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Did you know that faith simply does not worry, period? The more I find out about faith, the more
I see it. Faith doesn’t worry about family. Faith doesn’t worry about money; it doesn’t. Some
say, “Well, I do.” I said faith. Faith doesn’t worry about whether people like me or not, or if
they’re against me, or for me, or what people might say, or if anyone knows what I did. Faith
doesn’t worry.
Are you and I commanded to live and walk by faith? The just will live by faith and walk by faith.
You will know if you are, and there is one big indicator of it. In Romans 15, he says that the God
of hope will fill you with all joy and peace in believing (verse 13), and these are two good
gauges of how you are doing in your faith life: joy and peace. If you’re worried and scared,
you’re not going to have joy and peace.
For example, as you drive down life’s road in your “faithmobile,” the two gauges you better keep
an eye on are the joy gauge and the peace gauge. You know, in your car there’s a gauge or two
that you had better watch. One of them is the gas gauge, because if the hand on the gas gauge
gets around “E,” and it keeps floating around and gets below the “E,” you cannot just keep
going. Have you found that out? If you keep running when it’s on “E,” what’s going to happen?
Sputter, sputter, sput, sput, and you’re going to sputter to a stop on the roadside, and it may not
be a place where you need to stop. It could be at a bad time, it could be in the rain, and it could
be in the cold. If you run out of joy and peace, and you’re joyless and peaceless because you’re
full of worry, care, and fear, your “faithmobile” is going to sputter to a stop and leave you on the
roadside of despair.
Oh, but when you keep yourself full of the Word, even though thoughts, fears, and feelings
come—and they can come a lot, and they can come frequently—if you just keep throwing them
off, and just keep throwing them off, saying, “No, I’m not taking that. No, I’m not going to sit
here and think about that. No, I’m not going to be afraid of that. No, I’m going to cast that over
on the Lord,” you can keep your peace in the midst of the worst situations. You can keep your
joy in the midst of the worst situations. But there are things you must not let yourself think about.
A thought will come, and you’ll have to catch it and say, “No, no, no! I’m not thinking about
that,” and you’ll have to cast it down, and throw it off. Otherwise it will rob you. You’ll sit there
and get to thinking about it, and the next thing you know, your joy is gone. The next thing you
know, your peace is gone, and you’re getting scared and upset. Why? Because you are thinking
on the wrong thing, and it was your choice to think on it. You could have cast it down, and you
could have thought on something else. You could have thought on something God told you
about. Instead of, “What in the world am I going to do about all my bills?” you could have
thought about, “But my God shall supply all my needs.” Instead of, “Yeah, but they gave me a
bad report, and I have all these symptoms, and it’s worse now than it was…” Yes, but you could
be thinking about, “With long life He will satisfy me.” You could be thinking about what He
said, instead.
“What if I die?” Well, if the Lord tarries His coming, we’re all going to die. If the Lord tarries
His coming just a little while, none of us are making it out of this alive. So what? What is death?
For the Christian, it is not defeat; it is not the end. You just step out of your body and look at it
and say, “Phew! That’s over.” And for the first time in your existence, you’re going to know
what it’s like to not have one ache or one pain or the least bit of weariness or tiredness. You’re