BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Really, 3 days in a week?

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, while preaching in BRISTOL and MARIETTA, teaches us that we need to give ourselves 100% to God. That means that we give everything: our love, our trust, our fears, our sorrows, our attention, all of ourselves. God wants it all. He is a jealous God….nothing comes before him. What we are to do and what we actually do are two different things.  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS pointed out that so many diseases are associated with worry.  We are a society of worry and anxiety.  There are drugs to numb our anxiety and classes to reduce stress.  We worry about everything: what we look like, how to pay our bills, what our children are doing, what our elderly parents are doing, where our kids go to school, will they grow up and be successful, the list goes on and on.  We worry endlessly, and that worry takes our attention away from our Lord.  We need to learn to trust Him. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS says that worry is the ultimate act of rebellion against God in a believer’s life: when we worry as a believer, we are saying God is dead, he won’t do anything to help in our situation.

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS says that even though the calendar gives us seven days a week, there really are three.  Two of them we can’t do anything about, and we need to trust in God: we can’t do anything about yesterday, it is over.  We can’t do anything about tomorrow, we have absolutely no power over it. Today is the only day we have.  We need to be thankful for it, and with God’s help, we can face whatever comes. Philippians 4: 13 says “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (KJV). Trying to quit smoking?  Give it to Jesus.  Need to find a way to put food on the table?  Give it to Jesus.  Found out you have an incurable disease?  Give it to Jesus…He did heal people through their faith, it’s everywhere in the Gospels of the New Testament. When you give it to Jesus, who was the living God, you are saying you trust in God completely. In Matthew 6:25-34 (KJV) Jesus says “Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.  Is not the life more than meat, and the body then raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.  Are ye not much better than they?  Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?  And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cst into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith.  Therefore, take no though saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink, or Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these thing do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”  He said this during his Sermon on the Mount.  It is wise advice for the believer then and for the believer now.  You cannot change anything by worrying.  Each day has its own troubles and worries.  You can only deal with today, with the help of God.  Give him that chance.

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God bless you.