Text: John 14:1, 27
“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”.
In the book of 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 directly 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:
Father, turn every fear in my heart into faith.
If you are yet to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour, this is
another chance for you to do that today by praying this prayer
“Lord, I open my heart to You, and invite
You to come into my life, and make me into the person You want me to be. Jesus,
I accept You as my Lord and Savior”. Amen
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By Reuben Boboye Olisawo
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