"Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?"
Obedience results in righteousness and the Word declares in Isaiah 54:14, "In righteousness you shall be established..."
You must also consider the direction of your life and evaluate the consequences of each decision. Proverbs 4:26 encourages you to "Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established."
Sometimes we end up in complex circumstances because we act before we think. We become involved in worldly entanglements and then cry out, "I don't know what to do!" Ponder your direction in life, think seriously about each decision, and let God guide your footsteps each day. Decisions determine destiny.
Stability results from being "established in the faith," which means you are grounded in the basic doctrines of God's Word. Paul encourages us in Colossians 2:7 to be "...rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving."
The Word declares in Proverbs 16:3 to, "Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established." Instead of struggling to work out your situation, commit your work to the Lord. It is God's work, His plan, His ministry. Release the stress and tension of your troubling circumstances to Him and you will find that your thoughts are established, you begin to think clearly, and the fog of confusion lifts.
Proverbs 20:18 "declares, "Plans are established by counsel; by wise counsel wage war." Wise spiritual counsel often generates solutions to your problems and enables you to successfully wage war on the negative circumstances of life.
Proverbs 24:3 reveals that "through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established." The wisdom that establishes is not worldly wisdom, but the Godly wisdom described by James 3:17, 18:
"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace."
When you ask for wisdom without doubting, you will receive it:
James 1:5-7 "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord."
You will not always hear a voice from Heaven or receive a supernatural sign concerning your problem. When these are absent and you are faced with a decision, be assured that God's wisdom is resident within you. Make a decision in faith that He is guiding you with wisdom from above.
Recognize that it is grace, not your own works, that establishes you spiritually:
Hebrews 13:9 "Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
You will be delivered by God's grace, not through scheming, manipulation, or carnal conflict.
When you emerge from the mire of your perplexing circumstances to be established in God, then your confusion will cease. You will no longer fear because you know the enemy will be conquered:
Psalm 112:8 "His heart is established; he will not be afraid, until he sees his desire upon his enemies."
Isaiah 54:14 "In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you."
Jehoshaphat had two strategies:
-Believe in the Lord your God and you shall be established.
-Believe his prophets and you shall prosper.
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