Why do we hear many people, including Christians say “oh I do worry.” Worry causes anxiety and anxiety causes stress and stress causes an imbalance in our behaviour and importantly we do not walk with Christ in that time.
God has .afe it abundantly clear in Matthew 6 v 25 to 34. There, you will find 7 yes 7 Reasons NOT to worry!! Read them, and when you get to verse 30 at the end, it says if you worry, it shows a lack of faith in God .
“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own”.
A Passion for Excellence is a phrase that describes the strong desire of a person to do what is outstanding, extraordinary and remarkable, following a continuous path of trying to live an excellent productive life.
I can hear people say, I’m human and I make mistakes so I cannot always strive for excellence I make mistakes aren’t we all like this. So let me challenge us all by remembering that once we accept Christ as our Lord and saviour, presumably we then accept Luke 9 v 23 Then he said to the crowd, ´If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me´.
So when Jesus says we must deny ourselves and take up our cross daily, He is speaking about “dying to self”, not dying physically on a cross, but dying to our own selfish desires, to do the will of God…. daily. A Christian life is a life of surrender and sometimes sacrifice, but also an adventurous journey.
Imagine Jesus is standing right by you now, WOW goosebumps all over, well wouldn’t we be filled with passion, excitement and want to do our very best for Him, I personally don’t always get it right however I do try.
People with a passion for Christ want to follow him. They want to learn as much as possible about Him, his teachings, and His commands. Passionate Christians love Christ. If you’re passionate for Christ, you desire to grow in your faith and want to have biblical fellowship with other believers. On the flipside the amazing thing is that God is passionate about having a relationship with each and every one of us.
Good words will….
From the fruit of his words a man shall be satisfied with good, and the work of a man’s hands shall come back to him [as a harvest].
Proverbs 12:14 (AMP)
Two words that will cause you a problem ….
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but an encouraging word makes it glad.
Proverbs 12:25 (AMP)
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Matthew 6:25 read upto verse 34
The consequences of wrong words …….
But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak.
Matthew 12:36 (AMP)
Christian qualities we ought to live by?
Christians should be God-fearing and humble. They should display the fruit of the Spirit given in Galatians 6: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control. While no Christians possess these qualities perfectly, we must and will continually grow in them as a result of the Spirit’s work in us.
Your personal quality of life depends on the quality of your thoughts. The kind of thinking you have takes your life in that direction. You always have a choice as to how you want to live your life.
What I take from the passage above is that this is the world’s always focusing on the individual, what I want to do, as if I have freedom of choice. Well whatever your views, what if seriously what if we decided to live God’s way and choose the right path!
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