NEVER DOUBT GOD CARES

1 Peter 5:7 AMP casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully].

Don't you care! Maybe you’ve felt like saying that to God at some time? It’s a cry from the human heart when it feels ignored or unloved, or invisible. But the thought occurred to me that God could also ask us that question when we live as though He’s not listening, as though He doesn’t love us, and we become weighed down with care, worried and anxious.

God knows us all so well and Jesus himself must have been tempted to feel that way because He was tempted in every way we are. In fact, on the Cross, Jesus cried out from the depth of His soul, “My God, My God. Why have you forsaken me?” But He was forsaken so that we never will be, to give us a future and a hope. What a thought!

Jesus experienced all we do and far far more, because Isaiah 53 tells us He was acquainted with deepest grief, that He bore all our griefs and sorrows so we wouldn’t have to carry the weight of them any more. But the thing is, we have to give them to Him.😊

God cares. He knows what’s happening. Hosea 14:8 NLT … I am the one who answers your prayers and cares for you. It really doesn’t come any clearer than that, so if ever the enemy comes and tries to tell us God doesn’t care, just read that verse over and over again!

We can come to His throne of grace and know God’s loving arms are reaching out to comfort us, to tell us He’s working everything out for our good if we’ll keep trusting Him and remember what He started in our lives He will bring to completion, so be encouraged.

As we begin another week God assures us we can know beyond a shadow of a doubt: God loves us, He cares for us and He cares about us and as we stay in faith He will unfold His good plans for us all.😊 Praise His name. Amen.

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EMMANUEL - GOD IS WITH US

 Psalm 23:4 NIV 

…I will fear no evil for you are with me…

Can I ask you to read that again? In fact, maybe it would be good to read it out loud to ourselves over and over again before we go into each day, until the wonderful truth of it soaks into our spirit and brings the peace we so need in our everyday world.😊

It’s only ten words but they speak volumes. God is reminding us that He - the One who flung stars into space, who speaks worlds into being, who upholds the universe, including you and me, by the power of His word, who sent His Son into our world to die in our place, the One whose love never fails - He is with us. 

The God of Hope is with us. The God of Joy, of Love and Peace is with us. It makes no difference where we go, or who else we’re with, or whether we’re alone, we can know God is with us. 

Just knowing that makes all the difference in the world because we have the most wonderful, most powerful, most loving Being by our side and actually in us, so we’re never ever alone.

Let’s enter His presence with thanksgiving in our hearts, let’s enter His courts with praise today because as long as He is with us we don’t need to be afraid. God’s love casts out all fear because He’s our Strong Tower, our security. How blessed we are.😊

So just take a minute and read that verse again and as we walk towards Christmas, let it quiet your spirit today and every day. Emmanuel - God with us. God loves us. Thank You Lord. Amen.

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