NO MORE ANXIOUS MIND!NO MORE ANXIOUS MIND!Luke 12:22-34“A d d k h h ld h “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind.” (NKJV)

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Luke 12:22-34Defeating Worry In Defeating Worry In

Our LivesRead the passage in Luke 12: 22-34. I’m using the New King James Version. e g Ja es e s oPonder & answer the following FOUR key questions Jesus asks in the text:

1 Of ho m ch mo e 1. Of how much more value are you than the birds? (v 24)

2. And which of you by worrying can add one worrying can add one cubit to his stature? (v 25)

3. If you then are not able to do the least, why

i f th are you anxious for the rest? (v 26)

4. How much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith? (v 28) little faith? (v 28) (What is faith?)

12 Significant Statements found in 12 Significant Statements found in Luke 12:22-34: Ponder & Answer

1. Statement: ‘do not worry’ (v 22)

1. Explain in detail what you should do instead of worrying.2 D ib h t l lif

2. Statement: ‘life is more than food, and the body more than clothing’ (v 23)

2. Describe what else life consists of and describe what else the body consists of.3 What’s so special about

3. Statement: ‘consider the ravens’ (v 24)

3. What’s so special about birds that God takes care of them?4. Why do we need flowers? What difference

4. Statement: ‘consider the lilies’ (v 27)

flowers? What difference do they make?

12 Significant Statements (con’t)12 Significant Statements (con t)Ponder & Answer

5 Explain what Jesus 5. Statement: ‘do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink’ (v 29a)

5. Explain what Jesus means by this statement

6. Describe in detail how to stop one’s mind from

6. Statement: ‘ . . . Nor have an anxious mind’( v 29b)

7 Statement: ‘your Father

pbeing ‘anxious’

7. How can you be sure that God knows what you need? 7. Statement: ‘your Father

knows that you need these things’ (v 30)

8. Statement: ‘but seek

need?

8. Where is God’s kingdom? How do we ‘seek’ it? How do we know

h ’ f d it?the kingdom of God’ (v 31a)

when we’ve found it?

12 Significant Statements (con’t)12 Significant Statements (con t)Ponder & Answer

9 Statement: ‘and all 9 Is this figuratively or 9. Statement: and all these things shall be added’ (v 31b)

10 Statement: ‘do not

9. Is this figuratively or literally? How does this work?

10 Why do you think 10. Statement: do not fear . . . ’ (v 32)

11. Statement: ‘sell what you have and give alms’

10. Why do you think that Jesus said do not fear? What does fear have to do with worry &

i t ?you have and give alms (v 33)

12. Statement: ‘for where your treasure is,

anxiety?

11. What does selling have to do with worry?y ,

there your heart will be’ (v 34)

12. Where is your heart? Prove it.

8 action steps t li to relieve an

anxious mind!1.Do not worry.

2.Consider the ravens.

3.Consider the lilles.

4.Do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink.

5.(Do not) have an anxious mind. (Look up ( pPhilippians 4:6-7)

6.Seek the kingdom of God (first).

7 D t f7.Do not fear.

8.Sell what you have and give.