Just Do It

This is a series of devotions and meditations on scripture that rejects fear and champions faith. It emphasizes the importance of obeying God's tasks and being strong and courageous. The Lord is always with us and equips us for the work He calls us to do. We can rely on the promises in His word and speak them over our lives. By abiding in Jesus and being obedient to God's will, we can walk in victory and possess His blessings. God's love for us is limitless and casts out fear. We are precious and valuable to Him. Welcome to Fear No Fear. Grace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May the Holy Spirit embrace you today. This is a series of devotions and meditations on scripture. We reject fear in any and all forms. Fear is a spiritual force, the currency of darkness and ignorance. It's what we inherited when Adam gave up his faith and Satan uses it to keep people down. His only weapon is words. If he can get you believing or looking at words of fear, he's got you. Instead, we champion faith as an allegiance to God, as a belief and trust and loyalty to the Lord God Almighty. We accept the evidence of his word as unvarnished truth, as is, just as it's written. We get close to his perfect love through the word and perfect love casts out fear. 1 John 4.18 All scripture is taken from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Visit eBible.org 1 Chronicles 28.20 David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and courageous and do it. Don't be afraid nor be dismayed, for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you until all the work for the service of Yahweh's house is finished. When we have a task from the Lord, we have a task from the Lord. We're to do it. Seems simple, yes? God often lays on our hearts things that he wants done. Obey him. Right away. Just do it. But how? It reminds me of the hole in the bucket response. With what shall I fix it, dear Liza, dear Liza? We need to do it, but how shall we do it, O Lord, O Lord? With strength and courage. Exodus 15.2 and Joshua 14.11 and 2 Chronicles 15.7 Without fear or dismay. Isaiah 8.12, Psalm 27.1 and John 14.27 So remember that the Lord is with you in this task and outside of it as well. Genesis 21.22 says, At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do. Oh, that that is said of us as it was of Abraham. And in Deuteronomy 31.6 it says, Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid or scared of them, for Yahweh, your God himself, is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don't forget that when the Lord says do and you choose to act, you'll be emotionally and spiritually equipped for the service of the Lord. The Lord is a just God. Psalm 145.17 He won't call you to something you cannot do or that has tools you do not have, cannot get, or cannot wield. He enables us and rides alongside us. God doesn't sleep, slip, or stop. He does not fail or forsake. He is in it for the longest of halts. He's in it until long after we all reach the finish line. God never stops. There might be trouble that rears its head, but in the Lord you'll be in the eye of that hurricane. You won't have to deny what's around you, but it won't touch you. There are 8,000 promises in the Word from God to us. It is a guarantee that one of them will cover the circumstances that you are in. I mean, other than that, there are many, many verses that cover a lot of different topics. Find what is in there that relates to your situation and then meditate on them. Think about them. Read them and reread them. Let Holy Spirit guide your thinking as you narrow the Scriptures down to two or three that really resonate in your spirit. Then start praying them. Praise your way to the throne and then speak out His Word over your situation. And then praise your way out. Make that a habit. The Lord watches over His Word. Jeremiah 1.12 The Lord ensures that it doesn't return to Him empty and without substance in it. Isaiah 55, 9-10 Remember that God is a God of faith and not feelings. Hebrews 11.6 You can wake up every day and throughout each day proclaim, In Jesus' name I speak Deuteronomy 31.6 and Psalm 1.1-3 over my life. God is with me. I will think on His Word and I will succeed in all I do. This is not positive thinking. This is possessive faith. This is kingdom thinking. God says do, so you act. You use the Word, walking in accordance with it, not bending it to your whim. And you believe what the Lord says in it as you go. You might not see the end of the tunnel. You might not even see that there is a tunnel. But you push forward. Stay strong. Stand in the armor of God. Ephesians 6.13-18 And declare that you're a winner in Jesus and that you will succeed. Proverbs 16.1-3 Whether you feel it or not, you're declaring according to the will of God. The Word is the will of the Lord. Holy Spirit will always tell you when you're trying to color out of the lines. Make sure you listen and adjust accordingly before you start declaring or praying. Preparation is important. Getting the Word into your heart is important. Being fully persuaded that what you are saying is true is vital. That's what faith is, being fully persuaded. Because when you act, when you speak words out of your mouth, you're speaking in spirit authority. Our authority in Jesus, as we abide in Jesus, doing according to the Word and the will of the Father, is what grants us the ability to walk in the victory of Jesus. John 15.14-16 Whether you see it or not, you can, by faith, possess that victory. Because Jesus is going to claim it. God is going to see it done. And since Jesus is in you and is working through you, by default, it is also yours as a co-heir with Jesus. Galatians 4.4-7 We can do the things that God tells us to do because 1. They can be done. God says so. And 2. God gives us the tools, faith, grace, armor, the Holy Spirit, Jesus' righteous nature, the fruits of the Spirit, all of that to do the job. We don't have to fail. We don't have to have anxiety, depression, or stress about it. We can, through faith, by grace, possess the promises and blessings of God as we do the works our faith in Jesus births in us. Sounds complicated, huh? Let me boil it down to something Jesus said in John 5.19. Most certainly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. It's worth it to read the passage right down through verse 47. Jesus stresses that he and his Father are one, and that you can be one with the Father when you also abide in Jesus as Jesus abides in his Father. A key part of that abiding is obedience. You won't be obedient if you're not Word-focused. Renewing your mind to the things and will of the Father. Not praying out of what you want, but out of what the Father wants. It's a shift, but we can do it with his help. If God says do, do. Don't waver. Claim the strength and use the tools he gives you. Rely on his advice. Be obedient. Be of courage. Don't fear. Jesus is. God is beside you and in you and will not ever leave you. Not before the work is done. Not when the work is done. Not after the work is done. He promised, and God always tells the truth. Not his truth, not your truth. The truth. Period. Full stop. God is truth. God is love. And perfect love doesn't lie. Our daily affirmation of God's love is Deuteronomy 10, 12-21. God made all of creation. He made the heavens, and all that is in the heavens belongs to him. And yet, he chose your ancestors. He set his heart on them. In Amos 3-2, the Lord says that you I've known of all the families of the earth. I mean, that's quite a statement if you think of how many people have stepped on this fair soil. He set his heart on this family. And he chose their descendants after them. Then, through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, he brought you into Abraham's family. And the promises of Abraham. That's Ephesians 3, 5-6. He loves you. You're his family. As we close, remember that you have worth. You are precious and valuable. Declare this. Today, God loves that I... Now you fill in the blank. Was it a meal you made? A smile you gave? Did you get out of bed? Read? Put on socks? There's no wrong answers here. There is no end to God's love. And no end to the things about you that he loves each and every day. Pick one. And remember, the Lord loves you. Just because you're you. 1 John 4, 9-10 tells us, By this, God's love was revealed in us that God has sent his only born son into the world. That we might live through him. And this is love. Not that we loved God. But that he loved us. And sent his son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. His perfect love turned away God's wrath because of sin. And it casts out our fear too. See verses 18 and 19. We love because he first loved us. He just loves us. He can't get enough of us. And amen to that. See you next time.