Why Worry? – Emotion Devotion
What if you shifted your devotion? What would happen to your worry?
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be
devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. 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? 26 Look 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?” –Matthew 6:24-30
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1. What are your top 3 worries?
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2. Ask yourself these 3 questions:
A. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?
B. Who have you have worried so much that you think you may have taken a year or so off
your life expectancy?
C. Is there anything more valuable to you than staying alive? Will worrying contribute to
the thing that you value more than your life?
3. What did Jesus say about worry?
***The things that you are most devoted to are the things that determine what you worry
about***
A. Mammon – (noun)
 Bible. Riches, avarice, and worldly gain personified as a false god in the New Testament.
 often mammon Material wealth regarded as having an evil influence
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/mammon#ixzz163Quee2g
B. What are the things God is telling you not to worry about in verse 25?
C. What is the answer to the Life=? Question for you?
D. Does Jesus discount the importance of our hard work by telling us to not worry? Explain
E. Do you think God is more concerned about you (you being made in His image) than the
birds of the air? Why is that significant to you?
F. What’s the issue with worry? How does it relate to us trusting God?
4. How to put it into action:
A. Worry is a waste of time. Life=time. When you start to get attached to something that
you have no control/uncertainty over, tell yourself, “I’m not going to worry about that
because it is a waste of my life. That’s like throwing away my life. I’m not going to
throw away my life worrying about [that]”
B. Do what we can do and trust God to do what we can’t. Ask yourself, “ Have I done all I
can do in the now? Then trust God for tomorrow.”
C. If the emotion of worry is associated with a devotion of life, ask yourself, “What are you
most devoted to? Look at what you worry about the most” Shift your worry by shifting
your devotion. If my worry pinpoints my devotion, what am I truly most devoted to? Is
that really life? If it’s not really life, maybe it shouldn’t hold such control over my
devotion.
D. Read Matthew 6:24-30
5. Other bible verses to help you with worry:
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John 14:27: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world
gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Philippians 4:6-8: 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and
petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which
transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally,
brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about
such things.
Isaiah 41:10: 10 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will
strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Psalm 23:2-4: 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3
he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I
walk through the darkest valley,[a]
I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
1 Peter 5:7-11: 7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 8 Be alert and of sober
mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout
the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.10 And the God of all grace, who called you
to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and
make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11 To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 4:26-27: 26 “In your anger do not sin”[a]: Do not let the sun go down while you are
still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold.
Mark 4:38-40: 38 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and
said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” 39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to
the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. 40 He said to
his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
Psalm 112:7-8
II Timothy 1:7, 9
Matthew 11:28-30