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jiggaz:
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Matthew 6:25
“Therefore 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?

Is your heart full of worries about your health, finances, family or future? Even when all is well, some people still worry because they have heard others say, “You should worry when everything is peaceful because something is wrong when the devil leaves you alone.” So they worry even when there is nothing to worry about!

But Jesus does not want you to worry about what you will eat or drink, or about your body and what you will put on your back. He tells you not to worry about your daily provisions because God, who is your heavenly Father, knows that you need all these things and He wants to add these things to you. (Matthew 6:32–33)

God is the same God who took care of the children of Israel in the wilderness, feeding them with manna every day for 40 years! (Exodus 16) Under His care, His people had no lack. When the people wanted meat for dinner, He simply rained quails on them. (Numbers 11:31–32) The children of Israel only had to pick them up. If they had gone to look for meat themselves, they probably would not have found any in the desert.

The problem with us today is that we think that we must do something to help ourselves. Some of us may even think that it is easy for Jesus to say, “Don’t worry. Take no thought for your life,” because He does not understand the problems we face in life.

But the truth is that Jesus understands the problems we face in life. In fact, He faced what I would call the “final problem”—death. Death is the “final problem” because it puts an end to all our other problems. Jesus faced death at the cross, conquered it and rose from the dead. And because He conquered the problem of problems, we can trust Him when He tells us not to worry!

Thought For The Day

Don’t worry. Jesus, who has conquered the problem of problems, will take care of you.


http://www.josephprince.org/daily-grace/grace-inspirations/single/god-wants-you-free-from-worries/

michaelwestern:
Wow! This is a very nice thread, am surprised that people are not commenting on it. Keep it up Op, it's a very good thread.

Thank you bro...

madegreatbygrace:
Great read.This has blessed my soul.Thanks for sharing.

You welcome bro.

bennyann:
Jiggaz please I need your prayers here thank you in advance.

lol alright... i pray for them oo cos i know that most atheists here act out of ignorance.

I pray that most of them have a true revelation of Jesus Christ just like Apostle Paul did. It is well. God is in control.

A Bible Study by Andrew Wommack

The book of Romans is Paul’s masterpiece on the study of grace, but the book of Galatians is his strongest teaching on the subject. Paul takes off the gloves and gets brutal in his teaching about the grace of God. I believe that a study on the grace of God from the book of Galatians combined with the teaching from Romans could be a one-two punch that knocks out condemnation in your life. Praise the Lord!

Paul wasted no time making his point in his letter to the Galatian Christians. In chapter 1, verse 6, Paul said, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.” Paul used the terms “Gospel” and “grace” interchangeably. The heart of the Gospel is grace. Any deviation from that is a perversion of the Gospel.

The Galatian Christians hadn’t renounced Jesus as being their Messiah, but legalistic Jews had convinced them that they couldn’t be right with God by believing in only what Jesus had done. They were being told they also had to keep the Old Testament Law in order for God to accept them. The same lie is being propagated today, except now it’s said we have to be holy. We have to be holy, or the Lord won’t accept us or answer our prayers, etc. That’s not the Gospel.

In Paul’s day, the issue was circumcision. Today, the same legalistic message is being preached using things like prayer, Bible study, church attendance, and other actions of holiness as necessary actions for God to love and accept us. Faith in what Christ did for us is enough. It is not what Jesus did for us plus our actions of holiness. Jesus plus anything equals nothing. Jesus plus nothing equals everything.

No one argues that we shouldn’t pray, study the Word, go to church, etc., but any time it’s proclaimed that God is angry with us if we fail to do these things, it’s not the true Gospel. That type of teaching puts the burden of salvation on us and opens us to the condemnation of the devil. This is what Paul called a perversion of the Gospel in Galatians 1:7. Then in verse 8, Paul made one of the strongest statements he ever made,

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”

The Galatians must’ve been shocked! How could Paul say such a thing? He must not have meant what it looks like he meant. Therefore, just in case anyone missed it the first time, Paul repeats his radical statement:

“As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed” (verse 9).

In our politically correct world today, you don’t hear many absolute statements like these. How could anyone be so sure of themselves? Paul goes on to explain in the rest of the first chapter that he didn’t get his revelation of the Gospel from any man but directly from God. That’s why he was so adamant. There was no room for compromise in the Gospel.

In chapter 3, Paul calls the Galatians foolish for leaving the grace of Christ and going back to relating to God based on their performance. He also said they had been bewitched (Gal. 3:1). He reminds them how they had originally put faith in Christ alone and received all that God had for them through faith. Why had they gone back into legalism? That’s a good question.

Paul then shows them the real purpose of the Law. It wasn’t to help us live a holier life; it was to point out our sin to us and bring condemnation so we would never come into the deception that we could relate to God based on our own performance. Amazingly, the average Christian has totally missed this fact and, instead, embraces the Law as a good thing. The Law would be good if we could keep it, but Paul reveals that a failure to do the tiniest detail of the Law makes us guilty of all of it. Instead of receiving the blessing for obedience, one small failure brings the curse instead. The only way out of the curse is through faith in Christ alone. Christ bore our curse (Gal. 3:13).

Paul begins to summarize in chapter 5. He starts by saying, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” The yoke of bondage he is speaking of is the Law. He’s saying don’t go back to trying to please God by adhering to rules and regulations. The thing that pleases God is faith (Heb. 11:6).

Paul says in verse 2, “Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.” What a radical statement! That’s saying that if our trust is in something that we do to make us accepted with God, then what Christ has done for us will profit us nothing. This is exactly what is happening in the lives of many people. They know about Christ and believe that He purchased their forgiveness of sins, but they think they have to obtain that forgiveness through some merit of their own. That voids what Christ has done for them. They get what they deserve instead of what Christ did for them. What a shame! They have fallen from grace back into trusting in themselves.

Does all this grace mean we can just live in sin? It means that God loves us the same even if we live in sin, but Paul made it clear in Galatians 5:13 that holy living is still the right way to live: “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.” Grace doesn’t cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.
What happens if a Christian does take God’s grace for granted and lives in sin? Paul addressed that in verse 15:

“But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”

He is saying that there are still consequences to sin, but those consequences don’t come from God. Living in sin opens the door to the devil, and he will eat your lunch and pop the bag. We don’t want that.

As much as possible, we live holy, but we never do so in order to earn anything from God. That all comes by grace. When we do sin, we don’t come under condemnation about it and let the devil separate us from the love of God. We simply repent, which means we turn around and head in the right direction again, all the while enjoying the unbroken love of God.

I have a six-part album that teaches verse by verse through the book of Galatians. It’s a powerful teaching. There are so many more Gospel nuggets in the book of Galatians than what I’ve been able to expound here. There is also a 69-page booklet in the slip cover of this album that has 470 footnotes that I’ve written as well as hundreds of references and the actual King James Version text of Galatians. It’s a powerful resource tool for getting the revelation of God’s grace.

I encourage you to get this Galatians album and book, and if you haven’t yet ordered the Romans materials, please do so today. I believe these are some of the most important resources we have ever offered. They could literally change your life.

http://www.awmi.net/reading/teaching-articles/galatians/

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John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you…Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

The night before Jesus died, He gave His peace to His disciples—“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you…” This peace was not just for His disciples, but also for us today. We have His peace.

The moment you believe in Jesus Christ, He who is the Prince of Peace comes to live inside you. And when the Prince of Peace resides in you, every blessing that you will ever need pertaining to your soundness and wholeness is already inside you.

“Pastor Prince, if this is true, then why do I still see problems in my health, finances, family and relationships?”
The answer is a troubled heart. That is why after Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you,” He said, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

A troubled and fearful heart works like fingers that clamp down hard on a water hose. The supply of water is flowing from the tap, but little or nothing is coming out at the other end of the hose. God’s ever-present supply of blessings toward you is like the water flowing freely from the tap. But you don’t see the blessings when you allow your heart to be gripped by worry or fear.

So when fearful, anxious thoughts come, remind yourself of Jesus’ words: “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” Even when things appear to get worse, say, “Lord, I refuse to worry about this. In the midst of all this, I see the finished work of Christ. He said, ‘It is finished!’ So my child’s healing is accomplished. My marriage is blessed. My debts are cleared. I will let not my heart be troubled by these things.”

Beloved, I cannot “let not” for you. Your family and friends cannot “let not” for you. Only you can “let not your heart be troubled”. So guard your heart from being troubled. You don’t have to guard your career, reputation, children or even health. When you guard your heart, God will guard everything else for you!

Thought For The Day

When you guard your heart, God will guard everything else for you!


https://www.josephprince.org/blog/daily-grace-inspirations/let-not-your-heart-be-troubled