ESTABLISH

ESTABLISH

GOD’S beautiful picture has been shattered by man separating himself from GOD through sin. It is now like a jigsaw puzzle that has to be put together. This restoration process is taking place now. GOD has done His part and has established His eternal purposes for mankind with Himself. It is upto each of us now to seek GOD’S plan for us, align ourselves to His will and establish our ways according to His ways. It is like completing a puzzle perfectly, and then fixing it and mounting it on a frame!

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. - 1 Peter 5:1

GOD will establish me spiritually.

Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, - 2 Corinthians 1:21

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. - 2 Thessalonians 3:3

I place my confidence in You and trust You to establish me in You, LORD.

Let me be like the tree that is firm and fruitful in adverse conditions.  Jer 17:7-8

The World

He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, And has stretched out the heavens at His discretion. - Jeremiah 10:12  

Tremble before Him, all the earth. The world also is firmly established, It shall not be moved. - 1 Chronicles 16:30

The world is established by the LORD according to His purposes.  Is 51:16   

When He established the clouds above, When He strengthened the fountains of the deep, - Proverbs 8:28

Eternal Seed

'Your seed I will establish forever, And build up your throne to all generations.' " Selah - Psalm 89:4  

This refers to JESUS Who was called the Son of David.

Eternal Throne

Let His eternal throne be established in our own hearts and lives as well.

Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting. - Psalm 93:2

Eternal House

Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD's house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. - Isaiah 2:2  

Like the house that was built on the rock. Matt 7:24-25

Eternity For GOD’S People

"Blessed be the LORD your God, who delighted in you, setting you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God! Because your God has loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore He made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness." - 2 Chronicles 9:8

GOD loves us to establish us forever spiritually. He wants to use us to establish others forever.

Eternal Covenant

"Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. - Ezekiel 16:60

Let me be established in this eternal covenant relationship with you, LORD.  2 Sam 23:5

Eternal Promise

"Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to David my father be established, for You have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. - 2 Chronicles 1:9  

O LORD, let Your promises to me be established.

Abraham did not waver in his faith through unbelief. Because he believed the promise of GOD he received a son and also his faith was accounted to him for righteousness.  Rom 4:19-22

Truth Of GOD’S Word

Establish Your word to Your servant, Who is devoted to fearing You. - Psalm 119:38

Establish Your word to me so that I might be established in your word, O LORD.

The truthful lip shall be established forever, But a lying tongue is but for a moment. - Proverbs 12:19

Testimony

For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; - Psalm 78:5

The LORD has established a testimony in us, His people.

Justice

The king establishes the land by justice, But he who receives bribes overthrows it. - Proverbs 29:4  

Help me to do justly at all times, LORD. Micah 6:8

Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the LORD God of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. - Amos 5:15  

My Heart

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. - James 5:8

Let my heart be established until Your return, LORD. Ps 112:7

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. - Hebrews 13:9

Faith

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. - Colossians 2:6-7

I need to be established in my faith - In my relationship with my LORD JESUS.

I do this by diligently studying the word of GOD, obeying His word and the voice of the Holy Spirit Whom I receive into my heart and submit to at all times.

Let me ask for wisdom in faith without wavering and receive.  James 1:5-7

 

GOD’S Righteousness

For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. - Romans 10:3

O LORD, establish me in your righteousness. Let me be established in JESUS. Ps 139:23-24

My Steps

He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps. - Psalm 40:2

Thank you for establishing my steps, O LORD.

Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established. - Proverbs 4:26

My Work

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands. - Psalm 90:17

The LORD will establish the work we do according to His eternal purposes. 1 Cor 3:12-14, John 15:16

Commit your works to the LORD, And your thoughts will be established. - Proverbs 16:3

The Temple

Then he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; he called the name of the one on the right hand Jachin, and the name of the one on the left Boaz. - 2 Chronicles 3:17

Jachin means 'He shall establish. Boaz means 'In it is strength.'

GOD will establish those things that stand by His strength.

'and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,' says the LORD of hosts. 'The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' says the LORD of hosts. 'The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,' says the LORD of hosts. 'And in this place I will give peace,' says the LORD of hosts." - Haggai 2:7-9  

Everything will be shaken so that eternal things can be put in place. Everything will be put through the fire. Only eternal things will be established like gold and silver.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. - 2 Peter 3:10-13