Welling Seventh Day Adventist Church
God is Love
Good morning!!
Blessings for the new working week. Our God is an awesome God!
We were created to give worship, honour and praise to his holy righteousness name.
Our relationship with God must supersede everything else in our lives.
God is love. There is no shadow of turning with Him.
Unlike us, God is the same, yesterday, today and forevermore. That’s why we can experience in all of life’s seasons, the peace that passeth all understanding.
Why can we be assured that we can experience peace? The word of God tells us, it’s
‘Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit says the Lord of hosts.’
What is this telling us today?
It is not through our own strength that we prevail but by the spirit of the living God that rests within us.
What have you bound today? What is the source of your discomfort?
The power to break every yoke, burden and struggle comes from God.
The bible declares,
For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds…
Christ says to us, be at peace, so do not fear- I have already have overcome the world
Monday
Love
Perfect love drives out fear.’’
1 John 4:18 NIV
According to psychiatric reference, approximately two thousand classified fears exist.
What’s interesting is that psychiatrists say we are born with only two innate ones: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises.
That means we learn every other fear. And more importantly, that means we can unlearn every other fear.
The majority of us are shaped, for better or worse, by a handful of experiences. These defining experiences can plant a seed of confidence or a seed of uncertainty, a seed of hope or a seed of vulnerability, a seed of faith or a seed of fear.
John expresses the end goal of our relationship with God: ‘There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear’ (v. 18 NIV). The words ‘perfect love’ do not describe our love for God, but rather God’s unconditional, unearned, unfailing love for us. A pastor writes: ‘The goal of love is fearlessness! As we grow in a love relationship with God, we unlearn the fears that paralyse us and neutralise us spiritually. That is the essence of faith.
Faith is the process of unlearning your irrational fears.
The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God. And if we fear [love, honour, reverence, and respect] God, we don’t have to fear anyone or anything else. Unlearning our fears is really a process of learning to trust God more and more.’
One of the greatest promises God has given to us in Scripture is this: ‘He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man to do me?”’ (Hebrews 13:5-6 NKJV).