Righteous Rewards: Stop Worrying

Every Bible is turning with me Matthew six. This morning

we'll pick up back in our series through Matthew Chapter six.

Jesus is sermon on the Mount, and so if you'll

turn there with me, we're gonna start verse twenty five.

And just a moment, I tell you, I'm just I'm

full already. I have been so blessed. I don't know

about you, but just going through Matthew six has been

so refreshing to my spirit, just my growth as your pastor,

this passage has meant so much to me and so

and just the worship's just been right alongside with what

God's word has been doing. So I hope today that

the Lord will minister to your soul like he's minister

to mine. As I've been able to prepare for this

morning to type title of my sermon this morning, can

stop worrying? How many of you here today worry? Hey man,

all of us need to throw our hands up right.

We all worry. We all struggle with worry today. As

you come into today, have you worried about something? And

what you just think about today? If you're going to

meet with the Lord, we come into this place and

meet with the Lord right to encounter his presence. If

you're going to encounter the Lord today, you're gonna meet

with the Lord today, and you were going to share

with him one of your worries this morning. What would

that worry be? What would be something that's heavy on

your heart? I worried that you have this morning? What

do you think about that? I think about what it is?

What is it in your life today that is causing

you a great deal of worry? You know? I heard

of an individual and he had a lot of worry.

His worry was credit card debt. He just had a

lot of it, even like a mountain. He had lost

his job, his card been repossessed, his house was in foreclosure.

He talked to his friend and he says, but I'm

not worried about it. He said, you're not worried about it?

I mean, you're you got all this credit card debt,

you're losing you lost your job, you're losing your car,

You're about to lose your house. How are you not worried?

He said, No, I'm not worried about it at all.

He said, I've hired a professional worrier that he does

all the worrying for me. He said, that way, I

don't have to worry about it. He said, man, that's fantastic.

He said, how much does professional worrier cost you? How

much does he charged for his services? Fifty thousand dollars

a year. He's fifty thousand dollars a year. How can

you afford that? How can you afford to pay him?

When you're losing your house, you're losing your car, you're

losing your you've lost your job. He says, I don't know.

That's his job. That's what I hired him to do.

You know, this morning, I want to encourage you. This morning,

there is a professional worrier, and there's a professional that

you can cast your cares upon. And his name is Jesus.

The Bible says that one Peter five seven, cast all

your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. This morning,

whatever you came in with today, as far as worry, can,

I tell you, your father is in heaven wants to hear it.

And today he says, cast out upon him. This morning

we want to work through a passage of scripture. Jesus

is on the he's on the mountain top and he's

doing a sermon and he is talking about the issue

of worry. Now, I think it's very important as we

kind of go on Sunday morning, we kind of go

a little, little, small passages at a time. But you

have to understand, when Jesus preached his sermon, he preached

it all at once. We're breaking it up one Sunday

after another because you don't you know, I don't ask

you to bring food in, right, you don't bring a

snack lunch or a box lunch so that you could

hear it all at once, and so we break it

up to pieces. But they did. They were on the

mountain and they heard all this sermon at once, and

so all these ideas of even what we talked about

last week really come in together. And so I want

you to look at just real quick before we look

at the main passage, if you'll remember what Jesus talked

about last week. Last week he told the congregation that

had gathered on that mountain to hear him preach. He

talked about not storing treasures in heaven, and he said

these words, don't lay up your treasures on earth, where

moth and ross destroy, where thieves break in, and still

lay up for yourself treasures in heaven, where neither mouth

or rust destroy, where these do not break in. And

still where your treasure is there, your heart will be also.

And he says the eye is the lamp of the body.

So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will

be full of light. But if your eye is bad,

your old body will be full of darkness. If then

the light is in you as darkness, how great is

the darkness? Verse twenty four. He says, no one can

serve two masters, for you either hate the one and

love the other, or you'll be devoted to the one

and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

So Jesus commanded them in his sermon before he went

to the part of the sermon that we're going to

look at this morning, and one of the parts he

talked about was where you're storing your treasures, And I

want to just look at that real quick, and he

identified where your treasure is there your heart is. He

even went so far and this passage to say where

your treasure is indicates where your heart is. If you're

storing your treasures on earth, that's where your heart is.

If you store your treasures in heaven. That's where your

heart is. If you store your treasures on earth, that's

what you really love. You love the things of the earth.

If you store your treasures in heaven, what you really

love is your relationship with the Lord. And then he

goes into not only does your treasure indicate where your

heart is, but where your heart is is what you'll seek.

And he talked about your eyes and your eyes are

set a guide or what direction you're going. And if

your heart is set upon the treasures of earth, you're

gonna seek the treasures of earth. You're gonna pursue those things.

If your eyes and your heart I mean, if your

heart is set on heaven and you love God, then

you're going to seek the things of God. And in turn,

he goes on further to say, where your heart is

is what you'll seek. But where your heart is not

only what you'll seek, but where your heart is is

also what you will serve. And he uses its terms

you'll be slaved to something. You'll either be a slave

to the things of this world and serve the things

of this world, or you'll be a servant, or you'll

be a slave to the king of kings, And Lord

of lords, and you'll serve him. Whereas we come to

this passage of scripture, he just finishes that section, and

as he comes to this passage, he assumes, and I

think it's very important as we read this passage of scripture,

he assumes that you and I have made the right choice.

He assumes that you have chosen not to seek and

store treasures on earth, not to seek treasures on earth,

not to serve things of earth. He assumes that you

and I have chosen to love God, and that's where

our heart is.

He's assumed that we will choose to seek His kingdom,

to seek serving him, living for him. He assumes that

you are committed to serving God, not serving the things

of this world. And so with that understanding, he comes

into this morning's passage. Now that we know that you're

seeking the kingdom, that you love God, and that's where

your heart is, and you're serving God.

Now he goes into the next part. Let's stand and

let's look at the word of God this morning that

Jesus has Versus is his words, and so we stand

in reverence to Jesus' words. Matthew chapter six, starting verse

twenty five, and he says Therefore, I tell you, do

not be anxious about your life, what you'll eat, or

what you'll drink, nor about your body. What you'll put

on is not life more than food, in the body

more than clothing. Look at the birds, he says, of

the air. Neither they sow, nor reap, nor gather into bars.

Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more

valuable than they? Which of you, by being anxious, can

add a single hour to his span of life? And

why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of

the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spend. Yeah,

I tell you eat Even Solomon and all his glory

was not a rain like one of these. But if

God so close the grass of the field, which is

today alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, which

he will, he not much more clothe you, oh you

of little faith. Therefore, do not be anxious sink what

shall we what shall we eat? Or what shall what

shall we drink? Or what shall we wear? For the

gentile sea character of all these things, and your heavenly

Father knows that you need them all. But verse thirty three,

seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and

all these things will be added to you. Therefore, don't

be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for

itself sufficient, For today is its own trouble. Let's pray together, Father,

we or Lord you are here and we have sinsed

that from the beginning of the service. God, we have

declared with our voices and song that Lord, who can

satisfy us? Oh, Lord, it's you, Jesus, and Lord, I

pray today that we would seek your word to satisfy

the longings of our heart. Lord, I pray, as I

prayed earlier with our elders, that today you would do

heart surgery and Lord, places where our heart's not in

the right place. God, I pray you correct it, you

would fix it. You would Lord, convict it today, that

today our hearts would be in line with your heart.

Today we would find our satisfaction and only you, Lord,

So lead us, Lord from worry, lead us to your truth.

Move Lord today by your spirit, and may you give

us so surrender today in your name we pray, Amen,

you may be seated. So this morning Jesus starts by

saying not worry, And so this morning, as we walk

through our sermon today, Why so stop worrying? So why

should we stop worrying? And first, we should stop worrying

because worry misplaces our value. Because worry misplaces our value.

You come to this passage of scripture and CHRISTI is

saying good. At the very beginning of this passage, verse

twenty five, he says, therefore, right, therefore, because you're going

to seek what the Lord, because you love the Lord,

and your treasure's in heaven, because you seeking after the

things in heaven, because you are serving the things of heaven. Therefore,

stop worrying, he says, as you look at this, if

you go back with me to verse nineteen, look at

the wording there at the beginning of nineteen of the

previous part of the sermon, he says, do not lay

up for yourselves treasures in heaven. The best translation from

the Greek from this, what we have in our version

is do not lay up is in the Greek, it's

better translated to stop stop laying up treasures in heaven. Now,

Jesus says, because you stop doing that, and you're seeking

the Kingdom of God, and you're seeking righteousness, and you're

seeking to serve the Lord. Now, he says, in another place,

stop worrying. Therefore, same, I tell you the same idea,

do not be anxious. Stop being anxious about your life.

It is the idea. Don't stop. Stop doing this now.

Throughout this entire sermon of Matthew, chapter six that we've

seen he actually starts in five, but six has kind

of been our focus. Jesus has consistently done this, this

teaching model where he says, don't do this, but do this,

or if you remember this, we have seen this consistently

every week, week after week, Jesus says this, don't do this,

but do this right. When we started this series, he

started about giving, and he says giving to the poor.

He says, don't what. Don't give that you might be seen, right,

but instead give that your father, who sees you in secret,

will rewards you. Don't what, don't pray that you might

be heard, but in turn, what pray that your father,

who will see you in secret? Right? Don't fast that

you might be seen, but instead fast in secret so

your father, who will see you and see, will reward you. Right.

Last week, stop worrying instead, what seek to serve the Lord?

Stop storing up treasures instead lay up treasures in heaven. Right,

so this morning he does the same thing. He says,

stop worrying, and just a little bit he gives us

reasons why we shouldn't worry. But then he's going to

show us what we should do later on at the bottom,

I mean, at the end of kind of at the

end of dis scermon. So as you think about what

he's why, he's asking us what we should stop worrying about.

Look at what he says here in this passage. He says, therefore,

I tell you do not be anxious about what was

He tells us we shouldn't worry about We should not

worry about our life. Jesus explains this in different pieces.

Says what he says, do not worry about your life,

what you will eat or what you will drink, nor

about your body. Jesus is saying, we are stopped. We

need to stop worrying about things in our life and

the things that have to do with our physical necessity,

things that we feel like we have to have in

order to have an abundant life or a life. He

almost gives this. As you finish, as you continue to

read the passage of scripture, he says, don't worry. Don't

be anxious about your life what you'll eat or what

you'll drink, nor about your body what you'll put on.

And then listen to this rhetorical question that he puts

at the end of verse twenty five. Is not life

more than food is? And is not life more? It

is not the body more than clothing. He's saying that you, individually,

at times, we worry about life, and we worry about clothes.

We worry about food, And he's saying, listen, your life

is more valuable than food. Your life is more valuable

than what clothes you have to put on. And he

then starts walking through DA Carson said about this passage.

A Carson is a New Testament scholar, and he says this.

He says, worrying Jesus is saying worrying about lesser things

like food and clothing is implying that our entire existence

is on and limited to such things as food and clothes.

He saying, listen, you think you've reduced the value of

your life down to the rudimentary things of food and clothing.

You think that's life is all about these things. There's

more to life than food and clothing, and he walks through.

He gives two examples of why how our worry misplaces

our value. We put the value of our life in

the wrong things. He gives two examples of how God

provides for us and how God will provide for us

food and how God will provide for us clothing. He

first gives this example of the birds. Let's look at

the passage of scripture. He says verse twenty six. Look

at the birds. He says of the ear. They neither sow,

nor read, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly

Father feeds them. Are you not more value than these?

He describes these birds and how they don't sew, they

don't reap, they don't store, they don't do anything to

produce food for themselves, Yet God provides for them. They

don't do anything to merit God. I've done something good,

therefore you should do this for me, right? God just

simply cares for them and the message in this passage.

Look at verse twenty six at the end, Are you

not more valuable than the birds? They don't do anything

to merit my provision? Yeah, I love them and I

care for them. How much more valuable are you that

just as I provided for them, so my eye provide

for you. He only says that he's provided for the birds,

but he also describes he again the two things that

they're worrying about. He says we should not worry about

is food and clothing. He describes how He's provided adequately food.

Now he goes to the next issue of things that

we worry about, and that is clothing. One. I was

talking to a professor this week at Southeastern and he

said that in his imagination, he thinks that when Jesus

is speaking, he's talking about men and women. He said,

men think all about food and women think about clothing,

so he's addressing both. I'm not I think it's a theory,

but he says, So for you who are hungry, you

know we've satisfied God to provide for you later. So

just listen to the message. Second part is for those

who are anxious about clothes, listen to what he says

in verse twenty eight. And why are you anxious about clothing?

He says, consider listen, consider the lilies of the field,

how they grow. They neither toil nor spin either. I

tell you. Even Solomon and all his glory was not

a rain like one of these. But if God so

closed the grass of the field, which today is alive

and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more

will he clothe you? Owe you a little faith? Just

think about the flowers. You think about flowers, Remember dandelions, Right,

they come up in the spring and you pull them, right,

they get the little things, you blow them on, and

then they're gone, just for a second they've sprout, and

then they are gone. Jesus says, I clothed the flowers

that are here one day and are gone tomorrow. Who

the existence of a flower is so temporary that it

only lasts a few days. Yet I so clothed them.

And he says, listen, you are my creat creation. Do

you know of all creation? If all animals and plants?

God created you in Genesis in his image. He created

you uniquely like no other. You are his image. Bears.

You are valued in God's sight. And because God so

values you in your life, just as He's clothed as

he fed the birds, as he's clothed the lilies, so

your God will provide what you need for the very

central elements of your life. Right, we need the essential

elements of our life we need food, elements of our

body is we need clothing. And God will say, I

so value you as my creation because you're you're you're

made in my image. I will provide what you need.

May you rest in my provisions. You ever met someone

that they're like their their entire relationship with you as

built upon it, dependent upon materials and getting things are

give you some of my past history. Back in college,

I dated a girl one time. Brady knows all about this,

don't don't. This is no surprise. I dated a guy

a girl, and in college, we gotta be careful how

you say that. A girl and she was happy in

the relationship as long as I took her to nice restaurants,

as long as I bought her certain things. But the

moment I ran out of money and I couldn't take

her to the nice restaurants. I couldn't. I couldn't take

her to the nice I couldn't buy her the nice things.

She was not happy in the relationship. You see the

problem with that relationship was it was dependent upon her

happiness to depend upon things, not dependent upon a relationship

with me. Jesus is saying in this passage of scripture.

Your happiness in your life you've reduced to. You're like

the needy girlfriend. You're only happy is if you're getting

what you want for life. If you're only if you're

getting the food that you want, or you're getting the clothing,

or on you're getting the material things in your life,

you're happy. But you're just You're not just simply happy

having a relationship with me that Jesus. Who can satisfy

my soul? No one but you, Jesus. Clothing won't satisfy,

food won't satisfy. Material things in life will not satisfy God.

Only you will satisfy my soul. Stop worrying because you're

worrying and you're misplacing your value. You are more valuable

than food in clothing. Secondly, stop worrying because worry has

no value this passage. He says in verse twenty seven,

which of you being anxious can add a single hour

to the span of his life? Jesus is I mean

just simply. I know it's a simple statement, maybe elementary statement,

but he's asking the question, right who of you? Can

I ask you who in this room, who's watching online

or TV? Who by you worrying and your worry thoughts,

or you're worry in your life, you're worried this morning

before you got how who of you, by your worry

can add one single hour to your life? Like it doesn't.

At the central of our worry is this idea that

we are worried about something that we need, food, clothing,

whatever it may be. And if I worry about it,

maybe I can figure out how I can fix it,

or how I can make it better. But reality is

by worrying it, whoever fixes it, whoever satisfies it, whoever

makes it better, whoever I mean many times, at the

centerlar worries is I just need some more time. Right,

If I could think a little bit about this, or

I could work on this, I can maybe what fix it.

But the reality is worrying does not provide food, right.

Worrying doesn't provide you clothing. Worrying doesn't add time to

your life. Simply, worry adds no value to your life, nothing,

not a single hour. Nothing I heard of someone said

describe worrying. Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives

you something to do, but it will get you nowhere.

And that the truth today simply understand God's telling you

stop worrying because your life is more valuable than your things.

Stop worrying because you're worrying is adding no value to

your life. Thirdly, which is stop worrying because worry exposes

our weak faith. So what he says in this passage

of scripture, he says, in verse twenty nine, I tell

you even Solomon, in all his glory, was not a

raid like one of these. But if God so closed

the grass of the field, which is today alive and

tomorrow's thrown into the oven, will he not much more

clothe you? Owe you of little faith? D Carson says,

the root of all worry is unbelief. We worry because

we're just not so sure that God will actually do

it right. We're not so sure that God will actually

provide that clothing that I need, that food that I need,

that relationship that I need, that job I think I need.

That you name it my health. I don't know if

you'll fix my health, God, So we think that Lord, I,

because I'm not so sure that you will actually will

provide for what I need, I worry at the center

of it, really, isn't it, we say, God? I can't

really trust you, so I'll trust in my ability to

provide for myself. God only really know if you'll fix

if you ever provide me that relationship that I want. God,

I don't know if you ever fixed my marriage. I

don't know if you ever provide me that job I

really love or I really will love, or I don't

know if you'll provide me that car or that house

or whatever it may be. And I'm not really satisfied

with what I have right now. So God, and I

don't know what if you'll provide for me in the future.

So God, let me take out of your hands, you

being the provider, and in turd God, I'll provide for myself. God,

I won't really trust you with this thing. I'll trust

I'll take this one into my own hands. And Jesus says,

when we worry, our worry exposes our weak faith. You

ever had a time this happened literally yesterday? Well your

wife for me, Brandy says, Jonathan, would you do this?

So do this for me? Maybe it's vacuum. I do

really good. I pay good. Lines in the carpet if

you don't know what the lines in the carpet is

on shag carpet. When you vacuum, it create lines. Okay,

I know that's new for some people. Berber Carpet did

away with that, okay. But so maybe she asked me

to vacuum the carpet and I come home and I

see the lines, and I'd say to Brandy, hey, I

told you i'd do it. Well, I just went ahead,

did it. Well, why'd you go ahead and do it?

I said I would do it? Well, you know, I

just went ahead did it because I was I was

really worried that you wouldn't do what you said you

were going to do. And that's what we do with

the Lord, right. God, God tells us that he'll provide

all of our needs according to what his riches in heaven.

But we say, God, I know you say you'll provide

for me my clothing, my food, everything for the bare

necessities of my life, to everything I need according to

your riches in heaven. You'll provide for me. But God,

I really just don't know if I could trust what

your word says. So God, let me take that one

off of you, and God, I will find my treasure

on earth and I'll try to fix this in my life.

I won't really seek Lord, what you I'll see what

I won't. And God, don't worry. I've got it. And

in the end we're telling God, God, I don't really

trust you, and Jesus says, you of little faith. Verse

thirty two says for the gentile seeker after these things,

the gentiles are seeking after their treasures, and he says,

and when you don't trust me, you're acting like them.

You're acting like unbelievers. Jesus turns his passage after he's

kind of give them as I've described here, Stop worrying

because worry misplaces our values. Stop worrying because worry has

no value. Third, stop worrying because worry exposes our weak faith.

Now he turns into Okay, what should we do our

response to worry? According to Jesus in this passage of scripture,

he says verse thirty two, the gentiles seek after them

these things, and your father knows that you need them all. Listen,

there is not one need before you walk to the

door this church that you had on your mind of

a worry that God the Father didn't already know you

needed nothing. Jesus knows exactly what you need for your work.

For your home, for your health, your food, your clothing,

everything that you need. Jesus already knows it. And Jesus says,

in turn verse thirty three, what should we do with worry?

If we're going to stop worrying, what are we going

to do? In turn? Right? He says, seek first the

Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things

will be added to you. What should we do in turn?

We should seek God first. I don't want to go

back to the very beginning. As we showed you this morning.

In our last series, we really talked. We talked about

an earthly treasure and a heavenly treasure. Right. We talked

about in that sermon that earthly treasures were temporal, right,

Heavenly treasures were eternal. Right. Earthly treasures were unsecure, Heavenly

treasures were secure. Right. There was examples of earthly treasures

that we pursue. Money, material homes, what cars, close, academics,

are works. These are things that we can seek. Right.

Then there's heavenly treasures that Jesus talked about. He says,

don't store your treasures on earth, but instead, what store

your treasures in heaven? Treasures and heavens are eternal, they're

secure examples of there's righteous deeds like prey and get

giving to the poor, and fasting, right, persecution, evangelism, giving.

He says, seek these things right. And Jesus has assumed

that you have chosen what to store your treasures in heaven.

And as a result, he says, stop worrying. There's no

value in it. It misplaces your value, and it exposures

your weak faith. And again he brings back and now

he says, what seek the Kingdom of God? And here

in this passage scripture, what is he saying? Just says

you don't store treasures and men on earth, but you

store treasures in heaven. Now he says, don't listen, don't

seek the kingdom of earth, seek the Kingdom of heaven. Understand,

if you remember with me right, where our treasure is

indicates where our heart is. Where our heart is is

what we seek, and where our heart is is what

will serve you. Know. The reason why we worry, going

back to the very beginning, is because we really love

and we really are seeking the kingdom of earth. Really,

it comes down to worry is a heart issue. It

really identifies what we truly love. You know why we

get so upset when we don't get what we want

or get what we need, because we really love the

things of this earth more than we love the things

of God. And that's really what we really want in life,

is we really want our earthly kingdom. And Jesus is saying, listen,

stop stop. Your life should be about loving Me, seeking

my kingdom. And listen. When you seek me and you

love me and you worship me, I'll provide all the

other things that you need. Stop seeking the wrong things.

Seek me. Lastly, rest in God's provisions for today, the

passage says, and he ends here Therefore, do not be

anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself,

sufficient for the day of its own trouble. I've given

just what you need for today. Rest in that, and

we'll close with this and ask the band that can

come on up. This is the scenario. This is not

a true thing, even though my Caroline is senior and

about to go to college. But just imagine this scenario

if I did this with Carolina. Imagine Caroline's going off

to college in a few months and I said, Carolina, Caroline,

you're gonna go off to college. And I tell you

what I'm going to do for you. I'm going to

open it up a checking account for you, and in

that checking account, I'm gonna provide everything that you need

for food while you're in college. I'm also in that

checking account, it's gonna provide for you all the some

money for you to have all the clothing that you need.

The only thing I ask you to do is God's

called you to go to school, and I want you

to be faithful to that calling, to finish what God's

called you to do your education. That's all I ask you,

all right, is go to school. I provided all you

need for food and clothing. Go and may stay faithful

or what I've called you to do or what not.

I've called you what God's called you to do. Imagine

a few months into the semester, fall semester, it's October

and I noticed checking accounts kind of low. I call Caroline,

I said, Caroline, what's wrong? Is everything okay? Th this

account's kind of low? With Daddy, I'm just you know,

I could tell there's worrying of voice. And I say,

with Caroline, what what's wrong? Why? Why do you why

do you sound so stressed. Why do you sound so

worried with Daddy? I just I don't know that I

don't have any more money, and I don't have I

have money for food. And I say, well, Caroline, I

provided you all that you needed for food. Where is

that with Daddy? You know how I love cheesecake Factory,

and you know I love Starbucks, and I just I

went spending it all and and Daddy, it's getting cold,

and Daddy, I won't have any clothes. What, honey, where's

all that money I put in that checking account for

that your clothes with Daddy? That Belk had a nice

sell and the summer end of the year clearance. And

I spent all that money on you know, Belk or

whatever it is. And I won't have any more money

for clothing. Daddy starts crying. Daddy, I know you told

me to stay faithful to what God called me to

do with school. But Daddy, I'm afraid I'm going to fail. Caroline.

Why are you going to fail? Well, Daddy, I had

to get a job. Well, honey, why did you get

a job? Because with Daddy, I didn't have any money

for food. I didn't have money for clothes, so I

had to go get a job to help take care

of the needs. And I would say to her, by, honey,

I've already provided for you all that you needed. You see,

that is what we do with God. God says in

this passage of Scripture, I've got a calling for you.

I've got a plan for you, and I provided all

that you need to accomplish the mission. And we start,

instead of seeking the mission that God's called us on

and seeking what God has commanded us seeking him, we

seek things, and we get ourselves involved and seeking the

things that we forget about what God has called us to.

Because we love the things, We love this earthly kingdom

more than we love God. Today, listen, Jesus says to you,

and I listen. Seek me, seek me, love me, seek

my righteousness. I've given you enough for today, and today

is enough. Don't worry. There's no value in it. You're

more valuable than all the things of creation. Don'll provide

for you. Seek me, Hey, don't worry. You can't add

anything by worrying. Seek me today, the Father says, seek me.

Put your faith in me, not in your own ability,

not in your own works. Seek me today. I'll ask

you as you come in today full of worries? What

are you seeking? Where's your heart? Let's pray Lord, I

thank you Lord for this morning. And Lord, so many

times Lord, we get wrapped and chasing the things of

this world that God, we lose sight of Lord You. Lord,

I pray today that we would do you an honest

evaluation of where our heart is. What are we seeking today? Lord?

I pray there'd be something today would be honest and

say you, Lord, I really love the things of this

world more than I love you. In my life, I've

reduced to just finding and filling it with things of

this world and instead of feeling it with you. And

I pray they'd be those today would say God, I

don't want more things of this world. God, I just

simply want you, Jesus and God, I declare today I

will seek you and God, I'll rest in what you've

given me. And God, you are enough today for me.

Lor however you lead us today, I pray today would

be the day that we would respond to you and

how you're calling us in the service in your name,

we pray Jesus M.