REMEMBER

 

NEVER ALONE, ALWAYS CARED FOR :

1 PETER 5:7 - Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

It does not matter how tightly knit our families are or how many close friends we have. When we go through a difficult time or trial, many a time, we still feel all alone and that no one really cares or understands.

Martha knew that feeling. She had on one occasion cried out to Jesus, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone?” (Luke 10:40) Jesus’ disciples also knew what it was like to feel small, alone and in trouble. They cried out, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” when they were swept up in a terrifying storm. (Mark 4:38)

Today, maybe the cry of your heart is also, “Lord, do You not care that I am left all alone…that I am going under…that I am perishing?”

My friend, the Lord does care for you. He loves you so much that He wants you to cast all your cares upon Him—not just some but all your cares. He wants both your big and small cares. There is nothing too small or big for Him. If it is a care in your heart, He wants you to cast it upon Him.

When the apostle Peter wrote “casting all your care upon Him”, he was talking about the continuous act of casting all your cares upon the Lord. As a care comes, God wants you to cast it to Him. That is the lifestyle He wants you to adopt. Why? The verse gives us the reason—“for He cares for you”. You are casting all your cares upon the One who loves you, and who left all of heaven to come and die for you. That is who you are casting your cares to. It is not just any person, but it is the One who gave His life for you!

When you are going through a difficult time, God wants you to believe that you are never alone because He Himself has said that He will never leave you nor forsake you. (Hebrews 13:5) As the object of His care, He will take care of you for the rest of your life. You are never alone and always cared for!

FAITH PLEASES GOD

by Claude Houde | December 14, 2013

Christ confronted the Laodicean church, which represented the Church of the end times. He gave her this warning that reaches out across the centuries to speak to you and me today: “Because you are lukewarm . . . I will spit you out of my mouth” (Revelation 3:16). What incredible words! What is the crime, the unimaginable sin committed by the modern Church? Listen to the words of the One who, above all, seeks our faith, trust and surrender: “For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. . . . Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me” (Revelation 3:17 and 20).

This passage of Scripture, so often quoted and applied completely out of context, is not addressing a lost world in need of “letting Jesus in.” Rather, it is a direct and solemn call to modern believers who are lazily lying on the bed of indifference, quite happy with themselves and the portion they have.

This generation has been diabolically blinded to the spiritual revelation that without a burning faith it is impossible to please Him. Jesus is literally and dramatically standing outside the door of a self-sufficient and oh-so-self-satisfied church that trusts in methods, strategies and “cutting-edge” paradigm shifts and tactics borrowed from the secular marketplace. He is crying out, “Let Me in! Repent! Turn away from these broken cisterns that will offer no living water! I call for a people whose trust and confidence will hold solely to My promises. I long for a people whose faith will allow them to see the invisible, believe the unbelievable, and receive the impossible!”

There can be worship, fantastic music programs, awesome buildings, impressive attendance, dynamic teaching, every imaginable church and social program, even Christian lingo and Bible quoting, but without faith it is impossible to please God! God delights in moving mountains and extravagantly unleashing all of heaven’s resources for breathtaking divine interventions when one sincere person simply turns to Him with true, passionate faith.

Burning faith asking with boldness still opens the heavens, moves His heart and His hand, and gives us unlimited access to surprising, inexhaustible, inexplicable, miraculous and supernatural resources. God says, “I love faith! Faith moves me! Faith will see My power and obtain My favor!” As a pastor in Montreal, I only need to take a sweeping look over the thousands of faces gathered on a Sunday morning to be reminded of modern-day miracles, stories and testimonies that joyfully announce to our cynical and skeptical world that faith pleases God!

HOLD YOUR PEACE :

“The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace and remain at rest.” - Exodus 14:14, AMP

One time in scripture, when the Israelites were facing an impossible situation, God told them, “Hold your peace. Remain at rest, and I will fight your battles.” Notice there was a condition, something the Israelites had to do. It’s the same for us today. Hold your peace. That indicates something is trying to take it away — thoughts of worry, fear, anxiety. You might think, “What if it doesn’t happen? What am I going to do?” If you will just stay in peace, the Creator of the universe, the Most High God will go to work on your behalf.

Remember, nothing can stand against our God. He has all power. He stopped the sun for Joshua. He closed the mouths of hungry lions for Daniel. Whatever you face in life, if you will just hold your peace and remain at rest, God promises He will fight your battles and lead you into everlasting victory!