Be Anxious For Nothing

We watch the news and we see the warnings for the terrorist attacks. We see the unemployment rate rising, we see the economy and the housing market, dropping faster than President Obama's approval rating. We see these things, and we are worried, and anxious, are we going to lose our jobs. Are we going to be able to pay next month mortgage or car payment? We walk into a doctor's office and we get a bad report, the doctor says you got six months to live. My parent's where told by doctor's that when I was born, I wouldn't survive, I would eventually be brain dead. Well thirty two years, 68 operations, a high school diploma, and 3 College degree's later, and I AM STILL HERE. By God's grace, mercy and healing power, but I am still here. God says in Philippians 4:6 Be Anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving let your requests be known to God. The Greek word Anxious means to be anxious to be troubled with cares.
Matthew 6:25-34 says 25 “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to 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, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

27 “And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?

28 “And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,

29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

30 “But if God so clothes the agrass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!

31 “Do not aworry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’

32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be 3added to you.

34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will 1care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Dr. Walter Cavert reported a survey on worry that indicated that only 8 percent of the things people worried about were legitimate matters of concern! The other 92 percent were either imaginary, never happened, or involved matters over which the people had no control anyway. It isn't always easy not to worry and not to be anxious when things are tough and hard, but we have the promise, made by God, that He will supply for us, and take care of us.

What Are You In Need Of

Philippians 4:19 19 And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ. There are times in our lives, when we ask God for something, and we don't get it right away. God has said that we need to ask, seek, and knock, for things as well. Like Dr. Dippold, used to say keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. Though sometimes those things that we ask for are wants, and not necessarily something that we need. It may be something that we think we need but not something that God thinks that we need. Will God open the doors for me next year, yes, because that is a need in order for the ministry to continue. God will supply you with the job, and finances, because you need to live, and need to supply for yourself and your family. Though we all have to keep God first in our lives, we can't put him first when we are asking him for something, get it, and than put him back on the shelf either. We need to have him first in our lives. All the time. God help us to know that as long as we are serving you, that you will supply all of our needs. And during these days of economic turmoil and distress, that you will supply our needs that we have.

Man looks on the outside but God looks at the Heart

1 Samuel 16:7 says But the Lord said to Samuel do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature because I have rejected him For God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance but God looks at the Heart. How many times, do we go to church, and say hello to our church "family", but don't really know what's going on, on the inside. How many of our friends, are hurting, struggling with situations in their lives, divorce, job loss, relationship difficulties, and we don't even know it. How often when someone does open up to us, do we just give advice, and brush them off, without even listening to what they have to say. Maybe all they want to do is someone to listen to them, and not to give them advice. I was in the Brooklyn Teen Challenge today, and if I would have passed any of them on the street, I would have never known that they where in a drug rehab place. The outside appearance to any one of us may look fine, but it's what is on the inside that is hurting. If we do not have the friends, family, that we are able to open up to. The only one that knows what is going on inside of us is God, and He knows even before we tell him. I do not think that we need to tell our friends every little secret, though I do think that when people are hurting that we need to be their for our friends when they need us. I am not going to push my friends to open up to me about what is going on in their livs, though I do want them to know that I along with God will be their for them, and with them.