Don’t Worry
Sermon Notes
To worry means to feel uneasy in the mind: or trouble. Worrying is a disease of this day & time.
Most of our worrying we create ourselves. Have you ever noticed how worry always comes at a bad time. Just when you need a clear mind to make an important decision, here comes worry. Worrying will destroy our ability to come up with better ideas. It is a sin to worry. Worry is faith in fear; we must have faith with no fear. Worrying is of the DEVIL. Jesus tells us not to worry about those needs that God promised to supply. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Matthew 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?
Worrying could damage our health, it could disrupt our productivity, it could even reduce our ability to trust in God; Jesus says I'll never leave you or forsake you. we should just take him at his word.
Matthew 6:26 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?
Worrying about tomorrow hampers our efforts for today.
Matthew 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Worrying does more harm than good. It’s not what happens to you but how you react to what happens to you.
Matthew 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Matthew 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
The same God who created life in us can be trusted with the details of our life.
Matthew 6:30 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?
Take a step of faith
Matthew 6:31-33 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. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
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Conclusion: God wired us for success, but we program ourselves for failure through worrying.