Matthew 6:25-34
25 “This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the sky: they don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? 27 Can any of you add a single cubit to his height by worrying? 28 And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these! 30 If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t He do much more for you-you of little faith? 31 So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For the idolaters eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. 34 Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Related Text:
Proverbs 12:25
Mark 13:11
Luke 12:11-34
Philippians 4:6-7
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Whatsa Matta Wit Yous
Matthew 6:34 is a great verse to memorize. It reminds us to give evevrything up to God, focus on His plans for us and don’t worry. “Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Do you want to know the trick to stop worrying? I’ve got it. Are you ready? It’s not a quick fix, it will take a few days, or even weeks depending on how much you worry and how seriously to devote yourself this program. But it works. You just have to remember, when you get to the point where you think it’s not working and you want to give up, THAT’S when you’ve really got to keep at it and try even harder, devoting yourself even more to the program. YOU MUST LEAVE YOUR EXCUSES BEHIND!
Here it is:
1: Take whatever it is you are currently worrying about at any given moment and make a list.
2: Write them all down.
3: Pray about each item on your list.
4: Check off an item each time you pray about it (so you could have something on your list that has like 5 or 10 checks by it).
5: Add to the list when new worries pop up, remembering to pray for the newbies as well.
6: Repeat daily!
If you worry tons, you might have to do this multiple times a day, otherwise your list will be super huge. I suggest writing them down, that way you can add to it if you need to and you can check each individual one off when you pray about it. You can add check marks over and over for every time you pray about it, because the point is to be continually praying. Eventually, when it’s no longer a worry, you can cross it out, or re-write your list and leave that particular worry off.
If you commit yourself to this program, here is what will happen. Over time (short or long time period, again, depending on the amount of worry you do and whether or not you stick to this program), your worries will turn into prayer requests. What I mean is, you will begin to pray about things before you even have a chance to worry about them. Your prayer life will be unstoppable. You will be tapping into God’s strength and peace.
So go get a notebook or a piece of paper and get to it.
