Is your heart broken? Are you full of fear? Rabbi Schneider shares how God cares for you, helps you overcome fear, and heals you from pain. God does have a purpose for your life. He will bring meaning to your experiences. In this video, you’ll learn how to trust God and how God protects us as He helps us overcome our fears.
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WHY DID YOU FEAR? WHY ARE YOU DOUBTING? AND THEN HE EXPLAINED THE REASON WHY. HE SAID, YE OF LITTLE FAITH. WHY WERE YOU AFRAID? JESUS SAID. WHERE IS YOUR FAITH? So we’re considering this paradigm, this truth today from Psalm 23. I’m just going to begin to read in verse number one. I’m going to read into verse three, and then we’re going to pick up today in verse three, because I covered up to that point last time we were together. Hear the Word of God. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul. I left off last time at verse number three, the first part of this verse, He restores my soul. Do you know that when Jesus introduced himself in the temple, the synagogue, he began to read from the book of Isaiah and he turned to a portion in the scripture in which he said, the Lord has appointed me and anointed me, listen now, to heal the broken hearted. Think about what David said there. He restores my soul. And Jesus said he was anointed to restore the broken hearted. I want to ask you today, does this resonate with you? Is there any brokenness in your soul? David said he restores my soul. And so I want to ask you today, is there a part of your soul that that needs restored. I want you to know there’s good news for you today. Jesus has the power to restore our souls. Do you know the world tells us that time heals all things? That’s not true. Time does help oftentimes, thank God. But I want you to know it’s not just time that restores. It’s not just time that heals. God’s the one that heals. And the reality is there are some situations and some brokennesses that time cannot heal. There are some people that have suffered something so deeply, some people that have gone through such an emotional wound that all the time in the world wouldn’t heal them. The good news is Jesus can heal every broken spot in everyone’s soul that looks to him. The Bible says he that looks to him will not be disappointed and that everyone that looks to him will be saved. Now, some of you right now, you’re feeling that brokenness. You’ve been struggling with something. You’re broken inside and you know it. And you’ve been calling out to God. You’ve been having a hard time getting over whatever this thing is. Jesus loves you today. And I’m going to pray right now for you. Jesus, right now, I want to thank you that you are here, that you are present, that you’re the God of the now, Jesus. And right now, I release in your name, restoration and restorational healing to every soul that is reaching out to you by faith as they’re listening to this broadcast. Jesus, I speak restoration and healing to every broken heart. under the sound of my voice. Holy Spirit, I ask you right now to bring healing and restoration to every heart and every soul. And I ask, Father God, that you would cause faith to spring forth into everyone that’s listening to this broadcast right now that needs restoration, that needs their heart healed. And Father, right now, I believe that something supernatural is happening, that they’re not just hearing a preacher preach a sermon, but I believe right now, Father God, that the Holy Spirit is moving. And Father, there’s a transference of the anointing and of the Holy Spirit that is being imparted to your people’s lives right now, that Father, even as they’re listening to my voice, you are healing them. And I speak right now a word of healing. and restoration over your soul. The scripture says, by His stripes, we are healed. And I say to you in Jesus’ name, by His stripes, you are healed. And I encourage you now to keep reaching out to Jesus, to keep pressing on. And you’re going to find, you’re going to get over this thing. Your brokenness is being healed and will be healed completely and is healed in Jesus’ name. By his stripes, you are healed. As David said, beloved one, he restores my soul. It doesn’t matter what you’ve been through. It doesn’t matter who you are. He is your answer and he restores your soul. Hallelujah and amen. David continues on here, and he said, he guides me in the paths of righteousness. I talked about that. And then David continues on in verse number three, for his namesake. It’s important to understand that what God does, he does first of all for his own namesake. Now we… don’t fully understand what that means, but, you know, God does everything for His own glory. He glorifies Himself. We’ve been chosen, the scripture says in the book of Ephesians, to the praise of His glorious grace, that He called us out of darkness into His marvelous light to the praise of His glorious grace. You see, God has a purpose for your life. He loves you. and He’s going to be faithful to you for love’s sake and for His own name’s sake. That gives purpose to our life. When we understand that God that began a good work in us will complete it for His own name’s sake, beloved, that gives great confidence and great security. Paul said, I am confident of this one thing, that He that began a good work in me will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. Paul talks about this phenomenon also in the book of Romans, chapter 9 through 11, that God shows mercy to whom He shows mercy. He hardens whom He hardens. He does all things according to His own will. And then Paul gets done and he says, to Him, Through him and for him are all things. God’s got a call on your life. It’s for his namesake. He’s going to be faithful, beloved, and complete that which he started in you. God has a purpose for your life, and it will be completed. There’s purpose and meaning, beloved one, individually for you that are called by the Lord. As we continue on in the fourth verse, David says this, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.” David’s going to continue on here. He’s speaking of protection. Now, when David wrote this, I want you to understand, he was walking through the valley of the shadow of death. He wasn’t simply pondering this thought. No, David was walking through the valley of the shadow of death. Saul was hunting him down for his life. There were many, many men that were looking to kill David. David was hiding out in caves for fear of Saul and his men. Yet David was able to say, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, David was saying, I’m protected. And you know what? You’re protected. You and I have to live knowing that God’s protecting us. The arm of man can never protect us. You know, whenever Israel fully trusted God, they were victorious in their battle. But as soon as they began to make allegiances with foreign armies because they thought it would give them more protection, they began to lose their battles. You see, God’s the one that protects us. And I want you to know, beloved one, God is calling you and I right now. He’s challenging you during this show to trust him to protect you. Many of us are living in fear. We’re afraid someone’s going to break into our house. We’re afraid someone’s going to rob us. We’re afraid we’re going to get in an accident. We’re afraid for our loved ones. God protects us. The Bible says even in this fallen world where there’s danger that lurks all about, We’re protected. David said, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, he said, I will fear no evil for thou art with me. You see, not only are we protected, not only does he want us to know we’re protected, but he wants us to even go on from there to have courage. But even to take the next step forward, David went on to say, I will fear no evil. In other words, he was offensively courageous. Not only was he not cowering in fear by saying I’m protected, but he went even beyond that to go on to the offensive. And he said, I will fear. fear, no evil. And God wants you and I to develop such an offensive posture of faith, beloved ones, that not only are we not running from the devil, but we’re chasing the devil by faith in God and His Word. God wants Satan to run from us as we exercise faith in Him. Satan, you’re a liar. You’re the accuser of the brethren. We reject you. We crush you under our feet. We bind every spirit of fear And we say like David, Father God, I will fear no evil.
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Do you know that over a hundred times, beloved one, in the Bible, God told us not to fear? Over a hundred times in the Bible, God told us not to fear. Jesus said that hell was for the fearful and the unbelieving. But God said, we’re not to be like the people around us that keep crying conspiracy. You know, they’re afraid of this, they’re afraid of that, afraid the government’s out to get them, afraid the economy’s, you know. God said, no, you’re not to be like them. That’s for the people that don’t know me. You’re to be confident in me because you’re going to be like a spring that’s going to bear fruit during every season. Whether the sun is shining or whether you’re going through an intense storm, you’re going to continue to be fruitful in times of prosperity on earth and in times of famine. God said, fear no evil.” David said, I shall fear no evil. Let’s say it together before the Lord. I shall fear no evil. Again, I want you to say it with me, because you know what? Your faith will not rise above your confession. I want to ask you a question. Does God want you to be afraid? Does God want you to be afraid of getting old? No. Does God want you to be afraid of driving? No. Does God want you to be afraid that someone’s going to break into your home? No. Does God want you to be afraid of getting sick? No. No, God doesn’t want us to be afraid of anything. Jesus said to his disciples, why did you fear ye of little faith? Let’s take our confession. Let’s not be confessing our fears. Let’s confess God’s Word. David said, I shall fear no evil. I want you to confess it with me together. Ready? I shall fear no evil.” Let’s say it again. I shall fear no evil. I will not be afraid. I will trust in the Lord, and I will not be afraid. I will trust in the Lord, and I will not be afraid. Like David, let’s say it one more time. I shall fear no evil. Satan, we break your back and we break you off our lives. Father, we exercise faith in your word. We need not be afraid. We’re protected as we walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Father, we’re confident that you’re with us. Jesus, that you will never leave us or forsake us, that you, Jesus, told us not to be afraid. We choose to love you. We will not be afraid. We’ll be confident in your love in Jesus’ name and for his glory. Amen and amen and amen and amen. This is so important. Do you know that being afraid is breaking fellowship with God? Thinking about that. Because when we choose fear, when we allow the devil to make us afraid, at that point, we lose confidence in God’s love. And if you think about it, that’s a sin. So I want you to consider that when you and I allow the devil to make us afraid, We are broken in terms of our fellowship with God. Our fellowship with God is broken because we’re not trusting in God’s love, and we can’t experience fellowship with God at the same time we’re fearing And not only are we breaking our experience of fellowshipping with God by allowing ourselves to believe Satan’s lies that make us afraid, but beyond that, we’re even bringing dishonor to God because we’re believing Satan’s lie rather than believing God’s word, rather than believing what Jesus said and what David said, we’re believing Satan’s lies. And so when you and I allow the devil to make us afraid, we actually are bringing dishonor to God by allowing ourselves to believe the devil’s lie rather than believing in God’s love. And even as Satan went before God and started saying things to God, oh, look at Job, you know, look at Job, he’s going to, you know, Satan is able then to go before God and to mock God because we’re believing his lies rather than trusting in God’s love. So I want to challenge you right now. Being delivered from fear, being like David, developing a heart of David that said, I will not be afraid, developing the heart of David that said, I shall not fear. It’s a question, beloved, and it’s an issue of the glory of God. It’s about, God, I am not going to let Satan come before you and bring you dishonor because I chose to stop believing in your love and stop trusting you and believe the false mental image that he put in my brain to make me afraid. Think about it. How many of the things that you’ve been afraid of have ever actually happened to you? And on occasion, if something did happen that you were afraid of, wasn’t fearing it actually worse than when it actually happened? Because when it actually happens, if something difficult happens, God’s there. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I’ll fear no evil for God’s with me. God’s already there. And so I just want to encourage you, beloved one, the heart that David had, You and I can have too. God did not give us a spirit of timidity or a spirit of fear, the scripture says, but of love and power and joy. And we need to realize and recognize that living a life of fear is not acceptable. It’s not an option. We have to declare war on fear. We have to recognize, beloved, that to live in fear is to live opposite of the life principle that’s ours in Christ Jesus. Let me ask you a question. When was Jesus ever afraid? Did you ever see Jesus afraid in the Gospels? Never. And when his disciples did get afraid, remember they were on the boat. and the storm came. And you know what? In the natural, we understand. In the natural, we understand why the disciples got afraid, because it was a very dangerous situation. And yet in the midst of that situation that appeared dangerous, Jesus was sleeping on the boat. Now, I believe that the reason the Father had him sleeping on the boat was to show us how we don’t need to fear anything in the natural world, no matter how dangerous it appears. And then they woke Jesus up, shaking him, panicking. Don’t you care that we’re going to perish? Jesus rebuked the winds, just like he’ll do in your life and my life. He rebuked the waves. And he said to them, why did you fear? Why are you doubting? And then he explained the reason why. He said, ye of little faith. He said, where is your faith? He said, why were you afraid? Jesus said, where is is your faith? Why were you afraid? Where is your faith? You and I need to come to grips with the fact that it’s not Jesus’s will for us to live in fear. David said, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. You may be in a difficult situation right now. I don’t know what you’re facing, but you know what? God doesn’t want you to be afraid. Father, I speak life and courage over your people right now. Jesus, we take a hold of you. We take a hold of your word, and we confess by the power of the Holy Spirit I will not be afraid. Jesus, we know that you’re a God of courage and that you have given us your very life. And we receive your courage now, Jesus. We want to live with the heart of David, that even when he was living in what appeared to be dangerous circumstances, thank you that greater is he that’s in us than he that’s in the world. And Jesus, by faith in you, we declare, I will not be afraid because I love you, Jesus, and because I trust you. I think one of the greatest things that the Lord is doing through this ministry is using Discovering the Jewish Jesus in a huge way in the earth to prepare the Gentile church and to equip them to share their faith with Jewish people. In fact, Paul said in the book of Romans that he magnified his ministry to the Gentiles because he said through Gentile believers, his own people would be reached. And so Gentile believers being equipped To share their faith with Jewish people is a huge part of God’s redemptive purposes. So I want you to know every time you sow your finances into discovering the Jewish Jesus, you’re sharing, you’re sowing seed into good ground that is right in God’s redemptive strategy to prepare the world for King Jesus’ return. Maybe you’ve never presented an offering to the Lord through this ministry. I would humbly ask you today to open your heart to the Lord and consider doing so. And if you feel the Holy Spirit knocking at the door of your heart to move forward with this, just be obedient. And because of you, we’re making a difference.
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The Aaronic blessing in the book of Numbers chapter 6 is not a blessing that comes from an impersonal being out there somewhere in the heavens. This special blessing comes from a person, Yahweh God Almighty, our Creator and Maker. So receive God’s blessing into your life right now.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with his countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. God bless you and shalom.
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This program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. And I’m your host, Dustin Roberts. Be sure to join us tomorrow when Rabbi Schneider challenges us. When we read the Bible, are we just checking a box or meeting the Lord of glory? That’s Thursday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
