Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is another very good message!
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. — Matthew 6:25
Jesus sums up commonsense carefulness in a disciple as infidelity. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will press through and say — “Now where does God come in in this relationship, in this mapped-out holiday, in these new books?” He always presses the point until we learn to make Him our first consideration. Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.
“Take no thought…” — don’t take the pressure of forethought upon yourself. It is not only wrong to worry, it is infidelity, because worrying means that we do not think that God can look after the practical details of our lives, and it is never any thing else that worries us. Have you ever noticed what Jesus said would choke the word He puts in? The devil? No, the cares of this world. It is the little worries always. I will not trust where I cannot see, that is where infidelity begins. The only cure for infidelity is obedience to the Spirit. The great word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon.
I remember hearing Brother Kenneth E. Hagin explain how the Word of God, which was becoming so very clear to him, suddenly began to be dry and lifeless after he decided that he simply could NOT stop worrying when he saw in the Word that he was supposed to. ("Fret not" is in MANY places in the Word of God! Once he realized that the Word becoming dry to him began at the same time as his decision to NOT obey the Word concerning worry, he repented! That simply means that he changed HIS thinking to agree with GOD and His WORD! IF you need to, change YOUR thinking right now to agree with the God of the Bible that YOU can cease from worry and fear by casting your care on HIM, and by refusing to take those thoughts, making them YOURS, in the first place! AMEN! Stop being unfaithful to the Lord your God by thinking thoughts that are contrary to his Word! Refuse to be moved by what you see, hear, smell, taste or touch! Be moved ONLY by the Word of God! AMEN! Here is Hillsong United with "Say The Word":Shalom in Him!
