LET IT BE A MONTH OF DWELLING AND ABIDING IN THE LORD
It matters to know and stand in the Lord.
One that stands in the Lord abides in Jesus.
Abide is to continue in a relationship yielding with submission to God.
To abide in Jesus is the command of God that demands from all, not just from acclaimed believers in God.
The word of God is worthy to stand in it.
The word of God identifies that God magnified His word above all His name. (Psalm 138:2)
The challenges of the time demand knowing to stand in the word of God, to live life for the glory of God.
To stand in the word of God is to abide in His word.
“Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.” (John 8:31)
Claiming to be a believer and not abide in Him is ceremonial religion.
A failure to abide in Him is a passage to living life in darkness.
Jesus said, “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.” (John 12:46)
The word of God is not a story but a secret to engaging not to live a life of waste.
Pray to abide in the word of God.
Think of it for a moment, does your way of life demonstrate the word of Jesus?
Failure to abide in Jesus is the evidence of pride which is the agent of failure.
Know to know God to abide in Him.
What does it mean to abide in Jesus?
1 John 3:24 records answers to the above question, “Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this, we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.”
To keep the commands of God is to love.
Galatians 5:14 admonishes all, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 13:8 also states, “Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
To fear, to love God is living life by the word of God, abiding in Him.
What happens when one does not abide in Him?
A choice not to abide in the light consciously or unconsciously is to walk in the darkness.
God is light.
John 1:1-5 records the message, “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”
Those who do not abide in Him are rebellious and do not know the ways of God to set themselves for destruction.
Job 24:13 records, “There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways nor abide in its paths.”
Jesus is the wisdom from God to all that will give themselves to the word of God, the wisdom from God.
Do not give ears to hearing the rebukes of life.
It is worthy to walk away from places whose conversation (relationship, discussion) will kill faith.
Avoid continual listening to the conversation that prompts not giving self to the word of God, not to abide in the word of God.
A failure to abide in Him is a choice to the passage of living life in darkness.
In John 12:46, Jesus said, “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.”
It is not possible to be answering as an acclaimed believer and be full of darkness.
To be full of darkness is abiding in darkness.
Come out of the darkness of the world to settle yourself in the word of God.
With desire, continually abide in God to become one that dwells in the word of God.
Abide to dwell in the word of God.
It is safe to abide in the word of God, the presence of God.
Psalm 91:1-4 records, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust. Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings, you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.”
The wisdom of God is His word.
The wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of one that gives self to dwell and abide in the word of God.
The grace and mercy of God have brought you this far.
The grace and mercy of God is the privilege not to abuse by not giving self to dwell and abide in the secret place of God, the word of God.
Ask for wisdom and knowledge to gain stability in time.
Let it be your portion to abide and dwell in the word of God.