Communion is a test. What do you remember of the Lord Jesus Christ? The communion ritual, eating the bread and drinking the cup, is done in remembrance of the Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 22:19-21). Communion needs to be done in the right way, filled with the Holy Spirit, or you will suffer. Remember the bread represents His virgin birth. Jesus was born without a sin nature and He remained sinless through dying on the cross. Remember He was the only true celebrity in this world and He was God-Man. His title over all humanity is King of kings and His title over all angels is Lord of lords (1 Tim 6:15).

Encouragement for living through a crisis: Isaiah 41:10, “Fear not, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.” If you can understand that verse, this is called faith-rest. The faith-rest drill is Problem-Solving Device #3 in the FLOT line of a believer’s soul. Learning how to stand on the promises of God. This is a promise that you can claim as a believer in Jesus Christ. 

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The Word of God must be learned under the authority of a well-qualified pastor and that authority is vested in a spiritual gift. Your spiritual life is based on understanding God or learning the principles and the provisions He's provided for you so that you can begin to replicate the thinking of Christ.

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If you’re going to glorify God to the max, you’ll do it because you love Him. Love for God is a mental attitude based on the filling of the Holy Spirit and the content of the Word of God in your soul. It’s based on your appreciation and respect for Who and What God is. This motivates you to obey Him. One of the ways you obey Him is by having impersonal love for others. A terrific problem-solving device. “You have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Holy Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, loving one another with a pure heart” (1 Pet 1:22).

What does it mean to be a spiritually mature believer? I call it a spiritual profile. Do you have a spiritual profile? That's the question I’d like to ask you on the radio show this morning. What is the definition of a profile? It's a brief written description that provides information about someone or something, or it could be an outline or drawing. But we are talking about your life when God looks at you. What is the profile He sees in your life? What I'd like for you to do this morning is to look into the mirror of God's Word and get a realistic self-image of who you actually are.

Listen to what the Scripture says about the mirror of the Word of God. In James 1:22-25, “But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in the mirror; once he has looked at himself and goes away, he forgets what kind of person he was. But the one who looks intently at the perfect law, which is the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.” The mirror for you and for me is the Bible - the Word of God.

The Word of God insists you do these three simple things: stay in fellowship, acquire the mind of Christ and fight that arrogant syndrome in your soul. Romans 12:3, “Stop thinking in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think.”

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Love is a tremendous problem-solving device. The more you know about love the more you will use it. Love is a Christian motivation. You are the giver, not the taker. Satan has distorted love and made it an emotional feeling. That’s not love. Love comes from your thoughts. “Whoever keeps His Word the love of God is perfected in him” (1 John 2:5). Learning the Word of God develops capacity. The more capacity, the more appreciation you have for God and what He has done for you. You will be motivated to reciprocate His love.

God will never turn His back on you. He will never abandon you. “I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand” (John 10:28-29). His love for you is unconditional. Your reciprocal love for God is the greatest motivational virtue in your life. The only way you’re ever going to love God is to know and understand God. Here’s a test. If you love God, you will obey His mandates and His mandates are not a burden (1 John 5:3).

God demonstrated His impersonal love for us by sending His Son to pay for our sins. And when we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him as our Savior we become a member of the family of God and we then have the personal love of God as Royal family members. Proverbs 8:17 says, “I love those who love me and those who diligently seek me will find me.”

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Adversity is inevitable but stress is optional. Because adversity is what those circumstances actually do to you but stress, well, that is something you do to yourself. 

If you find yourself worrying you are involved in stress. You are told in the Bible not to worry. As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ you need to understand that worry is a mental attitude sin and it's a self-torment—the self-torment of anxiety regarding anything in this life. 

Worrying is a disquieting and painful state of mind that involves much concern over something in your life. This painful uneasiness of your mind always anticipates the worst and so if you are worrying and you have this anticipation and apprehension of danger, misfortune, trouble, disaster coming—uncertainty in your life—what a horrible way to live. You have a state of restlessness. You are always agitated and it produces some mental disturbances, some sort of foreboding anxiety, and painful uncertainty. Worrying is a horrible sin. It destroys your ability to think and to use the faith-rest drill; and if you don't check it, it can actually lead you to be mentally ill.

You can't fulfill the life of God if you worry. 

Psalm 100:5, “For the Lord is absolutely good; and His unfailing love is everlasting, and His faithfulness is to every generation.”

We’ll never know the greatest happiness in this world if we lose the battle of worry in our soul. So if you are worrying, if you naturally like to worry, that’s a major source of sin in your life. Listen to Deuteronomy 31:6-8, “Be strong and courageous, don’t be afraid nor tremble.” Isaiah 41:10, “Do not fear, for I'm with you; do not anxiously look around, for I am your God. I will help you.”

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication along with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. [that’s through the filling of the Holy Spirit and through the faith-rest drill] And then the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7).

Worrying is your sin nature getting proactive in your life, but we want the Word of God to be proactive in your life.

Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than those little birds? And which one of you by being anxious [that’s worrying] can add a single hour to your lifespan? And why are you worrying about your clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” (Matthew 6:25-29)

God has a perfect plan for you and if you will learn the plan and use the plan, you never have to worry, you never have to be afraid, you can have complete self-confidence and complete happiness in the plan of God.

The Christian life is about shaping the way you think, changing the way you think so that your heart lines up with the will of God for your life.

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If you love God and you have reverential respect for God then you are going to fulfill God's plan for your life. Listen to 1 John 5:3, “This is the love of God, that we keep His mandates; and His mandates are not a burden.” This demonstrates that you love Him - it is called obedience. In Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge…”

When you have a desire to learn God's word you get wisdom. Over a period of time, learning gives you wisdom. And what wisdom does once it gets into the bank of your soul, it gives you understanding and discernment.

Your job and my job is to receive the instructions of wisdom that lead us to justice in our life, righteousness in our life, and equity.

Either you adjust to the justice of God or the justice of God will adjust to you.

Now, God is offering you a life of pleasant circumstances and a life of peace - not conflict - if you seek wisdom, His word, understanding, discernment, insight. Guidance through the maze of this life is the very promise of God's wisdom. He will guide you through the maze of this life in the devil’s world. In Proverbs 3:6, “In all of your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.” You are talking about your own personal tour guide through life.

The wisdom of God is called spiritual solutions. The attainment of these solutions, or wisdom, is called spiritual growth. When you have spiritual growth, you develop spiritual skills that give you the ability to live the spiritual life. What are those skills? (1) self-esteem, spiritual self-esteem, (2) spiritual autonomy, and eventually (3) spiritual maturity.

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