Tonight I want to talk about and look at some words that are in the Bible. I want to start off by looking at the words Fear and Heart. When we think of the words Fear and Heart, we look back to different stories in the Bible, and we think of scriptures that talk about what the Bible says about Fear and Heart. We're going to look at those scriptures now.
The scriptures we are going to look at are Isaiah 41:10, 1 John 4:18, Psalm 34:4, 2 Timothy 1:7, Joshua 1:9, Philippians 4:6, John 14:27, and Psalm 27:1. The next scriptures we are going to look at are Matthew 5:8, Psalm 51 verse 10, Psalm 34 verse 18, Proverbs 3 verse 5-6, Matthew 22 verse 37, and John 14 verse 27.
When we think of Fear and we think of Heart, we think of How God has not given us a spirit of fear but of a sound mind. Now let us talk about the word Fear for a moment because when we think of the word Fear, and how it relates to Heart, well sometimes we allow fear to come into our heart because we are scared but we also know that Fear is a liar. The feeling of fear that we allow come into our heart is allowing the enemy to come into our heart and say to us, I know that God has given you Joy, Hope, Peace, Kindness, Grace, Mercy, Friendship with others, has shown you Love, and I know you have Faith, and I know that the Discipleship that you have for God because you're a servant of His is great, but don't you ever get scared, don't you ever have a fear of loneliness, a fear of missing out? A fear of missing out on doing the things you love? While we may have a little bit of fear and feel loneliness, we as children of God don't let the enemy talk us out of all the things God has given us because if we did we would be lonely, feel loneliness all the time. We wouldn't have Joy to be happy, we wouldn't have peace because we feel scared and lost all the time. We wouldn't have all of these things that God has given us in our hearts, to know that the plans that He has for us are not to harm us but to give us a hope and a future. It's just like in a Matthew West song where it says Hold on cause that's when Hope returns. We have to have Discipleship, we have to have Hope, Mercy, Love, Kindness, Grace, a Childlike Faith, Joy, Peace, and Love towards one another. If we don't have these traits, if we don't have any of that, the only thing that we have left is loneliness and fear. The only thing that we will have is a spirit of loneliness and fear. Although scripture says: For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of a sound mind. I mentioned that twice tonight because I feel it's important to understand what we are learning.
The reason I'm not giving out more scriptures on all of these words is because I want us to be able to share things in a minute, but I want to take a second to ask these two questions to all of you. The questions I have for all of you tonight is this: When we take all of these traits and we read about them in the Bible, how can we remember to apply the good traits to our lives, and not worry about the traits that God doesn't want us to worry about all the time like loneliness and fear? How can we take what we learned about last week about Salt Of The Earth, and apply it to what we've been learning about tonight? These are the things that I would like to end on tonight in hope that what we take away from tonight, we will and are able to share it with somebody who may need to hear it for themselves as well.
The first thing I would like to leave with is this: When character is lost, All Is Lost.
The second thing I would like to leave with is this: Every problem is a character-building opportunity.
Here are the last two things I want to end on.
Great character like massive roots, grow deep when water is sparse and winds are strong.
The last thing I would like to end on tonight says this: ''A enduring heart shows the courage of God in your character. A persistent heart shows the Faith of God in your character. A affectionate heart shows the love of God in your character. Most of all No One has the power to take God away from you.''
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