Worry.
Anxiety.
Stress.
Did you know that over 70% of the people in the world
experience stress, to such a degree, that it affects not only their mental health,
but also their physical health, as well.
Where does it come from?
Why do we worry?
Why do we have anxiety?
It comes from fear.
Fear for our future.
Fear for our family.
And just look at the fear the corona virus caused all over the world.
People going and buying an insane amount of toilet paper.
There is fear all over the world.
And apart from that, there's fear of rejection.
We fear loneliness.
Getting old.
We fear death.
We fear things that we cannot control, and we fear the unknown.
But God Almighty says, 'Do not fear'.
Isaiah 41:10 says. "Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."
And do you know what is the most frequent command in the Bible?
The old testament and the New testament.
Some of you might say things like, do not murder, or love your neighbor as yourself.
But no, it is not.
The most frequent command of the Word of God is.
Do not fear.
It says those words over a hundred times in Scripture.
And then if you add those kind of words that says, do not worry, do not be anxious,
It goes over 300.
It is not a suggestion.
It is a command.
God clearly wanted us to get the message.
Because fear is not from God.
2 Timothy 1:7 says, "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
So, how do you overcome fear?
Well first, you need to recognize it.
You cannot let fear control your life.
You need to learn how to recognize the lies and evil strategies of the devil, and then you need to resist it.
But how do you recognize it?
By studying God's Word!
The truth.
The only way to know the difference between a lie and the truth.
Is to know the truth.
It is easy, right?
Well, no not if you do not know God's Word.
It is only God's Word, the truth, that will set you free.
Jesus said in John 8:31,
"If you abide in My Word You are my disciples indeed.
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
So, when a lie just suddenly pops up into your head.
You attack it with biblical truth.
For example, if you suddenly get this thought of, 'Man, I did so many bad things in the past.
God cannot love me. I'm worthless. How can anybody love me?'
You realize that it's a lie, because it is in contrast.
It is the opposite of what the Bible teaches us.
So you attack it with the Bible.
With the truth.
And you say, no Romans 8:38 says,
"That neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come,
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
So, it's the Word of God that changes you.
It transforms your mind.
It renews your mind, and you start to live by it.
It becomes part of you.
So when fear comes.
You recognize it for what it is and you fight it with the Word of God.
And the best weapon that we have is the promises of God, that He already revealed to us in Scripture.
It's already here.
And you can trust Him, because God never change.
His promises remain the same.
Malachi 3:6 says, "For I am the Lord, I do not change.
And God says in Psalm 89:34, "My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
So God does not change.
He is the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow.
You can all hold on to His promises.
You know, I meet a lot of Christians.
They are always looking for the supernatural.
They go to churches, where these pastors prophesy over people.
And then they hope that they are one of the people that get chosen,
That this pastor' prophesy something for them.
But you know, we already have God's promises in Scripture.
And if you are His child, a true Christian. You can hold on to His promises.
For example in Matthew 6:31
Jesus says, "Therefore do not worry,
Saying, 'What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?"
For after all these things that Gentiles seek.
For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Just in this promise.
God tells us two things.
Stop worrying and He will provide.
But did you know, that most of the promises of God requires one condition.
What is this condition?
What do you have to do to get God's promises?
That He will take care of you.
You have to put God first in your life.
Meaning you have to obey His will and follow Him.
For example, in this promise that I've just read to you, just a few seconds ago.
At the end of it in verse 33 it says,
"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things
Shall be added to you."
So I want to ask you a question.
Is God first in your life?
Do you love him with your whole heart and soul?
With your whole being?
Or do you just sometimes pray to Him whenever you need Him.
You use Him as a crutch.
And then the second question.
If you say yes, if you really do love Him, and you put Him first.
Then do you really trust Him?
Proverbs 3:5 says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."
Do you really trust God with your whole life?
With everything?
With the future?
With your family?
With your money?
Your work, with everything?
Do you trust God?
You might say well, 'Yes, Daniel, I trust Him.'
Then why do you fear?
You see, the moment you fear, you don't trust God anymore.
You started to move out of His rest and you don't have peace anymore.
James 1:6 says, "But let him ask in faith,
With no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind."
Do you feel like your life is like a wave in the sea, driven and tossed by the wind?
By worldly, temporary problems.
You got to shift your focus from the problem to God.
That can solve everything.
You know, Peter did the same thing.
Let me read it to you.
Matthew 14:23, "And when He had sent the multitudes away He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray.
now when the evening came, He was alone there.
But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.
Now on the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.
And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled,
Saying, 'It is a ghost!' And they cried out for fear.
But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Be of good cheer! it is I; do not be afraid."
And Peter answered Him and said, 'Lord, if it is You command me to come to You on the water.'
So He said 'Come.'
And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus."
But when he saw the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink
he cried out saying. 'Lord, save me!'
And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him,
'Oh you of little faith. Why did you doubt?
And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.
Then those who were in the boat came and worshiped Him, saying, 'Truly you are the Son of God."
You see, Peter was okay.
When he looked at Jesus, he was okay.
He walked on the water.
But the moment he changed his focus from Jesus Christ, to his problems. He started to sink.
It wasn't the water, It wasn't the wind, that made him sink.
It was his doubt, his fear.
God is always there and He will help us.
That's what He promised us.
We should not doubt.
Our father owns and controls everything, every little thing in this universe.
He knows the number of hair on your head.
And He can change your life in an instant.
But you know, most of the time, He's just waiting for us to learn our lesson first.
What lesson?
The lesson to put Him first.
To have Jesus Christ as our priority, in every single thing we do.
Remember, He already knows what you need.
Matthew 6:8 says,
"For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.
And I've said this before, but I have to say this again.
Because it's one of the biggest lessons that I've learned.
It is, that the things that I think I need, is so different from the things, that God knows I need.
A lot of people out there.
Pray for God for something and then when they don't get it, they are angry.
We are so small, little tiny humans with a three-pound brain.
It's so silly.
We cannot see the future.
You might pray, that you get that job for the interview that you just went to,
but God knows if you get it, you won't reach your full potential.
Or your purpose in this life, and you'll be unhappy.
So you need to trust God.
That He will give you everything you need, in every different season of your life.
If you put Him first in your life.
1 John 5:14 says, "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything
according to His will, He hears us."
Now most people only focus here on the words,
"If we ask anything he hears us".
And for some reason they they skip the rest that says, "According to His will".
So you can know with full confidence, that if you ask anything of God that is consistent
with His plan and purpose for your life.
He will hear you.
Jeremiah 17:7 says, "Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.
For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not fear when he comes; but its leaves will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit."
You see, when you truly trust God, you will see your problems very differently,
because when you are anchored in the God Almighty.
Who promises that He will take care of you.
You have nothing to fear.
Even when a situation looks bad, you have no idea what God has in store
Or how God can change the situation, or what its gonna lead to.
You have no idea.
It just looks bad to you, because you have imperfect thoughts.
This bad situation might actually be good,
but you can't see it because you can't see the whole puzzle of how God works.
And be honest.
Most of the time we fear, we are unhappy, because we want, what we want.
But we need to accept God's will in our lives.
We need to trust Him.
You know the apostle's were even singing in prison in a bad situation.
In acts 16:23 we read,
"And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison."
Verse 25,
"But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God,
And the prisoners were listening to them.
Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken;
and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's changed were loosed,
and the keeper of the prison, awakening from sleep and seeing the prison doors open
supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself.
But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, 'Do yourself no harm for we are all here.'
Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trebling before Paul and Silas.
And he brought them out and said, 'Sirs what must I do to be saved?'
So they said, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.''
So you see, Paul, Silas, they had no fear.
They trusted God. They were singing hymns and praying in prison.
And you know, if God did not allow them to go to prison, which looked like a bad situation.
That guard would never have given his heart to Christ.
And if you read on the passage there, it also says that his family also became Christians.
How amazing is that?
So you need to know, that God might allow certain things in your life, to change you,
or to change the people around you.
It's not always about you
You know, what if you accept it.
If you accept God's will in your life, then you will fear nothing.
Because then you know God is in control.
You know, this is the answer to every question that people had for centuries.
Everybody wants to know, 'How can I be happy in life?'
How can I have that peace, that even surpasses my own understanding, even in difficult times?
How can I have that peace?
Because that's what everybody is after.
They try to find their peace and happiness in relationships, or money, or drugs,
or all these kind of things, but you can't get it in worldly things.
So the answer is, and always was, and always will be the same.
You can only find it in Jesus Christ.
Jesus said in John 4:10 to the woman at the well,
"If you knew the gift of God, and who it is, who says to you
'Give me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.
The woman said to Him, 'Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and this well is deep.
Where then do You get that living water?
Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?
Jesus answered and said to her, 'Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.
But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."
The woman didn't understand she kept looking at physical worldly things,
And Jesus wanted her to see, to understand that which is spiritual, the unseen.
Are you like that woman in the well?
You just continue on looking at physical things, and God just wants you to learn.
To take your focus off of all these worldly temporary worries, and fears, and anxieties, and look to God.
To Jesus Christ, that can solve everything for you, because He is the answer to everything.
Of course, God can fix your temporary problems.
He can do it, but it is more important for Him that you understand,
that if you have Jesus, you have everything you need.
This is the spiritual water, that Jesus talks about.
Do you want this eternal water?
Do you want God's peace inside of you, that surpasses all understanding.
It starts with you fully surrendering every single aspect of your life to God.
And that includes fear.
if you want to know how to do that.
Then watch this video here and I'll see you there.
Now remember, God loves you,
and I love you, too.
Bye!
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