Prayer - Less Worry Living

Prayer - Less Worry Living

- January 05, 2022

"Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus."
-Apostle Paul, writing to the 1st church in Philippi, 1st century
Philippians 4:6-7 in the New Living Translation

[This is the 5th message in this series]

From many of Jesus' teachings we can see that His message is about worry free living.

And it is not just to tell us to not worry without telling us how to go about it.

Pray

He tells us not to fret, not to be anxious. And instead of worrying we should pray. We should bring our concerns up to God.

Anything we may be worried or anxious about should form what we ought to pray for.

Peace

As we praise God and bring our concerns to Him, before we know it God's peace envelops us. God's presence surrounds us and as the Message Paraphrase put it:

Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

So again, this morning as we go to the secret place to pray, as we praise God, allow our worries to rise up to Him and let God's peace to flow down.

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The Shepherd and His Flock

“I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

Therefore Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

John 10 (NIV 84)

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