To believe something is right or wrong is more than just to think it is. This process of choosing whose words we will believe does have a direct effect on our destiny, for every one of us is offered daily choices to incorporate as a part of our systematic beliefs. In the beginning, Adam was given the choice to believe the words of his Creator or the lie of his accuser, Satan. The fall of mankind was not in what he ate but in whose words he believed. He will deliver you from all different kinds of situations. There will be times when you hit a bump in the road that jars everything loose but it is not over. If God wants you to do something, He is going to provide everything you need to fulfill His will and it should not be an uphill battle. Not only that when it was time to load the boat, the animals started coming. But during the whole time, supernaturally, everything Noah needed to build the Ark was available. When Noah was called by God to build the Ark on dry ground and preach the message about a coming rain which would flood everything, Noah was mocked. In other words, God will give you everything you need to accomplish that job. If He calls you to do a certain thing, scripture says whatever you ask you will have in His name. For when His will speaks to you and by faith you receive the word then you have a requirement. You abide in Him because you are dying of your will and now to seeking His only. To find it from God, you must find His (rhema) word. You are going to have to find it from God.
You are not going to be able to find the answer in a fortune cookie. You need a “rhema” (spoken) word for circumstances and situations that are at hand. Many of us today need answers on issues that are not found in chapter and verse. Many people, because of limitations, believe that the only way to hear God and to have a relationship with God is through the written word. You cannot live this life the way you want to because you gave it to Him! If you abide in Him that means God is going to do it the way he wants to. You gave Him this life in exchange for eternal life. It means must do whatever Christ wants to do. “If you abide in me.” What does this mean? It means to live in Christ but you must also die to self.
Does it mean that if you go to church and begin to believe the written word then you can have whatever you want? No, you cannot claim whatever you want! There are some conditions in this verse of scripture which we need to understand. “For indeed the Gospel was preached to us as well as to them but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with Faith in those who heard it” (Hebrews 4:2). When you mix faith received by the written word with faith received in the spoken word, you’ve got something. There is a new light, a new revelation to this verse when you look at with this new understanding which I consider the “double portion” of faith to FAITH. “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7).