This document provides guidance on staying connected to God through universal submission, unloading stress by casting cares upon Him, maintaining an unrelenting spirit against the devil, and taking a unified stand in faith. It encourages humility, trusting that God provides and cares for our needs, being sober and vigilant against Satan's attempts to destroy faith, and finding strength and settlement through enduring hardships, with the promise of God's eternal glory through Christ.

1. STAY
CONNECTED
TO GOD
1PETER 5:5-11

2. Psalm119:67
“before I was afflicted, I went astray,
but now have I kept thy word”

3. 1. UNIVERSAL
SUBMISSION
1Peter 5:5
“likewise, yea younger, submit yourself unto
the elder ,yea ,all of you be subject one to
another, be clothed with humility, for God
resisteth the proud and giventh grace to
the humble”

4. Hebrews 13:17
“obey them that have the rule over you
and submit yourselves, for the watch for
your souls”
2Chronicles 26:16
“but when he was strong, his heart was
lifted to his destruction; for he
transgressed against the Lord, his God,
and went to the temple of the Lord and
burn incense upon the altar of incense”

5. 2. UNLOADED STRESS
V7. casting all your care upon Him, for
he cares for you

6. Psalm 127:2
“It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late,
to eat the bread of sorrows, for so giveth his
beloved sleep”
Mat. 6:25
“therefore, 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?”
V27. which you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his
stature?

7. Lamentations 3:22
“It is of the Lord’s mercies that we
are not consumed, because his
compassion fail not”

8. 3. UNRELENTING
SPIRIT
V8. be sober, be vigilant, because
your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about,
seeking whom he may devour

9. 2Cor 11:3
but I fear, lest by any mean, as the
serpent beguiled eve through his
subtilty, so your minds should be
corrupted from the simplicity that is in
Christ

10. 4. UNIFIED STAND
v9
“whom resist steadfast from the faith, knowing that
the same afflictions are accomplished in your
brethren that are in the world”

11. 2Cor 10:3
“for though we walk in the flesh, we do not
war after the flesh”
v4 for the weapons of our welfare are not carnal, ,
but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds
v5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ

12. 1Tim 1:9
“holding faith and a good conscience...”
1Peter v10
“but the God of all grace, who hath
called us unto his eternal glory by
Christ Jesus, after that ye have
suffered a while, make you perfect,
establish, strengthen, settle you”