Philippians 4:6-9 ERV; Never worry about anything. But in every situation let God know what you need in prayers and requests while giving thanks. Then God’s peace, which goes beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your thoughts and emotions through Christ Jesus.  Finally, brothers and sisters, keep your thoughts on whatever is right or deserves praise: things that are true, honorable, fair, pure, acceptable, or commendable.  Practice what you’ve learned and received from me, what you heard and saw me do. Then the God who gives this peace will be with you.

So often, satan tries to convince us that what God has promised will never come to pass, but we are not to do that. Paul said to never worry about anything. Why? Because worry produces doubt, which gives way to fear, which negates our faith. In other words, we have to manage our mind. That’s right, we must control what we think on and what we talk about because what we think on determines the outcome of our situation.  We must agree with what the Word says, not with what our circumstances dictate to us.

I love Proverbs 24:5; A strong man knows how to use his strength, but a person with knowledge is even more powerful.

Why do you think that is? Because if I know the Word, have knowledge of what it says about me and the authority I have through Jesus Christ, I will be more powerful than a physically strong man. Spirit trumps flesh every time. What? Yes, that’s right. Abraham was fully persuaded that what God said, he would do (Romans 4:21). He continually meditated on the promise of God and trusted in God’s ability to do what He’d promised. You know what that did? It built his faith. You never hear one time of Abraham telling his best friend that He just couldn’t believe anymore, it had just been too long, he’s too old. No, he had given birth to that promise in his spirit when God took him outside his tent and told him to count the stars. He knew that whatever God promised, he would do it.

Proverbs 30:32 GW; If you are such a godless fool as to honor yourself, or if you scheme, you had better put your hand over your mouth.

That means if you honor or think more highly of your self, have more confidence in your words rather than God’s Word, you’d better watch yourself or shut your mouth. No one can top what God says. He has the final say about your past, present and future. When you accepted Jesus Christ as Lord of your life, He washed away your sins. Gone. Done deal! When you bring up something that’s under the Blood, you are telling God that the Blood was just not good enough to cleanse you from all unrighteousness, you dishonor God. Either trust Him and His Word or walk away because you can’t do both. 

If you’re reading this right now and are thinking it’s just too hard, you need to get back to reading the Word more than you do anything else because you can’t trust in what you don’t know. You’re allowing the cares of this world to choke out the Word and make it watered down and ineffective. You can’t walk by faith focused on the problem, you must focus on the promise. You can’t focus on the promise if you don’t KNOW the promise and you can’t KNOW the promise if you don’t read the Word. It can’t get much more simple than that!

Father, give us a hunger for your Word. It is the bread of life to our spirit and flesh. We suffer from spiritual malnutrition if we don’t feed on your promises and daily build faith and confidence in your ability over all else. Give us deep roots, so that the storms of life don’t cause us to topple over. You are our hope and our foundation. We trust in you.