MERIMNAO: root word is the idea of your MIND BEING DIVIDED in 100 different directions.

Matthew 6:25 a “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life…

“The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.”—Max Lucado

Matthew 6:25 b what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.

Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

The root issue of anxiety is our desire for CONTROL.

At the core of anxiety is the DESIRE to CONTROL that which WE CAN’T CONTROL.

Where are you trying to be in control?

Matthew 6:26 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? 

What you are trying to CONTROL the MOST reveals where you TRUST GOD the LEAST.

Where you TRUST God the LEAST is what you will WORRY about MOST.

HENCE: What you WORRY about the most often reveals where you TRUST God the least.

Matthew 6:27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

Worry never helps SOLVE tomorrow’s problems, it only ROBS today of its joy.

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

“No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear.”—George Macdonald.

Matthew 6:31-32 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Our WEAK SPOT with worry is often a STRONGHOLD where we haven’t put God first.

Matthew 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

1. What are you trying to CONTROL the most?

2. How can you start PUTTING GOD FIRST in that area of your life today?

Our weak spot with worry is often a stronghold where we have not put God first.