God’s Word Is More Than Enough

Please open your Bibles to Psalm 119. We’re going to read verses 127 and 128.

“Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. [And because I feel this way about your Word] Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.”

David said something that many in the Church will find challenging to accept and believe. He says that everything God says, and for us it’s everything He says in the Bible, no matter the subject, no matter the situation or circumstance, is ALWAYS right. For David, whatever God says about a matter ends all discussion. For David, God was the final authority in his life.

This is not true for many in the Church. Why is that? Many listen to and agree with “the world” more than they listen to and agree God.

We live in a world that constantly tells us we need more. More information. More opinions. More strategies. More voices. More surveys. More alternatives. More. More. More. Yet, in the middle of all that noise, God speaks a steady, unchanging and uncompromising truth:

“My Word is MORE than enough.”

My Word is MORE than enough to build your faith.

My Word is MORE than enough to get you through your struggles.

My Word is MORE than enough to guide you in your decisions.

My Word is MORE than enough in all situations you will ever face.

My Word is MORE than enough.

Period!

Jesus says in John 6:63, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”

In these two verses we see a powerful truth: our words have power! They have power to produce life in our lives, or they have power to produce death in our lives.

When we speak in agreement with God and His Word, we are speaking His life into our lives so that His promises can manifest and be fulfilled in our lives. When we speak in opposition to God and His Word, we are speaking death into our lives. We are closing the door to His promises becoming a reality in our lives. It’s really that simple.

The Bible is the Word of God, and the Word of God is life.

Last month, I delivered a message titled "God’s Word is enough” that looked at the children of Israel’s response to the word the Lord had given to them through Moses about the promised land. The passage we looked at is found in Deuteronomy chapter one. We are going to read verses 20 and 21.

(20) And I (Moses) said unto you, Ye are come into the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

(21) Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not neither be discouraged.

But the word from the Lord wasn’t enough for the children of Israel, so Moses agreed to send 12 spies to verify that what the Lord had said about the land was true. If you’re taking notes, you can go back and read the record, which is found in Numbers 13 and 14. The spies returned and said the land was exactly how the Lord had described it. But 10 of the spies gave their reasons as to why Israel could not go up and possess their land.

Turn to Numbers 13. The Bible refers to what the 10 spies said as “an evil report.” We’re going to read verses 32 and 33.

(32) And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

(33) And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Because the people believed the 10 spies, Moses said in Deuteronomy 1:26, “Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God.”

The sad thing about what we are seeing here is that the Lord HAD ALREADY GIVEN THEM THE LAND. All the children of Israel needed to do what BELIEVE what the Lord had said and the Promised Land would be their new home.

As I thought about the message afterwards, other examples came to mind of people who believed God’s Word was enough. But, as I thought about them, I realized that God’s Word wasn’t just enough for them – it was MORE than enough. We are going to look at four examples of God’s Word being MORE than enough beginning with ABRAHAM in Genesis 12. Let’s begin with verse one.