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Sermon: Your Anxiety Belongs To Jesus Date: August 6, 2023, Morning Text: 1 Peter 5:5–8 Series: 1 Peter Preacher: Josh Sheldon Audio: https://storage.googleapis.com/pbc-ca-sermons/2023/230806-YourAnxietyBelongsToJesus.aac
Well, good morning church.
We please turn to first Peter chapter 5 and
Messages this morning will be found in verses 5 through 8.
So I'm going to read verses 1 through 11.
I'm afraid the title that you have there in the bulletin though It is corrected is what I asked for it sort of
gives away the point that we're gonna come to that your anxiety belongs to Jesus.
I'm gonna read This passage that is towards the end of this book that the Apostle
Peter is written and he's been laboring to.
Get the church ready for the suffering that they are going to endure because of Christ's name which they
proclaim and So he tells them that this is not uncommon.
It's what all the churches have gone through and you need to suffer for having done good and what good is it?
And what credit is it to you if you were suffer for your own?
Faults and so forth getting them ready to suffer for Christ's name.
And finally as the letter wraps up here as he comes close to the end of it the passage
we have sort of generalizes it this idea of the things that we Encounter in life
and how were to handle them the suffering that we have for Christ's name.
Yes, that's most of the letter and that's still in view and yet now he opens it up.
So it addresses most of our life.
The things that we endure common to everything that goes on in the common ways of mankind.
So with that little introduction if you would please stand I will read verse 5 or chapter 5 verses 1
through 12.
And then as I said, we'll preach from verses 5 through 8
so I exhort the fellow the Excuse me so I exhort the elders among you as a fellow elder and a witness of the
sufferings of Christ as Well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed.
Shepherd the flock of God that is among you.
Exercising oversight not under compulsion, but but but willingly as God would have you.
Not for shameful gain, but eagerly not domineering over those who are in your charge.
But being examples to the flock and when the chief shepherd appears you will receive the unfading crowd of glory.
Likewise you are younger be subject to the elders.
Now our passage begins here with Clothe yourselves all of you with humility
towards one another for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble humble yourselves.
Therefore under the mighty hand of God so that the proper time he may exalt you.
Casting all your anxieties on him because he cares for you.
Be sober minded be watchful your adversary.
The devil prowls about like a roaring lion seeking someone to the devour.
Resist him firm in your faith knowing that the same kinds of sufferings are being experienced by your brotherhood
throughout the world.
And after you've suffered a little while the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Will
establish restore confirm strengthen and establish you to him be the dominion forever and
ever.
Amen, please be seated.
So we do all have this characteristic within us even the most calm most stoic
amongst us do have some manner of this and some of us have more and more and more of.
This thing that we're going to preach about here largely the subject of the message this morning is
anxiety.
Some of us show it in different ways than others.
So is some of us show it more clearly than others and it's more obvious in some of us than it is in others.
It comes in all shapes and sizes, but we all have some anxiety.
Now anxiety if I put it forth to you like that and say how much would you like to have anxiety today or tomorrow?
Would you like to be anxious about something?
How many of you would say?
Yes, I do.
I covet this.
Can you give me some more anxiety about things?
No, that would be ridiculous and yet We all to some extent.
Some more than others as I said our storehouses of anxiety.
We keep it we as it were treasure it.
We store it up we make a reserve of it.
We have a vault full of it so we can open a time of need and reach in take out say okay.
There's some anxiety and that will help me through this moment this situation.
This providence even if we give all the glory to god and understand that he is sovereign in this circumstance is
his sovereign hand.
Yet we'll still reach into this reservoir take a big drink of anxiety.
Anxiety Is a little different than we often think about it.
And this is what the passage really teaches us here.
As peter wraps up this letter and sort of opens up these applications beyond suffering specifically for christ.
To how we're to deal with one another.
So how many of you would like to keep your anxieties?
How many of you would like tonight to have an anxiety that keeps you up again?
Or over the months and years that you're anxious as the doctors say give you an ulcer.
Make you cranky.
And it gets worse than that.
Of course.
A life of anxiety a life of anxiousness has all sorts of effects on us mentally and physically
and psychologically.
And yet the scripture says here.
Don't be anxious for anything said the lord.
Jesus christ.
Be anxious for nothing said the apostle paul, but in all things by prayer and supplication give it to god
here in first peter.
We learn where the anxiety is to go.
Is to be cast upon christ our lord.
Let's look at this.
Let's begin with that second part of verse five and let's go through this.
Sequentially, let's go through this in order and see what this says about ourselves.
How much anxiety we keep in reserve for ourselves we hang on to?
And what we really are to do with it and what that means to us In this life and what that means to the glory of christ
our savior the one who is to take upon himself this anxiety
let's begin with clothe yourselves all of you with humility.
With humility toward one another for god opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
There's much here right there in just those few words.
We could preach an entire sermon his clothe yourself characterize yourself by this.
Be outward and inward by this characteristic of humility.
To clothe yourself is to drape something over yourself.
So this is what appears and this is what the truth is really it's not just putting on a veneer.
It's clothing yourself from within so that without you're seen this way.
Now the greatest example of this is as you might expect the lord.
Who in john chapter 13 clothed himself as the lowest as the most menial of all servants?
Do you remember this when he laid aside his garments?
They put on what the towel of a servant and then what did he do?
He literally got on his knees before the Disciples the apostles and washed their
feet.
He was clothed with humility.
But was he humble only because he looked humble only because he had this menial servant's cloth about his waist and said
Oh, he must be humble because he's wearing that no.
What he had outwardly was a sign of what was inward in the lord.
Who said come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.
He said for I am lowly in heart.
I am humble in spirit.
That's in matthew chapter 28.
Excuse me.
Matthew 11 verse 28 so when peter says to
clothe yourselves He's not talking about some act we put on some veneer that we put on he means from
within.
So that without we appear to be what we truly are clothe yourselves all of you
with this one thing humility toward one another.
Submitting to one another in the love of christ as phil says in ephesians 4 32.
Be kind to one another tender -hearted.
Forgiving one another as god in christ forgave you this sort of humility and submission toward
one another all of us.
Submitting all of us being humble to one another.
As I mentioned submission there are brands of submission.
You submit to your elders in one way.
You submit to each other in another way.
A husband has a wife submitting to him in another special way that she doesn't to anyone else.
But it's to all of us this humility this loneliness of heart.
And why Paul gets or excuse me.
Peter gets right to it.
Why would he have you clothed with humility?
From within.
For god opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
Now, this is a quote from psalm 55.
Where he says that god.
Let me turn to it and quote it correctly.
Should be bookmarked right here.
Cast your burden on the lord, excuse me.
I'm still not in the right place.
We'll go right back to first peter.
There it is.
To the shrewd he shows himself shrewd.
But to the humble he gives more grace.
That's what I was looking for.
Thank you for your patience.
God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble and this is the reason.
That we are to be humble with one another we be clothed with this humility this humility because otherwise.
You put yourself in a very dangerous position.
You put yourself in a position where god is opposed to you in a way he's actually hostile to you.
This word for opposed is a military term of Facing an enemy who is in battle
array against you in that day, you might think of a Company of soldiers shoulder to
shoulder with the flanks of spears pointing your way.
And this is what is opposed to you.
God opposes the proud when we are lacking in this humility.
But he gives more grace to the humble to those who imitate the lord jesus christ.
To those clothed with the humility that comes from the conversion to christ Jesus from the working of the spirit within
from imitating our lord.
That kind of humility god gives grace and more grace to be more like him.
And yet when we are not humble, we are proud.
There's really two no two ways about it.
And when we're proud we find ourself opposed in battle array by none other Than
god our our lord.
So he goes on in verse six humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of god.
Humble yourselves under god's sovereign hand humble yourselves under his might his outstretched arm
the mighty hand of god.
Takes us back to genesis.
Where god redeemed israel with a mighty hand with an outstretched arm.
So peter, I believe here when he speaks of god's mighty hand under which we are to humble ourselves.
We're to think that.
We're to remember that god redeemed his people from egypt that god with that mighty hand
with his outstretched arm.
Ruined and destroyed through moses and through aaron the greatest nation in the world at that
time the superpower.
The one that nobody could mess with.
The one whose will really took precedence throughout the land that nation.
God blew them away in the ten plagues.
God destroyed them.
They didn't see it coming soon enough.
So it all came to pass, but that's the mighty hand.
That's the god as we humble ourselves as we think of clothing ourselves with this humility and being this way to one
another in imitation of christ.
This is the mighty hand we're to think of.
How does that help us humble ourselves?
Well, it's got to smash our pride.
When we think of god's hand versus our ability.
Consider that a moment.
If you were in egypt where the mighty hand takes our minds back to if you're in egypt.
What would you do against egypt?
I hear silence.
That's right.
You could do nothing and yet it's god's mighty hand who did everything did it all and
drew the people out.
It's that same mighty hand that we are to humble ourselves under to consider that mighty hand.
What's the greatest deed that that mighty hand of god ever did?
Some might think well, he created the world.
Or he healed this person over here or he raised the dead through jesus.
No, he raised jesus.
The resurrection of the lord jesus christ that mighty hand that working of his might and power as you read in ephesians
chapter one.
That is the hand under which we are to humble ourselves and if we think of the might of that hand.
And just how powerful god is and what he has actually done.
We should only be able to humble ourselves.
As israel should have been humbled under that mighty hand seeing that nation crushed on their behalf.
A nation against whom they could do nothing but slave year after decade after century
430 years they were there and could do nothing until god's mighty hand.
This is the mighty hand under which we must humble ourselves.
It should be a fairly easy thing for a believer to do.
To read the histories of what god has done and to consider.
Well, how much of that could I have accomplished?
It's really that simple.
That's god's mighty hand and that's why he says humble yourselves.
To each other because we're all in that same boat.
We all have this common lack of ability that is here spoken of by the the apostle
peter.
So humble yourselves therefore because god will oppose you god's in battle array that for because of that
humble yourselves under god's mighty hand.
At the proper time he may exalt you.
We have this throughout scripture.
Exaltation comes from humility.
Jesus said to the apostles you remember that when the disciples we read in matthew and mark.
They were arguing about who's going to be first who's going to be greatest john and his brother.
Go to jesus and say hey, we want to sit on your right hand left hand.
We want to be in heaven with you.
We want to be on thrones on your side.
And what does jesus answer?
It's not yours to have you cannot bear this cross and all that but he says importantly.
You want to be first.
You want to get in line first?
You want to see your pride?
Really crushed?
You have to be last.
You have to be like jesus who is the first.
Who's god's only begotten?
Who is god in the flesh?
On earth.
Who put on that robe?
That towel and became a servant.
For the last will be first and the first will be last and we have these antinomies throughout scripture and Peter
says it right here.
And I think it's just because he was in jesus presence and heard this with his own ears when jesus spoke this way.
Why do you humble yourselves therefore?
Because otherwise you stand in opposition to god or better said god in opposition to you.
You humble yourself for that reason at the proper time.
He will exalt you.
He will lift you up.
For god does lift up the humble and what does he do with the proud?
He casts them aside.
You see the opposite of humility is pride and vice versa.
Casting all your anxieties.
Now unfortunately.
Our esv has anxieties.
And that's a plural of course and that makes it sound as if you take everything you're anxious about all these circumstances.
And you cast them upon the lord.
It's really a singular in the original language.
In the niv and the king james get this better where he says cast all your care or all your
Not anxieties but anxiety on him.
Because he cares for you.
And here we come to.
What it means to be humble.
How this humility actually plays out?
Is to take our anxiety and cast it upon the reason the singular is important here.
Is because it has to do with a situation.
It's not a blunderbuss where you're shooting at everything and you have these pellets scattering all over the place.
And you don't really know where they're going.
It's just I feel anxious and I have all these things going on.
That's really not what the apostle peter has in mind here cast your anxiety about that situation
upon him.
Why.
So after the battle array, he cares for you and I want to put these two together for a moment.
So you see the kindness and the graciousness of god?
He cares for you.
But he's opposing you up here.
He opposes the proud.
Why does he oppose the proud?
Why does he how does he care for you?
He opposes the proud because pride is antithetical to knowledge of jesus christ in the
gospel.
The gospel itself is a pride crusher.
But the opposition that god gives us is for our good.
It's for our good.
He does care for you the word care and Casting and anxieties are
cognates of each other.
He does care for you.
And that's why he opposes you.
Now we can think back to genesis chapter 3.
After adam and eve fell from grace and went into sin and brought sin and death into the world.
What did god do?
He opposed them.
Think of how he did this.
He cast them out of the garden and lest they should come back as any of us would have wanted to.
And we can think that they would have wanted to go back to that wonderful place.
Lest they go back there and eat from the tree of life and live with their sin never resolved for their good.
What did he do?
He put that cherubim with the flaming sword said no.
You will not enter back here.
And because that cherubim was there with that flaming sword and that awesome picture Of god protecting
them from re -entering.
It tells me they would have wanted to.
God opposed that for their good and god often opposes our path for our good and
it's not so much that he Keeps you from getting in his way.
He gets us out of our own way.
You see he stands opposed these paths that are going to lead to.
To pride to a lack of humility to not being In the lord
and humble before each other.
He opposes that kind of a path.
Sometimes the worst thing that could happen to us Is what?
That we go down the wrong path.
That we make a wrong decision.
We make a firm decision based upon bad data or bad analysis of data.
We put it all together in our pride.
And what's the worst thing that could then happen to us?
It works.
And then all of a sudden we think hey, we've got this.
I understand how things work.
I can make it happen.
It becomes me me me.
God opposes that kind of pride.
God gets in your way.
I spend a lot of time testifying to you the times he's gotten in my way.
And not allowed a path.
And I look back after all these years and say had I gone down that path.
It probably would have quote unquote worked.
And what that have done for me.
Well might have had a little bit more money in my checking account.
Might have had a little bit newer car.
All these nice things could have happened.
A bad thing would have happened though.
Pride self -sufficiency.
Well all that to say.
Cast your anxiety upon him.
What your situation is the thing that you're hoping for.
The thing that you dread.
He says cast your anxiety upon him.
Notice it's not the situation.
Now the situation is covered by god's word.
God's word is complete.
It answers all our questions.
We can look there and find the answer to the best way to do to deal with any situation.
But what do we cast upon god?
The situation.
No, there's no guarantee.
He's going to fix that we may have to go through that.
We may have to glorify him by suffering through situations that the world brings upon us.
What do we cast upon him?
What do we throw upon him?
This thing that we keep.
This storehouse this vault the whole thing comes away from us and we cast it.
We throw it upon Jesus christ.
This is what casting is.
It's a final decision.
It's a final act a definitive act of taking and throwing.
You know makes me think when I think of casting or throwing as this word means I think we used to play catch.
You know what?
My brother used to do just to bug me.
Is he throw it back and forth with me?
I'd be able to catch a few times.
I was a lot younger than him.
So it was kind of hard and he'd get tired of it and I'd throw him the ball he'd catch it and
Keep it.
He'd run away with it and it would make me cry it gets mad.
I wanted to play catch.
Well, jesus doesn't give it back.
But he's not like my brother.
He's not supposed to give it back.
We cast this upon him is a definitive act and it's his and it's
his because he cares for you.
Can you do this.
Can you take the anxiety and cast it upon him?
What does that actually look like?
What does that really mean to take this anxiety from within and put it on him to throw it
to cast.
To just get rid of it like garbage in the house.
Just be done with it, what does that look like?
Well, it's prayer.
Is the safety of many counselors is talking to others who've been in situations like yours.
And seeing how they've handled it is coming to brothers and sisters.
Elders pastors and finding how scripture would tell you to address the situation.
But then looking within and saying do I have an anxious heart about this thing.
What is anxiety?
Anxiety is concerned about tomorrow, but it goes beyond that see.
It's like peter said or excuse me.
Paul says about hope.
If one has what they're hoping for then they stop hoping for it.
We hope in jesus christ when we see him hope is done with why because we'll have him.
Anxiety is something like that because anxiety is.
Not knowing what tomorrow is going to have not knowing how this thing is going to work out.
And wanting to know and forcing the issue and making it turn out.
My way is usually how we do it.
That's what jesus says you don't know what tomorrow will bring.
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble said the lord.
You can't make a single hair on your head grow.
Stop growing gray or stop falling out.
You can't do anything with any of these things.
You can't increase your stature or one year to your life all these things.
But they're in god's hands.
Jesus didn't say they don't matter.
Paul doesn't say they don't matter.
Peter here doesn't say they don't matter.
He says you're there under the mighty hand of god.
Humble yourself under that.
Whatever the situation is.
If i'm hoping to do better in the stock market if i'm
Looking at something awful like my house burning down.
Is knowing the end of it and if you knew for sure the end even if it was a bad thing a sickness.
Something going wrong in a relationship a disaster in your house like a house fire.
In 1971 Our house burned down we had to move.
If you knew what the end of it was.
Well, there was a positive or negative result in your estimation.
Whether the house goes down to ashes, but you knew when the fire started what the end would be.
You wouldn't be anxious about anymore.
And this is what anxiety is is wanting to know tomorrow.
Peter says cast that upon Jesus on him.
It's prayer.
It's counsel.
It's studying the scripture to find the answer to the situation that is making you anxious.
It's faith.
It's faith knowing that jesus christ cares for you.
And that this anxiety you have is Undue.
It's unwarranted because jesus christ Has saved you because
jesus christ has done the ultimate which is to save you from your sin.
Save you from the wrath of god.
What are we anxious about?
What keeps us up at night?
Last sunday afternoon pastor conley preached from hebrews 2 about how jesus has
Destroyed the works of the devil who kept us in bondage over our fear of death.
There's something to be anxious about.
I'm going to die.
Do you know when of course not do I know.
Only jesus knows when.
Not being anxious is a great exercise in faith.
It's knowing that jesus christ is for us.
Romans chapter 8.
He who gave his only son.
How will he not also in him give us all things if he gave us jesus christ?
What then will he withhold from us?
If he gave us the lord jesus christ who died on the cross and was raised on the third day if god would do that
for the likes of you and me.
Then what is there to be anxious about?
Now it's not that we don't care about tomorrow.
We only know though that god gave us today.
What do we know about tomorrow.
Tomorrow is going to be monday.
Tonight.
The moon's going to go down.
The sun's going to come up in the morning on monday and it'll be monday.
If we believe kpx weather.
It's going to be hot.
Do we know that?
Sort of know with a small k.
Yeah, we know that we can count on that.
The chances are the odds are but in the scriptural sense.
As disciples of the lord jesus christ.
Because the lord jesus christ is at hand.
His return is imminent.
Am I predicting.
Of course not we would never even touch that in this place.
But we live knowing he will return at a moment that we don't know.
God's going to send him.
And if that be the case.
And if we know that when he when he returns we will see him it will be like him for we shall see him as he is.
And we will be then in glory with him.
Worshiping at his feet forever and ever and ever.
If we know that with a capital k because the scripture tells us and by faith we believe it if we know that.
What's there to be anxious about.
The other thing we need to understand about anxiety.
As we have it here.
Anxiety is pride.
Anxiety is pride and this is what the apostle peter says.
He says clothe yourselves all of you with humility toward one another for god opposes the proud god opposes.
Who those who refuse to show humility to one another those who will not be clothed with humility god
opposes them.
But he gives grace to the humble we've talked about that a moment ago.
Humble yourselves therefore into the mighty hand of god.
So at the proper time he may exalt you casting all your anxiety upon him.
Do you see the tie -in?
Do you see the relationship between humility? and anxiety.
Humility sometimes we're anxious and we say well i'm only worried about things that I should be worried about.
That's not what this says this says that when you humble yourselves you're no longer anxious.
And anxiety then is the opposite of humility.
Which means that as the opposite of humility is pride.
So the opposite of anxiety.
Or excuse me anxiety then is also pride.
Does that give you a little different viewpoint of what that is.
Why we need to cast it away.
Why we need to be done with it.
Why we need to trust god because he cares for us.
Be sober minded be watchful and let us.
See here the other side of what god is protecting us from.
It says you need to be humble because if you're not humble god stands in battle array against you.
Well, not he personally he doesn't need to do that.
He just needs to think and would throw it all over.
It was a picture of god's Intense concern and care for us that he would put this
flanks of spears before us so that we can't get through it.
As I said usually keeping us from our own path but here he
says.
In verse 8.
The adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour.
What does that have to do with it.
How do you get devoured?
How do you make yourself vulnerable?
By thinking that you can make yourself invulnerable.
By exercising your pride by living anxious about tomorrow as though tomorrow doesn't have enough
trouble of its own that only god knows my anxiety says I
can do something about it.
I'm anxious about it because I don't trust god in it.
So if god is stopping us on that path.
Then that pride leads us somewhere else.
That pride is another danger.
That pride then leads us to being vulnerable to this roaring lion trying to devour us.
And your greatest vulnerability is pride.
Anxiety then is pride.
We get rid of that because with that in us.
We're opposed by god and with that in us. We're vulnerable to the devil himself.
And that is his point here.
He prowls around like that roaring lion seeking someone to devour.
Well, here's peter's point about your anxiety.
The situation may not be taken from you.
Why would god who cares for you leave you in a hard situation?
The finance is collapsing.
With a marriage that's falling apart.
With health that's deteriorating.
Why would he leave you in that situation?
For his glory.
For his good.
For the good of his name worked through us because as jesus told the apostle paul.
That in our weakness his strength is made perfect.
Well, it's not easy to be a vessel that shows the grace of god his strength being made perfect
because of our weakness.
As all most all of you know, I have multiple sclerosis.
You can get tired of being a vessel of god's grace.
And yet by faith, we know it's for our good whatever you're going through.
Be it relationships that you have that are falling apart.
Relationships that you desire that have not yet come to be whether it's your finances your job any of those
Peter doesn't say here that god doesn't care about the situation.
He does.
Jesus says your heavenly father knows you have need of all these things therefore pray to him.
And as we pray cast anxiety upon him if we really pray.
If when we pray we know we are truly speaking to god by the intercession of jesus christ who died for your sins.
If we really know that.
Anxiety has to be lifted from us and brought to christ.
Peter's imagery of casting is a little more active than that.
It's like the baseball pitcher who throws the ball.
Where do they go now 110 miles an hour?
What do they throwing it at?
Anybody know anybody would follow baseball?
How fast they throw that ball?
It's 100.
I think it's about that fast.
Peter's image is more like that.
Just getting rid of this thing.
Just being athletic about it pick it up grab it get a grip on it and throw it.
And prayer could usually be a little more gentle than that.
But prayer is how we really do cast these anxieties upon christ.
What does this look like?
Does it look like a sudden healed marriage?
A sudden increase in my savings for retirement.
It's the peace that passes all understanding.
It's knowing that god who cares for you.
Does indeed care for you.
And as we go to him in humility?
Casting this anxiety he by his spirit takes it from us.
He does that because he cares.
Has god ever blocked you from a path that you were wrong?
Have you ever looked back and say well that was god opposed to me?
Not to keep me from his way, but to keep me out of my own way.
And then to put me back on the right path as I humbly submit myself to him.
Anxiety.
You know when we keep it.
It's always there in reserve.
It's always ready to be taken out and to be used.
We can always be anxious.
You can show it or not show it but if it's there It's pride.
Anxiety who does it belong to?
Where should it go?
It's jesus.
Says cast it upon him and why because he cares for you and how does he care
for you?
He blocks that path of pride.
He blocks those successes you might have even if they're successes.
That would otherwise be good.
Because if you go down that wrong path if you go down that path of self -sufficiency.
If you go down that path that is because you're anxious about this.
Therefore you grab yourself by the bootstraps as they say and you took care of it and you succeeded
just increases.
That distance that we have from the true humility that we need to have in order to cast the
anxiety upon christ.
He may well let your Your your retirement savings grow.
He may well heal your marriage but it's the anxiety that is the
The humility killer it's the anxiety that we hang on to that we need to be rid of.
Peter says it belongs to jesus.
We need to look to ourselves and say how much of that have I carried carried?
How much of that do I have in reserve?
How do I do this anxiety?
How does this play out in my life?
Those are personal things.
I know this From the scripture.
That if you would confess your anxiety, which is pride If you would ask god for a humble spirit
to make you more like jesus christ, which is your predestined will.
According to romans chapter 8 to be conformed to the image of christ.
Jesus our lord Jesus christ himself said anything you ask in my name.
That I will do and there's nothing better.
We can ask in his name than to kill our pride to take away our anxiety.
And to make us humble like our lord.
Jesus christ toward one another and most especially toward him as we live on this
Terrestrial globe with all the cares with all the things that come upon us knowing god cares for the situations.
And tells you this That the anxiety is not yours.
Give it where it belongs cast it upon christ.
Jesus our savior.
Amen.
Heavenly father.
Thank you for this day.
I thank you for this time that we have together to worship the lord.
Jesus christ Is for the goodness of god knowing that you care for us father calm our
anxious hearts make us those who in all humility Cast aside anxiety and the pride thinking
we can do things and we can accomplish.
And leave it all in your hands father as you guide us as you direct us.
As those things that we do would actually bring glory to your name.
Because we do them in the power of the spirit and according to your word.
Father god make us that humble people who would be able to accomplish this for the glory of christ.