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The Attitude of Worry
Proverbs 23:7
Philippians 4:6-9
May 27, 2018
Introduction:
Worry has been defined as “a small trickle of fear that meanders through the mind until it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
Green, M. P. (Ed.).
(1989).
Illustrations for Biblical Preaching: Over 1500 sermon illustrations arranged by topic and indexed exhaustively (Revised edition of: The expositor’s illustration file).
Grand Rapids: Baker Book House.
Three words jump off the page: Prayer, Think, Do-pray right, think right, do right.
You may say: “I don’t worry…”
Other issues that are like worry: anxiety, foreboding, insecurity, pressure, stress, tension, discouragement, depression, troubled, sorrows, complaining.
The Book of Philippians deals with thoughts, minds, and actions.
Billions of dollars thousands of books and hundreds of seminars have been offered to help people conquer worry.
The apostle Paul gives us help in one single verse: Space “be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”
One of the problems with worry, is it so many people try to conquer it or overcome it simply through the human element.
But the human element is not enough; we must have the mind of Christ to conquer fear, frustration, worry and all these other things that come in our lives.
1.
What are you worrying about?
2. If God promises to supply all of my needs, that’s all I need.
I’m going to trust him for it the truth of the matter is all I need is his word on.
3. Are you worrying about the past?
Nothing you can do will change the past.
All the problems, all the scars, all the heartache, all the things that have happened can’t be changed.
So don’t spend time worrying about what was today is the day now is the time.
4. Are you worrying about the future?
We tend to worry about almost everything, we worry about whether we're going to have cancer; whether the economy is going to stay good; whether our investments are going to stay up or go down.
We worry about our jobs.
We worry about our houses, we worry about our families, we worry about our church.
Worry is very close to discouragement, as a matter of fact, most people who worry stay discouraged.
Dr. Raymond Barber said there are 10 great rules to keep your the blues: go out and do something for somebody and repeat that nine times over!
If anybody had a reason to worry it was the apostle Paul.
His Christian friends were fighting in the church at Philippi almost to the point of splitting it.
He was in prison and facing death by execution.
He had seen his friends for a long time.
He was growing old.
He had no Social Security, no Medicaid, no Medicare, no retirement program, no hospitalization insurance, no bank account, no savings bond, no vacation pay, no burial insurance Paul had a lot to worry about!
With all of these things that he could’ve worried about Paul wrote these words in Philippians 4:4.
We need to discern what is causing us to worry, what worry is, how worry affects us, and how to overcome worry.
I. What is Worry?
The word worry comes from the ancient English word meaning “to choke or to strangle.”
When somebody has you around the neck, cutting off the win that is precisely what the word worry needs.
It strangles you; it chokes your emotional life.
Worry is a destroyer, a cripple or, a killer of many things in our lives.
Hard work has never killed anybody, but worry has killed many.
Someone said, “Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.”
There are those who worry about three kinds of trouble:
1. all the trouble they ever had.
2. All the trouble they have now.
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All the trouble they ever expect to have.
God has never made a Christian strong enough to carry all of today’s duties with tomorrow’s worries piled on top of them.
The poet said:
do not trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you,
for you only make your troubles double trouble when you do.
There are three days and every week when you should never worry: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
It is estimated that over 90% of what we worry about never actually happens.
A. Worry is a sickness, and God has the cure.
1. Seek first the kingdom of God.
2. Learn to live one day at a time.
B. Worry is a sin.
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How Does Worry Affect Us?
A. It affects our walk with God
B. It affects us physically.
C. It affects our relationships with others.
D. there are four main causes of worry:
1. Thinking of what you do not have instead of thinking of what you do have.
2. Refusing to face life as it is, instead of how we would like for it to be.
3. Worry is the result of centering our thoughts on ourselves instead of others.
4. Failing to exercise faith in God.
III.
How to Overcome Worry.
Here is the real core of the message: how can a person overcome worry?
Not by drugs, not by alcohol, not by mental gymnastics, not by sedatives and tranquilizers, not by making new resolutions.
Isaiah said, “thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
Isaiah 26:3
God has given a divine prescription for overcoming worry, and it is found in Philippians 4:
1. the right kind of praying;
2. the right kind of thinking;
3. the right kind of living.
A. The right kind of praying-vs.
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Why is prayer such an important effective and vital therapy in overcoming worry?
One of the chief sources of worry is always thinking about yourself.
Prayer directs our thoughts away from ourselves and toward God.
You cannot think about God and self at the same time, so prayer puts your thoughts where they belong.
B. The right kind of thinking-vs.
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When you think of only the bad things that have happened then you will go to bed with those thoughts on your mind, then you will wake up with a bitter taste in your mouth and on your heart.
What we think about tends to shape our actions.
Our beliefs determine our behavior, and our beliefs are the outcome of our thoughts.
C. The right kind of living-vs.
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To pray right is not enough, to think right is not enough, to pray right and think right is not enough, for we must also do right!
You will never do right unless you are thinking and praying right.
Note the order: prayer, thinking, doing or living; there is something very significant about this order.
Conclusion:
Pray right, think right, do right and then you will be right!
Worry is a sin…and if the Peace of God is guarding your life and the Spirit of God is guiding your life, then the Son of God will be keeping your life!
Don’t worry, trust God-
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