Lesson's in Matthew

The Lord stirred me in these scriptures yesterday in church. He showed me them after speaking to me about rebellion. Satan rebelled against God, and when we resist the spirit of God, we are rebelling against him just how Satan did. We have to be obedient.

Matthew 6

²⁴No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
²⁵Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
²⁶Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
²⁷Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
²⁸And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
²⁹And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
³⁰Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
³¹Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed.
³²(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
³³But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
³⁴Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

-We need to just surrender to God and believe his promises. We cannot take any thought of our previsions but know that God is good and he knows of our necessities.

Matthew 10

²⁸And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
³⁰But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
³¹Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
³²Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
³³But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
³⁴Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
³⁵For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
³⁶And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
³⁷He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
³⁸And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
³⁹He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
⁴⁰He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

-We can't be afraid to speak truth when God would have us to speak it. We can't hold back truth from those that need to hear it.(if the spirit leads you) We can't fear men. We can't be respecters of men's ways, but our respect and fear should be in the most high God. We are not worthy if we love, or put first any person including our husbands, wives, or children before God. God has to be the treasure of our hearts, and we need to seek him as the pearl of great price. To please him has to be our hearts one desire.

Matthew 14

²³And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
²⁴But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
²⁵And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
²⁶And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
²⁷But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
²⁸And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
²⁹And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
³⁰But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
³¹And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
³²And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
³³Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

Jesus walked on water after he fed the multitudes of people,(5,000 people) with five loafs of bread and two fish. Peter, after asking Jesus to let him walk on water, began to doubt and to sink into the water. Peter only started to sink when he started to look and the heavy wind and waves and to doubt. We can't look to our own understanding, but we must put on the mind of Christ. All things are possible to them that believe. God is faithful to us, all we have to do is ask and believe.

God bless, Chad