“DO NOT BE AFRAID! ONLY BELIEVE!!!!”
There is a lot of meat in this teaching. Holy Spirit created it for some among us who need it right now. It is a bit long, so for those with short attention spans, here is the Readers Digest version: “BELIEVE AND RECEIVE, DOUBT AND DO WITHOUT!” As explained by the late great theologian Loyd Skidmore.
The evil one has only one power: to lie! he is the father of all lies. He masters getting people to believe his false and ominous thoughts, bringing them to pass. He has many weapons to use to accomplish this purpose.
Jesus warned us about them:
- The lust for other things.
- The cares of this world (mainly the Fear of what others think).
- The pride of life.
- The deceitfulness of riches (Making the pursuit of money more important than the pursuit of Jesus).
FEAR is one of the evil one’s most effective tools. FEAR can overcome BELIEF.
BELIEF IS THE KEY TO A LIFE OF JOY AND GLADNESS!
As long as what you believe is or agrees with the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus. Jesus taught us that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE!
(Mark 9:23)
Jesus knows about Fear. He was tempted at all points, including Fear, as we are. That is why the Bible contains hundreds of messages from God and His messengers, urging us to “FEAR NOT”! (Hebrews 4:15)
Fear is a factor of unbelief. It is really that simple. If we believe and believe in Jesus, we do not need to fear anything. Of course, there are rational fears, like the Fear of standing in front of a moving locomotive. Jesus taught us about irrational fears, worry, anxiousness, gloom, despair, and depression, such as the Fear of economic insecurity or illness, etc.
There are many acronyms for Fear, such as Forget Everything And Run or False Events Appearing Real.
We can all think of things we feared and worried over obsessively, which never came to pass. That would include ninety-nine percent of all of them.
My old football coach told me that worry was a worthless emotion. He told me that if you can change something, do it. If not, why worry about it?
The good folks at Alcoholics Anonymous have a great guide that they recite every day; it is a wonderful message known as the serenity prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things that I can not change, The courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Jesus taught us that Belief overcomes Fear!
“Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither be afraid. You believe in and trust God; believe in and trust Me also!”
(John 14:1)
JESUS’S PRESCRIPTION FOR WORRY AND FEAR. AND ANXIETY:
“Therefore, I (Jesus, The Great I Am, The Author and Finisher of Our Faith, Who Gave us His Faith) tell you, STOP BEING WORRIED OR ANXIOUS, perpetually uneasy, distracted about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, as to what you will wear. (2Peter1:1, Hebrews 12:2)
Is life not more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow seed nor reap the harvest nor gather the crops into barns (In our time, this means that they do not work) and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?
And who of you, by worrying, can add one hour to the length of his life? And why are you worried about clothes? See how the lilies and wildflowers of the field grow; they do not labor nor do they spin wool to make clothing, yet I say to you that not even Solomon (The wealthiest man who ever lived, including our modern-day billionaires.) in all his glory and splendor dressed like one of these.
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive and green today and tomorrow, is cut and thrown as fuel into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! (At this time, people lived by their flesh faith, which tells you that if you sit in a chair, it will not collapse. He had not yet paid the price to give those who believe and believe in Him His faith. 2 Peter 1:1)
“THEREFORE, DO NOT WORRY OR BE ANXIOUS! Saying, ‘What are we going to eat?’ or ‘What are we going to drink?’ or ‘What are we going to wear?
(Meaning do not give into the Fear of economic insecurity or any other perpetual fear)
Unbelievers (Those who do not believe and believe in Jesus) eagerly seek all these things, but DO NOT WORRY, for your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But first and most importantly, seek aim at, strive after His kingdom and His righteousness (Jesus and His Gospel), AND ALL OF THESE THINGS WILL BE GIVEN YOU AS WELL.”
‘SO DO NOT WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW; tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own’ (Meaning: Live in this present moment)
(Matthew 6:25-34)
That message is an unambiguous teaching from Jesus! It directs us to live in this moment! It challenges us not to delve into the past or the future, which do not exist. AND WHY SHOULD WE WORRY SINCE WE BELIEVE WITHOUT DOUBT THAT JESUS HAS ALREADY GIVEN US ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO LIFE AND GODLINESS, INCLUDING HIS FAITH?
(2Peter1:1-4)
HOW BELIEF CAUSES US TO RECEIVE THE HEALING JESUS GAVE US ON THE CROSS:
“When Jesus had again crossed over in the boat to the other side of the sea, a large crowd gathered around Him, so He stayed by the seashore.
One of the synagogue officials named Jairus came up and, seeing Him, fell at His feet and begged anxiously with Him, saying, ‘My little daughter is at the point of death; please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.’ And Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed Him and pressed in around Him from all sides.
(Acknowledging Jesus, believing and believing in Him, or even speaking to Him was an offense so grave for a priest that Jairus could have lost everything he had and probably did.)
A woman in the crowd had suffered from a hemorrhage for twelve years and had endured much suffering at the hands of many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but instead, it had become worse.
She had heard about Jesus, came up behind Him in the crowd, and touched His outer robe. She thought,’ If I touch His clothing, I will get well.’
IMMEDIATELY, her flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body and knew without any doubt that she was healed of her suffering.
Immediately, Jesus, recognizing in Himself that power had gone out from Him, turned around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched My clothes?’
His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in around You from all sides, and You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’ Still, He kept looking around to see the woman who had done it.
And the woman, though afraid and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole Truth.
Then He told her, ‘Daughter, your faith has restored you to health; go in peace and be permanently healed from your suffering.’
Two Key points: Jesus explained to the woman in the presence of the enormous crowds following Him that her belief/faith healed her. Also, it was a stoning-to-death offense for a woman in her condition to touch the robes of a Rabbi or Priest. She was willing to risk everything because her Belief was so strong. That is the kind of Belief that causes us to receive everything.
While He was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue official’s house, saying to Jairus, ‘Your daughter has died; why bother the Teacher any longer?’
Overhearing what was being said, Jesus told the synagogue official, ‘DO NOT BE AFRAID ONLY KEEP ON BELIEVING IN ME AND MY POWER!!!!!’.
And He allowed no one to go with Him as witnesses except Peter and James and John, the brother of James.
They came to the house of the synagogue official, and He looked at the uproar and commotion and people loudly weeping and wailing in mourning. When He had gone in, He said to them, “Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died but is sleeping.”
They began laughing at Him because they knew the child was dead. But He made them all go outside, took along the child’s Father and mother and His own three companions, and entered the room where the child was.
Taking the child’s hand, He tenderly said, ‘Talitha kum!’—which translated from Aramaic means, ‘Little girl, I say to you, get up!’ The little girl immediately got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old. And immediately, they who witnessed the child’s resurrection were overcome with great wonder and utter amazement. He gave strict orders that no one should know about this and told them to give her something to eat.
When you are worried, sad, afraid or anxious, DON’T WORRY TRUST JESUS! Whatever the tribulation you have in your life, Jesus has overcome it. So, be of Good Cheer! Believe and Trust Jesus!
(John 16:33)
END OF TEACHING
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