By:
Bro. Bong Lozano
In John 14:15,21, Jesus said “If you love me, you will obey my commandments “ OBEDIENCE to Gods commandments means LOVE and He will send His Holy spirit our helper, the paraclete for what? To reveal the TRUTH about GOD. To reveal means to make unknown to be known. After we obey God, He gives us a gift, a reciprocal love who is the Holy Spirit of God, His love for us. Because of our obedience to Jesus, we show our love to God, then He will REVEAL HIMSELF to us. HIS VERY SELF. WOW! Great GOD and MIGHTY GOD we have! What are these things that we have to obey? “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART,WITH ALL YOUR SOUL AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND…LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF “Mt.22:37-39.If we OBEY GOD, If we will follow His commands He will reveal Himself to us. It is written, “Once and for all I will make the nations know my power and my might; they will know that I am the Lord” Jer.16:21
In accepting Jesus’ commands, we OBEY Him and He will REVEAL Himself by the help of the Holy Spirit about the TRUTH. One of the problems of the apostles that confront them is, when Jesus will leave them. The apostles start to worry. They were very much troubled. They are so worried of so many things because of Jesus will be back soon to the Father. John 14:28. They worry because of Jesus’ words of leaving them. There is a powerful word Jesus uttered to them…”PEACE!”. “PEACE is what I leave with you” Jn.14:27. Then He followed it up with, “DO NOT BE WORRIED AND UPSET, BELIEVE IN GOD AND BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.” In our world today, oh, we have so many things that bother us for example economic problems, emotional problems physical problems, political problems, ecological, cultural and spiritual problems. We are personally confronted with day- to- day worries. We worry about today and much more , we are worried of what lies tomorrow. In Matthew 6:25-34 describes the worries of man. This is what we are. These are the worries of man. Food, clothing, shelter, and what the future will bring. Again, Jesus said, “SO DO NOT START WORRYING “Mt.6:31. It is Jesus whom we believed and worship talking to us. Do we really BELIEVED and FOLLOW Jesus? If we do, then “DO NOT BE WORRIED! DO NOT BE UPSET! “INSTEAD, BE CONCERNED ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE WITH WHAT HE REQUIRES OF YOU AND HE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH ALL THESE OTHER THINGS” Mt.6:33. “Do not worry about tomorrow, it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings “Mt.6:34.
In the Old testament Genesis 1:1-36, 2:1-7, the story of creation, God created all things. He created them, the universe, the earth, plants and animals, everything seen and unseen. God is the Creator. Before God created man, He prepared the world and put everything in order for He is the God of Order. He created man after everything else where created. God wanted that the world is complete. He supplied everything for man not to worry. God made everything PERFECT for GOD is PERFECT. “He created man in His IMAGE and LIKENESS”,Gen.1-26-27. Man lived in a beautiful and perfect place God created for them, THE PARADISE. The place of Perfect Harmony between GOD the creator and creation. When God breathed on man, man began to have LIFE. LIFE is GOD. He is the source of our life and the source of everything we have. He created us, as He will and not on our own will. Therefore, He created us , and He wanted
us to experience His Love and this love is manifested in our lives and creation.
LIFE itself is already, God’s Love for us, a gift. The first man and woman God created lived in paradise, the perfect place for man to lived in harmony with his creator. No worries in paradise. To live with God is PARADISE. God HIMSELF is The Paradise. Only then when man started to disobey God, felt WORRIES..
When we disobey God, we commit sin, then we start to doubt, we begin to turn away from God and worries start to control us. Jesus said “ Love your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind “Mt.22:37-39 “…and with all your strength “ Mk.12:29-30.
We commit a mortal sin against the first commandment of NOT LOVING GOD. If we do not love God,
we do not TRUST Him. If we do not TRUST Him we DO NOT OBEY HIM and we commit a sin, the sin of worrying, the sin of disobedience to God.
If God is in you, you DO NOT have to WORRY. WORRYING is Satan’s way of keeping us away from God’s Love. He wanted us to worry of worldly things, because he cannot over power God. Man lives with the material world. This is man’s weakness, the worldly possessions. Satan is attacking us with our weaknesses. The trick of WORRYING brings us away from our God. The worst product of worry is self - pity that brings man to self-destruction. Destruction of man’s SPIRITUALITY, his LOVE, TRUST and FAITH in GOD. When we are trap by committing sin, Satan will leave us behind, suffering the consequences sin we committed.
Remember, it is God who chose us, gave us the breathed of life, He created us. It is written “ I chose you before I gave you life and before you were born…”Jer.1:5 Does your Heavenly Father forget His child? NO! He is the ONE who created us. He is our creator and Father. Isaiah 44:2, He will never leave us nor abandon us, “ I will never leave you, I will never abandon you “Heb.13:5. He created us, chose us, and called us His sons and daughters in 1Jn.3:1,” See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God’s children “. WHY DO WE WORRY? Isn’t it, God is our FATHER, the CREATOR of everything? He will supply all our needs, “ And with all His ABUNDANT WEALTH through Christ Jesus, My GOD will SUPPLY ALL your NEEDS”Phil.4:19 and Mt.6:33. “…He will PROVIDE you with all these things.
“ But before He can provide us all this things that we need we have to go to Jesus, “Come to me all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads and I will give you rest “ Mt.11:28. Approach , Accept, Believe and Obey God and the TRUTH will be revealed. The truth is, God is the source of everything, and all good things come from God. DO NOT WORRY for WORRYING is NOT OF GOD! Believe in God, have faith in Him and obey Him. “ The Lord takes care of those who obey Him and the land will be theirs forever, they will not suffer when times are bad; they will have enough in time of famine”Ps.37:18. Trust Him, “ I will bless the person who puts his trust in me”Jer.17:7. If we accept Jesus nothing to worry and we obey Jesus, NO MORE WORRIES and He will REVEAL Himself to us by the power of the Holy Spirit. WORRY NO MORE! Jesus tells us NOT TO WORRY in John 6:63 “ What gives life is Gods spirit, human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring Gods life giving spirit” So when we worry it is human power and it is useless. Our God is the Father and He knows everything, Proverbs 5:21 “The Lord sees everything you do, wherever you go, He is watching”. He knows what we need. ”Your Father in heaven knows what you need all these things “Mt.6:32. So, what do we have to do? Ask the Father of what you want, ”Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, and the door will be opened to you, for those who ask will receive and those who seek will find, and the door will be opened to anyone who knocks”Lk.11:9-10. Ask in PRAYER. ”Do not worry about anything, but in all your PRAYERS ask GOD for what you need, always asking Him with a thankful heart”Eph.4:6. “Jesus told His disciples a parable to teach them that they should always pray and never become discourage”Lk.18:1. But when we pray, we have to be in the power of the Holy Spirit and with faith. “But you, my friends, keep on building yourselves up on your most sacred faith.
Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit” Jude 20-21. When we pray to the Father we must be joyful always, and we should pray not only once but all the time and be thankful always. “ Be joyful always. Pray at all times, be thankful in all circumstances. This is what God want from you, in your life in union with Christ Jesus”1Thes.5:16-18.
“Be persistent in prayer and keep alert as you pray, giving thanks to God”Col.4:2. “Do all these in prayer, asking for Gods help. Pray on every occasion as the spirit leads. For this reason keep alert and never give up: pray always for all Gods people”Eph.6:18. When we pray we have to believe that we have received it. ”When we pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it, and you will be given whatever you ask for. And when you stand and pray forgive anything you may have against anyone, so that your Father in Heaven will forgive the wrongs you have done”. Jesus said, “When that day comes, you will not ask me for anything. I am telling you the truth: the Father will give you whatever you ask of Him in my name…ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete”Jn.16:23-24, inspires us that God wants us to be happy by answering our prayers. God always answer us through our prayers and it is the only communication we have to touch the heart of God and knock the doors of heaven. “When you pray, I will answer you, when you call to me, I will respond”Is.58:9. Having an intimate relationship with the Lord means, we have constant communication and always keeping in touch with Him. We should have an intimate relationship with God before we could ask anything .”If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish and you shall have it”Jn.15:7. It is like this, why will give something you have to somebody you do not know? Why will you give your wealth to somebody who you do not have an intimate relationship? Why will God give you what you ask for if He does not know you at all? If we do not know God and if God does not know us, who are we to ask something from Him? In order for God to answer our prayers, an intimate relationship with Jesus His son is required. “…ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete”Jn.16:24. When we ask, God will answer our prayers because God loves us, because we have that intimate relationship with Jesus His Son.
”For the Father Himself Loves you He loves you because you love me and have believed that I came from God”Jn.16:27. Here an intimate relationship between God, man and Jesus, is being described. When somebody has an intimate relationship, love begins to grow. ”I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who remain in me and I in them, will bear much fruit, for you can do nothing with out me”Jn.15:5 and in John 15:9 “I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love”. We are precious in Gods sight. He loves us so much. “I will give up whole nations to save your life, because you are PRECIOUS to me and because I LOVE YOU and give you HONOR”Is.43:4. The Lord God said, “I am the Lord who created you, from the time you were born I have helped you. Do not be afraid; you are my servant my chosen people whom I love”Is.44:2. “The mountains and hills may crumble but my love for you will never end; I will keep forever my promise of peace, so says the Lord who loves you”Is.54:10
WORRY NO MORE ! “The Lord takes care of those who obey Him. We should not give in to worry. Let us be humble. Let us approach the Father in humility with contrite heart. Let us TRUST the Lord. ”Do not give in to worry or anger it only leads to trouble. Those who trust in the Lord will possess the land, but the wicked will be driven out”Ps.37:8-9.
Let us NOT WORRY! God says “I alone am the Lord, the ONLY ONE who can SAVE you”Is.43:11. God our Father, our Creator will always be our God. No one can change, what He does, ”I am God and always will be” NO one can ESCAPE from my POWER; NO ONE can CHANGE WHAT I DO”Is.43:13
In times of worries, God says “Turn to me now and be saved, all over the world, I am the only God there is”Is.45:22. In times of worries, we should turn to God our Father because He cares for us. “…I have cared for you from the time you were born. I am your God, and will take care of you, until you are old and your hair is gray, I made you and will care for you. I will give you help and rescue you”Is.46:3-4.
We have to offer and lift up to God our worries. “Leave all your worries with Him, because He cares for you”1Pt.5:7,”
WORRY, NO MORE!!! The Lord says “I am the one who strengthens you…”Is.51:12. “I have given you my teaching, and I protect you with my hand”Is.51:16
WORRY NO MORE!!! For The Lord God is our Provider. ”Abraham named that place, the LORD PROVIDES and even today people say, ”On the Lords mountain He provides”Gen.22:14.
Before Jesus ascended to heaven, He left us His promise, a promise of hope, ”Teach them to OBEY EVERYTHING I HAVE COMMANDED YOU. AND I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS TO THE END OF THE AGE”Mt.28:20
WORRY NO MORE !!! HE LOVES YOU…HE LOVES US ALL…AND HE CARES FOR ALL OF US TILL THE END OF TIME…ALLELUIA! GLORY TO GOD FOREVER! SO BE IT !
In John 14:15,21, Jesus said “If you love me, you will obey my commandments “ OBEDIENCE to Gods commandments means LOVE and He will send His Holy spirit our helper, the paraclete for what? To reveal the TRUTH about GOD. To reveal means to make unknown to be known. After we obey God, He gives us a gift, a reciprocal love who is the Holy Spirit of God, His love for us. Because of our obedience to Jesus, we show our love to God, then He will REVEAL HIMSELF to us. HIS VERY SELF. WOW! Great GOD and MIGHTY GOD we have! What are these things that we have to obey? “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART,WITH ALL YOUR SOUL AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND…LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF “Mt.22:37-39.If we OBEY GOD, If we will follow His commands He will reveal Himself to us. It is written, “Once and for all I will make the nations know my power and my might; they will know that I am the Lord” Jer.16:21
In accepting Jesus’ commands, we OBEY Him and He will REVEAL Himself by the help of the Holy Spirit about the TRUTH. One of the problems of the apostles that confront them is, when Jesus will leave them. The apostles start to worry. They were very much troubled. They are so worried of so many things because of Jesus will be back soon to the Father. John 14:28. They worry because of Jesus’ words of leaving them. There is a powerful word Jesus uttered to them…”PEACE!”. “PEACE is what I leave with you” Jn.14:27. Then He followed it up with, “DO NOT BE WORRIED AND UPSET, BELIEVE IN GOD AND BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.” In our world today, oh, we have so many things that bother us for example economic problems, emotional problems physical problems, political problems, ecological, cultural and spiritual problems. We are personally confronted with day- to- day worries. We worry about today and much more , we are worried of what lies tomorrow. In Matthew 6:25-34 describes the worries of man. This is what we are. These are the worries of man. Food, clothing, shelter, and what the future will bring. Again, Jesus said, “SO DO NOT START WORRYING “Mt.6:31. It is Jesus whom we believed and worship talking to us. Do we really BELIEVED and FOLLOW Jesus? If we do, then “DO NOT BE WORRIED! DO NOT BE UPSET! “INSTEAD, BE CONCERNED ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE WITH WHAT HE REQUIRES OF YOU AND HE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH ALL THESE OTHER THINGS” Mt.6:33. “Do not worry about tomorrow, it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings “Mt.6:34.
In the Old testament Genesis 1:1-36, 2:1-7, the story of creation, God created all things. He created them, the universe, the earth, plants and animals, everything seen and unseen. God is the Creator. Before God created man, He prepared the world and put everything in order for He is the God of Order. He created man after everything else where created. God wanted that the world is complete. He supplied everything for man not to worry. God made everything PERFECT for GOD is PERFECT. “He created man in His IMAGE and LIKENESS”,Gen.1-26-27. Man lived in a beautiful and perfect place God created for them, THE PARADISE. The place of Perfect Harmony between GOD the creator and creation. When God breathed on man, man began to have LIFE. LIFE is GOD. He is the source of our life and the source of everything we have. He created us, as He will and not on our own will. Therefore, He created us , and He wanted
us to experience His Love and this love is manifested in our lives and creation.
LIFE itself is already, God’s Love for us, a gift. The first man and woman God created lived in paradise, the perfect place for man to lived in harmony with his creator. No worries in paradise. To live with God is PARADISE. God HIMSELF is The Paradise. Only then when man started to disobey God, felt WORRIES..
When we disobey God, we commit sin, then we start to doubt, we begin to turn away from God and worries start to control us. Jesus said “ Love your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind “Mt.22:37-39 “…and with all your strength “ Mk.12:29-30.
We commit a mortal sin against the first commandment of NOT LOVING GOD. If we do not love God,
we do not TRUST Him. If we do not TRUST Him we DO NOT OBEY HIM and we commit a sin, the sin of worrying, the sin of disobedience to God.
If God is in you, you DO NOT have to WORRY. WORRYING is Satan’s way of keeping us away from God’s Love. He wanted us to worry of worldly things, because he cannot over power God. Man lives with the material world. This is man’s weakness, the worldly possessions. Satan is attacking us with our weaknesses. The trick of WORRYING brings us away from our God. The worst product of worry is self - pity that brings man to self-destruction. Destruction of man’s SPIRITUALITY, his LOVE, TRUST and FAITH in GOD. When we are trap by committing sin, Satan will leave us behind, suffering the consequences sin we committed.
Remember, it is God who chose us, gave us the breathed of life, He created us. It is written “ I chose you before I gave you life and before you were born…”Jer.1:5 Does your Heavenly Father forget His child? NO! He is the ONE who created us. He is our creator and Father. Isaiah 44:2, He will never leave us nor abandon us, “ I will never leave you, I will never abandon you “Heb.13:5. He created us, chose us, and called us His sons and daughters in 1Jn.3:1,” See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God’s children “. WHY DO WE WORRY? Isn’t it, God is our FATHER, the CREATOR of everything? He will supply all our needs, “ And with all His ABUNDANT WEALTH through Christ Jesus, My GOD will SUPPLY ALL your NEEDS”Phil.4:19 and Mt.6:33. “…He will PROVIDE you with all these things.
“ But before He can provide us all this things that we need we have to go to Jesus, “Come to me all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads and I will give you rest “ Mt.11:28. Approach , Accept, Believe and Obey God and the TRUTH will be revealed. The truth is, God is the source of everything, and all good things come from God. DO NOT WORRY for WORRYING is NOT OF GOD! Believe in God, have faith in Him and obey Him. “ The Lord takes care of those who obey Him and the land will be theirs forever, they will not suffer when times are bad; they will have enough in time of famine”Ps.37:18. Trust Him, “ I will bless the person who puts his trust in me”Jer.17:7. If we accept Jesus nothing to worry and we obey Jesus, NO MORE WORRIES and He will REVEAL Himself to us by the power of the Holy Spirit. WORRY NO MORE! Jesus tells us NOT TO WORRY in John 6:63 “ What gives life is Gods spirit, human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring Gods life giving spirit” So when we worry it is human power and it is useless. Our God is the Father and He knows everything, Proverbs 5:21 “The Lord sees everything you do, wherever you go, He is watching”. He knows what we need. ”Your Father in heaven knows what you need all these things “Mt.6:32. So, what do we have to do? Ask the Father of what you want, ”Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, and the door will be opened to you, for those who ask will receive and those who seek will find, and the door will be opened to anyone who knocks”Lk.11:9-10. Ask in PRAYER. ”Do not worry about anything, but in all your PRAYERS ask GOD for what you need, always asking Him with a thankful heart”Eph.4:6. “Jesus told His disciples a parable to teach them that they should always pray and never become discourage”Lk.18:1. But when we pray, we have to be in the power of the Holy Spirit and with faith. “But you, my friends, keep on building yourselves up on your most sacred faith.
Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit” Jude 20-21. When we pray to the Father we must be joyful always, and we should pray not only once but all the time and be thankful always. “ Be joyful always. Pray at all times, be thankful in all circumstances. This is what God want from you, in your life in union with Christ Jesus”1Thes.5:16-18.
“Be persistent in prayer and keep alert as you pray, giving thanks to God”Col.4:2. “Do all these in prayer, asking for Gods help. Pray on every occasion as the spirit leads. For this reason keep alert and never give up: pray always for all Gods people”Eph.6:18. When we pray we have to believe that we have received it. ”When we pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it, and you will be given whatever you ask for. And when you stand and pray forgive anything you may have against anyone, so that your Father in Heaven will forgive the wrongs you have done”. Jesus said, “When that day comes, you will not ask me for anything. I am telling you the truth: the Father will give you whatever you ask of Him in my name…ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete”Jn.16:23-24, inspires us that God wants us to be happy by answering our prayers. God always answer us through our prayers and it is the only communication we have to touch the heart of God and knock the doors of heaven. “When you pray, I will answer you, when you call to me, I will respond”Is.58:9. Having an intimate relationship with the Lord means, we have constant communication and always keeping in touch with Him. We should have an intimate relationship with God before we could ask anything .”If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish and you shall have it”Jn.15:7. It is like this, why will give something you have to somebody you do not know? Why will you give your wealth to somebody who you do not have an intimate relationship? Why will God give you what you ask for if He does not know you at all? If we do not know God and if God does not know us, who are we to ask something from Him? In order for God to answer our prayers, an intimate relationship with Jesus His son is required. “…ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete”Jn.16:24. When we ask, God will answer our prayers because God loves us, because we have that intimate relationship with Jesus His Son.
”For the Father Himself Loves you He loves you because you love me and have believed that I came from God”Jn.16:27. Here an intimate relationship between God, man and Jesus, is being described. When somebody has an intimate relationship, love begins to grow. ”I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who remain in me and I in them, will bear much fruit, for you can do nothing with out me”Jn.15:5 and in John 15:9 “I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love”. We are precious in Gods sight. He loves us so much. “I will give up whole nations to save your life, because you are PRECIOUS to me and because I LOVE YOU and give you HONOR”Is.43:4. The Lord God said, “I am the Lord who created you, from the time you were born I have helped you. Do not be afraid; you are my servant my chosen people whom I love”Is.44:2. “The mountains and hills may crumble but my love for you will never end; I will keep forever my promise of peace, so says the Lord who loves you”Is.54:10
WORRY NO MORE ! “The Lord takes care of those who obey Him. We should not give in to worry. Let us be humble. Let us approach the Father in humility with contrite heart. Let us TRUST the Lord. ”Do not give in to worry or anger it only leads to trouble. Those who trust in the Lord will possess the land, but the wicked will be driven out”Ps.37:8-9.
Let us NOT WORRY! God says “I alone am the Lord, the ONLY ONE who can SAVE you”Is.43:11. God our Father, our Creator will always be our God. No one can change, what He does, ”I am God and always will be” NO one can ESCAPE from my POWER; NO ONE can CHANGE WHAT I DO”Is.43:13
In times of worries, God says “Turn to me now and be saved, all over the world, I am the only God there is”Is.45:22. In times of worries, we should turn to God our Father because He cares for us. “…I have cared for you from the time you were born. I am your God, and will take care of you, until you are old and your hair is gray, I made you and will care for you. I will give you help and rescue you”Is.46:3-4.
We have to offer and lift up to God our worries. “Leave all your worries with Him, because He cares for you”1Pt.5:7,”
WORRY, NO MORE!!! The Lord says “I am the one who strengthens you…”Is.51:12. “I have given you my teaching, and I protect you with my hand”Is.51:16
WORRY NO MORE!!! For The Lord God is our Provider. ”Abraham named that place, the LORD PROVIDES and even today people say, ”On the Lords mountain He provides”Gen.22:14.
Before Jesus ascended to heaven, He left us His promise, a promise of hope, ”Teach them to OBEY EVERYTHING I HAVE COMMANDED YOU. AND I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS TO THE END OF THE AGE”Mt.28:20
WORRY NO MORE !!! HE LOVES YOU…HE LOVES US ALL…AND HE CARES FOR ALL OF US TILL THE END OF TIME…ALLELUIA! GLORY TO GOD FOREVER! SO BE IT !
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