Anxiety

Who’s your Daddy?

Juneteenth

Fathers day - Anxiety/Fear of driving with a newborn

Anxiety affects everyone when there is a stressful, dangerous, or unfamiliar situation. It is both mental and physiological

Some people have Anxiety Disorders

Panic Disorder - confused with a Heart attack

PTSD - RE-Experiencing a trauma

OCD - trying to manage thoughts with the same action over and over

Today Jesus wants to talk to both kinds of people

Matthew 6:25–34 ESV

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious 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? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

In the 1st century - There was no governmental help

Food stamps

Food banks

Christmas clothing drives

Your family was all you got - if there was a drought it affects everyone.

Vs 25 - What do you need food for?

5 Why’s

1 - why do you need to eat? Go to work

2- why do you need to work? Take care of my family

3 - why take care of your family? Cause I love them

4- why do you love them? They are a gift to me

5- why are they a gift? Because God love me

Relationship

Vs 26 - 30 Examples of the Father’s care

2 examples how why we don’t need to be anxious.

Birds - Your Heavenly Father feeds them

Even Dogs don’t live in the past…

Rarely do people worry about today

You are valuable to your Father

The Lilies

Solomon is what we are looking for

Win the lottery

Security - storehouse of food and people to take care of it

Personal Worth/Value - We feel good when others see how we dress, drive, dine, and decorate

Power - Wealth gives us control over our own fate and over other people

Independence - I am not reliant on anyone else

Pleasure - we can give ourselves the “good” things

God is looking for something different

He values:

Each person uniqueness

The well-being of the community

Sustainability for eternity

How much more valuable are you?!?!

Little faith - muster seed

Pile up your faith in this world and it won't stand up to a tiny amount of faith in God

vs 31 - The Strategy to push back our anxiety

Don’t be anxious - saying…

1st holding of Travis

Seek FIRST the kingdom of God

and HIS righteousness

God knows

vs 34 - Always live in the present moment

So if your anxiety about

the economy

dealing with out-of-control people around you

Seek the kingdom of God and HIS righteousness

If you have trauma that needs to be addressed - tools for the moment.

God will provide you with what you need each day.

Your faith doesn't overcome your PTSD - The Spirit of God inside of you recreates you as you develop a holistic relationship with Jesus and get the help he provides.

John 14:26–27 ESV

26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Your Security is in the Father

Personal Worth/Value is as a child of God

You Power is from the Holy Spirit

You are dependent on God for everything

What please God pleases you

Is God your Daddy?