John 14:1. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.
Jesus was about to do the most horrific and amazing thing he had ever done, to be crucified and then resurrected; and right before this story, he tells them don’t worry, believe in me and God.
He continues on to tell them the wondrous future they had ahead of them and that He was going to be there preparing a place for them.
That’s how Jesus stayed in a place of peace even though the trials were happening around him and knowing that his friends would abandon Him.
I love how God knows what I need each day. I’ve had a rough week, just because of my own mind, I think. My hair has started to fall out, and as I’ve constantly been in touch with the doctor and her nurse, they said “Well, some people this happens to and we don’t know why some do and some don’t”.
That took me down a worrying path and a sad path, and I let my heart be troubled. I carry these thoughts around in me, and then other thoughts begin to stick to it…”is the treatment working? Will we have enough money? What if I never get out of here? I’m missing “home”…” and on and on it goes into nowhere good. Why is it that every single bad thought you have thought, comes to celebrate this one nagging one? What is it that I do to collect these thoughts? I receive them instead of countering them with the word.
God told me what to do…Let not your heart be troubled. I’m going to need God to help me with this one. I need His power and to trust and believe in Him. Not what my thoughts want to tell me….and of course we know who’s behind these thoughts. It starts with me giving permission to my thoughts and then the devil jumps in with his thoughts.
But I love how I only had to spend one day in worryville and it wasn’t until I picked up my bible that the answer came. And how fast it came! Thank you God.
So, I’m reaching out to my wonderful friends to ask for prayer to “not let my heart be troubled”. To ONLY BELIEVE God’s word and not my fears. That Jesus is the way the truth and the life, no one can get to the Father except through Him. There’s no other way. I can trust Him.
An acquaintance sat by me in the iv chair Friday and began to mock a person who said he was “born again” and they caught Him texting during a worship service. She went on to tell me that they were going to tease him by sending him a picture of himself. Then she told me about attending a party of one of the couples that left here and how she enjoyed herself in wishing them well as they left…of course it was the couple that seemed to have invited everyone except us, and we were sitting home waiting for people to come over. I let the devil have a space in my brain with that one…so I comforted myself with a story a dear friend told me that he heard a story of someone who had died and as they were leaving this earth they were given that moment to decide if they believed and accepted Christ. Somewhere in their past someone had told them to accept Christ and they would have eternal life. They didn’t want to do that at the time they were told, but in that moment of decision, God gave them time to be able to have the choice again. God doesn’t want anyone to be lost. I’m praying that I will be that person to some here. That they will hold on to that truth even if they don’t accept it today, I’ll still get to see them in heaven. Makes witnessing even better, especially when people get upset with you. I carry the seeds of truth!
Thanks faithful friends. I cherish your prayers because they have power!