Rejoice In The Lord Alway

Philippians 4:4-6
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

God bless you. Thank you once again for taking a few minutes of your time today to watch this video. I hope that you’re having a wonderful day. My name is Louis And yesterday we were discussing, taking a text from the book of Philippians chapter four. And we read from verse first, verses one to three and we were talking about.

Standing fast. in the Lord, in other words, stain firms stain stain a true stain from with what you you have heard with what you have believed, which was was Paul was talking to tell the Philippians there to to do and so we want to continue. reading here. The next few verses and just kind of break those down for you, so let’s let’s continue reading here.

All right yesterday we had finished with verse three and we want to continue with verse four, and I hope that you find a blessing out of this and that it that it strengthens you during this time in this in in the world that we live in today, but here’s what what Paul continues to tell the Philippians. He says rejoice in the.

Lord, always, and again, I say rejoice. Now when ever Jesus, whenever Jesus would say verily, verily, I say unto you. And whenever he would say that whenever he would give, was trying to bring a lesson or was trying to give a bring a thought to the people when he was preaching to the people.

Every time that he would say barely barely. That meant that there was something important. Something that you needed to pay attention to, and so the fact that Paul here is telling us twice rejoice in the Lord all way in other words, rejoice in the Lord in every way in in, in, in every aspect of your life rejoice in the Lord.

And again, I say rejoice, you know, right now it’s a perfect time. For people, especially believers Christians too. To to, to be to get week two to complain. People are losing their jobs. People are are. Going through some difficult times right now, and it’s very, it’s a very difficult time and it’s a perfect storm for people to complain.

But yet the Bible says for us to do the opposite. It says here in verse four rejoice in the Lord, always, and again, I say rejoice, so how do we rejoice? We rejoice by staying in the word of God, you know, the Bible talks about always making melody in your heart with songs that, Help you. I’ve never sung. I’ve never had a hard time where I’ve sang a song, you know, to praise the Lord and just trying to put my mind on the Lord with singing that it has not helped me to get in that atmosphere and so, in one place when David was going through the hard times that he was going to be.

Being chased by Saul and Saul wanted to kill him. David would speak about, he had to find the joy within himself. In other words, sometimes it’s a little difficult. Sometimes the external things in this life, can’t give us joy, but sometimes you have to seek it with within you and it’s there. It’s what you want. It’s.

What you’re craving. Therefore, if you’re craving it, then it’s gotta be there, so it’s not time to be depressed saints. It’s not time to be sad. It’s time to rejoice in the Lord. Why? Because his promises are coming to pass. His word is being fulfilled right now. In in our very lives and prophecy is being is being, is being fulfilled, even in this very hour and so, and so I say it rejoice, Paul says rejoice in the Lord always and again, I say rejoice, so verse five continues to say let your moderation be known unto all.

All man, the Lord is at hand. And. And we can all say that right now. Definitely we’re closer to the coming of the Lord than we were yesterday or the day before yesterday, you know, the, the, the, the time for the rapture of the saints is closer than what we were a minute ago. we know that time in God’s eyes is nothing to us time we live. We are tight.

Time, we’re living in this time element and our bodies are subject to time, but you know what, for a believer for a believer, the fact that the Lord is at hand or the, in other words, the fulfillment of God’s word to be fully completed is at hand, you know, that Jesus Christ could not die. On the cross, even when while he was hanging on the cross, he could not die on the cross fully. Give the his spirit over to God until our prophecy. All the prophecy speaking about his death speaking about what was to happen there on the on the cross, just on the cross.

Nothing. They nothing. He could not die until those things were fulfilled. And so how much more right now in this in this, in this present day saints, you know, because God, while all he’s concerned about is about fulfilling his word and for us as his bride to make ourselves ready. That’s how he’s concerned about. We can get so carried away with this and this is how the virus came and this, that and the other, this conspiracy or this, that and the other, but you know what saints, what matters to God is his word to be fulfilled.

And for the broad to make herself ready to dress herself with that word, and so that’s what we need to be doing in this hour and so let your moderation be known unto men. In other words, B, B. A.

Let you beat,

I’m forgetting the word, but be, in other words, be balanced, be a balanced person before all men, don’t lean to one side and too much then, and then go to the extreme on the other side, but be a balanced person and be. Be someone God has given us. we are free moral agents and he’s given us, we can choose and we have that, that that privilege or that or that, that right to choose whether we want to serve God or whether we don’t want to serve God, whether you want to eat eggs.

Tomorrow morning or whether you’d want to eat a cereal when bacon you see we’ve given. We’ve been given that choice. And so with that choice. Comes the fact that we have to be moderate or we have to be balanced beings and not lean, but from ones to one side, from the other, but always stay in the middle of the road. So this is what Paul is speaking to us here. The Lord is at hand and, and last verse, it says here be careful for nothing.

My, I could say so many things about this. You know what? What? What is Paul trying to say? He’s not trying to say be careless. Or But he’s saying, in other words, don’t worry about anything. Don’t fear. Nothing. In other words, why? Because fear brings torment first, John chapter four talks about talks to us about that. So be careful for nothing. In other words, don’t fear anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication.

With Thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.

You know, you’re going to do more on your knees down on your knees. Then what you would, if you were out there, if you were doing something else, thinking that it will make things better, thinking that it would calm you down. You’re going to do more on your knees. You’re going to make more changes on your knees.

Then if you were sitting all day long reading the news listening to the negativity that’s out there or for those who don’t really are concerned about what’s going on or don’t really care. And maybe you sitting around watching Netflix all day. You know what? That’s not gonna help him, but why will help me, and what will make changes is prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving.

Let your requests be made known unto God. In other words, already thanking God. Paul’s telling them here. Prayer with Thanksgiving. You might. We might say, Lord, I don’t know what to pray. Well then just just start entering into a prayer. Just thanking God for what he’s already done in your life. And then just thank him for what he’s doing in your life. What he has done for you, 40 30 2010 years ago for your children that God has given you for for the life for the food for the roof over your head with Thanksgiving.

Mate, mate. Let your request be made known unto God. In other words, knowing that God, thank you Lord because you are going to answer these requests. You know you get you get more from God, just being positive then instead of being negative, so that’s what Paul is telling us here. I hope that this has encouraged you today.

Tomorrow we will continue with the with with the next three verses and so, I hope that you stay tuned for that. In the meantime, you’re welcome to visit our website is 10,000 worlds. Dot com. That’s the number 10, the letter K. The word worlds.com. You can also visit our YouTube channel. Find us on YouTube and find us on Facebook as well and interact there with us. I hope that you have a blessed day today. May God bless you.

And remember everything that you do and say today. Remember and always put the Lord. First, God bless you. Take care.