Let’s start in Matthew 6, Jesus is speaking, Jesus said, I tell you do not worry about your life what you’ll eat or drink or about your body what you’ll wear Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? Oh you have little faith So do not worry saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear? But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well! Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself Each day has enough trouble of its own and then in Philippians 4 you are reminded to not be anxious about anything But in everything by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving present your requests to God and the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus!

Jesus said very plainly very repetitively do not worry because He said this,  I’m of the opinion that if Jesus says not to do something he has our best interests at heart He’s not being meddlesome.

He’s not trying to limit us.

He’s concerned about our well-being and we’ve missed something! Something has eluded us. We have tolerated something in our lives in our thoughts in our emotions! We’ve tolerated something allowed it to flourish that in reality is destructive that Jesus has said don’t do that! When we worry, I find that oftentimes you can get so twisted and tied up and and it can cause a  melting down!  Did you forget that you have a Heavenly Father right there saying do you want my help? And all you  got to say is I want your help and trust that he can do what he needs to do!  Let him do the work that needs to be done.

Look if you’re counting on yourself to solve all of your problems Then of course, you’re worried and stressed out. It doesn’t matter how strong or wise or capable how charismatic you are It doesn’t matter how much wealth or influence you have You are not designed to be able to take on everything and handle everything! You will have more problems Come at you than what you are capable of handling When you carry the responsibility of everything! If you carry the responsibility of everything, then you have to do everything! You have to find the solutions! You have to choose the right directions!

You have to power through problems. You have to plan for the future make adjustments And you have to do all of it at the speed of life. Yeah, it’s stressful, but if you’re in this world, stress comes with living life and following God!

Of course But God does not want you to do it on your own! He wants you to recognize that he is there to lead you to walk you through to guide you through every step of the way! And here’s the deal He doesn’t want to just give you every resource that you need to get through your problems, He wants to be what you need in every situation! It’s amazing the problems that are solved the moment that you decide to trust God in everything! Because when you trust God you don’t have to try to figure anything out anymore! As you lean on him, then you take the pressure off of yourself Because you don’t have to try to figure stuff out!

You don’t have to try to change things that you’ve already tried a million times to change and the more you try to change the more frustrated it makes you! Because you can just finally say well God I’m trusting you with this And if you can’t change it then I guess they don’t need to be changed! The only way you can learn to stop worrying and Stop trying to figure things out and Stop being jealous of what other people have Is I just honestly think that in addition to studying the word I think that we just have to try it our way long enough To finally just get worn out enough To just say okay God I surrender.

When you surrender, that’s the beginning, because God knows the end and everything in between! God knows every flaw that you have , every weakness that you have as well as your strengths! You just have to surrender. So many times I have just said God I don’t know what to do. God I’m overwhelmed or God I’m in over my head and you know, I’ve said this many times! God help please! Whatever you choose to say to God when you surrender, doesn’t have to be long.

It doesn’t have to be eloquent. When you surrender, you don’t have to have the answers or the solutions you just need to go to the one who does have the answers!

When you surrender, you know what God says, I’ll take care of that! You don’t have to go to bed thinking about it! Wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. God says I’ll take your emotion and your thinking through Christ Jesus!  First Peter 5:7 says cast all your cares on him because he cares for you And what that means is that we take all of our problems and our worries and we choose to place it in God’s hands And Say I trust that you will handle the outcome, you can take your problems and your worries and place it in God’s hands and that he can handle everything!

Worry is the anticipation of the negative! In fact there’s a relationship between faith and worry It’s inverse faith diminishes as worry flourishes! Or as your faith flourishes your worry will diminish! Worry is the negative expression of what faith in God is! One of them would be I don’t want Jesus to ever look at me and use my name and person of little faith in the same sentence! Do you want to be a man or woman of faith? If you do, you shouldn’t worry! When you Worry you are saying I don’t think God can handle this So I’m gonna pick it up and I’m going to invest emotional energy and my thoughts and my anxiety in it!  I’m not gonna change the outcome a bit but I am going to worry about it anyway! When you look at it that way, does worrying make sense?

Jesus said you can’t add one hour to your life but God can add years to your life because now you’re not worrying! Trust God,  God has the best solution for all of your problems. Jesus has answers to your problems!

God sees and knows everything! He sees the future. He understands every angle of what is going on in your life right now !He understands how people are viewing it and perceiving it. He sees the best solution to your problems! He’s incredibly wise!  When you worry you are basically saying I am afraid that my life is not going to be the way I would want it to be! But when you trust that God has the best solutions you are saying God I believe that you have the best way for me even if it’s not the path that I chose or  even if it is not what I came up with!  And we can trust that if we follow God and if we trust him he will give us every resource that we need Every step of the way! At the end he can turn that into something wonderful and beautiful! Let me tell you if you have someone who loves you enough and who is strong enough and who has the best solution What do you have to worry about?  See the reason that worry exists so often is because we just think it’s normal! It’s not normal.

It’s common, but it’s not normal. It doesn’t have to be in our life and it’s robbing us of God! It’s robbing us of our family! It distracts me from God in people! It robs you of joy and it exists because you allow it to exist! Listen to what I’m saying is Worry exists and anxiety exist because you allow it! YOU are in complete control of your life@  God would never command you to do something that you don’t have the ability to do! Worry is a choice and trust is a choice. You can’t do both at the same time! You have to choose to put your trust in God! Put the full weight of your problems and your life and your future into his hands and let him carry it! Worry and anxiety means the devil has implanted something in your life that’s just sitting there intimidating you And because of that you can’t focus on God or the people that you love! That’s the greatest problem with worrying and anxiety it robs you Of your ability to worship, to love the people that you love, so it’s an enemy! The root of all fear worry and anxiety is an orphan spirit because orphans are on their own and they have to take care of their own problems! The devil wants you to feel as though that you’re on your own and you have to solve your own problems! You have the best father in the universe! Stop grieving over the father You didn’t have and start rejoicing that you have the best father in the universe and he loves helping you!  Nothing is too small for God to help you with!

Nothing is too large. He just enjoys the ride! He just enjoys the relationship! Therefore, don’t obsess about something that is worrying you! Enjoy God, enjoy yourself, enjoy your life, and enjoy those you love! Don’t let the devil keep tricking you into ruining and wasting your relationships!  God does see your problems and he wants to help you! God’s love for you is so immense and that means that you can come to him with anything and everything! You don’t have to lead lives that are defined by worry and anxiety and fear! It doesn’t mean those things won’t come and they may even come with justification, But Jesus said we don’t have to worry about that He is your provider, he is your protector, he is your promoter, and He is the person that you longed for in every relationship.

God is the place that you look to to find home! God is your professor to reveal beautiful new things to you! God is everything that you need and everything that you have ever longed for! When you surrender to God, you are placing your life in God’s hands, and that is the key to peace! Give God your problems, and expect God to help you solve your problems!

The key to peace is resting in who God is! When we give God control there’s a beautiful promise that he will never leave or forsake you! YOU can walk in that path in that promise towards peace! God doesn’t want you to be overwhelmed with worry and problems anymore!  He wants you to be overwhelmed with his love for you! And you may be saying look you don’t understand how many problems I have how many issues and how much I’ve gone through Well, you know what God says no matter what you have I want to take all of your problems, all of your worries, all of your failures ,all of your sins, all of your brokenness, just  Give it to me because I can handle it and the truth is only I can handle it!

So, give it to God, and stop worrying!