they know that they might not get healed?

Christians no longer have that boldness and courage because we only stand for what we know will work that is why before someone can pray for someone who is sick, they are waiting to have a vision of that person getting healed.

[Psalms 23:1-4]

Number one “I will fear no evil, for you are with me” the truth is the Word, the Word that God will not forsake him. The reason that David fears no evil is because the Lord is with him, not because there is life. Will you still not fear even though you do not see the evidence of life, he is in the shadow of death, there is no evidence of life there or guarantee of survival, but he fears no evil because the Lord is with him and His rod comforts and guides him.

We have faith only where we know it will work but when we see that everything around us says it doesn’t work, we say this is not faith and faith did not achieve there.

Exercising the Word is the truth, the results are not the actual truth. The healing is not the truth, the truth is that by His stripes we are healed(see Isaiah 53:5) , not healing is the truth. Even though sickness is there the scripture is still true. The Word is not validated by our results. When there are results of miracles, signs and wonders in our lives it’s not validation of the Word.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God (see John 1:1) without any miracle and sign. When Jesus Christ left, He kept on saying believe in My commandment (see John 14:15) meaning believe in the Word. The command is the Word the commandments is the law.

We believe in the Word and when we believe in the Word faith hasn’t failed. Faith is not successful when there are results. Faith is successful when the Word is exercised because faith comes by hearing the Word of God. It doesn’t say faith comes by the Word coming alive. When we hear the Word of God, we have faith.

When you pray for someone who is sick, and they don’t get healed it doesn’t mean faith has failed but the Word has been exercised “Go lay hands”. So, get what Esther and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were saying in the book of Daniel that we know that God will save us but even though He doesn’t save us we will not bow down to other gods because bowing down to other gods it’s a lie it’s not the truth.

The truth is that we shall not serve any other foreign god, we are not having faith because we are going out of fire without being burned, we are having faith because we will not bow down to other gods. This is another level of faith I am showing you, faith that is linked to the truth.

One can have faith that is outside the Word, that’s why even witchdoctors have faith, but the source of this faith is not the Word of God. The truth is that there shall be a generation that will not die. The truth is that when you believe you will not die. The truth is that when you groan you will be further clothed, so results are not the truth.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word is God, and nothing was made without the Word. The truth is the Word of God not what the Word has made. What the Word has made is not the truth, but the truth is the Word of God. God in His existence and in His description, He is in the Word not His creation.

You read Genesis, God said let there be so what He created is not the truth, but the truth is what existed without everything being made. If we believe in the Word in that extent, our faith will be unstoppable because our faith will be birthed and sourced by the truth not results.

Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego are saying even if we can burn, the truth will still be, “we shall not bow down to other gods.” So, results do not define God. Results are not the truth; the Word is the truth. We usually validate what is of God by results not by the Word and we do not realise that results can be imitated. When the Bible says he masquerades himself as an angel of light (see 2 Corinthians 11:14), an angel of light is creation the Word is not creation, but the Word is the creator. He can imitate creation, but he can’t imitate the creator.

It doesn’t say he musquarades himself as God he can’t. The devil can be the counterfeit of creation not the creator. That is why he can come and quote scriptures but not the Word because the Word is the truth not scriptures. When it says the truth will set you free (see John 8:32) it means the Word will set you free nothing else.

In failing moments many stop believing or their belief fades aways because their faith rests on results not on the Word. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God, so when the Word of God fades away, faith will also fade away no matter the results. Many said how is it that Jesus Christ was left by people who saw the dead being raised, who saw the healings, who saw the deliverance, how is it that they left Jesus? It is because their faith was sourced by results, not the Word.

When Jesus left the disciples, He said to them if you keep My commandments not the results of healing the sick, raising Lazarus, delivering. The commandment is the one that keeps you one with the Father not the results of the Word.

Where does your faith rest? If your faith rest in results, when God ceases results you will stop believing, you will fade away as results are no longer evident. Who follows Jesus when He no longer heals the sick? Who follows Jesus when He can’t save Himself from the cross? Who follows Jesus when He can’t exercise power but only speaks the Word?

Throughout these three years He exercised power, He taught them; He exercised the Word and power but there was where power had to cease and only the Word had to be spoken.

When He was on the cross, He didn’t exercise the power to save the thieves from death, but He said in paradise surely I will be with you(see Luke 23:43) surely we will die but I shall give you the Word — “forgive them Lord for they do not know what they are doing” (see Luke 23:34) so, He exercised the Word not power. When He was on the cross, they sought power while He gave them the Word.

There is time where power must not prove that you are the son of God but the Word. There is time in you as a Christian only the Word must validate you as a son of God not power, not signs and wonders yes there is time signs and wonders must validate you as a son.

Signs, wonders and demonstration are a prove of what you teach and the Word you believe in but there is a time where power must cease being demonstrated and exercised because only the Word must be.

When He was on the cross, He did not take the thieves down, death had to do its course in the presence of life, in the presence of a Saviour. There is a time where poverty must take place in the presence of a rich man. There is a time where lack must take place in the presence of a prosperous man. There is a time where sickness must do its course in the body of a man who has stripes which we are healed with.

Sickness is not the evidence of the absence of healing, it is not the evidence or prove that healing is not there. Death is not prove that life is not there. Poverty is not prove that prosperity is not there. One can be prosperous yet lack. One can be full of healing but yet sick. One can be immortal but yet they die.

These negative things are not prove that the other doesn’t exist.

[Habakkuk 3:17-19]

Even when things do not go well my joy will still be there. The reason is saying this is because these things which are not going well in them they were not proving or not bringing joy. What makes us testify is when we get healed, get jobs, business breakthroughs, it’s not the Lord being with us that makes us testify. And when those things cease you find a Christian without a testimony.

Everyday of your life should be a life with a testimony because the Lord is still with you not because things are happening in your life. So, faith resting on results is still not faith from the Lord. When you see results you become encouraged not receive faith. Results encourage you they don’t give you faith. The Word of God brings faith.

[John 8:31-32]

These are believing Jews, but they lack something. Being a Christian doesn’t mean you have it. The deliverance that Christians need is the deliverance to live out of the Word. This is the bondage that an unbeliever can never have, a bondage that a Christian has is living out of the Word.

He says believing Jews, they believe but they are in bondage and their bondage is because they do not live in the Word. It’s says if you keep My Word, you are My disciples indeed.

The minute it says indeed it means you have been validated now. You are a disciple but are you a disciple indeed by believing you are a disciple but the minute the Word lives in you, you speak the Word, you exercise the Word, you act on the Word, you have faith because of the Word not results then you are validated as a son of God. The bondage that Christians have which an unbeliever can never have because an unbeliever doesn’t believe is living outside the Word.

[1 Corinthians 10:12-13]

You know what temptation is above you, think of anything that is above the Word and that will be the temptation that is above you. When He says He will not tempt you with what is above you, meaning you will not conquer temptation because of abilities that you have attained you conquer temptations because of the Word you have the Word which is the truth.

When we stand, we stand in the truth not in abilities because when we stand in abilities it means we are lying. If there is something that will be above the Word, it will never come to you, but we know that nothing can be above the Word. We know that we can be tempted with all things, but the Word will always conquer, the truth will always conquer.

Your faith, your reliance or your confidence must rest upon the Word not your abilities. We stand in the truth; we do not stand in what we are able to do or capable of doing. Our faith needs to be in the truth and the truth is the Word of God and the truth is one that sets us free. Anything that is not of the Word that’s not where our faith must rest. Our way of escape is the Word, the truth.

[Colossians 2:8]

Do you realize that many people move from one philosophy to another. A way of man is another way of tradition what must set you free and build your faith, is not the way of man but the Word.

Moving from one philosophy to another, moving from one way of doing things to another without the Word you have not yet been set free, only the truth will set you free not what man conclude.

Your faith must rest on the truth not on ways of man. Basic principles of the world work for people, I have seen where things of the world work.

Living outside the parameters of the Word is living a life of a lie. A liar is any person who practices that which is not truth (the Word). We are going to preach immortality not because we are immortal but because it’s the truth. We are going to speak healing and teach healing and heal sick not because we are healthy but because the Word of God, the truth is that by His stripes we are healed and when we lay hands people get healed.

When we see something outside the parameters of the Word, we need to rebuke it and bring it back to the truth. Somethings go out of the control because they starting to become lies. How do you live in the truth you must rebuke everything that is a lie. Do not pray against hunger because you are hungry, the truth is “I have never seen forsaken nor their children begging for bread” (see Psalms 37:25) your pray must not be motivated by hunger that’s not faith.

That is why a person who doesn’t have the Word of God doesn’t know how to exercise faith. It is important to read the Word of God and meditate on the Word of God and be taught every day because in our everyday life the Word of God covers everything. When you pray; pray according to the Word not your situation.

[Galatians 5:1]

Bondage is when you believe because of what you see or something that is outside the parameters of the Word. Do you have faith because you saw someone getting healed, it’s going to fade away since healing is the one that brought it then sickness can take it away. When Jesus died on the cross many stopped believing because they believed in the resurrection of Lazarus not because of the Word.

‘Do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage’(see Galatians 5:1) do not go back believing again because of results. Do not go back and have faith because of results, have faith because of the Word of God. We need to reach a standard where we believe in the Word of God even when things do not go well.

The faith that says we are not going to bow down to any gods even if we can burn, meaning if we can burn and still have a high chance of surviving even when we go out there, we will still not bow down to any other gods because the truth is that God is the only true God.

Can we believe in immortality like that, immortality is not determined by less people dying, no. Immortality is the truth of God. This generation needs to raise up and believe in the Word of God, not in the results.

Believe in what is spoken in that way our confession should be “we shall live and not die”(see Psalms

118:17)and even if it happens that I die at least I died believing in the truth and the Word. Therefore because of that you are definitely free and not in bondage.

The message of God has set you free.

Your father through the Gospel

The Revivalist, Abraham Unknown

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