God doesn't want me worrying about
anything nothing
not a zip zero Philippians 4:6 don't
worry about anything that's pretty clear
instead pray about everything we've
talked about this many times you can
pray you can panic if you're not praying
you're panicking you can worry you don't
worship if you're not worshiping you're
worrying you invite worship in the front
door where he goes out the back door and
so God says I don't want you worrying
about anything now why he says worry is
unreasonable it's unreasonable in other
words it doesn't make sense it's
illogical it is irrational it is
unreasonable in the first place we
typically worry about the wrong thing we
worry about the little stuff how I look
how I appear what I say who who I'm
talking to
stuff am I gonna be late for this
meeting stuff they didn't gonna matter
in five years it's all temporary if you
really gonna worry and God says you
shouldn't but if you were gonna worry
worry about things that are eternal
don't worry about stuff that's not gonna
matter tomorrow Jesus says you should
never worry not only because it's
unreasonable it's unnatural nature does
not worry it's unnatural Jesus you know
look at the birds look at the birds of
the air they don't sow or reap or store
away in barns they're not worried about
you know do I have enough to live on
they said and yet your heavenly Father
feeds them are you not more valuable
than birds if God takes care of Birds
isn't gonna take care of you and then he
says in verse 28 and 29 Matthew 6 why do
you worry about your clothes you've got
look at the flowers look at the field
lilies they don't worry about about how
they look yet King Solomon all of his
glory was not clothed as beautifully as
they are and he said all of creation
trust my care except humans he's saying
worry isn't natural
Jesus says worry is unhelpful
what does he mean by that it's useless
it doesn't work
worry is worthless it doesn't change
anything when you worry Matthew 6 verse
27 Jesus says who of you by worrying can
add a single hour to his life where he
can't make you an inch taller where it
can't make you an inch shorter can make
you bigger or smaller thinner or fatter
where he doesn't work and says who you
could change anything he said you can't
add even a single hour to your life
worried about any problem in your life
will never move you one step toward that
situation worry is worthless
worry cannot change anything in your
past
it's already done your past is past so
why are you worried about it worry
cannot control your future no matter how
much you think you can you're not
controlling it by worrying about it so
if it can't change the past and it can't
control the future what does it do
messes up today and he says there's no
need to worry because your heavenly
father will take care of you you know
when I was a kid if I had any need in my
life I didn't worry about it I went to
my dad the data I need this or mom I
need this and if I needed money to buy
sometimes a data I need some money to
buy this I never once worried about
where he was gonna get the money
that was his worry you're worrying about
a lot of things that are God's
responsibility worry is assuming
responsibility that God never intended
for you to have every time you worry
it's a warning light I'm playing God I'm
acting like God I'm a thinking that it
all depends on me that I don't have a
Heavenly Father so you never worry if
you understand that God is your Heavenly
Father and you understand the goodness
the goodness of God Matthew 6 verse 30
says this if God cares so wonderfully
even for the flowers that are here today
and gone tomorrow in other words they're
only a bloom for a few days and then
they're gone
but your life last decades if God cares
so wonderfully even for the flowers that
are here today and gone tomorrow won't
he surely care for you you see what he's
saying here is that God has assumed
responsibility for the needs in your
life and he cares for you because he
says you are valuable you have value you
want to know how much you value look at
the cross Jesus died for you on the
cross that shows how much value you have
to god you're not junk you're not
worthless no no you are valuable to God
because you're his child and like the
shepherd takes cares of the defenseless
sheep when you need it I'm there what am
I saying I'm saying that worry in your
life every time you worry it comes from
the fact that you must understand the
goodness of God worry is a warning sign
it's a yellow will caution I go by power
bomb that's saying at this point I've
forgotten how good god is I've forgotten
the promises of God I've forgotten what
God has promised to do in my life to
meet all my needs he says it over and
over and over I will meet all your needs
there's no need that God will not meet
if you trust him now if you don't trust
him you're out there on your own but if
you trust him he says I will meet every
need in your life and worry means I've
forgotten that the goodness of God it
want comes from misunderstanding what
God is really like and you know what we
always get into trouble every time
whenever we start doubting God's
goodness when we start saying God's not
gonna take care of me God doesn't really
love me God isn't a good God every time
you start thinking like that you know
where those thoughts came from you're
gonna get in trouble
you're gonna go down a blind alley hit a
dead end have all kinds of
discouragement in your life and it
doesn't even make sense most of you here
sitting here this in this day are our
believers you've stepped across the line
spiritually said you know I've put my
trust in Jesus Christ because they know
heaven's perfect and I'm not there's no
chance I'm getting to heaven on my own
goodness because I'm not good enough so
I'm trusting Jesus Christ to forgive me
and
to save me by his grace not by my works
but I'm just trusting God to say because
he loves me he wants to forgive me he
sent Jesus to die for me when Jesus died
on the cross for you he solved your
biggest problem you don't have any
bigger problem than eternal salvation
but if that's your biggest problem why
do you doubt his taking care of the
smaller things in your life what's the
logic of saying I'm gonna trust God to
get me to heaven but I'm not going to
trust him to help me make my car payment
what what's the logic in that it makes
no sense why would you trust God with
something so big eternal salvation but
not trust him with Who am I supposed to
marry am I ever gonna get married or am
I gonna get a job or what school should
I go do and all the other major
questions in life why don't you trust
him with those things - it doesn't make
sense to say oh I don't doubt him for my
salvation but I do doubt that he's gonna
care for my health I do doubt that he's
gonna care for my career it doesn't make
sense at all if God can be trusted for
salvation he'll carry everything else
and when you doubt that you are an
unbeliever at that moment you're an
unbeliever well every time you worry you
act like an unbeliever you see it's
actually an insult to God every time you
worry you're acting like an orphan every
time you worry you're acting like you
don't have a Heavenly Father who is
promised over and over again over 3,000
promises in this book to take care of
your needs how many times you act like
God doesn't know what you need
let me start depending on it selves and
we start taking matters in their own
hands and we assume that we have to
figure it all out
rather than is trusting that's called
playing God when we get to heaven you're
gonna see how many times you set
yourself up for failure by worrying
instead of trusting John chapter 14
verse 1 Jesus says this don't be worried
what do I do instead of worrying he says
believe in God and believe in me how do
you do
how do you trust God to meet your needs
number one you do this every day it's
not a one-time thing every day ask him
to be my shepherd every day I asked
Jesus to be my shepherd the Lord is my
shepherd you do this every morning when
you get up you sit on the side of your
bed and you say the Lord is my shepherd
and then I say it throughout the day
any you've got a major decision to make
the Lord is my shepherd
you might say it 10 or 15 times a day
but if you'll start saying that phrase
your worry will go down every time you
start to worry you need to say the Lord
is my shepherd now in John chapter 10
Jesus says this verse 14 15 I am The
Good Shepherd let me say the Lord is my
shepherd who is that Jesus says I'm in
I'm him I am the Lord I am The Good
Shepherd and I know my own sheep and
they know me and I lay down my life for
my sheep that's what he did on the cross
He gave His life for you
second is very important I give him
Jesus first place in every area of my
life this is extremely important that I
give Jesus first place in every area of
my life now the Bible says this Matthew
6 verse 31 33 your heavenly father
already knows perfectly well what you
need let me stop right there
your heavenly Father perfectly knows
already what you need so any needs you
mentioned to God he already knows so
anytime you come to God with he's not
gonna go whoa I never saw that one
coming
he knew it before he made you but he
says I already know what you need before
you even ask and he says and he will not
might he will give you what you need if
here's the condition if you give him
first place in your life and you live as
he wants you to
so you give God first place in every
area of your life now let me just tell
you something
any time you worry that is a warning
light that that particular area of your
life you have not given him first place
when you make Jesus Christ number one in
every single area of your life it really
simplifies your priorities and it also
gives you a whole lot less to worry
about see when it's given to God then
you don't have to worry about it too
often we worry about things we worry
about physical possessions now as long
as you love anything else in your life
more than God that area is going to
become a source of worry to you just
count on it it's gonna become a source
of stress and a source of insecurity if
God if you love it more than god you're
gonna be victimized by worry and anxiety
and eventually everybody has to decide
you and me and everybody else what am I
going to live for and Who am I gonna
live for and whatever that answer is
becomes your Lord you know one of the
things we worry about the most of course
is money what I've discovered is that no
matter how much or how little you've got
about it you still worry about it
and if you don't have it you worry about
getting it if you've got it you're
worrying about keeping it saving it
spending it investing it protecting it
and God says I know what you worrying
about that I'll take care of all your
needs
Matthew chapter 6 verse 34 Jesus says
this so don't worry about tomorrow
because tomorrow will have its own
worries each day has enough trouble of
its own anybody
that verse can't change the future can't
change the path just work on today there
are two days of every week you should
never worry about yesterday and tomorrow
because you can't do anything about them
take one day at a time through your life
now why why does God say that you should
only live your life one day at a time
well because it's true it's the only
thing you can do you can't live in the
past you can't live in the future you
can only live today but there's a couple
reasons why you should only live one day
at a time first when you worry about
tomorrow's problems you miss all the
blessings of today some of you are so
worried about retirement you're not
enjoying today it's okay to plan for
them tomorrow it's okay to plan for the
future just don't worry about the future
planning is good worrying is bad you can
plan for tomorrow but you can't live in
tomorrow you could only live today now I
know that the future can often seem you
know very overwhelming but God
graciously divided it up in the 24 hour
segments so you don't get all the future
at once you get it 24 hours at a time
and if God gave you all the future at
one time it would overwhelm you but
you're not there yet you're not ready
for it so it's not going to come at you
all at once you're gonna hit the future
one day at a time you can handle that
life because the Lord is my shepherd
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