Journal Of My Life With God

Do Not Worry

Do Not Worry

29/8/2016

Is worry evident in your life?

How to overcome worry?

Matthew 6:7-8

Mat 6:7 But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Mat 6:8 Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

Our Father in Heaven already knows what we need even before we ask Him. Therefore, it is needless to worry.

Matthew 6:19-21

Mat 6:19 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;
Mat 6:20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal;
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The things of this world will perish. Seek the things above and store up spiritual treasures in Heaven. Place God first in your heart.

Matthew 6:22-23

Mat 6:22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Look at what is good and fill yourself with Light. Jesus is the Light of the world. Do not look to darkness and evil. Beware of what you consider as good, for it may be evil in disguise. Have insight into your true nature and be rid of evil.

Matthew 6:24

Mat 6:24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

We must choose to put God first. We worship Him and Him alone.

Mat 6:25 Therefore I say to you, do not worry 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?

Therefore, it is needless to worry.

The Lord already knows what we need before we ask Him, and when we seek Him first in our lives, we do not need to worry.

Mat 6:26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

He is Our Heavenly Father. We are His children. Would He not care for us more than the birds? The birds sing and are cheerful. Why do we, as children of God, worry?

It is senseless to worry.

Mat 6:27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

Has worry ever been found to be beneficial? It has proven to worsen things instead.

It is useless to worry.

Mat 6:28 So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;
Mat 6:29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

It is faithless to worry.

Mat 6:31 Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
Mat 6:32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.