Thursday, 28 May 2009

  • VICTORY OVER FEAR:

    "Recognizing, The Cause Of Your Fear" Pt.8

    Lack of faith, continued.

    The second area in which a person is prone to be fearful, because, of a lack of faith, concerns the future. If the enemy can't get us to worry about our past sins, he will attempt to get us to worry about God's provision in the future. Thus, we are unable to enjoy the riches of God's blessing today. People who enjoy life are not living in tomorrow, nor worrying about the past, they are living today.

    Worrying, can have a severe affect on us. It can, damage our health, cause the object of our worry to consume our thoughts, disrupt our productivity, negatively affect the way we treat others, and, it can, reduce our ability to trust God. Because of the ill effects of worry, Jesus tells us not to worry about our needs, for God promised to supply them all.

    Matthew 6:25-34, Jesus said, "Threrfore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? "Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sew nor reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more than they? "Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? "So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they neither toil nor spin, "and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. "Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat? or 'What shall we drink? or 'What shall we wear? "For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. "But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for today is its own trouble"

    Note: Jesus instructed us here, not worry, instead, we're to trust God. The difference between worry and genuine concern is that, worry immobolizes and concern moves into action. Planning for tomorrow is time well spent, while, worrying about tomorrow is time wasted. Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between worrying and planning. Careful planning is thinking ahead about goals, steps, and schedules, and it is trusting in God's guidance. When done well, planning can help alleviate worry.

    Worriers on the under-hand, are consumed by fear and they find it difficult to trust God. Worriers, allow their plans to interfere with their relationship with God. We must not let worries for tomorrow, affect our relationship with God today.

    Anyone who thinks about the potential problems and difficulties that they might encounter tomorrow, will naturally become fearful, unless, they have a deep, abiding faith in God"s ability to supply all their needs.

    "Stay encouraged in your love walk and you will be empowered in you faith walk" [Galatians 5:6]

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