WORRY
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?’
Matthew 6:25-31 NIV
8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem[a] as well—the delights of a man’s heart. 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me. 10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil. 11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:8-11 NIV
3 REASONS JESUS IS PASSIONATE ABOUT GETTING US NOT TO WORRY:
- WORRY CAN LEAD TO SELFISH DECISIONS IN LIFE
- WORRY IS USELESS
- WORRY IS WORLDLY
“Those who feed their hearts on the record of what God has done in the past will never worry about the future.” —William Barclay
7 PRACTICAL WAYS TO FIGHT WORRY AND ANXIETY
- TAKE TIME OUT
- BREATHE THROUGH YOUR PANIC
- FACE YOUR FEARS
- DON’T TRY TO BE PERFECT
- VISUALISE A HAPPY PLACE
- TALK ABOUT IT
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