Don't Worry, Be Happy Print E-mail

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Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 

26Look 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? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 28“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” 

Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV)

 

 

“Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?”  Romans 8:32 (NLT)

 

TWO IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER:

 

  1. God know we have basic needs.

 

“My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.”  Phil. 4:19 (NIV)

 

  1. Only pagans worry about them being met.

 

“Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about what happens to you.”  1 Peter 5:7 (NLT)

 

“You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you.”

Isaiah 26:3 (NLT)

 

“I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”  Matthew 18:3 (NIV)