How Should I Handle My Worry and Anxiety?
Therefore I tell you do not be anxious about your life what you will eat nor about your body what you will [put on].
For life is more than [food] and the body more than clothing.
If you're a believer in Jesus and you're living in anxiety and worry you don't need to do that you don't need to live that [way].
He knows the main questions that were circulating in their hearts was this am I gonna have enough [food] to put on the table today.
- Jesus addresses the most common worries of daily life—food, clothing, basic provision. What specific worry about your life has felt most overwhelming this week?
- Jesus says, 'Do not be anxious about your life.' When you hear that command, what is your honest reaction—relief, resistance, confusion? Talk to God about it.
Jesus gives us what I'm just gonna call three truth statements that will help you to combat [worry] and anxiety in your life.
Your life is moving in the direction of your [greatest] thoughts.
Here's the root problem of worry it's when these good things become the [ultimate] thing in your heart.
The thing that you are most devoted to will determine what you [worry] about the most.
- Follow the trail of your worry: What does it reveal about what has become 'ultimate' in your heart instead of Jesus?
- How would your daily choices change if you truly believed your life is more than the thing you're most worried about right now?
We worry about the things we're [devoted] to.
Instead seek his [kingdom] and these things will be added to you.
- Is there a good thing in your life—money, possessions, even your children—that has become the 'God' of your life? What would it look like to transfer that devotion back to Jesus?
- Jesus promises that if you seek His kingdom first, He will take care of the details. What one area of worry can you practically surrender to Him today?
And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of [life]?
How many of you have changed one thing about your future by staying up all night worried about it none of us [right].
Really what worry is it's a desire for [control].
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows but only empties today of its [strength].
- When you look back, how has worry ever actually changed your future? What has it cost you in the present?
- Worry is a false sense of control. What would it look like to release that illusion and trust God with tomorrow?
Consider the ravens they neither sow nor reap they have neither storehouse nor barn and yet God [feeds] them.
Of how much more value are you than the [birds]?
Birds and lilies are [helpless] completely helpless and yet what does the Bible say God provides for them.
If we serve the kind of God that cares enough to provide for birds and lilies do you not think that he desires to [provide] for you even more than that?
- Jesus invites you to 'consider' the birds and lilies—God provides for them even though they are helpless. Do you believe God loves you more than a bird? More than a lily?
- What specific 'tomorrow' do you need to trust your Heavenly Father with today? Write it down as a prayer of surrender.