Life Outside the Box THE WORRY FREE LIFE Matthew 6:24–25, 33, (NIV84) ““You cannot serve both God and Money. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, …” “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness.” Matthew 6:26, (NIV84) “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?” Matthew 6:28, (NIV84) ““And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.” Matthew 6:29–30, (NIV84) “Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 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, O you of little faith?” “Fear is forgetting that everything is fine…There are legitimate reasons to be afraid. But many of our fears don’t relate to anything real or concrete. They’re about projecting something that MIGHT occur in the future. And yet you have no idea what’s going to happen.” Victoria Wellman Matthew 6:27, (NIV84) “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” Matthew 6:32, (NIV84) “For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.” Matthew 6:33, (NIV84) “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Matthew 6:10, (NIV84) “…your will be done .” • MOVIE CLIP Matthew 6:34, (NIV84) “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” “If there will be new troubles tomorrow, so also will there be fresh grace.” D.A. Carson Isaiah 43:2, (NIV84) “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.” Isaiah 43:1, (NIV84) ““Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.” Isaiah 43:4a, (NIV84) “Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you,” Isaiah 43:4, NIV84) Isaiah 43:13, (NIV84) “Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?””