Worry Directive
Part of The 12 Indomitable Directives for Following Christ
October 6, 2024
Worry Directive - Cast Your Cares To God
*Sunday October 6, 2024
Pastor Ray Parascando*
First Peter 5:7 / NLT, “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.”
1. Think of worry as a bad investment
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?”
2. Wedge God’s provisions between me and my worries
“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.”
3. Seek God by being responsible and right with Him
Matthew 6:33-34 / ESV, “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 34 Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
My next steps
Read: Matthew 6:25-34
Memorize: Psalm 34:10; First Peter 5:7
Cast my cares to God.
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