Breaking Free From Worry 9-27-2026

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Well, glory to God.

Are you ready for the word of God?

If you can turn your Bibles over to Matthew chapter 6, verse we'll start on verse, let's see, 25.

Matthew 6 · chapter mention

But before we get there, I'll I'll say a few things, a couple more verses before that, and then we'll get into the main heart of the message this morning.

While these guys are being seated, first of all, I just want to say thank you to their faithfulness and their willingness to come out and prepare and always have a great attitude and just want to lead you into worship.

And I'm just so thankful for these praise and worship team.

Can you guys give it up to them, please?

We are.

I was telling them before the service began that, you know, when we come to church on a Sunday, we are giving God our first.

That is literally what we're doing, is we're giving God our time.

And we're saying, God, we're gonna give you the first part of the week, Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.

And we're gonna come here, we're gonna worship you, and we're gonna recognize you first and foremost.

And the Bible's clear about if we give God something, our first fruit, he's faithful.

And he'll give it back to us, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

Amen.

And if you give him your money or your substance, he said he promised that he would give back to you whatever seed you sow.

Well, that also goes along with time.

God is able to redeem your time.

Redeeming your time means he can buy your time back.

If you're someone and you say, I just don't have enough time in the day, let me just tell you, give God the first part of your week.

Be here, be faithful, serve, be a part of the church.

We've got a connections team leader here, and she'll set you right up, give you something to do.

Amen.

And if you will be faithful in the small things, God said he'll make you rulers over many.

Amen.

So don't just come to church, be a part of church, be involved in church.

Hook up.

Become a partner, be be a part of this thing.

God's doing some amazing things here at Life Family Church.

Um, I'm gonna get started this morning tonight, or today, this morning, we're gonna talk a little bit about worry.

Um life is full, and I uh this is how I wrote it out when I wrote the sermon.

So I could write books.

I I know I could because the way I write my sermon is just like I'm writing a book, but I'm gonna I'm not gonna read a whole chapter of a book to you.

Uh, life is full of ups and downs.

Sometimes life will knock you down and kick you in the gut.

How many of you guys have ever experienced that before?

Sometimes it seems like you go from the frying pan right into the fire.

And it seems like things just keep getting worse and worse.

No hope, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no one can help.

Psalms 34, verse 19 through 20 says this many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all.

Psalms 34:19–20

We can't get our help from our friends.

Sometimes our friends just don't have enough words to give us.

Sometimes those who are close to us just they just cannot portray the right things at the right time.

But we're not to look at man as a source.

We're to look at God as our source.

He's the only one that can bring you out of the fire without the smell of smoke on your clothes.

He's the deliverer.

He made his living delivering people.

He's pretty good at it.

We got to recognize God is the source of every bit of deliverance that we need in our life.

Emotions are probably one of the most dangerous things we possess as human beings.

They are real, they are loud, and they won't shut up.

But although they're real and will continue to speak to you, we can have the final say about every emotional word that is spoken to us.

We need to place, and this is I I highlighted this, we need to learn to place a bit.

Y'all know what a bit is, you put in a horse's mouth.

We need to learn to put a bit in the mouth of emotions.

Emotions left unchecked can destroy your life.

One of the biggest problems of our time is worry.

Worry has crept in, crept into America and is fully destroying a country that is full of wealth.

America is more prosperous than any other country in this world.

We're blessed.

Compared to the rest of the world, you are rich beyond measure.

All you have to do is go to another country and see how they live and what they make and how they supply for their families, and you'll recognize real fast we have it made here in America.

But the statistics show that over 60% of adults are full of worry.

60%.

So that tells me that over 50% of the people in here right now are dealing with worry.

Worry is a real thing.

The Bible is clear that we're not supposed to walk by our feelings.

We're not supposed to let emotions drive us and tell us what we need to do.

We are the ones who rule and reign over our emotions.

Although they are very real, we're the ones in authority.

Not our thought life.

Because the word of God says in 2 Corinthians 5 7, we walk by faith and not by sight.

That's how we're supposed to walk.

We're not supposed to be ruled by what we hear, by what others say or any other thing.

We're supposed to walk by faith.

This is the victory that overcomes the world.

Even our care and worry.

No.

The Bible says this is what overcomes the world, even our faith.

It's faith that gives us overcoming power over everything the enemy would whisper in your ear.

So we're not supposed to walk according to the course of this world.

But it's not fun when thoughts come.

I'll be honest with you.

It's not fun when you have thoughts.

You can stay up at, I've been I've been up at two o'clock in the morning thinking about things.

How many of y'all have ever been there before?

Just wrestling with thoughts all night long, just worried, just consumed with the cares of this world.

Now, if I if I would ask how many of y'all were telling the truth and didn't raise your hand, everybody would say.

But you know what?

It it it happens to all of us.

You know, it's not fun.

It's not fun when we when thoughts come.

This is where I want to I want to get to this.

It's not fun when those thoughts come.

And they're very real.

And I'm trying to get very vulnerable to you because I want you to see this very clearly.

It's not fun, but it's very real.

And we don't love the process of getting out of the rut of emotional stress.

We don't love that process because it requires something of us.

Y'all know what a rut is?

Yeah, it is.

It's a shallow grave, isn't it?

That's it.

A shallow grave with the with the sides kicked out.

Step by step, day by day, we can overcome emotions, worry, fear.

We can overcome them.

Don't ever think for a moment that you're without hope.

You might have been struggling with this for years, but today is your day of deliverance.

Today you are going to get the word of God that's going to make you free.

You don't have to deal with worry, stress, anxiety, fear any longer.

Amen.

The Lord has set us free.

We're free from this garbage.

2 Corinthians 10, 5 says, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Some of us have adopted the idea that this is just how it's going to be.

The rest of my life I'm going to deal with this.

You think this will be the way you feel as long as you breathe?

This is a lie straight from hell.

Some of you have even thought about ending it.

You've had the pills in your hand.

And if it wasn't for the Holy Spirit, you would have bought into the lie and you wouldn't be here today.

The Bible says in John 10, 10, the enemy came to steal, kill, and to destroy.

But Jesus came to give us life and life to the fullest.

The enemy wants to destroy you.

Last week we talked about distractions.

Distractions are a way he wants to attack you.

Because if he can't beat you up or take you down, he'll distract you, and that distraction will get you off the track.

Sometimes the devil won't get you, he can't get you bad, so he'll get you busy.

And then your busyness, which could be good things, gets you off track and get your eyes off the Lord.

And then you find yourself in a mess.

And it has been a continual stronghold throughout your entire life.

Worry is not the weight God wants us to carry.

We were never created to carry worry.

In fact, worry has its roots in the Garden of Eden when man fell.

Immediately when Adam and Eve fell, they knew they were naked and hid themselves from God.

They were full of fear.

So they hid themselves.

Satan already had them thinking from a place of worry and fear.

Immediately, the moment they sinned, fear crept in.

Fear creeps in because fear has its roots.

Uh-oh.

I'm not going to make you repeat it, but I hope you love me.

Fear has its roots in selfishness.

Because you wouldn't fear if you weren't thinking about yourself.

Okay.

I'm going to run over here and hide behind this thing.

It won't help me, but I want to, I want to help you this morning.

I want to help you.

Sometimes it might seem like I'm being mean, but I want you to, I want, let's get honest about these things.

Fear comes as a result of us thinking about ourselves.

What was the original fall?

Satan fell because of pride.

Amen.

Fear has a strong connection to worry.

In fact, fear is the root of all worry.

Worry, and I'm going to transition here.

Worry, for those of you who think worry is a good thing.

I worry because I care about you.

Love is not worry.

I can't love you by worrying about you.

Okay.

But sometimes worry can be disguised as love.

A wolf in sheep's clothing.

Worry does not have its foundation as love.

It is not loving someone to worry about them.

We do not live life from a place of worry because there is no life in worry.

Worry keeps you thinking about the future while leaving the reality of here and right now.

Worry will keep you thinking about something that you cannot do anything about because it hadn't happened yet.

You cannot fix nothing.

Worry keeps you in a false reality.

Now, this is the word that God gave me this morning for you.

The word of God gave me this today.

Worry is not of God because worry has no power to change anything, and it will not give your time back after it stole it.

A person who holds on to it will voluntarily forfeit their lives over to the enemy of destruction.

If you have worry and spend days worrying about the situation, chances are nothing will ever even come of it.

But if the things that you're worried about were to happen, you would not be ready or able to help the person or the situation out because you're not acting in faith.

That was better than I than I got a response.

I want you to hear this again.

If you spend days worrying about something, and that thing were to come pass in your life, that time you worried, you wasted when you could have been in faith.

And you could have been ready to stand up against whatever the devil throws at you.

Amen.

So it is absolutely, positively, 100% not worth it to worry any longer.

You might as well stay in faith.

Amen.

When you hear the ambulance go by your house, is the first thing you think of.

Wow, oh, I better call so-and-so, better check on this person, check on that person.

No, go ahead and start praying, seeking the Lord, and saying, Lord, I thank you that whoever is in trouble right now in the name of Jesus by his stripes, you're healed in Jesus' name.

You've been delivered, you're free.

Amen.

No death can touch you.

Hallelujah.

We're going to stand in faith.

We're not supposed to worry.

Worry is not of God, it's not for us.

Amen.

I'll go ahead and say amen for you.

Don't spend any more time being concerned about something that you cannot fix.

But instead, spend time with Jesus.

If you have a concern about something or if there's an emergency, instead of worrying, speak the word.

Not in fear.

Now let me help you here too.

You don't speak the word in fear.

There's been many people, and I've done this myself.

If I've dealt with the situation, and then all of a sudden I'm like, bye stripes, I'm healed, by stripes I'm healed, by stripes, I'm healed.

No, that's in fear.

We're not speaking the word in fear, we speak the word in faith.

How do you do that?

Fully confident of the word.

Fully confident in God, trusting Him 100%, and not allowing fear to use your voice.

Many times in the Bible, the word fear not comes up.

Why is that?

I believe it's because God knows that fear has torment and fear has dread.

Fear causes a person to make irrational decisions.

Fear is false evidence appearing real.

We are never to make life's decisions when we're down in the valley.

Never make big decisions when you're at your lowest.

Only make decisions when you're standing on the mountain where you're able to make good choices.

When you have the perspective of God in view and you're not looking from a place of fear or worry or doubt.

Never make decisions based on fear.

Never make rational decisions.

Never make hurried up decisions.

If you're at a car dealer and they're like, if you don't buy this car today, this deal won't be here long.

You say, Well, good, I won't either.

I'll see you later.

Trust me, they want to sell that car more than you want to buy it.

And they'll do whatever they can to convince you.

But you don't make decisions based on fear.

I'm having troubles with this.

I'm having trouble with, well, I better do this to fix it.

No, stop for a moment.

Step back from the situation.

Get in faith.

Get in the word and let the word direct your path.

Amen.

Let the word of God be the one that makes the decisions for you.

You make your moves based on faith, not in fear.

If you feel like you have to make a decision in fear, just step back and say, fear, you do not own the right to my mind.

You step back and you say, Hold on a second.

I'm going to filter all these thoughts through the word of God, and I'm going to allow the word of God to dictate what I'm going to say.

Amen.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love cast out fear.

Now, we're in Matthew 6, verse 25.

Matthew 6:25

Jesus says this, therefore I say to you, now, when you see that word, therefore, I want you to say, why is it therefore?

And go back and say, why what's going on before this ever took place?

Jesus was talking about mammon.

What is mammon?

Well, we can say money.

Jesus was saying, don't worry about money and don't let money be your source or your guide.

Allow him to step in the place of money and let him lead and guide you.

We are not to ask money permission to do anything.

We're not to say, money, do you have uh, do you mind if I go here, or do you mind if I do this, or do you mind if I buy that?

You don't ask money, you talk to the Lord.

Amen.

Go to the word and find out what the word says about it.

Get a vision for your life and don't ask money for permission for anything.

You say, God, I'm going to do what you've called me to do regardless of what, because you're the supplier of all my needs, according to your riches and glory.

So that's what that's there for.

I say unto you.

Take no thought for your life.

Say to someone right beside you, say, Take no thought.

Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body what you shall put on.

Is not the life more than meat and the body more than clothing?

Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather in barns, yet your heavenly father feedeth them.

And you're and you're not much better than they?

Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his stature?

Basically saying, Can you make yourself taller by worrying about this?

Or, could some translations say, could you add one more hour to the day?

You can't do it.

And why take ye thought for clothing?

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin.

Yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Wherefore, if God so clothed the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith.

Therefore, take no thought saying, I want you to underline that word saying right there.

Take no thought saying, Listen, if I were to tell you that you're no longer gonna have any thoughts of worry, I would be lying to you.

Because you're those thoughts are coming.

In fact, as soon as you leave here and you start trying to figure out where you're gonna go eat, you husbands are gonna be the edge of your seat saying, What do you want to eat?

And they're gonna say, I don't care, wherever you want to go, and then worry will set in.

Yesterday I was watching a football game, and um Tennessee had had came back a little bit, and we had an off onside kick, and we kicked it and we got the onside kick.

We got the ball back.

And Texas was nervous, they were worried.

The number one team in the nation was on their on the edge of their seats, worried about their team.

But worry, you shouldn't worry, man.

You got the number one team in the nation, and you have number one as your linebacker, and uh, he's pretty good.

Now, I will say um you all probably should have beat us by 20 points or more.

You notice he's wearing a Texas shirt today.

I asked him when he walked in, I said, if you don't mind, will you please leave?

You are not welcome here.

That spirit needs to leave right now.

Yep.

But uh Brother Hagin used to say this, brother Kenneth E.

Hagin, he used to say, You cannot help thoughts from coming.

They're gonna fly over your heads like birds.

But you can stop those birds from building a nest in your head.

Amen.

That is your responsibility, and you do have the authority and the right to tell those thoughts where to go.

Hallelujah.

Let me say this again.

Therefore, take no thought, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink?

See, therefore, guys, y'all hear that, right?

When your wives say, What are we gonna eat today?

You say, Take no thought, saying that'll help your marriage, I promise you.

I'm gonna have 15 men lined up at my door Monday morning.

For all these things that the Gentiles seek.

What is this saying?

The Gentiles represented the unbelievers at the time.

All these things that he's talking about here, the Gentiles seek after.

You're not a Gentile anymore.

You're a born again, bought by the blood, child of the most high God, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, called forth, a holy priesthood, set apart by God to do exploits.

Amen.

You are a part of the most high kingdom, and his kingdom there shall be no end, no end for eternity.

We're gonna win.

And then when you're tired of winning, you're just gonna keep on winning.

Sounds like Donald Trump, doesn't it?

You're gonna win, you're gonna win, you're gonna keep winning, you're gonna get tired of winning.

Too much winning.

After all these things, the unbelievers, that's what they seek after.

We don't have to worry about those things because your heavenly father, he already knows what you need, and he's already provided everything you will ever need because his grace has supplied it.

And his grace is not for next week only, his grace is for right now.

And if you're struggling with worry, stop, step back, cast all those thoughts on the Lord, step back in your place of authority, and say, you know what?

This is what the Bible says.

And then stand, and when you've done all to stand, stand therefore, knowing that God will always come through for you.

Your heavenly father knows what you have need of, and he's already provided.

And this is the key.

I want everyone to get a hold of this because I know you've read it a million times, but this is in the light of worry and care.

He said, Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

And all these things, what things?

Clothes, food, fitness, finances, all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for tomorrow.

Faith is right now.

His grace has been supplied for today.

Do you remember when he was supplying the needs for the children of Israel?

And he gave them manna.

And manna was only good for that day.

They tried to hoard it up and it rotted on them and was nasty.

You cannot worry about tomorrow or worry about yesterday.

Focus on today because that's where faith is to receive.

You can't change tomorrow and you can't live yesterday.

You gotta live right now, right where faith is, right where God has supplied all your needs.

Live right there.

That's where life is.

If you're worried about something, you're living tomorrow's fear.

Stop it.

That is not life.

Live today.

Live right now.

Hallelujah.

We only have the grace of God for right now.

We serve a loving God who's filled with grace, a Father who can cast out our fears.

And he will handle our thoughts and our future and equip us and give us the power to overcome in any situation.

But we have to remember we have that grace for right now.

I look at some people and I think, how could you how could you handle what you went through in life?

Have you ever thought that you've I've met people and I'm like, how did you make it?

How could you do it?

How did you go through that sickness or that disease and overcome it?

How did you handle that person dying and you were able to still walk in faith and and not and not forget God and not just walk away from the faith altogether, but you kept on moving forward.

No, it wasn't easy on you, but you kept going.

How could you do that?

The only way that a person can do that is the grace of God.

The only way.

So if you were able to do that and you stepped in and you stepped through the promises of God and you stood on the word of God, I praise God for you.

That's awesome.

Because that should tell you a hundred times over that God is real and his word is true.

Because nobody should have been able to handle what you went through, and you still are here today.

Glory to God.

Now, while statistics are there, life, family, church, we don't live by statistics.

We live by faith.

So everybody, would you please stand up?

Isaiah 26, verse 3 says this thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trust in thee.

Isaiah 26:3

The key to walking worry free is keeping your eyes on thee.

And I'm not talking about me.

I'm talking about thee, the big thee.

Keeping your eyes on Jesus.

He said, He was the author and the finisher of our faith.

And then he said, for the joy that was set before him, he endured.

What does that mean?

That means no matter what you're going through, there's joy ahead of you.

But your eyes have to be on him.

Because he is truly your joy.

There is no other joy apart from Jesus.

You can't have joy.

You can have happiness, but happiness is like an emotion.

It's here one moment, gone to the next.

It's based on happenings.

Joy is an inward knowing.

It's always there.

It's never going to leave you, never forsake you.

You can always tap into joy.

But you have to keep your eyes on Jesus.

Keep your eyes on the Lord.

He said, for the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross.

You can endure.

Why?

Because you have the joy of the Lord, which is your strength.

Don't give up, don't quit, and don't allow worry to dominate your mind.

Step away from worry.

Take hold by faith and say the word of God is my source, and I'm yielded 100% to his word.

And I'm going to look to Jesus, the author and the finisher of my faith, and I'm going to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

And then all those things that you're worried about, which probably won't come to pass anyways, it won't matter what happens because you're ready for the next grace.

You're ready for the next season of your life.

Amen.

Now, 2 Corinthians 2.14 says this.

Now, thanks be unto God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and who makes manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.

I was preaching a couple Wednesdays ago and we talked about that verse, and it was a lot about, oh, I smell the smell of victory on you.

I want you to, everybody, lift up your hands, and I want your neighbor to go over and sniff the person beside you and say, I smell the smell of victory in this place.

Amen.

You all thought I was gonna be all spiritual, didn't you?

Lift up your hands.

When you walk into this place, this is a house of victory.

I declare this house is a house of victory.

When people come in here, worry has to drop off, fear has to go.

We come into this place, it's a house of victory.

And like most football teams, they'll come in, they'll say, We must protect this house.

Amen.

When you come here, you must protect this house.

You come in full of joy and the Holy Ghost, and you're ready to minister instead of being ministered to all the time.

Amen.

Hey, we got the victory in Jesus.

Glory to God.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

Well, let's let's let's all do this.

Let's pray.

And if you're in here and you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, I would encourage you to make that decision today.

If you're in here and that's you, will you come up here to the front?

I want to pray with you and lead you to Jesus.

Anybody?

I'm gonna just give you a moment.

If you're in here and you've never experienced a relationship with Jesus Christ, the biggest decision you'll ever make in your life.

Amen.

If that's you, you know, and you need to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and you don't come up here and you want to pray, don't hesitate.

Go to someone and say, Hey, I want to receive Jesus.

I want to be a child of God.

And if you're in here today and you've never been baptized and you've never publicly announced your confession of faith in front of everybody, that's a part of it.

It's a part of laying your life down.

It signals it's it's a type and shadow of laying your life down and dying to this world, dying to sin and being raised up to new life with Christ.

If you've never done that before in your life and you want to do that, we're gonna give you an opportunity.

We have a sign up sheet back there.

Please sign up.

Be a part of this because God is He's doing such great things amongst us, and uh we're gonna continue seeing those.

Amen.

Amen.

So let's pray and then we'll dismiss service.

Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you so much for your goodness and your mercy.

Lord, I thank you for your word.

Your word is able to make us free.

Lord, I thank you that it's not by our might nor by our power, but by the Spirit of the living God who can deliver us out of worry, doubt, and fear.

And Lord, I thank you that we're no longer ruled and dominated by those things any longer.

But in the name of Jesus, we walk by faith and not by sight.

We put the word of God to work in our lives, and we will see results in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

All right, God bless you guys.

You all have a great week.

We'll see you Wednesday.

Thanks for listening.

We hope that this message helps you draw closer to God as you walk out your faith.

We'll see you next week.