When we let the Spirit guide our life, he shifts our desires and shapes our appetite. Main Scripture Passage: Galatians 5:16-24 NLT What does it look like to have the Holy Spirit lead your life? The outcomes will be the fruits of the Spirit.
Series: WHAT ARE YOU KNOWN FOR?
Message: Peace Within
Text: Galatians 5:22-25
Pastor Tom Cogle
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Are you known to be a PEACEFUL person?Do you have PEACE within?
Life has a way of presenting us with more worries than any one person can carry. Your Heavenly Father wants to carry your burdens for you.
Don’t wait until you have a raging river of anxiety flowing through your life that is totally out of control. Go after the small drips; the little concerns and take them to God in prayer.
Matthew 11:28 NLT“Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”
It’s no wonder we’re so tired at the end of the day. Carrying burdens all day is exhausting. We were never created to live that way.
The Greek word for “worry” means “divided-mind.” Anxiety splits our energy between today’s priorities and tomorrow’s problems. The result is “half-minded” living.
The Holy Spirit wants to produce the Fruit of the Spirit — PEACE — in your life so you don’t waste so much of your life worrying about things you will never solve anyway.
Your anxiety will decrease as an understanding of your Heavenly Father increases. Drop your baggage at the feet of your Maker. Give your cares to Jesus today, to the One who cares for you. He will provide what you need. You can trust Him.
Galatians 5:19-25 NLT
19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. 25 Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.
Matthew 11:28 NLT
28 Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 6:25-27 NLT
25 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? 27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
Psalms 23:2-3 NKJV
2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
3 He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.
Matthew 14:27 NIV
27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
Matthew 28:20 ASV
20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
Romans 8:38-39 NLT
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hebrews 2:1 NLT
1 So we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it.
Lamentations 3:21-24 NLT
21 Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: 22 The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. 23 Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. 24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!”