Dr. David Jeremiah is a senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, California. Jeremiah spoke recently about the importance of trusting in God and preparing for the return of his son, Jesus Christ, in an interview that is a must-read for Christians all across the country.
Dr. Jeremiah honed in on the stress and anxiety that people are constantly burdened with and talked at length about the ways that God and his presence in one’s heart can relieve them from their Earthly worries. In an interview with Fox News Digital, he shared this great message.
He said, “The word ‘peace’ occurs over 400 times in the Bible. Yet how many people do you know who have peace with God, but don’t have the peace of God? They’re filled with anxiety, and they can’t live a day without worry.”
Dr. Jeremiah then shifts his focus to Philippians 4:6-7, a verse that urges those who have accepted Christ into their hearts also to allow their stresses and worries to fade away in the knowledge that they will spend eternity with Him.
He continued, “When Paul tells the church in Philippians, ‘Do not be anxious about anything,’ the word ‘anxious’ literally means to be pulled in two different directions. It means to have an inward war going on inside, a battle going on in your spirit, pulling you apart.”
Moving onto the issue of prayer, Dr. Jeremiah says that any issue that brings individual stress and anxiety, no matter how small, is worthy of bringing to God through prayer. “When Paul writes, ‘Let your requests be made known to God,’ that truly means everything,” according to Jeremiah.
To make matters even more clear, Dr. Jeremiah continued, “We ought to go to the Father with everything in prayer, and to nothing with anxiety.” This kind of acceptance from God to tell us that even our most trivial worries are worth telling him is a beautiful thing that is easy to forget in the up-pace speed of life that we live today.
When describing ways that the Bible gives him peace, Dr. Jeremiah spoke about the impending return of Jesus Christ and how that sets his mind at ease. “One of the greatest truths of the Bible, and the one that gives me the most peace and hope, is Christ’s return. This is something to think about upon rising in the morning and retiring at night.”
Dr. Jeremiah’s sermon here agrees with Philippians 4:6-7, which says, “Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus”
What a wonderful message and reminder to hear as the seasons change and we are presented with new sources of stress and anxiety. Dr. Jeremiah, along with Scripture, assures us that those worries are never battles that we have to fight alone.
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