LET GO & TRUST GOD | Overcoming Worry – Inspirational & Motivational Video
God doesn’t want me worrying about
anything, nothing, notta, zip, zero
Philippians 4:6, don’t worry about anything. That’s pretty clear. Instead pray about everything
We’ve talked about this many times. You can pray or you can panic
If you’re not praying you’re panicking. You can worry or you can worship
If you’re not worshipping you’re worrying. You invite worship in the front door worry goes out the back door
And so God says I don’t want you worrying about anything now why?
He says worry is
Unreasonable. It’s unreasonable. In other words. It doesn’t make sense
It’s illogical. It is irrational it is
Unreasonable. In the first place. We typically worry about the wrong thing. We worry about the little stuff how I look
How I appear, what I say, who who I’m talking to, am I gonna be late for this meeting
Stuff that isn’t gonna matter in five years. It’s all temporary
If you really gonna worry and God says you shouldn’t but if you were gonna worry worry about things that are eternal
Don’t worry about stuff that’s not gonna matter tomorrow
Jesus says you should never worry not only because it’s unreasonable. It’s unnatural
Nature does not worry, it’s unnatural
Jesus says, you know look at the birds
Look at the birds of the air. They don’t sow or reap or store away in barns
They’re not worried about you know, do I have enough to live on
Then he said and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more valuable
Than birds if God takes care of birds isn’t gonna take care of you and then he says in verse 28 and 29
Matthew 6. Why do you worry about your clothes?
Look at the flowers. Look at the field lilies. They don’t worry about about how they look
Yet King Solomon in all of his glory
Was not clothed as beautifully as they are
And he said all of creation trust my care except humans. He’s saying worry isn’t natural
Jesus says worry is unhelpful
What does he mean by that it’s useless it doesn’t work worry is worthless
It doesn’t change anything when you worry. Matthew 6 verse 27
Jesus says who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life
Worry can’t make you an inch taller. Worry can’t make you an inch shorter. Can’t make you bigger or smaller
Thinner or fatter worry doesn’t work and he says who of you could change anything
He said you can’t add even a single hour to your life
Worry about any problem in your life will never move you one step toward that situation worry is worthless
Worry cannot change anything in your past. It’s already done. Your past is past
So why are you worried about it. Worry cannot control your future
No matter how much you think you can you’re not controlling it by worrying about it
So if it can’t change the past and it can’t control the future. What does it do messes up today?
And he says there’s no need to worry because your heavenly father will take care of you
You know when I was a kid
If I had any need in my life, I didn’t worry about it. I went to my dad
Dad I need this or mom
I need this and if I needed money to buy something I said dad
I need some money to buy this I never once worried about where he was gonna get the money
That was his worry
You’re worrying about a lot of things that are God’s responsibility
Worry is assuming responsibility that God never intended for you to have
Every time you worry, it’s a warning light. I’m playing God. I’m acting like God
Thinking that it all depends on me that I don’t have a Heavenly Father
So you never worry if you understand
That God is your Heavenly Father and you understand the goodness the goodness of God
Matthew 6 verse 30 says this if God cares so wonderfully
Even for the flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow in other words
They’re only a bloom for a few days and then they’re gone
But your life last
decades, if God cares so wonderfully even for the flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow won’t he surely care for you?
You see what he’s saying here is that God has assumed responsibility for the needs in your life
And he cares for you because he says you are
valuable
You have value you want to know how much you value look at the cross
Jesus died for you on the cross that shows how much value you have to God. You’re not junk. You’re not worthless
No, no, you are valuable to God because you’re his child
And like the shepherd takes cares of the defenseless sheep when you need it. I’m there
What am I saying? I’m saying that worry in your life
Every time you worry it comes from the fact that you misunderstand the goodness of God
Worry is a warning sign. It’s a yellow caution light going bamp bamp bamp that’s saying at this point I’ve forgotten
How good God is
I’ve forgotten the promises of God, I’ve forgotten what God has promised to do in my life to meet all my needs
He says it over and over and over I will meet all your needs. There’s no need that
God will not meet if you trust him now if you don’t trust him, you’re out there on your own
But if you trust him, he says I will meet every need in your life and worry means I’ve forgotten that the goodness of God
It want comes from misunderstanding what God is really like and you know what, we always get into trouble
Every time whenever we start doubting God’s goodness. When we start saying God’s not gonna take care of me
God doesn’t really love me God isn’t a good God every time you start thinking like that, you know where those thoughts came from
You’re gonna get in trouble. You’re gonna go down a blind alley hit a dead end have all kinds of
Discouragement in your life and it doesn’t even make sense. Most of you here sitting here this
in this day are
Believers you’ve stepped across the line spiritually you’ve said, you know, I’ve put my trust in Jesus Christ because I know heaven’s perfect
And I’m not there’s no chance I’m getting to heaven on my own goodness because I’m not good enough
So, I’m trusting Jesus Christ to forgive me and to save me by his grace not by my works
But I’m just trusting God to say because he loves me he wants to forgive me
He sent Jesus to die for me. When Jesus died on the cross for you. He solved your biggest problem
You don’t have any bigger problem than eternal salvation
But if that’s your biggest problem, why do you doubt his taking care of the smaller things in your life
What’s the logic of saying I’m gonna trust God to get me to heaven
But I’m not going to trust him to help me make my car payment
What what’s the logic in that it makes no sense
Why would you trust God with something so big eternal salvation, but not trust him with Who am I supposed to marry
Am I ever gonna get married or am I gonna get a job or what school
Should I go to and all the other major questions in life
Why don’t you trust him with those things – it doesn’t make sense to say
Oh, I don’t doubt him for my salvation, but I do doubt that he’s gonna care for my health
I do doubt that he’s gonna care for my career. It doesn’t make sense at all
If God can be trusted for salvation, he’ll carry everything else
And when you doubt that
You are an unbeliever at that moment
You’re an unbeliever. Every time you worry you act like an unbeliever
You see it’s actually an insult to God every time you worry
You’re acting like an orphan
Every time you worry you’re acting like you don’t have a Heavenly Father who is promised over and over again
Over 3,000 promises in this book to take care of your needs
How many times do you act like God doesn’t know what you need
And we start depending on ourselves and we start taking matters into our own hands
We assume that we have to figure it all out
Rather than jusr trusting that’s called playing God
When we get to heaven you’re gonna see how many times you set yourself up for failure by worrying
Instead of trusting
John chapter 14 verse 1 Jesus says this don’t be worried
What do I do instead of worrying? He says believe in God
And Believe in me. How do you do?
How do you trust God to meet your needs?
Number one you do this every day. It’s not a one-time thing
Every day
Ask him to be my shepherd
Every day I asked Jesus to be my
Shepherd the Lord is my shepherd
You do this every morning when you get up you sit on the side of your bed
and you say the Lord is my shepherd
And then I say it throughout the day
You’ve got a major decision to make the Lord is my shepherd. You might say it 10 or 15 times a day
But if you’ll start saying that phrase your worry will go down every time you start to worry
You need to say the Lord is my shepherd
Now in John chapter 10, Jesus says this verse 14, 15. I am the Good Shepherd
When you say the Lord is my shepherd. Who is that? Jesus says I’m it I’m him. I am the Lord
I am The Good Shepherd and I know my own sheep and they know me and I lay down my life for my sheep
That’s what he did on the cross He gave His life for you
Second this is very important. I give him Jesus first place in every area of my life
This is extremely important that I give Jesus first place in every area of my life
Now the Bible says this Matthew 6 verse 31 to 33 your heavenly father
Already knows perfectly well what you need. Let me stop right there. Your heavenly Father perfectly knows already
What you need
So any needs you mention to God he already knows
So anytime you come to God with a need he’s not gonna go. Whoa, I never saw that one coming. He knew it before he made you
But he says I already know what you need before you even ask and he says and he will not might
He will give you what you need
if here’s the condition if you give him first place in your life
And you live as he wants you to so you give God first place in every area of your life
Now let me just tell you something any time you worry
That is a warning light that that particular area of your life. You have not given him first place
When you make Jesus Christ number one in every single area of your life it really
Simplifies your priorities and it also gives you a whole lot less to worry about
See when it’s given to God then you don’t have to worry about it
Too often we worry about things
We worry about physical possessions
Now as long as you love anything else in your life more than God
That area is going to become a source of worry to you
Just count on it
It’s gonna become a source of stress and a source of insecurity
If you love it more than God, you’re gonna be victimized by worry and anxiety
And eventually everybody has to decide you and me and everybody else
What am I going to live for
And who am I gonna live for
And whatever that answer is becomes your Lord
You know one of the things we worry about the most of course is money
What I’ve discovered
Is that no matter how much or how little you’ve got about it. You still worry about it
And if you don’t have it you worry about getting it if you’ve got it
You’re worrying about keeping it, saving it, spending it, investing it, protecting it
And God says I know what you worrying about that
I’ll take care of all your needs
Matthew chapter 6 verse 34. Jesus says this so don’t worry about tomorrow
Because tomorrow will have its own worries
Each day has enough trouble of its own. Anybody agree with that verse
You can’t change the future you can’t change the past just work on today. There are two days of every week you should never worry about
Yesterday and tomorrow
Because you can’t do anything about them
Take one day at a time through your life. Now why?
Why does God say that you should only live your life one day at a time. Well, because it’s true
It’s the only thing you can do you
You can’t live in the past
You can’t live in the future
You can only live today
But there’s a couple reasons why you should only live one day at a time first when you worry about tomorrow’s problems
You miss all the blessings of today
Some of you are so worried about retirement you’re not enjoying today
It’s okay to plan for tomorrow, it’s okay to plan for the future just don’t worry about the future
Planning is good. Worrying is bad
You can plan for tomorrow, but you can’t live in tomorrow. You can only live today
Now I know that the future can often seem, you know, very overwhelming
But God
Graciously divided it up into 24 hour segments so you don’t get all the future at once
You get it 24 hours at a time. And if God gave you all the future at one time it would overwhelm you
But you’re not there yet. You’re not ready for it.
So it’s not going to come at you all at once. You’re gonna hit the future one day at a time
You can handle that why because the Lord is my shepherd
