Stop Worrying!

Series: We’ve Got Issues, but God’s Got Solutions!

Stop Worrying!

Matthew 6:24-34

5 thoughts that help us to position ourselves to acknowledge Who the Savior we trust is as we follow Him through this life full of perplexities:

1. My Heavenly Father watches over the birds, and because I’m more valuable than them, I can rest–knowing He is watching over me and my needs too. (Matthew 6:25-26)

–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? Behold 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?

2. Anxiety never accomplishes anything profitable. (Matthew 6:27)

-Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

3. God secures the beauty of the temporal flowers, how much more should I expect Him to provide what I need? (Matthew 6:28-30)

-And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, 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?

4. Anxiety is for those who don’t know the Heavenly Father’s love, but for me, to worry is to live beneath my privilege as a child of God. (Matthew 6:31-32)

–Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

5. Because I have Christ, I already have more than I need. (Matthew 6:33-34)

-But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take 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.