Series – ‘10 Questions Jesus asked’Today

‘Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?’ - Matt

6:25-34

What one thing do you tend to worry about?

Results of

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

Worry

from Greek ‘merimnao’

‘drawn in opposite directions’

figuratively ‘to go to pieces’

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?

You, Lord, give true peace. You give peace to those

who depend on you. You give peace to those who

trust you

Isaiah 26:3 NCV

Is there something worrying you right now?