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God doesn't want me worrying about

anything, nothing, notta, zip, zero

Philippians 4:6, don't worry about anything. That's pretty clear. Instead pray about everything

We've talked about this many times. You can pray or you can panic

If you're not praying you're panicking. You can worry or you can worship

If you're not worshipping you're worrying. You invite worship in the front door worry goes out the back door

And so God says I don't want you worrying about anything now why?

He says worry is

Unreasonable. It's unreasonable. In other words. It doesn't make sense

It's illogical. It is irrational it is

Unreasonable. In the first place. We typically worry about the wrong thing. We worry about the little stuff how I look

How I appear, what I say, who who I'm talking to, am I gonna be late for this meeting

Stuff that isn't gonna matter in five years. It's all temporary

If you really gonna worry and God says you shouldn't but if you were gonna worry worry about things that are eternal

Don't worry about stuff that's not gonna matter tomorrow

Jesus says you should never worry not only because it's unreasonable. It's unnatural

Nature does not worry, it's unnatural

Jesus says, you know look at the birds

Look at the birds of the air. They don't sow or reap or store away in barns

They're not worried about you know, do I have enough to live on

Then he said and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more valuable

Than birds if God takes care of birds isn't gonna take care of you and then he says in verse 28 and 29

Matthew 6. Why do you worry about your clothes?

Look at the flowers. Look at the field lilies. They don't worry about about how they look

Yet King Solomon in all of his glory

Was not clothed as beautifully as they are

And he said all of creation trust my care except humans. He's saying worry isn't natural

Jesus says worry is unhelpful

What does he mean by that it's useless it doesn't work worry is worthless

It doesn't change anything when you worry. Matthew 6 verse 27

Jesus says who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life

Worry can't make you an inch taller. Worry can't make you an inch shorter. Can't make you bigger or smaller

Thinner or fatter worry doesn't work and he says who of you could change anything

He said you can't add even a single hour to your life

Worry about any problem in your life will never move you one step toward that situation worry is worthless

Worry cannot change anything in your past. It's already done. Your past is past

So why are you worried about it. Worry cannot control your future

No matter how much you think you can you're not controlling it by worrying about it

So if it can't change the past and it can't control the future. What does it do messes up today?

And he says there's no need to worry because your heavenly father will take care of you

You know when I was a kid

If I had any need in my life, I didn't worry about it. I went to my dad

Dad I need this or mom

I need this and if I needed money to buy something I said dad

I need some money to buy this I never once worried about where he was gonna get the money

That was his worry

You're worrying about a lot of things that are God's responsibility

Worry is assuming responsibility that God never intended for you to have

Every time you worry, it's a warning light. I'm playing God. I'm acting like God

Thinking that it all depends on me that I don't have a Heavenly Father

So you never worry if you understand

That God is your Heavenly Father and you understand the goodness the goodness of God

Matthew 6 verse 30 says this if God cares so wonderfully

Even for the flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow in other words

They're only a bloom for a few days and then they're gone

But your life last

decades, if God cares so wonderfully even for the flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow won't he surely care for you?

You see what he's saying here is that God has assumed responsibility for the needs in your life

And he cares for you because he says you are

valuable

You have value you want to know how much you value look at the cross

Jesus died for you on the cross that shows how much value you have to God. You're not junk. You're not worthless

No, no, you are valuable to God because you're his child

And like the shepherd takes cares of the defenseless sheep when you need it. I'm there

What am I saying? I'm saying that worry in your life

Every time you worry it comes from the fact that you misunderstand the goodness of God

Worry is a warning sign. It's a yellow caution light going bamp bamp bamp that's saying at this point I've forgotten

How good God is

I've forgotten the promises of God, I've forgotten what God has promised to do in my life to meet all my needs

He says it over and over and over I will meet all your needs. There's no need that

God will not meet if you trust him now if you don't trust him, you're out there on your own

But if you trust him, he says I will meet every need in your life and worry means I've forgotten that the goodness of God

It want comes from misunderstanding what God is really like and you know what, we always get into trouble

Every time whenever we start doubting God's goodness. When we start saying God's not gonna take care of me

God doesn't really love me God isn't a good God every time you start thinking like that, you know where those thoughts came from

You're gonna get in trouble. You're gonna go down a blind alley hit a dead end have all kinds of

Discouragement in your life and it doesn't even make sense. Most of you here sitting here this

in this day are

Believers you've stepped across the line spiritually you've said, you know, I've put my trust in Jesus Christ because I know heaven's perfect

And I'm not there's no chance I'm getting to heaven on my own goodness because I'm not good enough

So, I'm trusting Jesus Christ to forgive me and to save me by his grace not by my works

But I'm just trusting God to say because he loves me he wants to forgive me

He sent Jesus to die for me. When Jesus died on the cross for you. He solved your biggest problem

You don't have any bigger problem than eternal salvation

But if that's your biggest problem, why do you doubt his taking care of the smaller things in your life

What's the logic of saying I'm gonna trust God to get me to heaven

But I'm not going to trust him to help me make my car payment

What what's the logic in that it makes no sense

Why would you trust God with something so big eternal salvation, but not trust him with Who am I supposed to marry

Am I ever gonna get married or am I gonna get a job or what school

Should I go to and all the other major questions in life

Why don't you trust him with those things - it doesn't make sense to say

Oh, I don't doubt him for my salvation, but I do doubt that he's gonna care for my health

I do doubt that he's gonna care for my career. It doesn't make sense at all

If God can be trusted for salvation, he'll carry everything else

And when you doubt that

You are an unbeliever at that moment

You're an unbeliever. Every time you worry you act like an unbeliever

You see it's actually an insult to God every time you worry

You're acting like an orphan

Every time you worry you're acting like you don't have a Heavenly Father who is promised over and over again

Over 3,000 promises in this book to take care of your needs

How many times do you act like God doesn't know what you need

And we start depending on ourselves and we start taking matters into our own hands

We assume that we have to figure it all out

Rather than jusr trusting that's called playing God

When we get to heaven you're gonna see how many times you set yourself up for failure by worrying

Instead of trusting

John chapter 14 verse 1 Jesus says this don't be worried

What do I do instead of worrying? He says believe in God

And Believe in me. How do you do?

How do you trust God to meet your needs?

Number one you do this every day. It's not a one-time thing

Every day

Ask him to be my shepherd

Every day I asked Jesus to be my

Shepherd the Lord is my shepherd

You do this every morning when you get up you sit on the side of your bed

and you say the Lord is my shepherd

And then I say it throughout the day

You've got a major decision to make the Lord is my shepherd. You might say it 10 or 15 times a day

But if you'll start saying that phrase your worry will go down every time you start to worry

You need to say the Lord is my shepherd

Now in John chapter 10, Jesus says this verse 14, 15. I am the Good Shepherd

When you say the Lord is my shepherd. Who is that? Jesus says I'm it I'm him. I am the Lord

I am The Good Shepherd and I know my own sheep and they know me and I lay down my life for my sheep

That's what he did on the cross He gave His life for you

Second this is very important. I give him Jesus first place in every area of my life

This is extremely important that I give Jesus first place in every area of my life

Now the Bible says this Matthew 6 verse 31 to 33 your heavenly father

Already knows perfectly well what you need. Let me stop right there. Your heavenly Father perfectly knows already

What you need

So any needs you mention to God he already knows

So anytime you come to God with a need he's not gonna go. Whoa, I never saw that one coming. He knew it before he made you

But he says I already know what you need before you even ask and he says and he will not might

He will give you what you need

if here's the condition if you give him first place in your life

And you live as he wants you to so you give God first place in every area of your life

Now let me just tell you something any time you worry

That is a warning light that that particular area of your life. You have not given him first place

When you make Jesus Christ number one in every single area of your life it really

Simplifies your priorities and it also gives you a whole lot less to worry about

See when it's given to God then you don't have to worry about it

Too often we worry about things

We worry about physical possessions

Now as long as you love anything else in your life more than God

That area is going to become a source of worry to you

Just count on it

It's gonna become a source of stress and a source of insecurity

If you love it more than God, you're gonna be victimized by worry and anxiety

And eventually everybody has to decide you and me and everybody else

What am I going to live for

And who am I gonna live for

And whatever that answer is becomes your Lord

You know one of the things we worry about the most of course is money

What I've discovered

Is that no matter how much or how little you've got about it. You still worry about it

And if you don't have it you worry about getting it if you've got it

You're worrying about keeping it, saving it, spending it, investing it, protecting it

And God says I know what you worrying about that

I'll take care of all your needs

Matthew chapter 6 verse 34. Jesus says this so don't worry about tomorrow

Because tomorrow will have its own worries

Each day has enough trouble of its own. Anybody agree with that verse

You can't change the future you can't change the past just work on today. There are two days of every week you should never worry about

Yesterday and tomorrow

Because you can't do anything about them

Take one day at a time through your life. Now why?

Why does God say that you should only live your life one day at a time. Well, because it's true

It's the only thing you can do you

You can't live in the past

You can't live in the future

You can only live today

But there's a couple reasons why you should only live one day at a time first when you worry about tomorrow's problems

You miss all the blessings of today

Some of you are so worried about retirement you're not enjoying today

It's okay to plan for tomorrow, it's okay to plan for the future just don't worry about the future

Planning is good. Worrying is bad

You can plan for tomorrow, but you can't live in tomorrow. You can only live today

Now I know that the future can often seem, you know, very overwhelming

But God

Graciously divided it up into 24 hour segments so you don't get all the future at once

You get it 24 hours at a time. And if God gave you all the future at one time it would overwhelm you

But you're not there yet. You're not ready for it.

So it's not going to come at you all at once. You're gonna hit the future one day at a time

You can handle that why because the Lord is my shepherd