Believe God for Yourself
Many times through the Bible the interpreters interpreted the word believe and the
word trust from the same Hebrew and Greek word.
The Bible dictionary says to believe is to place one’s trust in God’s truth; one who
takes God at His word and trust in Him for salvation. It means to give belief to.
Webster’s dictionary says trust is to rely on; to believe, to entrust, to have reliance.
Proverbs 3:5-10 says “trust in the Lord Yahweh with all your heart; and lean not to
your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct
your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear (reverence) the Lord Yahweh and
depart from evil. It shall be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones. Honor
the Lord Yahweh with your substance; and with the first fruits of all your increase.
So shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst out with new
wine”.
Lets look at Gideon – Gideon was hiding out trying to thresh wheat by the
winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. You see Israel had been disobedience
and they were delivered into the hand of the Midianites for seven years, and the
Midianites oppressed them greatly. They would wait for the Israelites to plan their
fields, and when their crop would come up, then the Midianites would come down
and destroy the increase of the earth and left no sustenance for Israel, neither
sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. Israel was impoverished because of the Midianites, and
the children of Israel cried to the Lord Yahweh. God sent the angel of the Lord to
Gideon (Judges 6:11-14) “and there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an
oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon
threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of
the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, the Lord Yahweh is with you, you mighty
man of valor. And Gideon said to him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord Yahweh be with us,
why then is all this befallen us? And where be all His miracles which our fathers
told us of, saying, did not the Lord Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? But now the
Lord Yahweh has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites”.
Gideon was doubtful at first, but Gideon said to Him, if now I have found grace in
Your sight, then show me a sign that You talk with me. Depart not from here; I pray
You, until I come to You and bring forth my present, and set it before You, and He
said, I will tarry until you come again”. Gideon made a sacrifice to the Lord
Yahweh. Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his
hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out
of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of
the Lord departed out of his sight. And when Gideon perceived that He was an
angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an
angel of the Lord face to face. And the Lord Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you;
fear not; you shall not die. Gideon was told that he would be used to delivery Israel
out of the hands of the Midianites. Gideon did set up two fleece for God, and then
he believed God and did as he was told. With only 300 men along with Gideon,
God gave them power to defeat the Midianites along with the Amalekites and all the
children of the east in multitude, and their camels were without number, as the
sand by the sea side for multitude.
Lets look at Hannah – Hannah was one of the wives of Elkanah, an Ephrathite, and
she had no children. She was teased by Peinnah, the other wife and mocked
because she had no children. The family would go up to Jerusalem year by year
for the feast, Hannah would weep, and did not eat. Her husband told her not to
weep, because he was better to her than ten children. He loved her. Hannah rose
up after they had eaten and went into the temple of the Lord Yahweh. She being in
bitterness of soul, prayed to the Lord Yahweh, and wept sore. And vowed a vow,
and said O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid,
and remember me, and not forget Your handmaid, but will give to Your handmaid a
man child, then I will give him to the Lord Yahweh all the days of his life, and there
shall no razor come upon his head. The priest Eli thought that she was drunk
because he saw her lips move, but her voice was not heard. And when he
confronted her, she told him that she was not drunk, but that she had poured out
her soul to the Lord Yahweh. Then Eli the priest answered her and blessed he
saying go in peace, and the God of Israel grant you your petition that you have
asked of Him. The next verse was amazing, it says that the woman went her way,
and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. In the natural, nothing
changed, but because she believed the word from God, her countenance
changed. And after the family went home, it says that Elkanah knew Hannah and
the Lord Yahweh remember her and she conceived. This is found in I Samuel
chapter 1.
The Shunemmite woman (see II Kings 4)– the Shunemmite woman perceived that
Elisha was a holy man of God as he passed by she constrained him to eat and
made a room for him in their house. She told her husband “let us make a little
chamber, I pray you, on the wall, and let us set for him there a bed, and a table,
and a stool, and a candlestick, and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall
turn in there. After awhile, he asked his servant to see what she would have him to
do for her? His servant told him that she had no child and her husband was old.
Elisha called her and told her that she would have a child. She did conceive and
bore a son, and one day the lad became sick, and his father brought him to his
wife, and the child died. So she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of
God, and shut the door. She told her husband that she was going to see the man
of God; and when her husband asked her why, she said “all is well”. As she
approached the man of God, his servant Gehazi asked her is it well with you? Is it
well with your husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, it is well. She
said to the man of God, did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, do not deceive
me? The mother of the child said, as the Lord Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives
I will not leave you, and he arose and followed her. When Elisha came to the
house, behold, the child was dead and laid upon his bed. He went in therefore,
and shut the door upon them two, and prayed to the Lord Yahweh. And the child
waxed warm and his soul returned to him. she believed that this was a man of God
and that he could do something, she refused to be grieved and she hung on to
seeing him restored, and he was.
Believers are those who have trusted God with their will as well as their mind. Paul
says in Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but
Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the
Son of God; who loved me, and gave Himself for me”.
Jesus tells His disciples after Peter called to remembrance that Jesus had spoken
to the fig tree, and it had dried up from the roots. And Jesus answered in Mark 11:
22-24 “and Jesus answering said to them, have faith in God. Some interpret it as
“have the God kind of faith”. For verily I say to you, that whosoever, shall say to
this mountain. Be you removed, and be you cast into the sea; and shall not doubt
in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass;
he shall have whatsoever he says. Therefore I say to you; what things so ever you
desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them”.
Many people have been taught that God does not heal anymore, that it ended with
the last disciple. Well first of all, the disciples have not ended, people are
becoming disciples day by day. The Bible tells us that God does not change.
People are still being healed today, because the believe they can be. Isaiah asks
the Lord Yahweh in Isaiah 53:1 “who has believed our report? And to whom is the
arm of the Lord Yahweh revealed”? We have make the Bible the final authority in
our lives. We have to find the word of God which comes against whatsoever
problems are in our lives and speak what God says, and see it come to pass.
I only showed you three examples, but are many more, all of them believed the
word of God and received the thing that they asked for. Jesus said “ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and you shall find, knock, and it shall be opened to you.
For everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks, finds, and to him that knocks,
it shall be opened” (Matthew 7:7-8).
The apostle John says something of the same in I John 5:14-15, it says “and this is
the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He
hears us. And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we
have the petitions that we desired of Him”. God’s will is God word.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: March 25, 2011
Many times through the Bible the interpreters interpreted the word believe and the
word trust from the same Hebrew and Greek word.
The Bible dictionary says to believe is to place one’s trust in God’s truth; one who
takes God at His word and trust in Him for salvation. It means to give belief to.
Webster’s dictionary says trust is to rely on; to believe, to entrust, to have reliance.
Proverbs 3:5-10 says “trust in the Lord Yahweh with all your heart; and lean not to
your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct
your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear (reverence) the Lord Yahweh and
depart from evil. It shall be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones. Honor
the Lord Yahweh with your substance; and with the first fruits of all your increase.
So shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst out with new
wine”.
Lets look at Gideon – Gideon was hiding out trying to thresh wheat by the
winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. You see Israel had been disobedience
and they were delivered into the hand of the Midianites for seven years, and the
Midianites oppressed them greatly. They would wait for the Israelites to plan their
fields, and when their crop would come up, then the Midianites would come down
and destroy the increase of the earth and left no sustenance for Israel, neither
sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. Israel was impoverished because of the Midianites, and
the children of Israel cried to the Lord Yahweh. God sent the angel of the Lord to
Gideon (Judges 6:11-14) “and there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an
oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon
threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of
the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, the Lord Yahweh is with you, you mighty
man of valor. And Gideon said to him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord Yahweh be with us,
why then is all this befallen us? And where be all His miracles which our fathers
told us of, saying, did not the Lord Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? But now the
Lord Yahweh has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites”.
Gideon was doubtful at first, but Gideon said to Him, if now I have found grace in
Your sight, then show me a sign that You talk with me. Depart not from here; I pray
You, until I come to You and bring forth my present, and set it before You, and He
said, I will tarry until you come again”. Gideon made a sacrifice to the Lord
Yahweh. Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his
hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out
of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of
the Lord departed out of his sight. And when Gideon perceived that He was an
angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an
angel of the Lord face to face. And the Lord Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you;
fear not; you shall not die. Gideon was told that he would be used to delivery Israel
out of the hands of the Midianites. Gideon did set up two fleece for God, and then
he believed God and did as he was told. With only 300 men along with Gideon,
God gave them power to defeat the Midianites along with the Amalekites and all the
children of the east in multitude, and their camels were without number, as the
sand by the sea side for multitude.
Lets look at Hannah – Hannah was one of the wives of Elkanah, an Ephrathite, and
she had no children. She was teased by Peinnah, the other wife and mocked
because she had no children. The family would go up to Jerusalem year by year
for the feast, Hannah would weep, and did not eat. Her husband told her not to
weep, because he was better to her than ten children. He loved her. Hannah rose
up after they had eaten and went into the temple of the Lord Yahweh. She being in
bitterness of soul, prayed to the Lord Yahweh, and wept sore. And vowed a vow,
and said O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid,
and remember me, and not forget Your handmaid, but will give to Your handmaid a
man child, then I will give him to the Lord Yahweh all the days of his life, and there
shall no razor come upon his head. The priest Eli thought that she was drunk
because he saw her lips move, but her voice was not heard. And when he
confronted her, she told him that she was not drunk, but that she had poured out
her soul to the Lord Yahweh. Then Eli the priest answered her and blessed he
saying go in peace, and the God of Israel grant you your petition that you have
asked of Him. The next verse was amazing, it says that the woman went her way,
and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. In the natural, nothing
changed, but because she believed the word from God, her countenance
changed. And after the family went home, it says that Elkanah knew Hannah and
the Lord Yahweh remember her and she conceived. This is found in I Samuel
chapter 1.
The Shunemmite woman (see II Kings 4)– the Shunemmite woman perceived that
Elisha was a holy man of God as he passed by she constrained him to eat and
made a room for him in their house. She told her husband “let us make a little
chamber, I pray you, on the wall, and let us set for him there a bed, and a table,
and a stool, and a candlestick, and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall
turn in there. After awhile, he asked his servant to see what she would have him to
do for her? His servant told him that she had no child and her husband was old.
Elisha called her and told her that she would have a child. She did conceive and
bore a son, and one day the lad became sick, and his father brought him to his
wife, and the child died. So she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of
God, and shut the door. She told her husband that she was going to see the man
of God; and when her husband asked her why, she said “all is well”. As she
approached the man of God, his servant Gehazi asked her is it well with you? Is it
well with your husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, it is well. She
said to the man of God, did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, do not deceive
me? The mother of the child said, as the Lord Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives
I will not leave you, and he arose and followed her. When Elisha came to the
house, behold, the child was dead and laid upon his bed. He went in therefore,
and shut the door upon them two, and prayed to the Lord Yahweh. And the child
waxed warm and his soul returned to him. she believed that this was a man of God
and that he could do something, she refused to be grieved and she hung on to
seeing him restored, and he was.
Believers are those who have trusted God with their will as well as their mind. Paul
says in Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but
Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the
Son of God; who loved me, and gave Himself for me”.
Jesus tells His disciples after Peter called to remembrance that Jesus had spoken
to the fig tree, and it had dried up from the roots. And Jesus answered in Mark 11:
22-24 “and Jesus answering said to them, have faith in God. Some interpret it as
“have the God kind of faith”. For verily I say to you, that whosoever, shall say to
this mountain. Be you removed, and be you cast into the sea; and shall not doubt
in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass;
he shall have whatsoever he says. Therefore I say to you; what things so ever you
desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them”.
Many people have been taught that God does not heal anymore, that it ended with
the last disciple. Well first of all, the disciples have not ended, people are
becoming disciples day by day. The Bible tells us that God does not change.
People are still being healed today, because the believe they can be. Isaiah asks
the Lord Yahweh in Isaiah 53:1 “who has believed our report? And to whom is the
arm of the Lord Yahweh revealed”? We have make the Bible the final authority in
our lives. We have to find the word of God which comes against whatsoever
problems are in our lives and speak what God says, and see it come to pass.
I only showed you three examples, but are many more, all of them believed the
word of God and received the thing that they asked for. Jesus said “ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and you shall find, knock, and it shall be opened to you.
For everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks, finds, and to him that knocks,
it shall be opened” (Matthew 7:7-8).
The apostle John says something of the same in I John 5:14-15, it says “and this is
the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He
hears us. And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we
have the petitions that we desired of Him”. God’s will is God word.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: March 25, 2011
