OMBS7/ Don’t Worry

PRAYER - "We Have Renounced The Hidden Things Of Dishonesty" You cannot be what God wants you to be while living a lie. God will not tolerate a hypocrite or a double-agent. If you are phony, rest assured that God knows it right now. You can deceive a lot of people, but you will never deceive God. Renounce your deceptive ways and never go back. God called you to be a manifestation of Truth. 2 Corinthians 4:1-2 - "Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully." PRINCIPAL - "Leavening In The Lump" A man who committed incest with his mother had to be put out of the Church (by Paul). But Paul also had to deal with the sin of being "puffed up" (pride, self- righteousness) in Church leaders. Every kind of sin is like leavening in a lump of bread dough. Jewish feasts required unleavened bread. We must constantly purge sin from our lives. 1 Corinthians 5:6-7 - "Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened." PRINCIPLE - "Put Away From Among Yourselves That Wicked Person" Like leaven dramatically changes bread dough, sin dramatically changes humans. Unleavened bread typifies the sinless Christ. The message says that we must keep sin out of our lives. "I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat." We cannot escape all the sin and sinners in the world, but we must keep the Church pure. 1 Corinthians 5:13 - "Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person." PROPHECY - "God Gave Us Bodies To Be Raised Up Forever With Him" God did not give us bodies to pollute or defile with sin, but to be Temples of the Holy Ghost. "The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; ...shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. ...he which is joined to an harlot is one body, ...But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." Christianity is not only for living here, but forever. 1 Corinthians 6:14 - "And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power." Watch this miracle on video Click here Don't Worry!

Therefore do not worry and be anxious. - Matthew 6:31, The Amplified Bible

God is vehemently against worry. Jesus preached against it. Paul preached against it. The whole Bible preaches against worry because it was designed by Satan to produce stress, strain and death. Yet many of us still act as if it's an option, as if we're free to worry if we want to. But we're not! Worrying is a sin. It's one of those things the Word of God directly commands us not to do. What are you supposed to do then with all the concerns you have about your problems? In 1 Peter 5:7, God says you should "cast them all upon Him." All. Not 75 percent of them. Not all of them but the ones about your kids. All of them! Your confession every morning should be, "I do not have a care in this world because I've cast every one of them onto my Lord." Let me illustrate how that works. Let's say you were standing about 20 feet away from me and I tossed my car keys to you. If someone else were to come to me and say, "Brother, I need the keys to your car. I need to use it," I would say, "I can't help you. I cast my keys over on him. I don't have them anymore." That's what you need to do with your worries. You need to cast them over on the Lord and not take them back. If Satan brings a worried thought to your mind, saying, "What if this terrible thing happens?" then you can tell him to talk to God about it. It's in His hands, not yours! Once you do that, changes will start to take place in your life. Problems you've been fretting about for years will start being solved. You'll no longer be tying God's hands with your worrying. His power can begin to operate because you've acted in faith and cast your cares on Him! Remember, though, God will not take your cares away from you. You have to give them to Him. Then you have to replace those worries with the Word. You are the one who has to keep your thoughts under control. But you can do it. The Greater One dwells within you. He is able to put you over. Commit to it. You'll never have to buy worry again.

Plan of Salvation read acts 2:38