Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 27 Sept 2008

Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 27 Sept 2008

What you value most - #10 Worry Today’s word of encouragement is a reminder to us all that worrying does not help. When do we worry? We have to find out what makes you worry. Most often I worry about my future, the unknown and uncertainty. I want to know what is going to happen tomorrow, and sometimes the suspense of the futures frustrates me. Because I worry about the same things over and over again, God has fine-tuned my soul to be aware that I’m headed down the road of internal worry. The moment I am aware that I am starting to worry this is when I begin to die to my “self”. Worrying is a form of “Shaun” taking control of his life. But God is simply asking me, who is in control? You or me? The question of what do we value most in life is simple. However, “we” complicate things beyond what they are supposed to be. God is simple, he does not complicate or confuse. If you are worried about something today, let us offer them all to God. Tell God exactly what you are facing, and ask God directly what you should do. I encourage you to seek your friends to pray for you. The power of prayer cannot be taken for granted. Matthew 6:25 Therefore I tell you, 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? 26Look 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? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If 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? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. © Sept 2008 Shaun Lee. www.everynation.org.sg archive: www.shauntzen.blogspot.com