Trusting The Word By: Dr. Pete Norris

When you meditate on that Word, when that Word becomes a source of your life, you'll start seeing the blessings in favor of God coming in your life. The blessings in favor of God, meditating on that Word, He said you'll make your way of prospers, and then you'll have good success. How many of you want good success? How many of you want those to be prospers? Then He's telling you what to do. Meditate upon this Word. Put it in your Word. Listen to it. Listen to it. Listen to it. Until you're so consumed with it, that nothing else matters. Welcome to Power in the Word. Many times we hear people say, "I trust you," but do we really? Likewise, do we trust in God's Word? Well, today, Dr. Narsh shows us in the Word of God the need to trust the truth of God's Word, and how it unlocks the blessings of God. It's a powerful teaching, so you stay with us and be encouraged. We want to talk about learning how to trust the Word. How can I trust the Word to be the deciding factor and not make other discussions? I want us to get away from something that I want you to look at me really good and really hear me out, because I really believe that we're so much involved in this theology of heaven and hell that we're missing the real truth of the revelation that Christ brought heaven down to earth. And heaven's living inside of us now, and it's not a thesis of where we're going to heaven or hell. It's a matter of life and death and functioning on this earth and walking in the kingdom of God, because the Bible said in Luke 1721, "low here, low there for the kingdoms inside of us."

So I think there's so many people preaching this message of heaven and hell, and I'm not against that. What I'm trying to get you to see is that once we get born again, that's not an option anymore. Now we need to function on to earth in the same way Jesus function on the earth. He was not just about going to heaven all the time. Matter of fact, he didn't have order calls and get people saved. He preached the truth of the Word of God and brought the message of truth and power and authority, and then what did he do? He healed the sick. He raised the dead. But here's what he preached after, now listen to me carefully, after he resurrected and come back, he didn't do one miracle, because it was illegal for him to function and do miracles on the earth without a body. So he come back and what did he preach for those 40 days? The kingdom of God, and he preached the kingdom everywhere he went. What is the kingdom? Healing is a part of the kingdom, power is a part of the kingdom, prosperity is a part of the kingdom, favor and blessings and healing and miracles are a part of the kingdom. All the gifts are a part of the kingdom. The kingdom needs to be functioning on the earth and we need to get away from them. I'm so tired of getting letters and here's what they say. Pastor God needs to get us out of here. Guys come on, we're here to make a difference. I'm not wanting to get out of here right now. Why? Because I'm not finished. We got a work to do here in the body of Christ and it's not about heaven and hell, it's about death and life are in the power of your tongue, right? Proverbs 18, 21, death and life are in the power of your tongue. Deuteronomy 30, 30 and 18 says choose blessings, choose curses and blessings and curses and

what happens? Choose life and what happens? It'll come upon your descendants and your children for years and years and years. You know, God's God is doing some good stuff and his word works, but we've got to apply this word to our lives. Faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by what? The Word of God. This faith, the substance of things, heaven is the things not seen. So once you see it, it's no longer faith. So go meet a third John chapter one and everybody knows his scripture, but we're going to trust the Word, right? Whatever's going on in your body, maybe you're dealing with sickness or maybe you're dealing with some mental issues or maybe you're dealing with some things in your body or your finances, whatever it may be, I want you to find the scripture and meditate on that scripture over and over until it gets so embedded in your spirit that there's never another option. My dad used to tell me all the time and he wasn't even a Christian. He said, son, if you've got a second option, your first one ain't no good. So think about it in a minute. What's your options? See, the church opens up options. They don't really believe the Word of God is a siding factor because if the Word of God is a siding factor, there's no second option. Well, I'm going to pray for God and he's going to bless me financially, but I got a credit card if he don't come through, that's your option. Because the first one was never no good, right? Think about it in a minute. He said, beloved, I pray that you may prosper in what? I mean, how do you know who wants you to prosper in all things? I mean, how do you know who wants you to prosper in all things? Not just financially, but in health and wealth and favor and blessings and joy and peace.

He wants you to prosper in all things. "I want you to prosper and be in health." Now, how many of you know the Jewish custom is when they said shalom, that means health and wealth and peace, right? So what did Jesus say? Go in what? Peace. So he was saying, go in shalom, go in wealth, go in health, go in peace. Now, watch this. I pray that you prosper in all things. Now, how many of you are prospering in all things? Amen. If you're prospering in all things, then the manifestation of that prosperity is gonna show up in your life. He's not just talking about financially here. He's about prospering in your relationship with your children. He's about prospering in a relationship with your family, prospering in a relationship with people. You can see, listen to me. There's so many church people can't even talk to people. You're not prospering, you're lonely, 'cause everybody needs people. Amen? So he said, "Beloved, I pray that you might prosper "in all things and be in health just as your..." Now, I wanna stop right here because this word is Suki here. And he's talking about your mind, your willing emotions.

How many of you know that your head is determining factor of your health? How many of you know your head is your determining factor of your wealth? So your head, well, that's why I said, "Be not conformed to this world, "but be transformed by the renewing of your mind "in Romans 12 and 2." Now, think just a minute. If he said renew your mind, that's what means at one time you had a perfect mind. I'll stay with me, George. Now, listen to me very carefully. If I renew a magazine's description, that means I had the magazine's description at one time. So when Adam fell in the garden, he lost his mind. So Jesus came along and gave me and you the Holy Spirit to teach us all things and bring the mind of Christ back. First Corinthians two and 16, you and I have the mind of Christ. But the Bible says in the second Corinthians four and four, the God of this world blinded the minds of them that believe not. Not just talking about unbelievers there, he's talking about our minds not being renewed with the Word of God to where we think the way God thinks. Our thoughts need to be his thoughts. We'll pass your, wait a minute. The Bible says in Isaiah 55 and 11, that our thoughts are not his thoughts.

Well, if you read three scriptures up, he's talking about unbelievers there. Oh, come on, somebody, you need to read the book. And if you get that book inside of you, that thing will manifest in your life. It don't have a choice but to come forth in your life. So he said, my beloved brother, I pray that you might prosper in all things and be in health, even as your suki prospers. So your mind is the determining factor of where you're gonna go. Your spirit is a done deal, but your mind, your willing emotions is what you're dealing with. And your flesh is gonna activate what you think. You're never gonna rise above your thinking process. Bible says in Proverbs 23, seven, whatsoever man thinketh in his heart, that's exactly what he is. What are you? He said that in Ephesus that you and I were chosen in the beloved before the foundation of the world. We were made excepted in him. So before we ever got here, we were already right. Come on, somebody. See, we're not ready for this kind of thing because we have an in hell bound. We're not ready for the truth of who we really are on this earth. We're some kind of something,

not because of us, but because of him. He came that you might have life and have life more abundantly, John 10 10, more money, I like to amplify it. Overflung with a brother to enjoy in the goodness of God. What do you tell us in Timothy? Enjoy the blessings I've given you. Guys, think about it in a minute. What's your mind thinking? You're exactly living where you're thinking. You're never gonna rise above it. So the word is not deciding factor. 'Cause the word's always truth. John 17, 17, the word of God's truth. So we know the word God is truth. What did you say in John 14, six? I'm the way the truth of life. There's no way to the Father except through me. So the word of God is deciding factor of what you're gonna do in your life. Now watch this, let's go on here. Let's read verse three. "But for I rejoice greatly when brother and king "and testified of the truth that is in you." Is the truth in you? Now I'm gonna make a statement that a older man told me one time and I've never forgotten it. He said, "Son, you know why people can't believe the Bible?"

And I said, "No," he said, "cause they lie so much." I never thought about that, but that's a lot of truth in that. If we don't tell the truth, then it's hard for believe that anybody else ever tells the truth. And you got to remember, somebody tells a lot of lies. They gotta have a pretty good memory. (audience laughing) All right, think about it a minute. The truth that is in you, just as you walk in that truth. See, it's one thing to have it here. It's another thing to have it here. 'Cause when the truth is here, the truth is gonna manifest and the options are gonna be removed. I want you to see verse four. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in, truth. Now, remember what he said in two? My beloved brother, we should love all the things, your prosper being held even as your suki prospers. So he's telling us he wants you to prosper, Now think about it, man, are you walking in truth? What do you base your decisions on? Your ability or his word? So if you base your life on his word, which you said you did when you got recreated, now go to 1 Corinthians 4 and verse 15.

For though you might have 10,000 instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus have I begotten you through the gospel. Now Paul is telling here, for in Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the gospel. In other words, I brought you in because of my father to you. See, we don't understand our relationship with God. The book of Malachi, the last verse I believe it is, he said he's gonna restore the father to the son and the son to the father. We don't, God has never been a father to anybody until the New Testament. And we've read, we've read John 14, six, so many times we don't get it. I'm the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the, not God, but the father through him. Think about it a minute. So Jesus has opened up a father-son relationship with me and you. And because he's opened that father-son relationship, he's our daddy. That's why the Bible said in Galatians, our spirit cries out, "Abba Father." Now think about it a minute. He put the spirit in you just doing the crime. Oh my Lord, oh my Lord. See, we're not ready, we're not ready for the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit that he put inside of us is gonna teach us all things

and the Holy Spirit he put inside us is gonna cry out for his daddy. That's why he said you're gonna benefit. Listen to me very carefully. That's why the oneness of God is the perfection of God that God in us are one. And until we understand that theology, we're never gonna walk in, we're gonna be trying to get into heaven 'cause we're wanting to make sure we catch the bus. We don't know that we're walking as God's little jeez on this earth with God in one. That's why Colossians two and nine said, "We're the God head in bodily." Verse 10 says, "And we're complete in him." See, we're absolutely perfected in Christ because we're absolutely pure and holy and upright. Nothing can ever change that. So when we understand that we're one with him, then we're not gonna be concerned about all this stuff that's around us. And so Paul said, "I've begotten you to the Father "through the gospel." What is the gospel? The good news of grace. And God's marvelous grace. Why is grace just come alive in the body of Christ? It has it, there's nothing new under the sun. But why is it being preached so much now? Remember back in the '50s and '60s

when the healing came along with Oral Roberts and AAL and all these Jack Coe and all these guys that were preaching this message of healing and miraculous things were taking place. And in the '60s, the faith thing came along with Hagen and Copeland. And then in the '70s and '80s, the charismatic thing came along. And then in the early 1900s, the baptism of the Holy Spirit came along out in California and Zoos Street. And all of a sudden now we're in the 2000s is what's going on. Now, grace is manifesting and it's showing up. What is the manifestation of all things? That's why we got to understand and listen to me very carefully. We've got to learn that the message of God is not changed and the message is sacred, but the method isn't. Think about it a minute. Think about what God's doing. How is your life changed in the last two years? Your life changes based on this word. Now, the word of God don't change. But in an amazing, as we begin to grow into things of God, 'cause if you look at Paul's life, Paul didn't preach the same message at the end of his life. He preached in the beginning of his life because Paul got revelation.

And revelation brings enlightenment. Now, what did he say in Ephesians 1? He said, "I pray that they may be enlightened with revelation, knowledge of the truth or who they are and what's inside of them." Now, isn't it amazing that 5,000, 6,000 years prior, Paul said a scripture that was gonna be answered and reflected in today, that he was praying 6,000 years ago, just revealed to him, I'm not praying anything special, but I just revealed to him what's inside of him. Man, if we could only establish what's inside of us, man, we would illuminate and we'd be gluing in the dark. Because what's inside of us is greater than what's opposing us, but so we don't live from the inside out. We live based on feelings from the outside in and we don't reflect the revelation of who we are. Listen, listen, the devil knows who you are. You just ain't discovered a chat. Look at somebody say, "I'm some kind of something." Look at verse 16, "Therefore I urge you." Paul said, "I urge you guys, imitate me." This is Paul talking, Paul said, "I urge you, imitate me." Now, when we see a therefore, what we need to do, find out what is there for. So when you see Paul said, "You can imitate me, imitate me." Now think about that just a minute. Here's Paul, he thought he was preaching to the real gospel before when he was saw,

when he was persecuting the church, he thought he was right. But he had an enlightenment. He was riding whatever he was riding, and he had an enlightenment. And the light began to shine down on him, and then all of a sudden he was blind for three days, and he fascinated four days. You know the story. And then all of a sudden they sent this, and he made them out of knives, which means grace. And he laid his hands on him, and his eyes were opened and he saw the truth, and then he went off for 17 years. But he knew a man, he knew a man 14 years ago, and the body out of the body, I'm not real sure what first Corinthians 12. He knew a man in the body out of the body, I'm not real sure. He said, "I knew that man at one time, "I don't know that man now." Oh, come on somebody, we didn't even preach that right. He said, "I knew a man 14 years ago, "but that ain't the man that's standing here before you now. "Now you can imitate me 'cause I've discovered "some of the things on the inside." You imagine how hard it was for Paul, preaching the message that he was preaching, and nobody ever preached it. But he had an encounter.

And people say, "Well, he went to heaven "and had an encounter." I think heaven came to him. And to heaven came to him, and he had an encounter. You and I got the same encounter on the other side of us, 'cause we're full of heaven. Jesus brought heaven down to earth, that's why he prayed in Matthew chapter six, verse 10. My father, which art in heaven, how would be that name, Dachinim come? That we'll be done on earth as it is in heaven. In other words, heaven came down and engulfed us. We're not going to heaven. We captivated heaven. We're living in heaven. We're walking in heaven. Heaven's not a place we're going to. Heaven's a place we've become. We are some kind of something. It ain't about heaven and hell. It's about who we are in Christ. Let's go on here. Paul said, "I urge you to imitate me." For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son of the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ as I teach everywhere in every church. He said I'm going to send Timothy to you and he'll look just like me.

He'll remind you who I am. Let me ask you something. When you get out in the world or you're a reflection of me, that's what Paul said. I'm just reading the book. Paul said you can imitate me, but I'm going to send Timothy to you because he's my faithful son in the Lord and he'll remind you of my ways in Christ as I teach everywhere in the church. He said I can't be in every place at one time, but I'm going to send Timothy to you and he's going to remind you who we are in Christ. If you notice, that's all Paul preached. Paul was trying to get the Corinthians and the churches to understand who they were and what was on the inside of them. Paul didn't understand it, but after that encounter Matthew, and the first Corinthians 12, he encountered who he was. 'Cause Paul didn't go right to preach, you know, like I did. He went off for three years and the Bible said he went to where? Arabia for three years. And then he had an encounter 14 years ago. So it was about 17 years after Paul was called before he ever done anything. But here's what I'm telling you.

God's got a plan for you. And what's on the inside of you is not crying out for heaven, that your head crying out for heaven because your inside of you knows that you're in it. And we can't separate the internal from the external because we don't know which one's talking. Now go and meet a first Corinthians, chapter 11, and Paul's going to say this again. Emitate me. Emitate me. Just as I also imitate Christ. Now think about that remark from Paul. You can imitate me 'cause I'm imitating Christ. I look just like Christ. I wanna tell you something today. You look just like Christ. But see, you base it on works and Paul based it on relationship. The moment you accepted Christ, 'cause he accepted you way before you accepted him, and then Paul said I've learned that what I've been trying to apprehend had already apprehended me. Paul understood that his behavior was not based, 'cause I never forget one day Paul said this, I was reading, and Paul said in Corinthians, "I've wronged nobody." I thought you lied. Think about it a minute.

Paul got up before everybody and said, "I've wronged nobody." He got up before the Corinthians. He said, "I've wronged nobody." Because he discovered who he was. I got a message for you. You've wronged nobody. I'ma got another message for you. You don't have a past. 'Cause the old man died. And the recreated man is a new creation, and old things are passed away, and everything's become new. There's never been a species like us. That's why we're heavenly beings operating in a mentality of kind of earth real, because we don't understand that heaven came down and created us. Oh, somebody. Think about it. So it's not a mentality of them going to heaven and hell. How many of you heard that Joe live? If you die today, you're going to heaven or hell. It's all the two places you got. Well, before I got recreated, I knew where I was going. Is it possible where you are, where you're looking to go, but you haven't understood that you're there?" Think about it. Let's go to John 17, 17, sanctify them by your truth.

Your word is truth. Now listen to me, I'm not going to get into a conflict here at any moment. If you go to the doctor and he tells you got this, this, and this, that may be a fact, but it's not truth, because the only thing that is truth is what the Word of God says. And if the Word of God didn't say it, it didn't truth. If Trump said it, it's still not truth, okay? If God said it, it's truth, but it may not be truth to you. And see, here's the struggle in the body of Christ, it's the truth, and we'll tell people in our head it's truth, but until it eliminates every other option you have, it's not truth to you. Remember what Simeon said when he held the baby up? He said, "I've seen the blessed one," and immediately he said, "Now I can leave the temple." Why? Because something has come to replace the law and the high priesthood, and here's the high priest. In other words, he basically said, if you go look at the Greek word, he said, "I'm holding the kingdom." It's the fulfillment of the kingdom. So now the law is going to change, and when the law changes, then the priests change. So the Levitical priesthood, that's what the law represented, and the Levitical priesthood is where the priests came out of, right, the high priest. But once the law changed, the priesthood had to change. When the high priest came out of the Judea priesthood, who was that? Jesus. Think about it. So everything changed. Now as long as the priest was good, the nation was good. Your priest is good. So your nation's good.

I tell you, your nation's good. Come on, somebody. You stop based on what the economy does, it's not based on the New York Stock Exchange, it's not based on what gold and silver's doing, precious metals, it's not based on the word of God. And the word of God says, you're a highly blessed and highly favored. Go through the scriptures. You're a highly blessed, highly blessed, highly favored. Amen? Turn to someone and say, "I'm highly favored." Go meet Psalms 119, verse 4, 142. Watch this. Your righteous is an everlasting righteous. Your law is truth. And this is not talking about the 10 commandments here, it's talking about the law of God, right? The law of Christ. So the law, the word of God, is truth. So my righteousness isn't everlasting righteousness. Are you ready for this? You can't lose it because you didn't get it. That's why I said Corinthians 5, 21 said, him and you know sin, became sin, that you and I might become the righteous of Christ. So we're righteous because he confessed us righteous. My righteous is everlasting righteousness. Think about it. That's why the Bible says in Job that the latter glory shall be greater than the former glory. Go read what that word is, the former. Go look what's beside it in the scripture, in the Old Testament. There's a letter beside it, a one beside it, and it says teacher.

So the reason the latter glory is going to be greater than the former glory because the teacher of righteousness is to show to him, oh come on somebody, and you and I have been made righteous, not because of what we've done right because of his righteousness. It's all about Jesus. That's why on the Mount of Transfiguration, what did he say? Moses and Elijah disappeared, but I want you to see something here. He took Peter, James, and John with him, right, to the Mount of Transfiguration. And Moses and Elijah was up there, right? The two that supposedly went out of here, one went out of here without dying, the other went out of here with death, but he'd been hidden for fifteen years, two fifteen hundred years, excuse me. Remember the story? And all of a sudden Peter looked up and said, we'd make three tabernacles? And all of a sudden everybody disappears and Elijah and Moses disappeared. But Moses and Elijah didn't disappear and just saw Peter, James, and John. In other words, until Jesus, what does Peter, James, and John mean? The law has been replaced by grace. So grace was preached to Moses and Elijah at the Mount of Transfiguration. And then they disappeared and all of a sudden Jesus said, no, you don't need to build but one tabernacle. I'm all you need. What he was telling Peter, go look that up in the actual Hebrew and then the actual Greek, excuse me. Here's what it really says, I'm going to tabernacle in you. See, so he's tabernacle in us. That's what he's been waiting for for years. He told me one time and I'll tell you what he told me. He said, Pete, you're not a lot of fun to live in. I know we have a sacrilegious passion. No, we need to learn to enjoy the goodness of the Lord inside of us. And we need to

enjoy that presence and know that he's always there. He ain't coming and going. Why? Because your righteousness is an ever lasting righteousness. You're ever ever righteous. God, you can't lose that. Because you didn't get it. The spiritual law that God has given is the key to every other spiritual law. And it's often called the law of meditation. Here we go. You ready? Let's go to Joshua one and eight. Let me have you meditate upon that word. The book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate, meditate the Greek word, Hebrew word, there's murmur. In other words, say it over to yourself over and over and over. They let it apart from your mouth, but you should meditate upon it day and night that you may observe to do according to all that's written in it. For then, now watch this, God ain't going to do nothing. He's done everything he's going to do. You will make your way prospers and then you will have good success. When you meditate on that word, when that word becomes a source of your life, you'll start seeing the blessings in favor of God coming in your life. The blessings in favor of God meditating on that word, he said you'll make your way prospers and then you'll have good success. How many of you want good success? How many of you want to be prospers? Then he's telling you what to do, meditate upon this word, listen to it, listen to it, listen to it, listen to it, over and over and over until you're so consumed with it that nothing else matters. I listen to the messages all not long just about every night. You say, how do you do that? Well, you just do that. You spirit don't ever sleep. So you're getting that you don't even know you get you know things you don't even know you know, you know everything God knows you just don't know that you know it. And so the Holy Spirit is inside to

reveal to you what you don't know that you don't think you know that you know, because my city will teach you all things guys, all things, not just spiritual stuff, he'll teach you where to put your money, he'll teach you where to invest, you'll multiply your store houses, you multiply everything. Listen, he knows where enough stuff lost to get you. What was the first lesson he taught Peter? Peter been fishing on that in kitchen of fish. He just got on the boat, taught a little bit. And then he told him, throw it right over here. What was he doing? He was showing him what he told him in Genesis 1. Every fish, hello, about you. So Jesus just spoke and said there'll be right there. Throw your hook right there Peter catch you right there. He was showing the revelation of what Genesis 1, he's giving him power to tread upon surface of the school and over all things, everything that fly, everything creams everything that swims, I've given you a thrower. So Peter, I'm gonna show you how this works. BAM, he's right there, buddy. And Peter kisses, look, there what happened. He said the fish are gonna catch you gonna pay our taxes and yours. Come on guys, we got to understand what Jesus was doing. He was walking around the world teaching the kingdom of God over and over and over. This is how you catch fish. Talk to him. Thank you for joining us today at Power in the Word. All of us here at Harvest Fellowship Church want you to know that God is not mad with you, but he loves you so very much. And he has a plan for your life. Please feel free to contact us here at Harvest Fellowship Church at our website, harvestfellowshipchurch.net. So until next week, please remember there's power in the Word. (soft music)

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