”Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise, Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler, Prepares her food in the summer And gathers her provision in the harvest. How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? “A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest”— Your poverty will come in like a vagabond And your need like an armed man.“
Proverbs 6:6-11 NASB1995
”Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.“
Proverbs 22:26-27 NIV
”Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.“
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 NASB1995
The Cure for Anxiety – Matthew 6:25-34.
The Command
25) For this reason I say to you,
Do not be worried about your life,
-as to what you will eat
-what you will drink;
-nor for your body, as to what you will put on.
Why
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Why
26) Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?
Why
27 “And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?
Why
28 “And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,
Why
29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon, in all his glory, clothed himself like one of these.
Why
30 “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you?
Why
You of little faith!
Command Re-emphasis
31 “Do not worry then, saying,
—‘What will we eat?’ or
—‘What will we drink?’ or
—‘What will we wear for clothing?’
Why
32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
SOLUTION
33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34 So do not aworry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Living Waters 