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God is the same God in the past history of the Bible, as He is this very minute. What He promises, He keeps. What He does, lasts forever. His faithfulness endures forever. His character never changes. We have the entire Bible proclaiming who He is and His promises to us.

Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You will remain. (Psalm 102:25 & 26)
  - He REMAINS


Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. (Exodus 2:23-25)
  - This is obviously talking about the Hebrews in slavery. But He is still here now, just as close as He was then!
  - God is still SEEING, REMEMBERING, WATCHING, and KNOWING us!


Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak... (Exodus 4:12) 
  - He is still helping... Still speaking through us!


For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed... (Malachi 3:6)
  - He does NOT change. Period. 


For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for His name in serving the saints... (Hebrews 6:10)
  - God is just and He will not forget our work.


Because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood. Therefore He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them. (Hebrews 7:24 & 25)
  - Jesus lives forever. He is able - always able - to completely save those who come to God through Him!


Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”... Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (Hebrews 13:5 & 6, 8)

  - This isn't going to change. It was true then, it is true now. Why do we live as though Jesus isn't all powerful, eternal, and unchangeable? Why do we worry, stress, or fear in site of the promises in this passage?

Why do we worry? Why do we persistently fear and stress about things that are completely under God's control? It is futile. 

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:25-27, 33 & 34)

Friend, give it to God. He's got you - including your problems and stress. He knows our weakness and frailty, He promises to help us, and He bids us to trust Him. Lets live as though we know that!

NOTHING IS OUT OF GOD'S CONTROL. 

<3 Berea

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