What I struggle With

Pastor Steven hit the nail on the head for me this morning. I always read his blog and today I knew he was talking to me. So here is what I read....

The Next Rep : by Pastor Steven Furtick

I am always worried about the future... 

....what will happen when i no longer have unemployment 

....how are we going to continue to provide for our family

....if we make certain decisions will we be doing the right thing, is it what God really wants for us!!

....and so on....

and so it was this part that really helped!!

"Being strong in the Lord is sometimes about just doing the next rep. Focusing on the next decision. Taking the next step. Making the next sacrifice."

in other words... don't think about months ahead.. or even years ahead... think about how will i make it through today... how will i let God change me today!!  

then i read...

Matthew 6:34 tells us “do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

that's exactly what i needed to hear!! So i went straight to my Bible and read it there... and what I found was the best advice... DO NOT WORRY

Matthew 6: 25-34 

²⁵ “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 than food, and the body more 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? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? ²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  ³⁰ If 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—you of little faith?  ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But 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.

And here's the important part vs. 33 But seek FIRST his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Thank you Lord for today and for all that you have given me. Amen