12/09/07 3/4 I Give God My Fears.....

1. Beck From the Dead Time 2007-11-29 18:42
I Give God My Fears...And He Gives Me?God's Gift Exchange -- Part 2December 9th, 2007 ~ Matthew 6:25-30"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge..." Proverbs 1:7a (KJV)"In Christ we can come before God with freedom and without fear. We can do this through faith in Christ." Ephesians 3:13 (NIV)4 Common Fears We Can All Conquer Through Christ.Fear #1: The Fear Of Not Doing Enough...When I Give God My Fear...He Gives Me His Love."Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, and settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by His love." Ephesians 1:4 (MSG)"We know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. God is love. Those who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. This is how love is made perfect in us: that we can be without fear on the day God judges us, because in this world we are like him. Where God's love is, there is no fear, because God's perfect love drives out fear." 1 John 4:16-18 (NCV)"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it." John 3:16-17 (NLT)Fear #2: The Fear Of Not Having Enough...When I Give God My Fear...He Gives Me All I Need.Matthew 6:25-30"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?""So don't worry about these things, saying, 'What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?' These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need." Matthew 6:31-33 (NLT)Fear #3: The Fear Of Not Being Spiritual Enough...When I Give God My Fear...He Gives His Strength. "I don't really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don't do it. Instead, I do what I hate...And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can't. I want to do what is good, but I don't. I don't want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway...I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God's law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 7:15,18-19, 21-25b"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:2 (NIV)Fear #4: The Fear Of Not Being Enough...When I Give God My Fear...He Gives Me His Presence. "Answer this question: Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own presence, His Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves, does He do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust Him to do them in you?" Galatians 3:5 (MSG)
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