don't worry about anything

Over the next several days I am going to share one passage of Scripture, Philippians 4:6-7. Just two verses, and these God gave me three decades ago as a promise. We will take the verse apart and simply learn from it as well as apply what it says.

And here we go…

Philippians 4:6-7 NLT

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

So many things stick out in these verses. We have talked about praying about everything. We will talk about being thankful. We will talk about having God’s peace. We will talk about how God’s peace guards us.

Today we go a little further to give us one piece that we struggle with, or that I struggle with.

Don’t worry about anything.

Worry brings trouble. All kinds of trouble come up in life that makes everything hard, and worry even points our somethings we have to get honest about.

One of my favorite preachers, Craig Groeschel, said something that still gets my attention … “what we worry about the most is where we trust God the least.” Ouch. Do you have trouble with worry?

The verses above are clear. Do not worry. How do you do that? Seems that God turns us immediately to the answer. That answer is prayer. Pray about everything. Trust God by giving it to Him. Keep giving it to Him.

Worry is only over come by strong faith, and that is something we all need to have strengthened in our lives. So, as we said a couple days ago, pray about everything and see that worry takes a hold in your life less and less.

It is not easy. But it always right. Don’t worry about anything!

Have a great rest of the week as you seek God.

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