Matthew 6:31-34

Matthew 6:31-34

“Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matthew 6:31-34)

Can I get a AMEN?? What an awesome verse to stumble upon during such a stressful time of the year!

Lately I have been stumbling upon a lot of things that I am sure are happening for a reason. I feel like every day I am encountering, reading, seeing, attending or hearing something that needs to be implanted in me to make me a stronger person, and stronger christian. I have a question, it gets answered. I have a fear, it is relieved.

For instance the book I just got done reading "Heaven is for real" written  in Todd Burpo's first-person Narrative. A true story about a 4 year old boy who gets really sick and tells his story about meeting Jesus. 

I was told to read the book because it was really good and "life changing." Seeing as how I'm so busy it was put on my, things I might get to, list. I went home for the weekend and my Mom goes "guess what book I just got done reading?" Being a little bit sarcastic I blurted out "Heaven is for real?" my Mom goes, "HOW DID YOU KNOW? It was funny. Anyhow she read the book, said what everyone says, It is life changing, and bought me a copy. I literally read it in 3 hours during work (woops) and can say the same as everyone else, IT WAS LIFE CHANGING.

You only get out what you put in and I was ready to be pushed over the edge in my faith. Questions were answered in that book, that I needed to hear. I challenge you. Believer, lost in your faith, or not at all, to read it. I guarantee you will get SOMETHING out of it.

Before I go, I will leave you with another amazing verse I heard this weekend. 

Romans 8:9-14

"But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells - even though you still experience all the limitations of sin - you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's! So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!