can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your life
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Series – ‘10 Questions Jesus asked’Today
‘Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?’ - Matt
6:25-34
Worry
inner feeling of dread, apprehension, unease, dis-ease about what might happen in the
future“Worry - the advance interest
we pay on tomorrow’s troubles”
Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household;
Susanna; and many others.
These women were helping to support them out of their own
means
Luke 8:3
Group of women gave financial support
"… do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink;
or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
important than food, and the body more important
than clothes?”
Matt 6:25-26
Worry is needless
Life is more important than food
Worry is needless
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far
outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,
since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal
2 Cor 4:17-18
Body is more important than clothes
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in
barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more
valuable than they?”
Matt 6:26
Worry is needless
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?”
Matt 6:27
See also Luke 12:25
(Gk 'belikia' - can mean span of life or stature)
Worry is pointless
‘Worry is like a rocking chair - it
gives you something to do,
but never gets you anywhere’
Worry is pointless
“If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here
today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more
clothe you, O you of little faith?”
Matt 6:30-32
Worry is faithless
“… seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all
these things will be given to you as well”
Matt 6:33
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day
has enough trouble of its own
Matt 6:34
Corrie ten Boom
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's
strength - carrying two days at once. It is moving into
tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it
empties today of its strength.”
Peace with God
Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by
faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our
Lord has done for us
Rom 5:1 NLT
The antidote to worry is peace
Peace of God
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for all He has done
Phil 4:6 NLT
The antidote to worry is peace
Peace of God
If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more
wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ
Jesus
Phil 4:7 NLT
The antidote to worry is peace
Absence of worry + Prevailing Prayer + Spirit of Thanksgiving
The antidote to worry is peace
Peace = of God
Cast all your anxiety on Him
because He cares for you
1 Pet 5:7
Is there something worrying you right now?