Let nothing you affright

Proverbs 3:5–6 NKJV

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

The reason i titled this sermon “Let nothing you affright” it came out of my favorite Christmas song. God rest ye merry gentleman

I have also heard a old preacher say an old word “afeard” which means afraid.

I’ve heard preachers say do it afraid.

I felt like god wanted me to teach on trust not fully realizing that trust has an oppostie. So let nothing you affright.

I am not a very fearful person except for when i am and when i am

I don’t consider myself a very fear full person. You wont hear me say much that I am afraid or that i worry, but i have been motivated by fear.

I have been motivated by fear recently when my daughter tried to run away and then we found out by having her go to oceans behavioral that she was pregnant with my first biological grandchild.

She is scared, I am scared. Years ago.........and i do mean years ago i thought if i found the right person i might want another child. But that ship has sailed and now without warning a infant is on its way to my house very soon.

I was always afraid i was gonna break liora when she was born. I wasn’t good with the smaller ones.

And yet i had to choose trust God through all of it, it was going to be okay.

Remember i had a choice we all have a choice. We get to choose what we do.

keep our eyes on jesus, take our eyes of jesus

trust him with our situation, circumstance, spouse,

Trust in the Lord with all your heart

Your heart is an organ. When the word talks about the heart but it really means the brain. Our mind will and emotions. Our emotions are really our heart. Scary huh. Cause the word says the heart is deceitful in Jeremiah 17:9.

Our mind will and emotions

We have to choose to trust God just the way we have to choose to trust people.

People will always let us down, but God will never let us down.

I wish i could say that i have always trusted God but with a personality like mine i am quick to make decisions and move forward. Sometimes i make decisions with out every talking to God.

I have two failed marriages because i didn’t trust God. I was scared to be alone. I was 26 and at that point i felt anchient. Lots of my friends where married having kids. I was still struggling through college and working. Living with my parents still for the second or third time. I just was a slow starter i guess. But i wanted to find the love of my life my soul mate and at some point i just started lowering my standards.......because any and every guy that gave me the time of day i would get involved with them. I felt like if i didn’t i would be lonley forever. So i did dated a few guys had a few hook ups and then found my first exhusband shacked up with him and got pregnant with liora and got married at 5 months pregannat only because it was the right thing to do.

I have never been proposed too. I told him he was gonna marry me and my second failed marriage was pretty much the same. I was so scared to be alone i made it extremly easy on them.

Not trusting God caused me more heart ache than the waiting. It took me years to get over the stuff those two husbands did to me and the things i did to myself in trying to make me fit into their life. I dabbled in lots of things as a christian i should have never even touched just trying to make the marriage work. Just for them to keep loving me. I didn’t want a failed marriage.

One guy was verbally and physically abusive the other was a cheater, bisexual and addicted to pornography in extreme amounts like i have never seen since.

One was an unbeliever and one was a believer.

What’s the point?

The point is by not trusting God i had about 10 years of my life wasted in places i should not of been. There were some blessings god knows how to take evil and turn it around for good. But the only blessings are my children from the first marriage. The second marriage no a blessing one just pain and regret.

Not trusting God will lead you to pain and regret.

Throw a fit, tell God how hard it is to trust him, tell God you don’t like waiting on him. Cause one thing i’ve learned is you always have to do some waiting for the wonderful.

God’s big enough to complain at and he will tell you why you shouldn’t be.

Romans 8:28 NKJV

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Leaning on our own understanding leads to fear not faith.

Our understandings are falwed. You ever thought you came to an understanding with someone just to figure out you guyus are on completley diffrent pages. Or its totally opposite what you thought you said.

If communication between human beings is so hard. How do you think us hearing a holy God is going to work? The truth is do we really listen. Do we take time to listen.

Oh i trust God! Deadra! Deadra! I trust you lord, but do we take time to listen.

1 John 4:18 NKJV

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

None of us has perfect love. I’m not perfect in the way I love people are you. So its not my perfect love that casts out fear. It’s God’s perfect love for us in that while we were yet sinners christ died for us.

We have to walk in perfect love to not have fear.......

Romans 5:8 NKJV

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

Romans 5:8 NKJV

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

2 Corinthians 4:18 NKJV

while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Faith in a holy God, Faith in the Holy Spirit, Faith in Jesus christ is not the end of faith. Faith is not just believing in the unseen and that he is savior. Faith is believing that no matter what if i follow him. Keep my eyes on Jesus that my best interest is his.

Some circumstances are allowed.

Some tragedies are unavoidable.

Some decisions we reap a harvest.

When i first found out my daughter was pregnant at 17. I felt like a failure. She was raised in church. I wasn’t a mom who didn’t talk to her we had multiple conversations about boys, about the things of God. She was saved baptized at 10 years old. She understood Jesus was her lord and savior. I still believe she is saved but ran into this peer pressured rebellion that cost her the rest of her child hood. I thought it was my fault that there was something i did. Well i had to think about my own teenage years I was for sure saved i never got pregnant but I did the same things and it wasn’t my mothers fault or my fathers for that matter. I just had a misconception of what being loved meant and i went to church when the doors where open and sinned like the world when i wasn’t there.

So out of fear of her running away with my grand baby and out of fear of her hurting herself or him. I know i have not pushed her as hard as I would have. Let some things slide i had to go back and correct.

I’ve got judged because of what she did a couple of times. People have tried to let it reflect on me as my parenting was poor. But for a single mom i think i did well.

But in every adversity there is a blessing. I really think that God takes evil and makes it for his good.

The opposite of trust is fear.

Matthew 6:25–34 NKJV

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Don’t worry God’s Got you!

maybe not what you want

maybe not what you asked for

but God knows better than you do about you.

He created you and if he was done with you. You wouldn’t still be on this earth.

How much time do we spend in fear and worry and not following Jesus. We can’t even look at what God might possibliy want for us because we are to worried or afraid about the outcome.

Don’t worry about it, see a hater do the swerve, know you heard about it

when you talk this big and you is this big, every body bout to know about it.

John 14:1 NKJV

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.