Fearful or Faithful?

What we believe about God affects how we live, how we view ourselves and others, and even how we respond to trials we face in life. 

Our beliefs about God also affect our relationship with Him. It’s important to have a healthy view of God—one that is based not on our feelings or opinion but on the truth of His Word. In his new series, God Is … 

1. Jesus is the sovereign Lord of the universe.

I Timothy 6:15 NKJV

15 which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

2. Jesus is faithful and true.

Revelation 3:14 NKJV

14 “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write,‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:

Revelation 19:11 NKJV

11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.

Numbers 23:19 NKJV

19 “God is not a man, that He should lie,Nor a son of man, that He should repent.Has He said, and will He not do?Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Titus 1:2 NKJV

2 in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,

Hebrews 6:18 NKJV

18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

3. Faithful or Fearful?

Mark 4:40 NKJV

40 But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?”

Hebrews 11:11 NKJV

11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.

Faith is judging God faithful.  Fear is judging God unfaithful.  The first word that God gives you.  When something happens, go back to the first word that God gave you.  Then, listen for a fresh word that God will give you.   

 

Mark 4:35 NKJV

35 On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.”

What is the Holy Spirit saying to me through this message?

Robert Morris, Gateway Church