WEBVTT 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:24.640 Welcome to Faith Builders. 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:26.559 I'm so glad that you tuned in today. 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:32.960 My name is Michelle Steele, and we're going to build our faith concerning an established heart. 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:39.359 The heart is so important because with the heart man believes. 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:43.920 With the heart, man believes unto righteousness, Romans chapter 10 says. 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:48.399 The Bible says the just, the righteous, shall live by faith. 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:53.840 What we believe, it will affect where we live for eternity. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.840 What we believe will affect every area of our life. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.799 What you believe determines what you can receive from God. 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.920 If you don't believe it, God can't force it on you. 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:11.040 He is not going to violate what you what you don't believe in to make it come to pass in your life. 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.159 And so we want to believe God. 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:15.680 That's who we want to believe. 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:23.680 We want to learn how to develop a strong, established heart. 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:30.400 And so today is lesson number five in this 12-part series, the established heart. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:39.359 And we are learning how we can our part, our responsibility in developing the heart so that we can stand in faith. 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:45.280 And we've talked about firmly relying trust being established for believing. 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:48.560 We've talked about the word foundation. 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.519 And we are talking today about the fixed trusting heart. 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:58.560 And so you can get the study guide on our website, lifeoffaith.net. 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:06.319 We also have a flash drive with all of the audio and the study guide as a downloadable PDF. 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.919 You can download it straight from our website, lifeoffaith.net. 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:18.080 You can also watch these videos for free again at the YouTube channel that you can find connected with our website. 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:26.639 So we have these available to help you grow in this truth and be established for believing. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:30.560 Today we're talking about the fixed, trusting heart. 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:41.919 And I want to look at Psalm 112, specifically verses 6 through 8, as we learn how to have this stable heart. 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:53.360 And Isaiah 112 is a chapter about us, the righteous, who we are in Christ, those who have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life. 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:56.240 Here's the description of your life. 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:02.639 It says in verse 6, Surely He shall not be moved forever. 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:07.599 The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:11.039 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.439 Trusting in the Lord. 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:18.560 His heart is established. 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:41.439 So this is repetitious almost in how much he is emphasizing in this between verses six through eight, how much the emphasis is placed on the fact that we are supposed to be stable. 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:49.520 The person who is believing God, the person who is righteous in a right relationship with God is not supposed to be moved. 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.000 Shall not be afraid of evil tidings. 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:07.840 That gives you the picture of somebody coming to you with the panic in their voice, the panic on the other end of that phone line saying, What are we gonna do? 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.919 And you don't respond to their panic. 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:16.480 You already have established yourself in trust with God. 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:47.199 Now last week we talked about having firmly relying trust, taking God's word and developing such an estimation, such a respect, such a receiving of God's word that it has more influence over you than what you can see with your eyes, what you can feel, what the symptoms say, what the reports say, that you have taken the word of God and you've developed your trust in that word so that it is firm, a firmly relying trust. 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:52.959 I take God at His word, and I am not easily moved off of that. 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:59.199 And so this says, the righteous, it says, He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.879 So when a bad report comes, that doesn't move me. 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:04.480 I don't fall apart. 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:06.879 I'm not going to bust into tears. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:09.120 I'm not going to become hysterical. 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:12.240 I'm going to hold myself together. 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:17.600 I'm going to reach down into my spirit and I'm going to start pulling out the wisdom of God. 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:23.759 I'm going to start calling the end from the beginning and saying, No weapon formed against me shall be able to prosper. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:25.040 God is my keeper. 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:26.879 He is my refuge, my shelter. 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:28.079 In him I trust. 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:29.839 He is my fortress. 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:33.279 And so I will not be afraid of evil tidings. 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:38.319 And then the next part of verse 7 says, His heart is fixed. 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.199 And that's not talking about fixed like repaired. 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.079 That's talking about fixed like fastened. 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.040 Like you would take something and you would chain it down. 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:48.560 You would strap it down. 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:50.240 You've got it fixed. 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:51.839 You've got it nailed down. 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:59.199 You've got it tightly secured on that situation. 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:00.319 I've the word of God. 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:03.600 My heart is so secured on the word of God. 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:09.120 My heart is so fastened to the word that nothing I see is going to move me off the word. 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.439 Nothing I feel is going to move me off the word. 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:14.079 No evil tidings are going to move me off the word. 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:17.759 My heart is fastened to the word of God. 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:18.879 Trusting. 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:22.000 So the fixed heart is a trusting heart. 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:26.959 The fixed, fastened, secure, established heart is trusting. 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:28.720 Now trusting is a verb. 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:31.199 That means that's what it is actively doing. 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:43.439 And so trusting, we would, we would kind of, you know, if you were in English class, you would say, well, there are action verbs that are like physical actions, like running and walking and speaking and singing. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.319 Those are physical action verbs. 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:48.800 But trusting is an action verb. 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:57.600 In English, we would probably try to say, well, you know, like thinking is is like a mental verb. 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.079 But in the spirit, it's different. 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:05.279 In the spirit, trusting is a spiritual action. 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:06.639 It's not mental. 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:10.240 It's not just something that's that's you know an idea. 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:11.759 It's not conceptual. 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:15.279 No, trusting is what my spirit is doing. 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:22.560 While my mouth is moving because I'm speaking, my spirit is moving because I'm trusting. 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:37.759 While my uh feet would be moving if I was walking, my spirit is moving because I'm believing, I'm trusting, my spirit is doing something, it is actively engaged in a spiritual activity. 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:46.800 And that's important because a lot of times people leave their faith to the last thing that they work on. 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:50.720 And they they're working on their fitness, their work, and that's good. 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:56.800 They're working on their their you know financial budget, and that's good. 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:12.480 But don't leave all of these other things in a place of higher priority, and then leave your spiritual development at the end and say, Well, you know, I oh maybe I can just let me get a verse out real quick. 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:14.079 Let me just pull a verse out of the Bible. 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:15.759 Okay, I had five minutes in it. 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:28.560 No, this is more than what the the little um bread box that you can pull your first out of and get, or that little, you know, just one single verse that comes up to you. 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:34.080 We trusting in the Lord is what you do. 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:35.519 You're a believer. 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.200 This is your profession. 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:38.720 It's my profession. 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:39.840 It's what I do. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:45.440 I'm a believer, and so it needs to have a place of priority in my development. 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:56.799 That I am I'm I'm feeding on the word of God, I am casting down imaginations, I am walking in love, I'm forgiving those who've done anything against me. 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:57.279 Why? 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:01.200 Because trusting, being a believer is my profession. 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:02.240 This is what I do. 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:06.000 My whole life depends on what I believe. 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:12.480 And so this is an action verb in the spirit, trusting in the Lord. 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:16.240 His heart is established. 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:22.080 The heart of the believer, the heart of the righteous needs to be established. 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:26.639 It says his heart is this is established, he shall not be afraid. 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:32.799 So if my heart is established and fear comes, I don't have to yield to it. 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:43.200 If your if your response moves over into fear quite easily, you can change that. 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:45.360 Don't get under condemnation. 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:47.919 Don't say, yeah, I fall apart on a dime. 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.000 No, don't get under condemnation. 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.480 Just say, hey, I don't want to do that anymore. 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:53.679 I want to change it. 00:09:53.759 --> 00:10:08.879 I remember um I've I've said this to the ladies in our our churches over the years, and we've got our our location in Kansas that we've pastored over 20 years, and now here in Little Rock area for over 10. 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:16.080 And um when I deal with ladies, I encourage the ladies, we are not hysterical. 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:25.279 You know, it the scripture talks about us being Sarah's daughters, and that we are not easily yielded to hysteria. 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:41.919 And that isn't automatic because you know, most women are taught to be emotional, most women are trained to be emotional and and and expected, and so it's permitted, you know, to fall apart. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.879 It's permitted that she's not going to be able to handle this. 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:54.159 And when I began to see myself through the lens of the word of God, I began to decide I don't want to live that way anymore. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.679 I've I I've I've never enjoyed being the victim. 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.120 I never liked to play the victim card. 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:15.279 I've played the victim card in my past, but I decided to when I got uh a hold of the fact that I'm a more than a conqueror through him who loves me, that I was gonna tear up my victim card and not play it anymore. 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:23.440 And so becoming hysterical is something that I took off the multiple choice of my responses. 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:31.120 When I am dealt a situation that hysteria is on the multiple choice, I never pick it. 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:33.759 No, I think I'll just stand on the word. 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.799 I think I'll just go to God, I think I'll pray about it. 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:38.559 I think I'll do anything. 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:39.360 I'll rejoice. 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:40.240 That's what I'll do. 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:42.240 I'll rejoice because he's faithful. 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:46.240 I'll rejoice because greater is he who is in me than he who is in the world. 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:56.720 And when I've learned that I had an option, and then I began practicing taking that option, I learned that I do not have to ever be afraid. 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.080 You never have to be afraid another day in your life. 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:05.600 There's always an option for you to trust God, always an option for you to believe God. 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:07.600 And so that's what we want to learn. 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:18.960 We want to learn how to be established so that we are not moved, so that we are not afraid of evil tidings, that our heart is fixed, fastened, stable, secured, trusting in the Lord. 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:23.039 Our heart is established, and we shall not be afraid. 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:30.159 So this fixed, trusting heart, this established heart is a heart that is not wavering. 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:34.480 And wavering is something that the Bible talks about a lot. 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:46.320 And we are, because of the way the word of God tells us about wavering, we know that it's possible for us to never waver another day in our life. 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:56.320 It's possible for me to develop myself on the word of God so that I am established in believing and not established in wavering. 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.440 So this warning comes to us in James chapter 1, verse 6. 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:14.000 And I'd love to share the amplified Bible because it says, only it must be in faith, and it says, if you're asking for wisdom, it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering. 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:23.519 So that right there tells me it's possible for me to live a life where I'm no longer wavering, where wavering is not something I do. 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:33.120 It must be in faith that he asks with no wavering, no hesitating, no doubting. 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:38.879 So that gives us a greater picture of what hesitating, what wavering is. 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:40.399 It's hesitating. 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:47.120 Wavering is is taking that step and then uh maybe it's not gonna work. 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.120 Uh, I'm gonna believe God. 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:52.960 Uh, maybe I need to go back and try something different. 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:54.320 No doubting. 00:13:54.559 --> 00:14:05.840 For the one who wavers, hesitates, or doubts, is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:10.000 Or we could say blown here and there and tossed by the wind. 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:11.279 I love this show. 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:13.679 It's a it's a show that we like to watch. 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:15.600 It's actually from the UK. 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:22.000 Uh, and they have it on YouTube, and it's about these lifeboats that go out in these storms. 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:24.960 And I am so shocked, and they're volunteers too. 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:29.919 These people on these lifeboats, these R N L I lifeboats, are volunteers. 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:47.600 And they will get a call from the Coast Guard, and these people all have pagers, and their pager goes off, and they run down and they get in the boat and they go out into the ocean in some of the worst storms and worst situations you would imagine. 00:14:47.759 --> 00:15:25.840 And so I like to watch these shows, and I am shocked because until you've seen it on video or been in something like that, you just think, you know, uh something maybe that you've a little bit of, but it is those waves are are so big, those waves are are so that way it is so moved, and it's just they have this one situation that they say when the waters are coming crashing around a certain cliff, and they call it being in a washing machine. 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:39.200 And the water is not just all coming in one direction, but because the waves are converging from all these different directions on this one location, and they're can and it's it's like churning. 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:44.559 The water is churning, so it's a wave, a wave, a wave from all these different directions. 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:51.759 This is the what the Bible uses to describe the life of a waverer. 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:55.600 We don't want that life, we want to be established. 00:15:55.679 --> 00:16:03.200 I don't want to be constantly moved, I don't want my life to be churning with constant drama going on. 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:15.919 I am not dramaidal, I am not interested in having drama, always something that's that's got me in a place of despair. 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:24.720 No, I want the peace of God that passes all understanding, being the governing force over my mind and over my heart. 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.360 And so faith is required. 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:41.919 Faith is the lifestyle necessary to have that wavering, is going to produce this churning, that washing machine, that uh constant turmoil in your life. 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:49.440 And it is impossible to receive a promise of God if you're always moving. 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.399 You've got to be fixed, you've got to be established. 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:56.240 The promise is coming to the address of faith. 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:00.080 But if you're wavering, you're never at one address. 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:06.160 It talks about the billowing surge out at sea, the waves that are tossed here and there. 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:11.119 Those waves are never in one fixed location. 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:16.000 So the fixed, trusting heart stays connected to the word of God. 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:19.759 The wavering heart moves away from the faith connection. 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:29.839 The word waver, actually, the definition from the strong's concordance means to separate thoroughly, to separate completely. 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:37.200 And so you can be in faith about something and you're connected to the word concerning that thing. 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.559 You're connected to the promise of God concerning that thing. 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:52.400 But if you separate from it and you say, well, it's not working, and I don't feel anything, and I guess I didn't get it when hands were laid on me, and I guess I didn't receive from God, I gave and it didn't, it didn't come back to me. 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:54.319 Good measure, pressed out, shaken together. 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:54.640 Why? 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:58.640 Because I don't feel it and I don't see it, and I've got all these circumstances. 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:01.759 That wavering is a separation. 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:07.599 It's to withdraw from, is another train, another definition from the strong, to withdraw from. 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:14.559 So I can be connected to it with faith, but if I waver, I withdraw from the promise of God. 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:18.559 So the wavering heart moves away from the faith connection. 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:26.880 The word of God instructs us that we've got to pay attention to the right things in order to stay fixed on the truth. 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:29.920 And I find this in Hebrews chapter 2 in verse 1. 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:37.440 It says, Therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard. 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:42.400 And so I don't use the word heed a lot in my everyday talk. 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:45.440 I would say we need to pay closer attention. 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:58.880 Give the more earnest heed or pay closer attention to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:14.000 That tells me if I'm not keeping my focus on the promise of God, if I'm not keeping my attention, paying close attention to what the word of God says, that it's possible to let it slip. 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:19.839 And to let it slip, you can even look at the wayside soil and the parable of the sower. 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.480 They never got it rooted into the ground. 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:24.640 They never accepted it into the ground. 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:27.680 And Matthew says it's because they didn't understand it. 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:42.000 It says, if anyone hears the word of the kingdom and understandeth it not, then that word is like the word sown by the wayside, and the enemy comes at wants to steal it, or he just moves you away from it and it slips away from you. 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:46.160 And so the antidote is give attention to it. 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:47.440 Give attention to the word. 00:19:47.759 --> 00:20:04.400 And I remember Brother Hagin used to say, if the if you don't see yourself with the thing you're believing for, the thing that you requested from God in seven prayers to seven steps to answer prayer, he said, then it's because the word has departed from your eyes. 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:15.119 If the word is not in the focus, the enemy is going to move you away from it, and you'll be finding yourself wavering and separated from the answer. 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:18.960 So give earnest heed, give closer attention. 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:26.480 One of the ways that will help you is use your mouth because the mouth helps the heart stay fixed. 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:34.319 Hebrews chapter 10, verse 23 says, Let us hold fast, hold tightly the profession of our faith without wavering. 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:40.799 So you can hold tightly to the promise with your confession, with your declaration of faith. 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:47.039 Hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful who promised. 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:54.000 The word hold fast in the strong's concordance means to keep secure, keep firm possession. 00:20:54.400 --> 00:21:01.839 Now, if you've ever watched football, and I don't, but I have been in the room while my husband was watching football. 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:05.759 And I would see, and my son played uh sports too. 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:20.559 So I would see that there were times that everybody was jumping on the ball, like it got fumbled on the football field, and everybody on the field from both teams are piling on top of this ball. 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:29.279 And their purpose is whoever is found in possession of the ball is the one who gets to play, right? 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:47.920 Well, that holding fast, so that person who sees the football fumble on the field and they they reach out to grab it and they throw themselves on it, and they're using all of their weight, all of their authority to grab that football and pull it into their possession, and then they're holding it. 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:51.519 That's the word used when it says hold fast. 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:55.759 It's the word cat echo in the Greek language, and that's the description. 00:21:55.839 --> 00:22:05.519 That word, it's a compound word, and one of it, one of the parts of That word means to dominate, to subjugate, to bring it under authority. 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:12.720 And the other part means that that that clinging, that holding fast, that bringing it into your possession. 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:17.039 And so this is what we do with our mouth. 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:20.240 Our mouth helps our heart stay fixed. 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:25.599 The word profession is defined as confession by acknowledgement. 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:31.119 I believe that, or that belongs to me, or by his stripes I am healed. 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:34.240 Or greater is he who is in me than he who is in the world. 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:37.440 No weapon formed against me shall be able to prosper. 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:40.319 And that is a holding fast. 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:44.160 I'm using my mouth to hold what's in my heart. 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:50.000 Growing in spiritual maturity helps us to become established. 00:22:50.240 --> 00:23:06.079 Ephesians chapter 4 says that we would so that we would henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men, by cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive. 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:11.119 So someone who is established on the word has gained some maturity. 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:22.319 They've developed, and they're no more children, because one of the trademarks or one of the identifiers or the evidences of spiritual immaturity is that I'm easily moved. 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:33.839 Moved off the truth, moved off of the doctrine of the salvation by the blood of Jesus, moved off of whatever the case may be. 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:34.960 How did they move me? 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:36.799 Because I wasn't established. 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:40.079 How did I get moved off of that promise? 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:42.160 Because of what I saw? 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:44.240 Because of what I felt? 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:50.160 No, that happened because I was moved by what I felt. 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:57.200 I was moved by what I saw because I had not established my heart and developed the spiritual maturity. 00:23:57.279 --> 00:24:04.000 So spiritual maturity is another way of helping you not be moved. 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:14.880 It says in the the Romans chapter 4, verse 16, that the promise is secure. 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:19.920 And so since the promise is secure, we can be secure in our faith. 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:36.720 Romans 4:16 says, Therefore it is a faith that it might be by grace to the end, the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:48.480 So if we God has established faith on our part and grace on his part, so that the promise is established, so that the promise is sure. 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:52.079 So God's not backing off his part of the promise. 00:24:55.279 --> 00:24:58.480 So the promise is secure on God's part. 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:04.559 We've got to establish our hearts on the word so that the promise can be sure to us as well. 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:21.039 So when we take the time to get into the word of God and allow the word of God to be deposited in our heart through our eyes, through our ears, and we've focused on the word of God so that we begin to believe God's word. 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:33.359 We're establishing the heart so that we're not moved away from the truth, not moved away from the salvation that's ours in Christ, not moved away from the rescue that's available in Him. 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:35.359 I'm so glad you tuned in today. 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:39.680 We've got more in this established Heart 12 lessons. 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:43.519 This study guide is available at lifeoffaith.net. 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:46.160 It's downloadable as a PDF as well. 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:57.119 You can also find the MP3 at our website, lifeoffaith.net, or you can download that as a downloadable uh format. 00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:59.359 I'm so thankful you tuned in today. 00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:03.440 I'm so thankful that you're building your faith and framing your world by the word of God. 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:05.119 I look forward to seeing you next week. 00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:06.720 Thanks for tuning in. 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:16.720 The key to a stable life is to establish your heart on the word of God. 00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:25.200 In this 12-part series, Pastor Philip Steele and I explain how to establish your heart in faith on God's Word. 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:30.799 God's plan for the believer is to have their heart fixed, trusting in the Lord. 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:34.880 Psalm 112, verse 8 says, His heart is established. 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:40.319 While this is available for you, it's not automatic. 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:47.759 You have a responsibility to set the Word of God as the foundation of your thoughts, actions, and decisions. 00:26:48.079 --> 00:27:05.680 This insightful 12-part series is available in digital or physical format, including a comprehensive study guide with the sermon outlines, the Bible verses, and study points 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