There’s a right time to hold on and another to let go. Ecclesiastes 3:6 Jesus taught us to trust God in the timing of the trials of our lives. We don’t need to be afraid, controlling, or steer the outcome elsewhere. All we really need to do is trust God and follow his plan/ways. Do you live in fear? I once had an acquaintance state how she saw how I lived in fear. I can look back and realize she was also living in a lot of fear. Do your fears cripple you to where you try and control the outcomes or stop you from…
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Cast Your Cares
“Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.” Psalms 55:22 How are you feeling today? Are you anxious or scared? Concerned? There are so many things happening in our world, we can become any of the emotions I mention above. One thing or maybe I should say person that can help us when we have these feelings is God. Whenever we are facing difficulties that is too much for us to handle on our own, God tells us to put the weight of our worries on him. God will carry us through and walk along side us through…
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Stand By Me
But the Lord stood by me and strengthen to me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the Lions mouth. 2 Timothy 4:17 Paul spoke truth. He was bold and courageous. God stood by Paul when no human would. In Acts 23 verse 11, it says the following night the Lord stood by him and said, “ take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome. “ Paul was anxious and nervous about what was about to happen to him. It looked as…
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In Everything By Prayer
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6 Do you ever worry about things? Your job, friends, spouse, children, church, others? A cure to help stop the worry is to pray. Taking your worries to God first helps take the focus off of difficulty of it and puts it on the power of God. With prayer, we renew our trust in God’s faithfulness by giving him all of our anxieties and problems. We can trust that when we give it all to him, He will take care of it and us. When God takes…