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Be Anxious for nothing
George Muller said “The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety."
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It’s no secret that we don’t know the future, and it can be so tempting to try to be in control.
When we feel that life is out of control, it can leave us with much anxiety.
IN John 14:27 Jesus said,
Tonight, I’d like to take a brief look at Philippians 4:4-7
Worry is a thief that wants to steal our joy.
Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.
– Erma Bombeck © Source: https://www.quotespedia.org/authors/e/erma-bombeck/worry-is-like-a-rocking-chair-it-gives-you-something-to-do-but-never-gets-you-anywhere-erma-bombeck/
My Mom
was a woman that I loved and respected.
She was a woman of faith.
Dad and Mom were married for 1 day short of 45 years.
They had a lot of hard knocks over the years: Frost, drought, freak losses of cattle, and the list is probably a lot longer.
Because of some of the hard times and loss with excessive interest rates, Mom wondered if she would have enough to live on in her retirement.
Dad was an optimist and didn’t let much bother him, but after Dad died, Mom would worry.
She lived in a senior’s apartment building and she would complain that her fridge was always running.
She was concerned that the power bill would be too big.
The devil isn’t a gentleman.
He plays dirty.
He looks for our weaknesses and he throws darts at us trying to get our minds to work overtime.
Stand firm.
We can worry because we don’t feel that we are in control.
We can worry because we aren’t sure if God cares or if He’s even interested in our lives.
Sometimes we worry and we don’t even know why we are worrying, but
When we worry, it’s like we are telling God that we can handle it ourselves and we aren’t ready for Him to take care of it.
Have you ever thought that God was too busy to bother.
With 7.9 Billion people on earth, surely He’s too busy to be bothered by me.
Maybe we think it’s too small to ask God about.
Maybe it’s just too big and we don’t think that God is able to handle it.
In the first book of the Bible, we have the story of an older couple that had never been able to have children.
Abraham was 99 and Sarah was 89.
Abraham had had a son to a young woman named Hagar.
They lived a lot differently than we do now.
It seemed ok to have more than one wife, but God had promised Abraham and Sarah that they would have a son and He asked the question, “Is anything to hard for the Lord?”
Nothing is too hard for God.
You may be facing an impossible situation, it may seem insurmountable, but there is nothing too hard for the Lord.
In 2022, I find it hard to believe that anybody would want a child at 99 years old, but in Abraham’s day, it was important to have someone to carry on the family line.
Even though they lived longer, they were still really old.
Abraham lived to be 175 and Sarah lived to be 127.
Why don’t people live as long today, I’m not sure but God knows how long each of us will live and that’s all that really matters.
What did Jesus say about worry?
I Am Inwardly Fashioned For Faith, Not For Fear. ...
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 24, 2003 (message contributor)
Dr. E Stanley Jones said this,
I am inwardly fashioned for faith, not for fear.
Fear is not my native land; faith is.
I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
I live better by faith and confidence than by fear, doubt and anxiety.
In anxiety and worry, my being is gasping for breath—these are not my native air.
But in faith and confidence, I breathe freely—these are my native air.
A John Hopkins University doctor says, “We do not know why it is that worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.”
But I, who am simple of mind, think I know.
We are inwardly constructed in nerve and tissue, brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear.
God made us that way.
To live by worry is to live against reality.
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