WHAT? ME WORRY?

Defeating Worry

Here are seven truths that may help you in defeating worry:

1. If God gave us the great gift of life, surely He will give us the things necessary to support that life:

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?  (Matt 6:25)

2. Since there is no worry in the birds’ lives, why should there be in ours?

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?
(Matt 6:26)

3. Worry is useless and changes nothing:

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?  (Matt 6:27)

4. If God gives such beauty to a short-lived flower, how much more will He care for us as a person?

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? (Matt 6:29-30)

5. Worry is characteristic of the unbeliever, and not of one who knows what God is like. Worry is essentially distrust of God:

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  (Matt 6:32)

6. Worry can be defeated by concentrating first on the kingdom of God:

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.  (Matt 6:9-10)

7. Worry can be defeated when we acquire the art of living one day at a time:

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.  (Matt 6:34)

Pastor Woody