Words Of Encouragment To Start The Day ( Thursday 1/15/09)

Starting Today...

Matthew 6:30-34 (Amplified Bible)
30) But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?
31) Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?
32) For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.
33) But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.
34) So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.

I have always been the type of person who has been concerned about the "what if's" and the "what could happens." My mind would always wander to all the possibilities in a particular situation. I remember one time when my son had to have surgery, He had developed a hernia, and I sat waiting for him to go to surgery, I found my mind wondering and beginning to explore the best and the worst of scenarios, and so I began to call people to pray. Prayer is a beautiful thing and it is necessary, but it was the in depth information I was going into on the phone in front of my son that was something that was not healthy or helpful for him. He needed in that moment to know that I was okay and not worried so he would not worry, and that He would trust God with all of it and just know that it was all going to be okay.

Worry, fear and anxiety can lead you to worry about things that you lack control and authority over. When we lack the ability to trust God in His fullness we will worry and become concerned for every area of our lives. It is not that we should not look to the future or even plan for it, but to stress and worry over it, is not our place. If we are a child of the most High God and He possess all power in His hand, will He not take care of our needs and does He not realize our deepest needs and desires? He is our Father, and He loves us and cares for the most minuet of details in our lives and He will be there to see us through to completion, and to take care of us, and to keep us in all His ways if we want to be kept. Letting go of the control and allowing God to be the leader and us the follower takes the worry and the concern out of our hands and places it in the most capable of hands that exist, and those are the hands of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Today why not start giving up your worry, anxiety, concern, fear and possession of the future and start by turning it over to God. Our Heavenly Father and Our elder brother Jesus have it all under control, if we can stand down to the real Commander of all of our today's and our tomorrows. It is not by might, nor by power, but by "His" Spirit all will be well and all will be done. Turn it over and see how your days become brighter and your nights more peaceful. Don't wait another day, another, hour , another minute or another second, start right now, start TODAY!