What Are You Worried About?
April 28, 2019

“In fact, the average child today exhibits the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s.” —Dr. Robert L. Leahy, Anxiety Free

• Self-care is not

.

Webster’s Dictionary – “worry” – to feel uneasy or troubled…
1. To cause to feel anxious, distressed or troubled.
2. A source of nagging concern…

Random House Unabridged Dictionary – “worry” – To seize by the throat with teeth and shake or mangle, as one animal does another, or to harass by repeated biting and snapping.

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
Matthew 6:25-32

4 Truths about Worry
1.Worry is something you

to do.

2.Worry

the problem.

3.Worry is

to the lessons of nature. (vs 26)

4.Worry is

. (vs 31)

What to do with worry?
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:33-34

• I will do what

wants me to do.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7

• I will

God what I do.

Give your worries to the Lord, and he will take care of you. He will never let good people down.
Psalm 55:22

• Whatever happens I will

God.

“There may be greater sins than worry, but very certainly there is no more disabling sin. ‘Take no anxious thought for tomorrow’ – that is the commandment of Jesus, and it is the way, not only to peace, but also to power.” —William Barclay, NT Scholar and Theologian