Welcome to Our God Is Faithful Ministries: God surely is Faithful! His goodness and mercy endures forever.  He IS Risen! Jesus Is Alive forever more and no more held by the grave. He triumphs  and over came death hell and the grave. He is our Roc  our Strength.  The Price has been paid. Last week we talked about being redeemed and How he paid the price for us. Today we shout with a voice of triumph. The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever. Psl 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. He loves you and me with unconditional love. You’re his workmanship created in his image and in his likeness.  We are not defeated. We are more that conquerors in Christ Jesus! He is the Alpha and Omega the First and Last. His love for us is everlasting. Don’t allow the devil a foothold into your life. Jesus defeated the devil. In the name of Jesus we cast out devils. We serve a Risen Savior who has been touched with the feelings of our infirmities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. Healing is your portion. Peace and Joy is your portion. Which brings me to the topic many, people have lost their Joy and Peace and are Hopeless and Joyless? Well I have good news for you. This is the day the Lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it. The Joy of the Lord is your strength. Praise God Praise even when you don’t feel like praising praise him anyhow. Rejoice again I say Rejoice. Its hard enough due to  the day and age were living in. However I have good news for you. You can still be peaceful in the midst of the storm. Even when everything around you seems to be falling apart.  You can stand! If we allow life’s circumstances to way us down or get the best of us we will not have any hope. However if our hope is in Jesus Christ. Who is our hope of glory we can be assured that we will walk in victory. Because we serve a Risen savior. He is not dead. He is alive and interceding at the right hand of God for you. He knows your name and everything about you. Nothing left out. He knows where you are and has a purpose for your life. One that leads to a victorious life of abundance. I am not saying you will not face trials and tribulations, however I am saying he has overcome them and he is with you and will not leave nor forsake you. You can depend on him. He will not leave you. But you must keep your eyes on him. He desires a personal relationship with him. Come to him, Seek his face, Spend time meditating in his word. You know there are a lot of promises in the bible for you. Lots and Lots of promises which are yes and amen in him. His love is unconditional. He hates sin but loves the sinner. Cast all of your care upon him for he cares for you. The meaning of Care in the Webster’s dictionary is:   attention, heed, worry, be concerned. Do you focus on your problem and heed to it or worry about it for hours upon hours. Notice he says cast all your care upon him for he cares for you. If your attention is on the problem  it can it still be on God. Can you focus on God and your problem at the same time? What does it accomplish to focus on your problem by worrying? Does it help it or solve it. Does it make it better or worse? Think about that the next time you worry about a problem and continually dwell on it. Ask yourself these questions?  John 14:1 let your heart not be troubled. Care: 1 Peter 5:7 Cast Psl 55:22, John 6:37, John 4:18

The word Cast in the Webster’s dictionary means to throw, hurl, fling, and throw off.     So we could say it like this throw off all your worries, doubts and focusing on your problems and trust the Lord. When we focus all of our attention and worry about a situation it does not change it, matter of fact it makes us feel miserable. Worry is not good. It is fear based and can possibly cause more problems in us if we don’t deal with it. Many of the physical diseases come on people through them worrying, stressing, fear, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness. That doesn’t sound to fruitful does it. So please today start to praise God instead of complaining and worrying about your situation. God knows what you have need of.  Matthew 6:25  God knows what you have need of, sometimes we feel as if we need to repeat it to God and others a hundred times, as if God or others don’t hear us. And like by repeating what we have need of will change things. We can be like the children of Israel and complain and grumble and complain and grumble it didn’t do them any good nor will it do us good. They wandered around the wilderness for 40 years which it should have taken much less time, but they were mumbling and groaning going over the problem , thinking God had left them and not bring them into the promise land he had for them. How many times do we do the same thing, because something has not happened when and how we wanted it to happen?  Time goes  by and instead of getting better we get bitter and sometimes even give up and give in to all kinds of foolish things. Maybe even gets into sin. We need to wait on the Lord patiently and seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all the things shall be added. You know while we are waiting there are things we can be doing. We don’t need to be complacent. It’s the preparation stage. We need to not only be hearers of the words only but doers of the word. James 1:22 be doers of the word. Not just hearers only. Are we acting on the word of God? Or are we acting on our problems? What is motivating you? One way or the other your being motivated or influenced: The word influenced means power to control, persuasion, what or who is influencing you and is it good or bad. Is it baring good fruit or bad fruit? It is causing you to flourish and be peaceful? Is it changing you in a positive way? One way or the other we are influenced? Wouldn’t you like to be influenced by God and be led forth by the Holy Spirit?  We are either walking in the flesh or walking in the spirit.  When we worry about things are we walking by the spirit or the flesh? You know more than half the problems we deal with are ones that we brought on ourselves by choices that were not so good. You see we have a choice to cast all our care upon him for he cares for us.  We can keep the junk in our life of cast it upon him. Jesus paid the price. He is alive forever more. He carried our sorrows and burdens. Why should we allow them to come back on us? When he has taken them. Be anxious for nothing Phil 4:6 pray to him, makes your wants known unto him and let it go. After you pray for it, then let it go and cast it onto him.  Why should you carry it when he will do it for you? Just like if I was caring some heavy thing and it weighed me down and  it about knocked me over trying to carrying it and someone offered to carry it for me and I said no I enjoy carrying this heavy load even though I am struggling and losing everything in the meantime and being hurt in the mean time cause I should have accepted help with carrying it. You see the difference with Jesus is He will carry it all for you, but you have to let it go, give it to him, and walk in his ways, and the truth will set you free. Even who the son sets free is FREE INDEED! The price has been paid. Today and everyday we celebrate HE IS RISEN! He is alive. Call upon the name of Jesus! Call upon him in trouble Psl 91:15 call upon him and he will answer and Psl 50:15 Call upon him.  You have not because you ask not. Come to him he will give you rest for your weary soul.  Don’t allow your self to be caught up in turmoil and strife and envy and unforgiveness, if you have aught against your brother or sister forgive them even as your father in heaven has forgave you. Don’t allow bitterness and resentment in your heart,  it is not healthy,  in any way shape or form and can cause many complications Eph 4:31 put away wrath and bitterness, love one another.  We must walk in love with others and even the unlovely. Roman 9:12, 9-10 Be affectionate toward others God loves you and I unconditionally. We should love one another. That is of the root cause of many feeling rejected and bitter because of not feeling loved or accepted by others. Let me share with you Jesus loves you. God knew you even in your mother’s womb. You are his  beloved. Grab a hold of that truth today as we celebrate our Risen Lord and Savior he died on the cross for you and paid the price for you and redeemed your from the curse being made a curse for you and bore all your infirmities and weaknesses . Think about it and praise him and thank him for it. You know its reminds me of when we go out and by a beautiful gift for a loved one and we are so happy and feel so good about doing it and cant wait till they open it and hope they will be as happy as we are, then they open it and reject it and say, I don’t like this and matter of fact I don’t want it. It  grieves you cause you know your heart in the matter and the time and money your spent on it. Well Jesus is grieved when we don’t accept his gift for us. We just throw it aside and worry about things we don’t need to worry about. And he wonders will we ever come to the saving knowledge of him and how he has paid the price for us and is risen from the grave and seated at the right hand of the father making intercession for us. Today would you allow God to touch your heart and receive the gift Jesus has for you?  Meditate on his promises not your problems wait on him patiently in due season you will reap if you faint not. Seek him not your problem. He is your answer to every life question. Col 3:1 risen with Christ set your affection on Christ.

Guard your heart and mouth, don’t allow you’re self to meditate on negative thoughts, meditate on the promises of God. Speak the word of God over and over to your circumstance. Speak the solution to your problem.  If you fall short or fall down just get right back up and praise God! Don’t allow the devil to keep you down. You’re a champion in the eyes of God. We are more than conquers Rom 8:27 There is no fear in love , perfected love cast out all fear. Hey notice the word cast out like we mentioned early, so what throws out fear perfected love. It cast our ALL fear.  1 John 4:1 Fear hath torment ,so does worry, Is your love perfected in Christ Jesus. Have you cast all your care upon him? Are you spending times meditating on his promises his truth not the lies of the enemy? Is Jesus Lord of your life? He is the king of all kings.

 Psl 68;1 Let God arise         

Matt 11:28 Come ye who labor and I will give you rest. Stop laboring by taking thought and worrying about everything and stressing over things that you should not be worrying about. Come to him. He loves you with an everlasting love that is unconditional. Let’s praise him and thank him for his word together and celebrate that HE IS RISEN HE IS ALIVE

1 Thes 5:17 pray without ceasing, don’t worry all the time replace worry with prayer.

God bless you this day and rest of the week. Remember the work of the finished cross and that Jesus has paid the price and  is alive forever more. Accept his gift for you. Trust in him, lean not to your own understanding, acknowledge him in all your ways. He will give you the desires of your heart.  Rejoice again I say Rejoice!