Don’t Worry – Have Faith!

hello everybody welcome to the believers voice of victory broadcast I'm Jeremy Pearson so thankful you're joining us on this broadcast today let's pray we'll get right into the Word of God father we thank you again today for your word thank you Lord for what your word has spoken to us and what you are continuing to reveal to us about your grace and the gift that has come to us through Jesus father we open our eyes today we open our ears and our hearts we want to see Jesus and nobody else we want to hear his voice and no other voice and we want to understand Lord who we are in Jesus and who Jesus is in us who your grace is in us we thank you for this and we receive it from you in Jesus name Amen praise the Lord we've been talking about the great grace of God we've been talking about the gift of God and anytime you see gift in Scripture you need to thank grace because that's what grace is and gift just means you didn't earn it gift means you didn't work for it you didn't sweat for it God didn't come knocking on your door telling he telling you that he owed you some salvation or he owed you some healing because of your good works no all of it has come as a gift the Bible tells us in the book of James that every good and perfect gift comes from the father and it comes from God to us through Jesus and we've just been thanking God for His grace and His great grace and his more grace that's been made available to us and we spent a week just laying that foundation of learning to recognize grace when you see it when you feel strengthened on the inside and you're able to accomplish more than you have before be quick to recognize hey that's the grace of God that's not because you're just some pretty special person that's the grace of God on you and His grace is what makes you pretty this grace is what's made you special and when you find that something that's been an addiction or a stronghold in your life year after year and then all of a sudden you find the ability to overcome it and you never deal with it again or even even as you sense that it's that the that it's had on you is lessening you'd be quick to recognize the grace of God is increasing on me and that's what we are to be doing increasing in grace we looked at the life of Jesus in the young life of Jesus the childhood of Jesus you might think well what do we have to learn from Jesus being a kid a lot as a matter of fact the Bible tells us from the time he was an infant all through his childhood years all through his teenage years all through his 20s what was going on he was growing in wisdom which is the grace of God in favor which is the grace of God in stature and maturity which is the grace of God he was growing in grace growing in favor with God and man and Jesus had to grow in that grace I was thinking about this earlier today you know you could ask the question well why didn't God just send Jesus and start working miracles through him when he was six years old that really what got people's attention right I mean what if this little six-year-old had showed up at the wedding and they ran out of wine and his mom said okay little Jesus I need you to do a miracle go turn this water into wine ah mom why didn't a little six-year-old do the miracles why wasn't he healing people as a twelve-year-old why weren't there miracles just flowing through him as a 20 year old because he was growing in grace all that time growing in the grace of God growing in the grace of God and it came to the point in his life and John recorded this in John chapter 1 he said we received of Jesus fullness we received grace upon grace grace for grace gift upon gift and we received it from his fullness Jesus grew in grace until he got full of grace and then that grace that he got full of was no longer in him but it came through him and the people around him received it from him amen the people around you are receiving from you whatever you are full of and if you're full of the grace of God praise God they're receiving race from you but if you are full of yourself then people are receiving you people are getting a piece of you and me watchful over the next time you tell somebody I'm just gonna give them a piece of my mind nobody needs a piece of your mind and to quote Reverend Kenneth Copeland you ain't got a piece to spare anyway that's being you full of you but Jesus wasn't full of himself he was full of the grace of God it was God in him working and willing to do his good pleasure and when he was full of that grace people around him received grace the reason I make mention of that is because we left off yesterday looking at 1st Peter chapter 5 which says to us something that James chapter 4 said to us which said something that that proverbs chapter 3 said to us which is this God resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble now that we're learning to recognize grace now that we're learning to identify it and now that we've recognized that there's more of it available we have to ask this question who gets the grace well we see here in three separate places that it's the humble that get the grace God resists the proud the proud don't get grace people who are full of themselves full of their own opinion full of their own thoughts full of their own judgment they don't get grace there's no room for grace why cuz you're full of yourself but the humble are the ones that get the grace that grow in grace first Peter chapter 5 again says this in verse 5 God resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble therefore or in light of that humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that he would exalt you in due time being exalted is the grace of God on your life being favored being promoted is the grace of God on your life you know when you got that promotion and there were six people in line in front of you that seemed to me more qualified for it that had been with the any longer that had paid more of their dues and somehow the promotion just came to you what did that was it your great looks was it your your sharp mind was it everything you have to offer no it was the grace of God in you and on you coming through you to the people around you and it caused you to be promoted the the humble get the grace and this verse is helping us identify our relationship with the mighty hand of God you're either being resisted by that mighty hand which means you aren't getting the help you aren't getting the grace you're not getting strength or that mighty hand is exalting you giving you grace upon grace and if you want that grace if you're a smart person then you will humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God you might think well great I will I'll do that I'll humble myself how do I do it verse 7 is the howl verse 5 and 6 is the what to do it's the why to do it verse 7 is the how to do it how do we humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God we do it by casting all our cares upon him for he cares for us that's how we humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God and I have to ask you this question that I asked you at the close of yesterday's broadcast if casting your care is humility what is carrying your care is pride to carry your own care to entertain worry in your mind to worry over your children to worry over your finances to worry over your job and career to worry over your life is to carry your own care and it's pride and God resists the proud at a moment when you need his help more than any other time in your life for you to carry the care of it can I tell you what you're saying you are you are actually saying to God God I got this in what you're saying I mean for you to lay awake at night worried what am I going to do what am I going to do what am I going to do that's what where he says worry has a motto and that's what it is what am I going to do what I want you to notice something there to ask yourself that question it's not good parenting it's not being a good worker it's not being a good boss it's pride and you're not getting the help that you need don't live like that you don't have time to live without the help of God you and I don't have time to live we don't have time to minister preachers listen to me you don't have you don't have breath to waste preaching a sermon without the grace of God on it because the best that it is is what you came up with it's what you laid awake worried it about what am I going to preach what am I going to say these people are looking to me they're looking to me for answers they're not looking to you and if they are they shouldn't be and if they are looking to you then what you need to do is say stop looking at me and look to Jesus why don't we all just have a care casting party and cast all our cares onto him let me tell you what Jesus said about this go with me to the book of Matthew chapter 6 let's find out what Jesus said about the cares of this world and specifically about worry because we're after more grace we want to find out how to get more grace we know grace is good and we know he's giving more of it but how do we get it jesus said in Matthew chapter 6 verse 24 no one can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other and then he said you cannot serve God and Mammon now oftentimes we translate that like this and I've done it and I've done it preaching and even recently and it's not wrong it's just not complete it's to say you cannot serve God and money which is true but the fullness of that that word he used Mammon isn't just money Mammon is it's the worldly of craving and desiring nothing but money Mammon is the passionate pursuit of money and Jesus is saying you cannot serve God and serve your pursuit and your own efforts to try to make yourself wealthy what's interesting about all that is he goes right from verse 24 into verse 25 and he says therefore or in light of that I'm saying to you do not worry about your life why would anybody passionately pursue worry or excuse me pursue money why would somebody wake up in the morning and the first thought on their mind be I got to make a buck how am I gonna make a buck how am I gonna make a living I gotta make a living I gotta make a living I gotta make a living can you hear that that's the same thing pride says and worry says what am I going to do what am I going to do to make a living what is it that would cause somebody to wake up with that thought live with that thought throughout their day come home from work with that thought try to fellowship with their family but can't because they've got that thought pressing at the forefront of their mind and then go to bed with that thought at night what am I gonna do tomorrow to make more money how am I going to make more money that's the passionate pursuit the obsessive pursuit of money and Jesus said you can't do that and serve God why because you if you're a servant that means you have a master that means you have somebody in charge of you and if you are servant that means you don't make your own decisions you don't call your own shots you go to your master you go to your boss and you say I want to do this can I do this how would you like me to do this when can I do this oh you don't want me to do that so I won't do that that means you are in service to that person and you cannot live your life in service to God and in service to your worry over finances because if you're in service to money and in service to that worry could bring across your plate and occur into your life an opportunity to invest in his kingdom to invest with a minister or a ministry or your church that's got some project going on that's rescuing people or building buildings or sending out the word and you get excited about it and you want to get involved but because you serve money because you serve your worry over money you say to God hold on I'd like to do that but let me check with them let me check with my boss real quick and you say uh money I hate to bother you right now and I'm sorry if this isn't a good time but you see there's this project at church and I really want to get involved and I was hoping maybe that you might let me get involved and I can maybe give some of you away to this project and money says well you know it's just not a good time right now and if you start giving me away you know then I might run out and you don't want me running out on you to you and you say oh no money no I I don't want you running out I need you I'm sorry I asked I apologize and you are forced to go back to God and say you know I'd love to but the guy I work for won't let me do it that's what it is to lay awake at night worried about your finances and Jesus said in light of this I'm telling you do not worry about your life what's interesting about these two little words do not you could take some time and study them in your Bible look them up in the original language and you're going to find that they could be and maybe even should have been translated like this you ready stop it these little words do not actually are translated stop it and there are other translations of the Bible that bear that out Jesus looked at this crowd of people and he said stop worrying about your life just stop it stop your worry stopped your care now let me ask you something if Jesus the Son of God the Lord head of the church the Messiah The Anointed One looks at you and tells you not to do something and you go ahead and do it anyway somebody help me what is that if you said sin right it is sin good job boys and girls that's exactly what it is it's sin when Jesus tells you to stop worrying and you continue to worry that's the sin of worry man and I can feel you getting mad at me right now lassen are you telling me worry is a sin no I'm not telling you where he is a sin Jesus is telling you worry is a sin and he said stop it he said do not worry about your life what you will eat what you will drink nor about your body what you will put on he said is not life more than food and the body more than clothing listen to this Jesus is asking you a question and when Jesus asks you a question Jesus expects you to answer the question he asked you this isn't life more than food and the body more than clothing you have to answer that and of course you know in the context of us sitting here talking about it the answer is yes but how obsessed oh are you over putting food on the table how obsessed are you over putting clothes and new clothes on your back Jesus is saying your life is more than this he goes on to say look at the birds of the air for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly Father feeds them are you not of more value than they he said which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature so why do you worry about clothing what's your worry ever done for you has it ever produced anything has worried over the food on the table ever put food on the table has worried about what you're gonna wear ever put clothes in your closet you stayed up all night worrying because you don't have anything to wear and you worried and you worried and you worried and you begged and you plead it and you cried and you worried and you're so glad you did because the next morning you got up and there was a closet full of clothes no that's never happened to anybody worries not producing anything for you he said why do you worry about clothing consider the lilies of the field how they grow they neither toil nor spin and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these now if God so clothes the grass of the field which today is and tomorrow is thrown in the oven will he not much more clothe you and then Jesus added this statement oh you of little faith now remember what we're talking about here we're talking about great grace and more grace that's made available to us who gets the grace the humble get the grace who are the humble they're the ones that have quit worrying over the food quit worrying over clothing they've quit worrying over finances they have stopped worrying over their life did you know it's a sign of pride to lay awake all night and worry because you are trying to figure out what you can do as opposed to saying to God hey I don't got this but I know you do it's great faith to say to God your grace is sufficient for me now notice Jesus said here if you're worried it's because you have little faith and we're talking about great grace but anytime you talk about great grace the next thought that needs to come to mind is if I want to receive any of the great grace it's going to take great faith to receive great grace because anything grace has provided has to be received by faith every good gift that God has provided through Jesus must be received by faith any grace must be received by faith great grace must be received by great faith I want you to listen to another time that Jesus identified people who were living in in small faith little faith this is in the book of Mark chapter 4 in verse 35 let me just read this to you it says on the same day when evening had come he said to them let us cross over to the other side now when they had left the multitude they took him along in the boat as he was and the other little boats were also with him and a great wind and the waves beat into the boat so that it was already filling but he was in the stern asleep on a pillow and they woke him up and said to him teacher do you not care that we are perishing then he arose and rebuked the wind and said to the sea peace be still and the wind ceased and there was a great calm but he said to them why are you so fear full how is it that you have no faith jesus said you were fear full and you had no faith fear full is faith less let me tell you something listen to me the Lord ministered this to me just this morning and this is the way he said it the presence of fear and the absence of faith are for the same reason listen fear is present and faith is absent for the same reason no revelation of love did you catch that these guys came down and woke up Jesus with these words you don't care didn't we just read in 1st Peter chapter 5 cast all your cares on to him for he cares for you how did Jesus know these guys were so afraid how did he know they were so full of fear and there was no faith in him it's because they came down and woke him up and questioned his love for them where there is no revelation of love there is no operation of faith listen to this again fear is present and faith is absent for the same reason no revelation of love but see you could turn that around and you could say this fear is absent and faith is present where there is a revelation of love first John chapter 4 verse 18 what does it say perfect love casts out all fear in this year of great grace we are going to receive our great grace by great faith but great faith only operates where there is a revelation of great love listen to this out of Ephesians chapter 2 verse 4 but God who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in trespasses and sins made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved great grace received by great faith out of a revelation of great love who gets the grace the humble who are the humble those who have cast their care how do you cast your care by meditating on how much you are loved when worry starts to set in what do you say I don't take that thought I don't receive that thought I cast my care onto the one who loves me he loves me he loves me he loves me and you meditate and you dwell on how much you are loved until that perfect love flushes out all fear all worry and all care that's how you get more grace I'm out of time but don't go anywhere I'll be back in just a moment [Music] Woori the belief that the lies of the devil are more powerful than the promises of God it releases fear into any situation fear of loss fear of failure fear of anything or anyone different fear that is tolerated creates bondage to twisted thinking warped words and a lifestyle of lack break the bondage of fear with the free from worry package featuring let not your heart be troubled a powerful - CD series from Kenneth Copeland that teaches you how to take authority over fear free yourself from the fear of death tap into the life source for all mankind it's combined with Jeremy Pearson's groundbreaking series who cares living free from the weight of worry the intuitive step-by-step guide to casting your cares on the Lord the free for worry package shows you how to break the cycle of fear with the love of God let the manifestation of God's grace set you free keep your heart and mind in perfect peace order the free from worry package today for just $19.99 a savings of over 30 percent go to KCM org slash TV special for call 800 600 700 write to us today cast your care on the Lord and discover how your carefree life is all wrapped up in one thing the love of Christ for an additional 10% off order the free from worry package online there are things in these teaching materials that you need to hear let not your heart be troubled this teaching series by my grandfather Kenneth Copeland you know you we you and I are living in the time where men's hearts are failing them for fear but there's a way that you can live without trouble in your heart I want you to get a hold of this and this goes right along with it my new series called who cares living free from the weight of worry that's a good question I'm really asking you a question who cares who cares about your life who cares about your family who cares about your finances and the answer is Jesus does amen get these things into your life get built up on what the grace of God has already provided for you and cast the care of it don't let your heart be troubled rest in God's grace live in the unforced rhythms of His grace amen order these get them into your home you're gonna be 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us so far let the Lord teach you let him do what he said he would do he said he was gonna teach us grace amen praise God thanks for joining me today we'll see you again tomorrow this is Jeremy Pearson's reminding you that Jesus is Kenneth Copeland ministries is here for you the believers voice of victory is available on DVD or CD at KCMO org you can also view the webcasts online at your convenience or download them as video or audio files continue to grow in God's Word and build your faith with this week's product offer these word based teachings will help you live in victory order your copy today receive the great grace God is abounding toward you and live in the blessing [Music] [Music]

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Length: 27min 57sec (1677 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 20 2017