Guiding Light Chapel, RCCG

How To Find Rest and Peace in
a Chaotic World
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We experience anxiety from various sources- happenings in our environment, security fears, financial stresses, health issues and so on.

It is the most natural thing to worry and be anxious, but that is not the nature of kingdom people. We don't worry. We simply don't know how to worry. That may seem to other people like we are laid back and lackadaisical about life, but that is the way our father expect us to live.

I remember sometime back in my life. I experienced some delay in an area of life and my mum was worried because I was not worried.

She thought because I wasn't worried, then I didn't care about the matter. What she didn't know was that I applied an antidote as prescribed by Hebrews 3 : 7- 19.

The writer in Hebrew talked extensively about entering into the rest of God by believing in his promises. He narrated how many in Isreal were destroyed because of unbelief.

They saw the works of God, how he delivered them through the sea, brought water out of the rock, dried great rivers, and yet they douted him.

Vs 17 - But with whom was he grieved? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

They died in the wilderness and did not get to the promised land because of their unbelief. You see, God hates to be doubted. When you don't believe him, evidenced by your display of anxiety and fear, you tie his hands and make him do nothing about your situation.

Hebrews 4: 2 added. "The gospel was preached to them, but the word did not profit them because they did not miss with with faith. (Paraphrased).

God forbid. God's word is the producer of all we are asking God for - Healing, fruitfulness, prosperity and whatever you need. If we don't believe the word, you can't have those things.

God works in your life to the extent of how you believe him. If you see him as a small little God, then he will appear forth as small and vice versa.

Jesus could not do much for a community he visited because they did not believe him.

Vs 18 - 19-And to whom sware he that they should not enter his rest, but to them that believed not? So they could not enter their rest because of unbelief.

God sees a heart full of unbelief as an evil heart. So whenever you are doubting him, you are EVIL.

Rest is the proof that you believe and have faith in God.

Have you prayed about the matter? Have you located a word in scriptures that you can keep taking to God on the matter? He told us to bring his words back to him and remind him of his promises. Are you standing on his promise on that matter?

Then REST. Relax. That is the best you can do on the matter. You can't play GOD. Let him be God, and you his beloved.

I began a rest challenge by speaking the word, refusing to say the negative and intentionally believing his word irrespective of happenings around.

You can join the challenge also. I expect turnarounds, and miracles to follow as we do this.

Now, enter into your rest.