Why Worry
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What is Worry
What is Worry
wor·ry
verb
give way to anxiety or unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles.
verb
verb: worry; 3rd person present: worries; past tense: worried; past participle: worried; gerund or present participle: worrying
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give way to anxiety or unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles.
What are you afraid of?
What are you afraid of?
When I was a kid every night or almost every night I had two dreams that were always the same then it happened Girard Assembly of God decided to show A Thief in the Night, I was probably 7 at that point.
(All of my teeth falling out and I was chewing them at night…Walking across a rope bridge and half way across it began unravvleing a string at a time)
Dream interpretation folklore says to dream about your teeth crumbling and falling out indicates a feeling of powerlessness. There is something in your life you feel powerless to control or avoid. You teeth apparently represent your anxieties over decisions you have made. ... Dreams are amazing and mysterious experiences.
ROpe dreams have all kinds of conotations most doing with obstackles climing them overcoming them or with being in controll or controlled.
and then there was the end of days dream from theif in the night.
Worried about having enough.
Worried about having enough.
“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?
It’s easy to fear not having what we need in life, especially today.
(jobs in the valley, etc)
Something to remember
Something to remember
So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For the idolaters eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
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? So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For the idolaters eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
God’s God our Back He knows what we need we just have to remember a few things.
Worry and Fear rob us but more importantly they rob God.
Worry and Fear rob us but more importantly they rob God.
So I was afraid and went off and hid your talent in the ground. Look, you have what is yours.’
“But his master replied to him, ‘You evil, lazy slave! If you knew that I reap where I haven’t sown and gather where I haven’t scattered, then you should have deposited my money with the bankers. And when I returned I would have received my money back with interest.
This servant was worried about all the things that could go wrong
He was afraid that if he made a mistake if he messed up things would be worse and so he did what so man of us do he let his worry and fear control him.
The way out
The way out
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
It seems simple enough but when we chase after the things of God the rest of life will be what it is supposed to be because we are living a life in service to him, how we live that life is simple or should be.
The best way to kill worry and fear is to chase after God.
Live for today!
Live for today!
Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Lets be clear. Living a life that chases after God and what He wants to do in and through in this world doen’st mean we are going to just be perfectly happy all the time. There will be trouble.
Look: An hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”
This Week’s Challenge
This Week’s Challenge
Identify what you are worried about, what is causing you the most fear.
Write it down like the guys said
Spend time each day looking in the Bible for reasons why you do not have to fear that thing.
Do something Crazy this week that you would never do.
