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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

Philippians 4:6
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
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On the road to Damascus a Pharisee named Saul was on his way to persecute and arrest any man or woman he found who followed Jesus and bring them bound up to Jerusalem. {Acts 9:1-2} God had other plans and Jesus found him! It was true (and still is) that Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost! {Lk.19:10} He was blinded to anything but Jesus for three days as he stayed in the house of Ananias in Damascus where he was told how much he would suffer for the Lord's sake! {Acts 9:16}

That man, a Pharisee named Saul, had a brilliant mind in the natural, a mind dedicated to the traditions of the elders. {Gal.1:14} But now Paul the apostle a new creation, a bond-servant of Christ, had a beautiful mind totally dedicated to serving the Lord. The key to his life from that time on being lived in the triumph of Christ {2Cor.2:14} was now built on a firm foundation, hearing from the Lord. For even then, just as today, faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. {Rom.10:17}

I know that he would have heard the instruction from the Sermon on the Mount faithfully passed along by the original disciples that no man can serve two masters, so he should not worry about his life, what he would eat, what he would drink or what he would wear. {Mat.6:24-25} As a Pharisee He would certainly have heard the words of King David who wrote, “Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.” {Ps.55:22}

Now , you and I need to follow Paul's instruction to rejoice always, pray without ceasing and to give thanks in everything, which is God's will for us. {1Th.5:16-18} That would be the foundation of his message not just to the believers in Philippi but also to us in today’s verse. We also know and have to be aware of the consequence of not trusting in the Lord in all places and cases in these troubling times. I for one desire to live a fruitful life, being used by God to touch other lives with His Word and His love—something that the enemy does not want to see happen.

In the parable of the sower and the seed Jesus proclaimed:

“And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty." (Matthew 13:22-23)

CAST YOUR CARES UPON THE LORD, HE CARES FOR YOU