When we think about our lives, do we worry about our money? We are to be good stewards (1 Corinthians 4:1-2), but Jesus taught that we are not to worry about our money or anything else (Matthew 6:25; Philippians 4:6). If we put our trust in the Lord, we don’t have to worry about life’s necessities for God Himself has assumed responsibility for our food and clothing “ and all our needs (Matthew 6:30-32; Philippians 4:19).<\/p>\n
When Jesus spoke of our need for food, He pointed to the birds and said:<\/p>\n
\n“They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” (Matthew 6:26 – NKJV).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
This doesn’t mean we get what we need by doing nothing. Even birds must scratch and search for food. But the point is, they don’t worry about it.<\/p>\n
Jesus instructed us to center our lives on God’s kingdom. Then clothing, food, and drink will be ours as well (Matthew 6:33). Let’s look at it this way “ if live only for money, we’ll ultimately leave it or it will leave us (Ecclesiastes 2:14-20 – NKJV; Proverbs 23:5 – NKJV). But if we focus our life on God and the doing of His will (Matthew 7:21), all these other things will be provided.<\/p>\n
Does our concern for making money and keeping it overshadow our concern for doing God’s will? (Matthew 19:16-22). If so, let’s just stop and look at the birds!.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When we think about our lives, do we worry about our money? We are to be good stewards (1 Corinthians 4:1-2), but Jesus taught that we are not to worry about our money or anything else (Matthew 6:25; Philippians 4:6). If we put our trust in the Lord, we don’t have to worry about life’s … Continue reading “Just Stop And Look At The Birds! – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}