Faith Bible Study Guide
Now friends, this is very important: If we want to walk by faith, the Word must be superior to every-thing else and anything else. The Word must be superior to any knowledge, whether that knowledge is ours or someone else’s knowledge.
We must also remember this, that when we trust God with all of our hearts, there comes a quietness and a peace into our spirits. Hebrews 4:3 says, “For we which have believed do ENTER INTO REST….”
For example, when God says in His Word, “… my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19), then we just simply know in our spirits that everything we need will be supplied, and we don’t worry. We have no anxiety. If we’re worrying, if we have anxiety, then we’re not believing. Our hearts take courage as we read the Word. As we meditate in the Word, our assurance and confidence becomes deeper.
This assurance in our spirits is independent of our human reasoning or of human knowledge. That assurance may contradict human reasoning; it may even contradict physical evidence, but to believe God with your heart means to believe apart from your body or mind anyway. I practiced this as a Baptist boy and as a Full Gospel preacher and it worked. God’s Word works for you whoever you are.
I remember one night after church when I was a pastor, I had turned the lights out at the side door of my church and instead of going down the steps, I just jumped down the steps and landed in the yard.
When I jumped, I landed in a rut in the ground, and when I did, I turned my ankle, and I fell to the ground in pain. In fact, my ankle popped like a gun going off and I just knew I had broken it. When I got up, I couldn’t put that foot down on the ground. I couldn’t walk on it at all, so I hopped over to the parsonage on one foot.
My wife said, “What’s the matter?”
And I answered, “I guess I broke my ankle. I jumped out there into a rut and is it ever hurting!” I could see that the ankle was swollen, but I didn’t