OMBS7/ Don’t Worry!

PRAYER - "We Groan To Be Clothed With Our Heavenly Bodies"

Mortality is burdensome. Pain, sickness and suffering eventually infect our mortal bodies. But saints of God have hope that when this body expires, we will have a heavenly body in paradise with Christ. 

2 Corinthians 5:1 - "We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: ...For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, ...that mortality might be swallowed up of life."

PRINCIPAL - "The Married Couple"

According to God's plan, marriage between a man and a woman provides the only context in which a sexual relationship can properly exist. God forbids fornication. That can be construed in these modern times as a sexual relationship between ANY two people of either sex. The Greek word for fornication is porneia, and may aptly apply to all sexual immorality or sexual perversions. God intends for our sexual needs to be fulfilled in a permanent committed relationship of marriage.

1 Corinthians 7:2 - "To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."

PRINCIPLE - "Suffer Yourselves To Be Defrauded"

It is shameful for saints of God to take brethren into secular courts of law. We should either arbitrate within the Church or suffer the loss. "Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? ...brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers." Better to suffer wrong than to reproach Christ.

1 Corinthians 6:7 - "There is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be.

PROPHECY - "Time Is Short; Put Aside Worldly Cares"

Paul urged everyone to work diligently, anticipating Jesus' return. "Brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none." Unmarried people can devote more, but married people should give their best.

1 Corinthians 7:32,34-35 - "He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: ...The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. ...this I speak for your own profit; ...that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction."

When sickness strikes, it’s wonderful to receive healing from the Lord. But you know what’s even better? Living in divine health all the time.

Salvation read acts 2:38

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, "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 worry again.

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