Hebrews 13:5-6
NKJV 5 Let your conduct be
without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself
has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." 6 So we may
boldly say:
The LORD is my helper;
I will not fear.
What can man do to me?'
We see the ugliness of fear when people were told a fable or
story if you will. Fear is to be of the Lord. Understanding He is God and we
are not to fear man. Man cannot cast you into hell. Although he can tell his
peers to smear you in some fashion. Yes, society is different than some 30-50
years ago.
Fear, when not controlled, gives evidence that a person does
not believe that God is telling the truth and that He cannot be trusted to have
one's best interests at heart. What rules our heart? Is it the Lord or
something else? Does money rule or does some group of people rule your heart?
People will most likely not have peace for you in any form. But God has peace
for us when we seek Him.
Jeremiah 29:11: "For I know the thoughts that I think
toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a
future and a hope." To leave no doubt, God reassures us that He wants the
best for us, peace and a future with Him forever.
No matter what problems we face, God has a glorious end-game in mind for us.
When we are sick, the symptoms of our illness tend to show
up way before the root is exposed. We may face symptoms such as paralyzing
anxiety, anger out of control, marriage in distress, financial chaos, a medical
emergency, a suicide prevention at work and much more. In that problem, you and
I will lack peace and will certainly long for relief. Where does this pain
originate? Our Great Physician offers us great clarity and help.
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the
course of your life. Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)
Your heart determines the course of your life. God reveals
that the condition of our hearts will determine the course of our lives. What
is inside your heart is taking you somewhere!
Christ points to it in Luke 12:32 as a reason not to fear: "Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." The end-game for this physical life is only the beginning of the next—eternal life. Our God, with all the power at His command, is committed to getting us there, as I Thessalonians 5:23-24 reveals: "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it" (emphasis ours).
The Lord is leading us into eternity. But the world will
lead you someplace else. It will take
you to hell! Jesus looks on our spiritual growth. He will bless us spiritually
or will bring judgment to us spiritually. Again, this is for the believer
indeed.
Our God is not passive in His love for us but is actively
looking for opportunities to do us good, assuring us in 2 Chronicles 16:9,
"For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show
Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him." Not only
is it God's will to be a present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1), this verse in 2 Chronicles also reveals that He takes it much
further. God is with great effort, illustrated by running to and fro, actively
looking for opportunities to help us. Kiel and Delitzsch says of this verse,
"[He] looks forth over all the earth, uses every opportunity wonderfully
to succor those who are piously devoted to Him."
So knowing that God is looking for every opportunity to help
us, we should be able to relate to Psalm 121:
I will lift up my eyes to the hills—from whence comes my help? My help
comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to
be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall
neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade at
your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
The LORD shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. The
LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and
even forevermore.
With all these promises, why do we have fear? We will fear if we do not make God's promises part of our thinking or lack the faith to believe them. We have some of God’s promises on mirrors. We keep watch on His word and make sure it is within our heart.
Heard today that people in our neighborhood are choosing to be too busy to read the word of God! Psalm 91 conveys to us the importance of a dialogue with God. Surely we have one with God daily, read His word and ask Him questions!
Psalm 91: 1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, 'He is my refuge and my fortress, My God, in Him I will trust. 3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler ...And from perilous pestilence. 4 He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler. 5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night. Nor of the arrow that flies by day, 6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. 8 Only with your eyes shall you look and see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your swelling place. 10 No evil shall befall you. Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling: 11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. 12 In their hands they shall bear you, lest you dash your foot against a stone. 13 You shall tread upon the lion and cobra, the young lion and the serpent you shall trample under foot. 14 Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high because he has known My name. 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.
Abiding in the secret place, we declare the LORD, Jesus will be our refuge. In God we safe and delivered from the snare of the fowler. We are far from perilous pestilence. He cover us with His feathers and under His wings we take refuge. His truth, His word is our shield and buckler. (This is daily and should be maintained as a relationship, talking with Him.) We are not afraid of the arrow that flies by day, nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays wast at noonday. A thousand may fall at our side, ten thousand at our right hand; it shall not come near us. Only with our eyes shall we look and see the reward of the wicked.
From verse 11 ....satan always leaves this out of his quoting the scriptures: he speaks, that God gives angels charge over you but he always leaves on the passage..."in all your ways".
Our ways have to be with God in communion with Him and obedience to His word. (We cannot say we believe in Him and never talk with Him.) He is our refuge. He is our strength and safety. No total immunity from things occurring around us, still we rise to the top in God. WE confide in Him! It is a relationship. Start there in Psalm 91 and speak everyday over your lives. Plead the blood line of Jesus around your property and be consistent. Ask God any questions, and He will answer you!
God is Engaged with Activity: John 4:24 God is Spirit and those who worship Him must
worship in spirit and truth
1. Alive in the new Birth; Alive in the
flow of His spirit
2. Enabled by His power and not as a
mechanical thing.
3. It is humble manner of transparency
according to His word of truth for Worshiping Him is not a matter of location
but the location of our heart: is it for Him out of true knowledge of God
Holiness starts in one's relationship with the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Justification through God's merciful act of grace opens the door of access to Him, as well as the door to the Kingdom of God. Justification is entirely an act of God, a legal action on our behalf that we accept by faith because He does not lie. Others do not easily discern our justification, since in most cases it has no outward manifestation. While sanctification unto holiness begins at the same moment as justification, it is a progressive, creative, time-consuming work of God within us. Unlike justification, sanctification cannot be hidden because it appears in our godly conduct. By it, a witness is made that God dwells in us. Where there is no holiness, there is no witness to glorify God.
So we see that justification and sanctification are two separate matters. They are related - indeed, they cannot be separated - but we should never confuse them. If one partakes in either, he is a partaker of both, but we should not overlook the distinctions between them. Keep away from the world's ways. Do not lie, nor seek evil, for evil is watching you. Let us be found faithful to the Lord and walk in all His ways of truth.
May this help anyone who finds themselves seeing evil in wrong places against you. Remind the devil you belong to God and quote Psalm 91. As I was reminded by my niece recently. and referring to my sister, her mother, to declare certain scriptures. In that the Lord showed me to give all of Psalm 91 again as I did before my sister passed into heaven. I also quote those harassing scriptures as in Jeremiah 15:14 "let every harassing spirit be roasted with double fire. Using the blood Of Jesus when drawing those blood lines around property ...Revelation 12:11. Philippians 1:28 gives the devil that neon of : "Doom, doom, and doom! " And in nothing be terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God." Amen.
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