WORRY

How not to worry!

1.       Know that you are a child of God (John. 1:12) and that He is in your life because of Jesus Christ who died for your sins on the cross.  Only with Jesus in your life, you will have the peace of God that will guard your heart and mind – Philippians 4:7

2.       Know that God is Sovereign – He is the first and the last and in control everything.  Spurgeon said:  “The most important day in his life, was the day that he became converted, but the second most important day, was the day when he realized that God is Sovereign”.  Isaiah 44:6-8

3.       Trust your Sovereign Lord.  Know that He is your Shepherd and that He will lead you in the “paths of righteousness”.  Ps. 23:3

4.       Do not be afraid of death, because the Lord, your Shepherd, will be with you and take your hand. – Ps. 23:4 

5.       Confess your worries to the Lord and ask Him to forgive your little faith!  Look at the birds and the flowers – how the Lord is taking care of them and realize that the Heavenly Father is also taking care of you.  Matt. 6:25-32

6.       Instead of worrying, seek the Kingdom of God.  Pray for others who have reason to worry because they do not belong to God’s Kingdom.  Talk to people about Jesus and the Kingdom of God. – Matt. 6:33

7.       Trust God to work things out for your good.  Sometimes you have to go through difficulties to trust the Lord your Father and God in a better way.  Difficult times help you to grow spiritually. – Romans 8:28-29

8.       Spend much time in reading your Bible, the Word of God, and prayer, talking to your Father  about your worries.  Ask God to help you stop worrying!  Make your request not to worry known to God by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. God who created you and know you and want the best for you,  will hear your prayer and answer according to His will. Philippians 4:7

What does Spurgeon say about worry?

“A doubting, fretful spirit takes from us the joys we have. You have not all you could wish, but you have still more than you deserve. Your circumstances are not what they might be, but still they are not even now so bad as the circumstances of some others.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“As we feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, so do we feel a thousand afflictions in the fear of sorrows which will never come. Probably the major part of our griefs are born, nourished, and perfected, entirely in an anxious, imaginative brain. Many of our sorrows are not woven in the loom of providence, but are purely homespun, and the pattern of our own invention. Some minds are specially fertile in self-torture; they have the creative faculty for all that is melancholy, desponding, and wretched.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“Of all self-torture, that of importing future trouble into present account is, perhaps,the most insane.” – C.H. Spurgeon