WEBVTT 00:05.093 --> 00:12.403 [SPEAKER_00]: therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink. 00:12.637 --> 00:19.285 [SPEAKER_00]: Nor about your body, what you will put on, is not life more than food, in the body more than clothing. 00:20.186 --> 00:21.628 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at the birds in the air. 00:21.688 --> 00:27.935 [SPEAKER_00]: They neither so nor reap nor gather into barns and yet your heavenly father feeds them. 00:29.117 --> 00:31.099 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you not of more values than they? 00:31.119 --> 00:37.767 [SPEAKER_00]: And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 00:37.865 --> 00:40.069 [SPEAKER_00]: and why are you anxious about clothing? 00:40.910 --> 00:42.613 [SPEAKER_00]: Consider the lilies of the field. 00:43.254 --> 00:46.058 [SPEAKER_00]: How they grow, they neither twirl nor spin. 00:46.799 --> 00:52.749 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet I tell you even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 00:54.031 --> 00:56.955 [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 6, verses 25 through 29. 00:59.059 --> 01:04.868 [SPEAKER_00]: Board, thank you for caring for the birds of the air and the lilies of the field. 01:05.708 --> 01:13.859 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you that I am infinitely more valuable to you than they are, and you care for me deeply and personally. 01:13.919 --> 01:24.493 [SPEAKER_00]: In a world that praises and dependence and I do it yourself mentality, I know I was made to live dependent on you. 01:25.570 --> 01:32.378 [SPEAKER_00]: As I lay down any ways, I've held on tightly to independent instead of your gentle hand. 01:33.159 --> 01:35.161 [SPEAKER_00]: Will you help me to release to you? 01:35.762 --> 01:39.646 [SPEAKER_00]: Every anxiety and worry about not having enough. 01:40.988 --> 01:55.324 [SPEAKER_00]: And show me what it looks like to exchange striving to provide for myself for abiding in your care and provision. 01:55.658 --> 01:57.301 [SPEAKER_00]: and I will give you rest. 01:58.484 --> 02:01.109 [SPEAKER_00]: Take my yoke upon you and learn from me. 02:01.149 --> 02:06.820 [SPEAKER_00]: From gentle and boolean heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 02:07.802 --> 02:10.808 [SPEAKER_00]: For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. 02:12.010 --> 02:15.557 [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 11, verses 28 through 30. 02:17.225 --> 02:24.117 [SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I repent of any lives, I have believed about your character and your heart towards me. 02:24.178 --> 02:30.269 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for being a loving father who delights and providing for his children. 02:31.371 --> 02:36.600 [SPEAKER_00]: It is your joy to provide for me in every area of need in my life. 02:36.850 --> 02:48.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Help me release the heavy burden of anxious toil, and enter into the promise of your easy yoke as I learn to be carefree in the care of my God. 02:48.066 --> 02:52.312 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. 02:53.073 --> 02:55.636 [SPEAKER_00]: Blessed is the man who takes the refuge in Him. 02:56.598 --> 03:01.845 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints, for those who fear Him have no lack. 03:02.264 --> 03:07.592 [SPEAKER_00]: The young lines suffer one in hunger, but those who seek the word lack no good thing. 03:08.794 --> 03:11.718 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 34 verses 8, 13. 03:13.140 --> 03:19.290 [SPEAKER_00]: You are the God of abundant life who withholds no good thing from those who seek Him. 03:20.211 --> 03:28.103 [SPEAKER_00]: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, but you came that I may have a life and have it abundantly. 03:28.522 --> 03:37.519 [SPEAKER_00]: The word is my shepherd, I shall not want, I trust your gentle shepherd in Jesus' name, amen.