[SPEAKER_00]: therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink. [SPEAKER_00]: Nor about your body, what you will put on, is not life more than food, in the body more than clothing. [SPEAKER_00]: Look at the birds in the air. [SPEAKER_00]: They neither so nor reap nor gather into barns and yet your heavenly father feeds them. [SPEAKER_00]: Are you not of more values than they?
[SPEAKER_00]: And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? [SPEAKER_00]: and why are you anxious about clothing? [SPEAKER_00]: Consider the lilies of the field. [SPEAKER_00]: How they grow, they neither twirl nor spin. [SPEAKER_00]: Yet I tell you even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 6, verses 25 through 29. [SPEAKER_00]: Board, thank you for caring for the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you that I am infinitely more valuable to you than they are, and you care for me deeply and personally. [SPEAKER_00]: In a world that praises and dependence and I do it yourself mentality, I know I was made to live dependent on you. [SPEAKER_00]: As I lay down any ways, I've held on tightly to independent instead of your gentle hand. [SPEAKER_00]: Will you help me to release to you? [SPEAKER_00]: Every anxiety and worry about not having enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: And show me what it looks like to exchange striving to provide for myself for abiding in your care and provision. [SPEAKER_00]: and I will give you rest. [SPEAKER_00]: Take my yoke upon you and learn from me. [SPEAKER_00]: From gentle and boolean heart, and you will find rest for your souls. [SPEAKER_00]: For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 11, verses 28 through 30.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I repent of any lives, I have believed about your character and your heart towards me. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for being a loving father who delights and providing for his children. [SPEAKER_00]: It is your joy to provide for me in every area of need in my life. [SPEAKER_00]: Help me release the heavy burden of anxious toil, and enter into the promise of your easy yoke as I learn to be carefree in the care of my God. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Blessed is the man who takes the refuge in Him. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints, for those who fear Him have no lack. [SPEAKER_00]: The young lines suffer one in hunger, but those who seek the word lack no good thing. [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 34 verses 8, 13. [SPEAKER_00]: You are the God of abundant life who withholds no good thing from those who seek Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, but you came that I may have a life and have it abundantly. [SPEAKER_00]: The word is my shepherd, I shall not want, I trust your gentle shepherd in Jesus' name, amen.