Pst. E.A. Adeboye 16 December
FEAR AND FAITH
Memorise: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. not
as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither
let it be afraid. John 14:27
Read: John 14:1, 27
In Psalms 42:5, the Psalmist observed that in spite of what he
did, he was still worried. Christians often get worried in spite of God's
express command that we should not. In John 14:1, the Lord says we should not
let our hearts become troubled and He gave a recipe to worries: believe in God
and in Jesus. Faith is the solution to worries. Also in John 14:27, He says not
only should your heart not be troubled, but that you should also keep fear away
from you. Fear and faith are diametrically opposed to each other but similar in
the sense that each involves some form of believe. The fearful believes that
something unpleasant is going to happen while the faithful believes that
something good is about to happen. In both fear and faith, there is an
expectation and expectations can be very strong sometimes. In fear, there is
believe, but this believe is in the wrong thing or the wrong person. When you
express strong belief in the occurrence of something negative, you are
misapplying the creative power in you.
The fearful believes in something and the confident also
believes. This simply means that there is nobody who has no expectation. There
is nobody too who can say I have no faith. You express faith one way or the
other whether you like it or not. The most fearful and suspicious people are
people with great faith potentials. Are you always very fearful? You have the
capacity of manifesting great faith. In fact, if you start to believe strongly
in something good happening in your life or situation in place of the negative
thoughts, you will get the Lord's commendation. However, when you have
expectations or faith, for it to work very well, it must be connected with God,
Jesus and the Holy Spirit. If you say you believe in God but do not believe in
Jesus, your faith will be unable to deliver its best to you. Another thing is
that you must be in the place of righteousness for faith to deliver its best.
If you are in sin but you believe in the Godhead you have just placed a log on
your wheel of faith. Remove it; remove that bitterness, lie, deceit and hatred.
Remove pride, envy and jealousy and ensure you are completely clean so as to
effectively activate your faith.
PRAYER POINTS:
Father, turn every fear in my heart into faith. Pray for a
successful
Lets-Go-A-Fishing programme (Evangelistic Outreaches) at all
locations
this season, asking for a great harvest of souls.
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