February 28, 2011 No Worries!

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear."

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. Can you believe it, the last day of February and we are having rain and expecting thunderstorms today. God is good, I will not need to plow or shovel the rain. Thank You, Father. Today being Monday makes it the day we pray for our President and all of our other leaders, and please pray that our leaders take all things to Jesus before they bring them to the public. Pray also for our military, past (veterans) and present. Pray also please for John, who is 89 and had a really bad fall, he fell backwards and hit the back of his head and is bleeding from the brain. The doctors said there is nothing they can do, it is all up to God. Please pray as always for God's will to be done, and of course we would love John to be healed and stay here with us. John is one of our flock from The Bridges. Prayers also for Kathleen Sansoni and Ron Leidigh, both who have cancer... and please pray for their spouses to give them the strength to deal with the cancers to their loved ones. Pray for Tom Sansoni and Donna Leidigh. Pray also for Vicki, and her friends and family including Josh, Sharon, Melanie and Terry.

The Big Trip, Week 12, Day 1 No Worries 1: Matthew 6:25 - "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 important than food, and the body more important that clothes." (NIV)

No Worries! No Worries?? Do not worry!! Do not worry? What do you mean do not worry? Brothers and sisters, it might be the hardest thing to do that Jesus has told us to do. Who among us does not worry, and if we say we don't worry then we are saying something like this. I have a deep concern. Or I am fretting over this. I have been in church services where pastors preached on this subject and I have preached on it myself. I myself have been to the altar and "dumped" my worries at the time right at the feet of Jesus asking Him to take care of them. I have prayed with others asking them to do the same, "dump" your worries onto Jesus. What happens most often by most all of us, we take them to the altar or just hand them over in private prayer, and then, and then after we say, "In Jesus name, amen", we pick them all back up and take them back. Have you ever done this? This week we are going to take a look at some scriptures and maybe even some good songs where when we start to worry or fret about things we can go for help. The first thing we need to do is pray about it and we might as well start right there, right now.

Dear Father in Heaven, We confess that we worry about things, we care about them and use that as an excuse I guess to worry. We worry about children and grandchildren and we worry about our spouse. And Lord, more often than not we are worried about our checkbook balance and about household bills. Lord, some people, even on this line, do not have one dime to rub on another and do not have food to put on the table, yet we see we are not to worry and this old preacher man is going to try and show them why we should not worry. Lord, I need Your help on this one really bad, I don't want to make it another worry, I want to make it right for our online flock. Help us this day to cast our worries and concerns over to You. In Jesus' name, I pray and as always, Lord, Thy will be done. Amen.

Brothers and sisters, tomorrow we are going to tackle this head on, so please line up those worries and get ready to get rid of them. We are doing our very, very best this week to get rid of the worries. Save some gray hair so to speak (too late for me). Anyway, time to say, share those blessings, and folks, cut back on those worries for by Friday we want to dump them all at the feet of Jesus.

I love ya, Pastor Dan.