Why do you worry? | Pastor Steven Furtick

why do you worry what do you worry about more than anything else what's the thing that had you up at 3:30 this morning and your mind started spinning because this is what happens your mind starts spinning some of us get up to use the bathroom and then we never quite make it back to a rested state because our bladders and our brains are both under demon possession and so both of them are too full and so we wake up in the middle of the night and here we are and this is how it happens for me my mind just starts spinning spinning and the way that it is constructed in the original language I've studied this passage quite a bit I've come back to it several times in preaching is that it says do not worry that's the command or take no thought that's literal take no thought think about that he's saying a thought that presents itself to you can start you spinning in a direction if you take it but it can't start you spinning if you don't hold on to it I preached the whole message one time called hold that thought hold that thought and you get a hold of a thought and you let it take you somewhere but where you take that thought eventually you find out it takes you somewhere and for me a lot of times I end up in this spin cycle do you know what I'm talking about talk to me this spin cycle of stress I noticed this about worry worry is circular worry is going round and round it's not being concerned about something that's not what Jesus means by don't worry this isn't Jesus Bob Marley moment you know because I was reading it like look at the birds yeah it almost sounds it almost sounds like Jesus is telling me not to not to pay my bills just look at the birds let's look at the birds and the flowers isn't it beautiful isn't God good isn't he just the best don't you just love Jesus and his muchness yeah it's not what he's saying you know you want me to be like a bird Lord no I want you to observe the birds I want you to consider what they know that you don't and maybe what they know that you don't is because they live where you don't at a higher altitude observe the birds if I could title this message something other than reverse you're worried I'd call it look up because in order to consider the birds you've got to stop looking all around you to make sense of your life you know because as long as you look around you you spin around and around and around and around but when you break the cycle and consider that there is a God above you who is gone before you who lives within you who is always for you and that you are spoken for and known and named and called and chosen and set apart you'll see your life at a different level can I preach a little bit because I've been doing this a lot it's funny that I just finished a whole series about anxiety called triggered and here we are back in this same idea still spinning still spinning worry is like this it's around and around and around but notice one thing about all my spinning other than the fact that some of y'all are getting dizzy just watching me do this imagine how it feels to actually do it imagine how it feels for me actually doing it well this is what it feels like when you're spinning spinning spinning lots of motion but I keep ending up right where I started I'm right back here only now I can't see straight now that's what it's like to toss and turn over stuff you can't control because after you've spent all night spinning all day spinning in your head and what if and you know it starts with the most innocent thought the devil the devil's been at this a long time sweetie he's not gonna give you a bad thought he's gonna try to give you an innocent thought and get you to take it in the wrong direction a scenario that on the surface doesn't seem that bad it's the way you spin it it's like you know Fox News and CNN it's one story they're telling but it's spinning different ways and it's how you spin it that determines how you see it I am preaching Matthew chapter 6 like it's my last time today because when you get in that spin cycle it's just around and around and around and around and it doesn't make any difference I'm not getting anywhere I'm not working on it I'm not making progress anywhere and the devil gets me so dizzy that now by the time that I'm facing my real life challenges I don't have the equilibrium to apply the effort in the direction that would create a result because I'm so dizzy I can't find my balance and now I don't know who to trust I don't know what to do whoa hang on I need a minute I need a minute I've been spinning by the way that's why it takes you a few minutes when you get to church to get your heart in the right place for the caffeine to kick in and for you to stop spinning Jesus said look up at the birds and then look at the flowers the flowers so you want me to look up or you want me to look down I want you to look both and notice something that the flowers don't do that your mind has been doing lately he said when you look at the flowers notice how they do not labor or give me the verse please 28 they do not labor or and yet your father they don't they don't spin they don't so the birds don't store away the flowers don't spin yet look how God does that on that level and if he made you in His image what makes you think that you have to spin out in these cycles you know these tormenting cycles these confusing cycles where you start thinking you know oh my god my kid needs braces and you know it's the littlest things isn't it it's the littlest things that get you spinning my kid needs your kid is only two years old but my kid's gonna need braces cuz the first tooth grew in kind of crooked and now you're looking at one crooked tooth and your two year-olds got one little crooked tooth growing in and oh my god they're gonna need braces and braces with inflation it's gonna cost four hundred and seventy three thousand dollars and then I won't have any money to send him to college so they're only gonna have to resort to gang violence and then my child is gonna wind up in prison I'ma visit him now your in prison and your kid is two and your kids still two and you didn't keep him out of prison and they're still gonna need braces so you've been going around and around and around in circles but God said today is your day to stop spinning if your mind has been doing this I came to preach to you and the presence of the Lord is in this place and your Father knows what you need so stop spinning stop worrying about what God is already working on and just worship him come on take 15 seconds I know you can't do it all the time but you're in the right place today let's give him praise and honor and glory that our needs are met for His name is great that's all worship is you know worship is worry in reverse see worry is when I start with my situation and then I spin around and round and round and round and round and round and round and round but God said stop spinning and instead of starting your meditation with your situation start with your source when you know who your Father is it sends you spinning in a different direction come on I know who he is I know what he's done and I know what he's gonna do stop spinning find seven people tell them stop spinning hey thank you for watching make sure you subscribe to this channel so you don't miss a single video or livestream and share this video with a friend and don't forget you can join me live every Sunday thanks again for watching

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Length: 10min 9sec (609 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 05 2019