Devotional  Reading


Defeating Worry

Here are seven truths that may help you in defeating worry:

1. If God gave us the great gift of life, surely He will give us the things necessary to support that life:

"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?" (Matthew 6:25)

2. Since there is no worry in the birds' lives, why should there be in yours?

"Look 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?" (Matthew 6:26)

3. Worry is useless and changes nothing:

"Which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" (Matthew 6:27)

4. If God gives such beauty to a short-lived flower, how much more will He care for a person?

"See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If 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?" (Matthew 6:29, 30)

5. Worry is characteristic of the unbeliever, and not of one who knows what God is like. Worry is essentially distrust of God:

"For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them." (Matthew 6:32)

6. Worry can be defeated by concentrating first on the kingdom of God:

"This, then is how you should pray:… 'Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'" (Matthew 6:9a, 10)

7. Worry can be defeated when we acquire the art of living one day at a time:

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matthew 6:34)

FOTM / FGMBC  / 4- 23 -2025



“NOTHING TO HARD FOR THEE”

Jeremiah 32:17  “Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:”
     

     When Tennyson wrote "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of," he probably uttered a truth of vaster significance than even he understood.

While it is not always possible to trace an act of God to its prayer cause, it is yet safe to say that prayer is back of everything that God does for the sons of men here upon earth.

One would gather as much from a simple reading of the Scriptures.

What profit is there in prayer? "Much every way."
     
Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith.

An invitation to prayer is, therefore, an invitation to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into our human affairs.

Nothing is impossible to the man who prays in faith, just as nothing is impossible with God. This generation has yet to prove all that prayer can do for believing men and women.

     Lord, this is a truth with implications too vast for our finite comprehension. Thank You that you use the prayers of believers to engage Your omnipotence. Amen.

PAJH/TCL/KJV/4-18-2025