Transcript: God's Thoughts on You: Finding Comfort in His Love and Peace

There are many people in the body of Christ today who have ungodly or distorted understanding of the love of God for his creation. But God has made his love known to all the world throughout the Old and the New Testament when he declares in his word in Jeremiah 31, verse 3, The Lord appeared from old saying to me, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore, with loving kindness, I have drawn you and continued my faithfulness to you. And Jesus declared in the book of John 13, 34, I give you a new commandment that you should love one another, just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. Verse 35, by this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you love one another, if you keep on showing love among yourselves. Deuteronomy 7, verse 7 declares and tells us, The Lord did not set his love upon you and choose you, because you were more in number than any other people. For you were the fewest of all people. But because the Lord loves you, and because he would keep his oath, which he has sworn to your fathers. The Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage from the hand of King Pharaoh of Egypt. Know, recognize and understand, therefore, the Lord your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love and mercy with those who love him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Because God is a covenant-keeping God. He is faithful to keep the promises He makes. And what is so beautiful, dear church, and comforting in this truth, we have just read is that God keeps His covenant and steadfast love and mercy with those who love him and keep his commandments. This is the true mark of any and all who truly belong to God's family of love. So, how can you and I know the great love of God that is aimed for us personally, securely, and yes, even eternally so? You can know all this by looking at the most revealing scripture in the New Testament, which gives us the insight and depth of the love of God for all the world. In 1 John 4, 7, 1 John 4, 7, let us look at this. God is love. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. And the one who does not know God, does not love, does not know God. For God is love. By this, the love of God was manifested in us. That God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. And this is love. Not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation, the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. This is how we know the love of God for us. by His Word. God does not lie, and therefore we ought to believe with all of our hearts the truth in God's Word. We ought not to doubt His truth for one moment or even give it a thought. God is love, and His thoughts towards us are always good. You can be assured, those of you who have at times gone through periods of confusion or even lack of understanding and ignorance as to your Heavenly Father's love for you. Now I would like to assure you that your God, the Father, God the Father, His loving kindness for you is real. And I urge you to trust in Him and do not be afraid. Do not be afraid of the unknown. But position yourself always to believe what his word declares. Look with me please in the book of Jeremiah to see the promise of God and the oath or the covenant that he makes with those who will seek him with their whole heart. Jeremiah 29 verse 4. this is what the Lord Almighty the God of Israel says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon build houses and settle down plant gardens and eat what they produce marry and have sons and daughters find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number. Do not decrease. Also seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it because if it prospers, you too will prosper. Yes, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says. Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have. They are prophesying lies to you in my name and I have not sent them, declares the Lord. Verse 11. For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord. Thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil. To give you hope in your final outcome. Then you will call upon me and you will come and pray to me and I will hear you and heed you and you will seek me and inquire for and require me as vital necessity and find me when you search for me with all of your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will release you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and to all the places to which I have driven you out, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive. God lays out the facts for us here by saying, when you seek me with all of your heart, I will be found by you. I will make known my plans for your future and I will give you a hopeful expectation of it and will prosper that plan. God's plans and thoughts for us are good. Jeremiah 29.1 says, I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Consider that fact. The Lord's thoughts towards you and me are for our good. I believe this scripture helps us as a believer to consider the proper attitude that we should have towards the Lord. Can you see in the scripture that God Almighty is bearing his heart to us? He has unveiled his heart in this place to we, his people. And this is truly something to consider. The most sovereign, eternal God is sharing his thoughts with us, his people. First of all, he is telling you and me here that he does think of us and that he has thoughts towards us. For I know the thoughts that I have towards you is clearly showing God's concern for his people and that they are more ancient than the everlasting mountains or hills that stand. There's never been a time when God did not think upon his people for good. He said in Jeremiah 31.3, The Lord appeared to us in the past saying, I have loved you with an everlasting love, and therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you and continue my faithfulness to you. The point here that I wish to bring forward and point out for us today in this word is that he, God, still thinks of his people. Look at it this way. You might with deliberation and considerate thought work out a plan of kindness for a friend. And you would have worked out all the details in carrying out this plan to its fullest where you were like a fountain of goodness pouring out to your friend. You do the act of kindness and then you think about it no more. But this is not God's method or way he works or thinks with us. His eye and his hand are towards you, his child, always and continually. We must remember that God has already arranged everything for us in providing every need of provision and every defense of protection for us. Deuteronomy 7, 7 declares, But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath, he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God. He is a faithful God. He is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. We must remember always, he, God, has never ceased in thinking of us. And the Gospel of Luke puts this wonderful perspective forth for us. Luke 12, 6. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Verse 7. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows. Ah, how comforting. How very comforting. God's infinite mind and thoughts. are as high above ours as the heavens are above the earth. But yet, he continues to think of us. King David cried out with full expression of inward lack and at the same time with admiration of his God when he said in Psalms 40, verse 17, Oh, but I am poor and needy, and yet the Lord thinks upon me. Oh, Lord, you are my help and my deliverer. Dear church, I pray you delight yourself in this word today and believe that your God in this heavenly fact is thinking of you at this very moment Psalms 115 declares The Lord has been mindful of us He will bless us He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron. And He will bless those who fear the Lord, both great and small. May the Lord give you increase more and more. You and your children. And may you be blessed by the Lord who made heaven and earth. Hallelujah. God's thoughts and plans for you, again I say, are good. It is God's desire to bless and continue to bless His children as we just read in these words. David says, the Lord has been mindful of me. And dear saints, He's still mindful of us today. I pray you catch this with the help of Holy Spirit, that God's kind intentions are always drifting your way. His considerations for us are like the south wind which is ever moving and drifting continually towards us. The Lord never forgets His own, for He has you engraved on the palm of His hand. Never, never, never at any moment does He turn His thoughts away from His beloved, even though he governs the whole universe, he still never turns his thoughts away from us. He says in Isaiah 27, verse 2, of his beloved church, which is you and me, in regards to her restoration, he says, In that day, sing to her a vineyard of red wine. I, the Lord, keep it. I water it every moment. Lest any hurt it, I keep it day and night. Verse 4, I have no wrath. Should someone give me briars and thorns in battle, then I would step on them, and I will completely burn them. Or let him rely on my protection. Let him make peace with me. In those days to come, Jacob will take root, and Israel will blossom and sprout, and they will fill the whole world with fruit. In that day, when this word was given, it was given for the generations of the church, and that time is now. All that the Lord was doing towards his people then was done thoughtfully. He said, I will keep the vineyard, and I water it. His thoughts were of peace and not of evil towards them while they were in captivity. If any of you are experiencing trouble or sorrow today, do not doubt that this message is sent to you according to the thoughtful purposes of the Lord. God Almighty knows your troubles and your sorrows intimately. Every affliction is timed and measured, and every comfort is sent with loving thoughtfulness, which makes it precious as gold. As it enters your being and brings you comfort and revelation of your most wonderful Lord and Savior, your heart rejoices. Dear Church, the great thoughtfulness of the divine mind of your beloved Jesus is exercised towards you, the chosen of the Lord. Never doubt His love for you. All of your circumstances have been ordered in wisdom by the living, thoughtful, loving God who holds you and your purposes in the palm of His hands. Jesus Christ made this all possible. He laid Himself upon the cross of mercy and grace and is now poured out generously to all who subscribe to God's terms for receiving his wonderful abundance, his provision and providence in their lives. Christ's suffering on the cross satisfied the justice of God for all sin. Our part now is to say no to it and to conform to God's holy standards of righteousness. In Isaiah 53, verse 10, Isaiah 53, 10, yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer. And though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. Verse 11, after the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied. By his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many. Jesus was not spared suffering for us, but his crushing and his bruising would bring forth light, which is truth, and righteousness for those who now live in him. I believe at this point of the message you have been inwardly encouraged in your spirit with the fact of knowing that God, your heavenly Father, thinks of you continually. Even while we yet were sinners, God still loved us. His faithfulness and kindness to us never ceased, dear ones. This is his promise. We could probably rest at this point of the message and be quite content and rejoice with knowing and having a certain reality that the almighty, infinite God has thoughts of loving kindness and peace towards us. But I would like to go a step farther. To say, let us be aware that the thoughts of God are only perfectly known to Himself. He said in Jeremiah 29, 11, I know the thoughts that I think towards you. I know, I know, God says, the thoughts that I think towards you. We cannot know the thoughts of the Lord because they are too high for our conception and too deep for our understanding, yet the Lord knows them. Our Heavenly Father knows what He is doing. When His ways towards us appear to be involved and complicated and you cannot seem to unravel the thread of His doing, yet he sees all things clearly and he knows the thoughts that he thinks towards you and the plans that he holds for you. He never misses the mark nor becomes embarrassed or regrets what he chooses to do concerning each one of us. There is no way that we could profess to understand the ways of God to man. His word says, My ways are not your ways. That means they are past understanding for us. God's providence is a great deep well that we, His creation, could never see the bottom of. His providence exceeds the range of our vision, and its depths baffle our most profound thoughts. King David declared, O Lord, Your way was in the sea. Your path in the great waters and your footsteps were not known. When we are overwhelmed with wonder at what we see, we are humbled by the reminder, your ways, O God, are so deep and we can see only a little part or portion. Truly, the things of God no man knows, but by the Spirit of God. God alone understands Himself and His thoughts. But I just want to say at this point to encourage you in that despite our ignorance of God's ways, nothing can go wrong because while the Lord is with us, His infinite knowledge rules over all things. Hallelujah! While the Lord with his infinite knowledge, he rules over all things. Amen. Because while the Lord with his infinite knowledge, he rules over all things. He rules. Only he rules. This is wonderful. Nothing can go wrong. God is in control of all things. How absolutely encouraging. You can learn to be at rest and still know that Jehovah is God. But, but, but, if you doubt, you misinterpret the ways of God. You doubt Him and His Word. Even though you don't know your own mind, God knows His mind and He knows yours and my mind too. Psalms 94 verse 11. Psalms 94 verse 11. The Lord is fully aware of how limited and futile the thoughts of mankind are. So He helps us by punishing us. This makes us follow his paths and gives us respite from our enemies while God traps them and destroys them. The Lord will not forsake his people, for they are his prize. Though you might not believe, he remains faithful. And when you are in the darkness or have sorrow, he is in the light because in him is no darkness at all. Hallelujah. God changes not. He is faithful. Your ways may be closed, but his way is open. God knows all when you know nothing at all. When Moses came out of Egypt, he had no plan as to where he was going to lead the tribes of Israel out of their bondage. He had no plan. All he knew was that he had to lead them to the promised land, but that was all. That's all he knew. And he probably hoped to take them by the shortest route at once and get them there. But God in his infinite wisdom and mind prearranged the course for Moses to travel. Exodus 14, verse 1. Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Biharoth, between Migdal and the sea, opposite Beel, Zephon, and you shall camp before it by the sea. Verse 3. For we'll say of the children of Israel, they were bewildered by the land, and the wilderness has closed them in. Verse 4, And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, so that he will pursue them, and I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all of his army, so that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And so they did. There was no going back, because the Egyptians were still there. And the Israelites could not go forward, because the Red Sea was there. But the Lord had the way mapped out in his own mind. He was not surprised when the enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake him and I will divide the spoil. God already knew Pharaoh's heart. And God knows our hearts. The scripture we have previously read declares, the Lord is fully aware of how limited and futile the thoughts of mankind are So he helps us by punishing us And this makes us follow his plans and gives us respite from our enemies while God traps them and destroys them The Lord will not forsake his people, for they are his prize. Judgment will again be just, and all the upright will rejoice. King David is an excellent example of this expression. Many, O Lord, many, my God, are your wonderful works which you have done. And your thoughts towards us cannot be recounted to you in order. If I would declare them and speak of them, they would be more than could be numbered. Dear church, Let your beloved Jesus work out His plans and purposes for you in your life through your help forgiven you. Let your head, who is Jesus Christ, the head of the church, do your thinking. Our part is to get in line with Him so we can hear Him and know His thoughts and His plans for us. Let your Master Jesus Christ through precious Holy Spirit guide you and renew your mind. Yes, God's Word tells us that we must grow into maturity where the mind of Christ becomes our mind. Then, and only then, will the infinite, eternal God be able to think for us. His ways become our ways, and then we will know the plans that He has for us. Apostle John in the New Testament tells us in his book, 1 John 3.20, Whenever our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. You see, God, your heavenly Father, has compassion on you. You who reverently fear him. Compassion in the Greek-Hebrew dictionary means love and mercy. And in Psalms 103, verse 13, the Word declares, As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him. For he knows how we are formed. He remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like the grass, and he flourishes like the flower of the field. The wind blows over it and it's gone And its place remembered no more But from everlasting to everlasting The Lord's love is with those who fear Him And His righteousness with their children's children With those who keep His covenant And remember to obey His precepts The Lord has established His throne in heaven And His kingdom rules over all God's love for you who reverently fear him and love him, sets his power in motion and heaven moves on your behalf. Moses was one of God's great leaders and he was questioning God to his faithfulness when the Lord had given him the command to take the Israelites to their destination. And the people, remember, they grumbled along the way, they complained about all the good food that they had in Egypt. And they were tired of God's provision and were demanding meat and putting pressure on Moses. God told Moses that he would provide meat for the people and that they would vomit it up for a whole month. Numbers 11, 18. Numbers 11, 18. And say to the people, consecrate yourself for tomorrow and you shall eat meat. For you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. Verse 19, You shall not eat one day, or two, or five, or ten, or twenty days. Verse 20, But a whole month until you are satisfied and vomited up violently. and when it comes out at your nostrils and is disgusting to you because you have rejected and despised the Lord who is among you and you have wept before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt? But Moses said, The people among whom I am are 600,000 footmen besides all the women and children. And you have said, I will give them meat that they may eat a whole month. Verse 22, Shall flocks and herds be killed to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be collected to satisfy them? The Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand, his ability and power become short, thwarted, and inadequate? You shall see now whether my word shall come to pass for you or not. Well, the great and loving God could have zapped Moses at that moment for questioning his sovereignty, but he said, Moses, is the Lord's arm too short? You will see now whether or not what I say will come true for you. Moses' thoughts towards God were truly that of doubt and fear. and even mistrust in that moment. How many times along in our own walk do we find ourselves like Moses? But I want to tell you something here. I want you to see something important here. God's thoughts towards Moses were thoughts of peace. He knew that by Moses' obedience, a future generation of his people would spring forth and one in particular would bear the seed in which the Spirit of God would impregnate and out of whom would come the long-awaited and promised Messiah, the righteous branch, the holy root, King Jesus whom God the Father had sent to the earth to redeem fallen man back to himself. Great God, Jehovah, was definitely working out his good pleasure, even though man did not understand what God was doing. And God definitely spoke this truth through his prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 46.8. Isaiah 46.8. Remember this and show yourselves, men. Recall to mind, oh, you transgressors. remember the former things of old for I am God and there is no other. I am God and there is none like me declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done saying my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. God has always throughout all the generations had a faithful remnant who would say, yes, Lord, even when they didn't understand His ways. They were like Abraham who believed God when God told him to leave his home and go to the land that he did not know where it was. These people knew God's word to them were true, and they knew God's thoughts towards them were good, and they acted in obedience and peace in their hearts, even though they may not have understood the big picture. So it is today. We can know that God's thoughts towards His people are always thoughts of peace. He is at peace with you through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. And now, today, the Spirit of God speaks the peace of God to your troubled conscience and works in you the knowing that you are adopted into God's family. And He lets you know by the Spirit that His thoughts and plans for you are holy. Dear Church, God desires holiness in you and me. Holiness is His righteousness. Holy God, able to communicate with you and let you know He has thoughts of peace towards you. And He wants you to seek peace and pursue it. And because his word says when we do this, his eyes are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayers. Now, one of the ways God tells us in 1 Peter 3.8 to seek his peace and to live in it is to guard our tongues. To guard our tongues. What a key in 1 Peter 3.8. Finally, all of you live in harmony with one another. Be sympathetic. Love as brothers. Be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing. Because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. Verse 10. For whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. He must turn from evil and do good, and he must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. Jesus Christ is your peace He delights in you and He creates your peace when you abide in Him through the obedience of His Word If you abide in me and my Word lives in you ask me what you will and it will leap into existence and become a fact Now, this does not mean having a head full of scriptures and yet gossiping about your neighbor or your pastor or your brothers or your sisters. Remember, idle words come out of the meditation of our thoughts. And when we abide in Christ and His Word, this means that our minds are being renewed and we are practicing the knowledge of the truth as we learn it. This means we do not fight against it. When we fight against it, we are actually fighting against God and hurting ourselves and possibly risking our own salvation. When we dwell in the truth and we do it God's way, he will sustain our peace and his thoughts and his plans for us are good. And when you dwell in him and he in you, you will have no fear. You will have no fear as to what flies around in the darkness or the evil which lurks about by day because you dwell in Him and He is your peace. God's thoughts towards you, dear one, are never evil. God hates sin and evil is sin and so His thoughts are never evil towards you or me. Never in wrath or anger does the Lord discipline those whom he loves. The hardest blow he would ever deliver to you or me would be from the hand of love. And his desire is never to be grievous to us, but to save us. He disciplines those whom he loves, the word of God tells us. Never, never, never shall a hair of your head perish without the living God knowing all about it. It is only for our good that God thinks of us and deals with us. Again, I remind you of the word in Psalms 34, verse 11. Psalms 34, verse 11. Come my children listen to me I will teach you the fear of the Lord Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies Turn from evil and do what is good and seek peace and pursue it. Verse 15. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry, and the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. See, these two things God hates with a passion, gossip and lying. Keep your tongue, your lips from lying, the scripture says. Lying is evil and God hates it and so should we. God does not lie, nor does he want his children to lie. Satan is the author of lies. God is pure and holy and righteous. and his thoughts are pure and clean towards us. He cannot have an evil thought towards his elect. He who gave his Son for us cannot think anything but good towards us. God has a wonderful plan and a purpose for each and every one of his own children. God's children have been adopted into his family through the supreme sacrifice of Jesus Christ, His Son. And you and I as a child of God must have the right attitude and thoughts towards our Lord and God. And I believe you would agree with me when I say our attitude, first of all, should be one of submission. If God, in all that He does towards us, is acting with one objective and motive, which is called love, should we not then submit totally to Him? Shouldn't we let Him do what seems right to Him for our lives? Therefore you can say like Moses or Abraham or King David or Queen Esther or Mary, the mother of Jesus, and saying, Yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, Thy will be done. we should have no quarrel or argument with God in regards to our lives or what seems good for him to do. You can trust that he is working out your very best interest as you learn to yield and submit to him in obedience to his commands. Hebrews 12, verse 5, please. Hebrews 12, 5. And you have forgotten that word of encouragement? that addresses you as sons? My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those whom he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son. Endure hardship as discipline. God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? Verse 8. If you are not disciplined, and everyone undergoes discipline, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live? Our fathers disciplined us for a little while, as they thought best. But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in His holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! For those who have been trained by it, not fought against it, but trained by it and welcomed it. for whom God loves, He disciplines. Let your attitude with God be positive. Even in your down moments, even in your dark moments, seeing the end of all that God does in your life is good. King David said in Psalms 139.1, O Lord, You've examined my heart. You know everything about me. You know when I sit or stand. When far away you know my every thought. You chart the path ahead of me and you tell me where to rest and stop. Every moment you know where I am. Verse 4. You know what I am going to say before I even say it. You both proceed and follow me and place your hand of blessing upon my head. This is too glorious, too wonderful to believe. Verse 7. Can I never be lost to your spirit? I can never get away from my God. If I go up to heaven, you are there. And if I go down to the place of the dead, you are there. If I ride the morning winds to the farthest ocean, even there your hand will guide me and your strength will support me. Verse 11. If I try to hide in the darkness, the night becomes light all around me. For even darkness cannot hide from God. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are both alike to you. You made all the delicate inner parts of my body and knit them together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex. It's amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous and how well I've known. You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion. and you saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book. Verse 17. How precious it is, Lord, to realize that you're thinking about me constantly. I can't even count the many times of days your thoughts turn towards me. And when I awake in the morning, you're still thinking of me. Surely you will slay the wicked, Lord. Away, bloodthirsty men, be gone. They blaspheme your name and stand in arrogance against you. How silly, how foolish can they be? Oh, Lord, shouldn't I hate those who hate you? Shouldn't I be grieved with them? Ah, yes, I hate them, for your enemies are my enemies too. Search me, oh God, and know my heart. Test my thoughts. Point out anything you find in me that makes you sad and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Oh, we must too learn to trust God completely, like this man David. Since God demands our trust, he is obligated to prove himself trustworthy. Remember, all of His promises are yes and amen. This, precious ones, means that God has bound Himself in promise to us and to use His power in our defense and on our behalf. He promises to give you a hope and a future when you cooperate with Him. If you have been in the dark concerning your paradigms, regarding God's thoughts towards you. Be led into the light by this word today and look ahead. If you stay with your past experiences and belief, you will have no future. But do not look back. But reach towards the light who is our Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior and ruler of our lives. The death of Jesus is the death of evil to the child of God. Precious ones, I say to you, trust and do not be afraid. You must not only bear the will of the Lord for your life, but you must make up your mind to rejoice in it. And when you learn to rejoice in tribulations and glory in your infirmities, it is then that you can truly say, how sweet you are. Your will is being worked out in my life, and I shall learn to be content and patient in all things because your thoughts towards me are good. Welcome the clouds that come, but rest in the light, the peace and the joy and know that the thoughts of God towards you are good. And then you will trust in God. And when you trust in God, you're submitting to His will for your life. remember let your attitude be positive towards god seeing the end of all that god does in your life it is for your good and not for evil you must learn to trust him completely and abide in him always in the obedience that he calls for in his word since god demands our trust as i said he is obligated to prove himself trustworthy. As I said, his promises are yea and amen. King David said, Lord, when I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God whose word I praise, in God I trust, I will not be afraid. When you trust in God, you can be assured he will not betray you to the enemy. Your willing dependence and trust upon Him awakens His almighty power for your defense. As surely as a newborn baby's cry awakens His mother regardless of the hour. God, your Father, has sworn the greatest oath that is declared from His sacred lips in Paul's epistle in Hebrews 6, 17. God also bound Himself with an oath so that those he promised to help would be perfectly sure and never need to wonder whether he might change his plans. Verse 18. He has given us both his promise and his oath. Two things we can completely count on for it is impossible for God to tell a lie. Now all those who flee to him to save them take new courage when they hear such assurances from God. now they can know without a doubt he will give them the salvation he has promised them. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Again I say it is impossible for God to lie. And this should make your faith soar in God to the highest levels with the greatest comfort and peace. That he is your divine refuge and high tower of strength. God is your protection whom you can trust. God is calling his people to come into the chamber of his high tower and make themselves at home with him. He wants us to learn to live and abide in his presence. And he wants to assure you that his thoughts towards you are good. And that he knows the plans that he has for you. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future. God says, then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you, and you will seek me and find me. When, when you seek me with all of your heart, I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back from captivity. What love, dear church. What love. don't stay on the outer fringes of God's love jump into the river and know the plans that he has for you seek him with all of your heart and he will not disappoint you when you do .