Let's read the last two verses
of Matthew 6. But seek ye first the kingdom
of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you. Take therefore no thought for
the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of
itself, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Worrying
about tomorrow. That's the subject. And that's
what our Lord is telling us not to do. And that's humanly impossible. And yet, that's what He tells
us to do. And that's what this is for. That's why He said this to alleviate
Our worries about tomorrow. I'm not dealing with this because
I'm an expert on it. I'm dealing with it because I
need it more than anybody here. I'm telling you the truth. I'm
confessing something that I am filled with worry constantly.
I worry mostly about people. You. And I lose a lot of sleep
and worry over various ones, welfare, spiritually, physically,
many things. I worry about tomorrow. I worry
about the future. And I get down, I get depressed,
I lose sleep, and I worry. I need this. I need this. This is for His disciples. In chapter 5 it says His disciples
came to Him. It is His Sermon on the Mount. Many people heard it, but it
was for His disciples. It was for their comfort, for
their learning. And I believe I'm a disciple of Christ. I believe
I'm a lover of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe Him. I trust
Him and I trust you do too. And we come to Him. And He told
all of His disciples, take no thought for tomorrow. Take no thought. Now what He
is saying is take no fearful, worried, anxious, Or that is,
thoughts full of anxiety over tomorrow. For he said, tomorrow
shall take thought for the things of itself. When tomorrow comes,
there's enough, he said, evil or trouble for tomorrow without
us worrying about it today. So what he's really telling us
is Live today. Think about today. And lead tomorrow
to tomorrow. There's enough trouble today
without worrying about tomorrow. Someone said most people worry
about three things. There are three troubles they
worry about. Past trouble. That's over and it's past. You
can't change it. Present trouble. And then troubles
we expect to have, which we don't know. And it causes us great misery.
James chapter 4. Go over there real quickly. James chapter 4. We're going
to read a lot of scriptures today because scripture is the best commentary
on scripture. God's Word. James 4. He tells us in verse 13 and following,
go to now. You that say, today or tomorrow
we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy
and sell and get gain, whereas you know not what shall be on
tomorrow. But what is your life? It's even a vapor that appeareth
for a little time, then vanisheth away. You ought to say, if the
Lord will, we shall live. Or that is, live tomorrow. We don't know. We might pass
tonight. So don't say that, he said. We
shall live if the Lord will, and do this or do that. You're
rejoicing, your boastings are evil. Now, the Lord's not prohibiting
certain necessary wise plans and preparations if you have
any responsibilities. If you have a job, you have a
home, family, and so forth, you will make wise and necessary
preparations and plans. He's not prohibiting that, but
he is telling us not to boast of what we're going to do with
no thoughts of God, not to think of the future with no thoughts
of God, not to be covetous and worldly and with ambitions concerning
the future, and not give any thought to eternity. That's the
future. That's what we really should
be concerned about. which we're all full of anxious
care and worry. And we're going to mostly read
God's Word, as I said. Now, what we need is faith. Real faith. Believing God. Believing and trusting Him. Depending on Him. Looking to
Him and being settled, knowing who He is, and just confidence
in His wisdom and His power and His love and His mercy and all
these things. Trusting the Lord. That's what
we need in it. That's faith. Where does it come from? What's
the Scripture say? Hearing the Word, it doesn't
say reading, it says hearing. And mind you, we hear from Him
when we read, but not like we do when we come here to do it. Let me ask you, when do you ever
feel more worry-free than when you're here, seated with everyone
else who's full of fears and worries, and as we all look together,
I confess, I have wonderful times in the study, but this is better
than that. It really is. When we get together,
because the Lord has promised, He has promised where two or
three are gathered in my name, that He will be there. And when His presence is salvation,
His presence, His countenance, When He's with us and speaks
to us, He's the one that speaks peace. And we have peace and
we have joy and we have comfort. There's never a time when I feel
more peace or joy or comfort or freedom from fear than when
we're all together. Like the apostles of old. Whenever
they were all together, huddled around their Lord, He began to
speak to them. And they all had peace. When
He was away from them, they were upset. All right, our Lord is telling
us, take no anxious, worried thoughts over the provisions
for tomorrow. Your provisions, what you need,
the things you need. Look at verses 25 through 33. He says, take no thoughts for
your life. I say unto you, and what he says is true. Take no
thoughts, anxious care for your life, what you should eat or
what you should drink, nor yet for your body what you should
put on. Is not the life more than food and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air,
little birds. They sow not, they don't plant,
neither do they reap, nor gather in the barns. They don't put
up things in store for tomorrow. You're having the Father feedeth
them, every one of them. Are you not much better than
they? Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit unto
his stature? Who can add one thing, change
one thing? Nobody. Verse 28. Why take ye thought for raiment,
clothing? And the Lord says we really only
need two things, doesn't He? Food and raiment. And he proved
that because he didn't have a place to lay his head. He didn't have
a home. He didn't have a home. But he
always had a place. Somebody provided for him. He
proved that. You don't have to have a home
even. You can be homeless. Our Lord was homeless. Have you
ever thought about that? He was homeless. It's all you need, covering and
nourishment. What a picture of Christ that
is. I read on. Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow, and if they toil not, neither do they spin. Yet
I say unto you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of thee. Wherefore, if God so clothed
the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast
into the oven, something so insignificant, Shall he not much more clothe
you, O ye of little faith? So don't take thought, saying,
What shall we eat? What are we going to drink? Wherewithal
shall we be clothed? After all these things do godless
people seek? That's all they think about.
Verse 32, Your heavenly Father knoweth ye have need of all these
things. Seek ye first the kingdom of
God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added
unto you. Necessary thing. Your Heavenly Father knows you
have need of these things. He's not going to let you go
without. David said, I've been young, I'm old, and I've never
seen not one single child of God, the righteous, forsaken
or begging bread. Not one. Ever. Not going to happen.
Ever. Now most everyone in here who
earns a paycheck and lives from paycheck to paycheck, we do. All right? We worry about job
loss. Every one of us. We worry about
if we lose our job, how are we going to pay our bills? No one.
There's a person in here that doesn't worry about that. We worry, how are we going to
pay our bills? How are we going to keep our homes? How are we
going to pay these medical bills? We've got mouths to feed. How
are we going to do this? And I look out here over this
congregation and most everyone in here is over 40 years old. Many of you are over 50. Some
of you, like Margaret, are 60. The point being, have you made
it thus far? Forty years. How long did the
children of Israel wander in the wilderness? Forty years. They, nobody, two million people,
nobody had a job. Nobody had a job. Nobody earned
a dime. Rain bred out of heaven. Water
came out of the rock. Oh, ye of little faith. Oh, me
of little faith. And I'm worried about losing my job. And I lose
our home. Well, we have here no continuing
city. These are tents we live in, aren't
they? Our problem is, here's our problem. We've got so much stuff. And
our lifestyles are so comfortable. that we don't want to lose that. It's settled. We have so many
modern conveniences, and I confess, I don't want to give up hot water.
That's about the most wonderful thing of all modern conveniences. You just turn a knob and you've
got hot water. Think about it. I don't want
to lose central air conditioning. But do you know how many thousands
of years people did without those things? How many thousands of years?
If our economy collapses, and it did in 1929, everybody lost
everything. Everybody. My grandfather lost
their home. My grandmother, they lost their
home. They had to move in a little shack behind a rich man's house
on a farm. and worked for halves, didn't
he? Sharecropping, they had to work for halves. They agreed
to work for this rich man in exchange for food and part of
the crop. And he had three mouths to feed.
Three babies. There's one up. He's okay. He's lived nearly 90 years. It
could happen. It has happened. It will happen. It will happen. Every major civilization
has crashed. It will happen. What are we going
to do? What are we going to do? And I'll tell you this, this
building is paid for. And you can sleep in that pew
you're in right now. We'll plow up the backyard, get
Kelly to keep one of his horses, and plow up the backyard, and
plant some taters and beans, and we'll be all right. That's
a fact. It's a fact. In fact, we'd probably
be happier than we've ever been in our lives. We might love each
other more than we've ever loved each other. We'd be forced to
live with one another. It could happen. It could happen. Let me give you
several means of grace and ways to escape these anxious fears
and worries and cares. I said this, and the Lord said
it, hearing the Word. Faith cometh by hearing the Word.
When we come here, This is what the Lord is pleased to use. Foolishness
of preaching. Faith cometh by hearing. Trust, confidence. When we come,
we sit still. We're forced to sit still and
hear the salvation of the Lord. If a man is sent by God, he's
going to stand up and he's going to declare, You're a sovereign
Lord, reigning and ruling. You're in his hands and there's
nothing to worry about. and Christ on the throne. That's
who He's going to declare. And everything about you and
yours is in His hands. The merciful, gracious, wise,
loving Lord is in control of us and all things. Rejoice in
the Lord. And again, I say, rejoice. That's
what He's going to say. And you're going to sit still
and you're going to be at peace. You're going to quit worrying
for a little bit. You've been forced to turn off the TV, you're
forced to get offline, and I can't tell you this or
that. Quit listening to this world. They are of the world, John said,
and therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them,
and the world is full of chaos and panic. We're of God. He that is of God heareth God's
Word. Let's come, let's sit, and let's quietly listen to what
God says about it. Let God be true in every man
of life. We'll find peace, we'll find comfort. They don't want
to listen to God's Word, but I don't want to listen to them. And we won't have any peace.
There's no peace for the wicked, those that won't hear God's Word.
He's not hearing them when they call on Him. But those who do,
He's a very present help in trouble. And this is our help. Read the
Word of God. Read the Word of God. Read and
keep reading. Keep reading. You'll find peace.
You'll find comfort. Keep reading until He speaks
to you. And I'm telling you what I have
to do. You know how hard it is to read,
don't you? You know how hard it is. First thing in the morning,
you're sleeping, you're tired, And you've got things to do,
things on your mind. You sit down and you know you
ought to read, and you want to read, and you want to get something
that's difficult. It's difficult. Keep reading. Ask the Lord. Speak to Him. Speak to Him. I
need something. I need food to go and the strength
up. Speak to Him. He will. Read God's
Word. This is how He speaks. This is
how He comforts. This is how He calms us down. This is how He gives peace. Call
on the Lord. Pray without ceasing. Pray without
ceasing. Call on the Lord. Live in a state
of communion with your Lord. Talk to Him. Call upon Him. You start worrying? Call on Him. Talk to Him. Lord, I'm worried. Please help me. Call on Him. Pray without ceasing. Don't quit
until He speaks peace to your heart. Worship, fellowship, as
we say it. I love this story. Let me just
read it to you. I love this story. Jehoshaphat
and all the people were surrounded by enemies and they were worried.
They and their little ones appeared before the Lord. What a glorious,
what a poignant picture it is with all the children of Israel
and the king himself gathered before the Lord and they said,
We have no might against this great company. Neither know we
what to do, but our eyes are upon thee." All of them gathered
like we are this morning. And I don't know what to do.
I'm not telling you what to do except look at me. What I do. Our eyes are upon thee. Well,
the Lord sent a preacher named Jehaziel. And this man, this
young man, and you don't hear from him again, but he got up
and preached the message saying, stand still. This is what he
said, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Tomorrow
you're going to go out against the enemy, but the Lord will
be with you. And he said, you'll not fight.
The battle's not yours, but the Lord's. Just stand still. Your strength is to sit still.
In returning and rest, you'll be saved. In quietness and confidence
is your strength. Build up your strength. Not in
yourself. But strong faith in Him. How? Hearing His Word. Don't be dismayed, he said. You're
going to go out there. God's with you. And do you know
what they did? They believed Him. They believed
this preacher. And that's when Jehoshaphat said,
hear this, believe in the Lord your God and you'll be established.
be established, settled, strengthened at peace. So they did. And it says they
appointed singers, listen to this, they're worried now, they're
worried about what's going to happen. So what they do, they
appointed singers to praise the beauty of holiness and they went
out before the army saying, praise the Lord for his mercy endureth
forever. And when they began to sing and
to praise the Lord, smoke their enemies. When they began to sing
and praise and worship and they just trusted the Lord, the Lord
took care of their worries. Smoke their enemies. This is a means of grace, you
see. This is what the Lord has ordained
for us to alleviate our fears and our worries about tomorrow.
Sing. Give thanks. Praise the Lord. We worry about tomorrow. Hold
on now. Let's give thanks right now for
present mercies and grace. If we don't get another mercy
from God, oh, give thanks. If the rest of our lives is full
of trouble, He's been so good, hasn't He? He's been so good. Give thanks. See, Israel of old
forgets His mercies. And that's when they begin to
murmur and complain and worry. Dishonored God dishonored Him. Give thanks. It's of the Lord's
mercies that we're not concerned. And his mercies are new every
morning. Don't worry about tomorrow. There'll
be mercy there. There'll be grace for tomorrow.
The widow of Sarepta, Elijah came to her and everybody was
suffering. Everybody was in want. And she
had a little barrel, a little meal and a little oil, didn't
she? You know the story. And he said, give me something
to eat. She said, I don't have enough for you. Just me and my
boy, we're going to die tomorrow. Oh, are you now? How do you know
that? You don't know that. You don't
know anything about tomorrow. You listen to me now. You support
the gospel. This is what you need. You need
to hear this. Elisha lived with her for a year. Oh, how blessed you are. And every morning, she would
go down, and she had to do this. She had to go to that barrel
and reach down in there. Ah, there it is. Just for today. Don't worry about
tomorrow. You got a handful of meal today?
You got a refrigerator full of food today? Rejoice. What about tomorrow? He'll be
there tomorrow. He'll be there tomorrow. Give
thanks for today, you see. Have you forgot past mercy? Yesterday.
He gave you food yesterday. He's giving you food today. But
what? But God. For His great love. He told us here, He who had no
home, who depended on His Father for every meal, said, I will
give you a thing. Trust Him. He feeds little birds. They're such insignificant little
creatures. You know, I have mercy on birds.
I pity the birds, don't you? I pity them. I feed the birds.
I like to feed the birds. And when I get lax and I'm unfaithful
in feeding them, I worry about them. They don't need me. God feeds them all. Everything
in this world, He opens His hand and feeds them. They get their
sustenance from Him. Whales. You know how much food,
how many fish whales need a day? You know how many tons? And we worry. All right, now,
let's talk about our worst fear. Death. We fear losing our loved ones
more than anything. And we fear leaving our loved
ones more than anything. I've been in a situation in the
past where I was waiting on tests to come back, and I was worried.
We always fear the worst. Always. Our Lord says, why do
thoughts arise in your heart? Why do you always imagine the
worst? But we do, because we're human. And when something is
wrong with us, we don't know, we think, this is bad. And I
remember in times like a couple of times, I remember thinking,
I don't want to leave my family. I don't want to leave. And then
those that we love, we don't want to lose them. We're never
ready to give them up. Never. You love them. You don't want to lose them.
Ever. Ever. But we're all going to die, aren't we? We just are. And our Lord said, here's what
the Scripture said. Our Lord became flesh and blood. took part in the saying that
through death, came he lived, he suffered. No one suffered
like him. No one. No one wept over his
loved ones like he did. No one. No one had to look forward to
or think about a future trial or trouble or sorrow or pain. Have you ever thought about this?
He knew how he was going to die from a child. And he had that to look forward
to. An horrible death. Excruciatingly painful. Separation from God. Hell. Sin, all of that. He was faced
with that from a child. He knew it. He went right on. He went right on. Knowing this,
that's not going to last long. And the end result is glory and
joy unspeakable. For the joy set before him endured
the cross. He says, through death would
destroy him that had power of death, that is, the devil, and
deliver them who through fear of death are all their lifetime
subject to bondage. Fear of death. Fear of the unknown. Spurgeon once said, we fear the
thing. God's people fear the thing.
We do. We just do. We all do. We don't
want to leave our loved one. We don't want them to leave us.
And we do fear. You're lying if you say you don't.
Unless you're real, real old. And you're right at the point
of going. And then you're ready. You're just really ready. God
gives dying grace when it's time. But not until then. All right? A woman said to this Persian
one time, I fear I don't have dying grace. And he said, well,
are you dying? She said, I don't think so. He
said, then you don't need it then, do you? But now if I was
90 years old, or, you know, just mortally sick. The Lord's going to give that
grace. He giveth his beloved sleep when it's time. Mark the
perfect man. The end of that man is going
to be peace. Like Paul said, I'm ready to
die. I know. The time of my departure is hand.
He said, I'm ready. He even said, if I go or stay,
it's all right. He said, for me to live is Christ,
but to die is gain. He said, I'm in a strait betwixt
the two. I have a desire to depart and
be with the Lord, which is far better, far better. Nevertheless, for you, you're
going to be so sorry if I go. Our Lord died. The disciples worst fears. They
lived for three years by him, depended on him. He was their
father, their mother, their husband, their brother, their provider,
their everything. And if you had told them he's
going to die and he kept telling them, didn't he kept telling
them for three years, I'm going to go and this is what's going
to happen. Trouble, suffering, sorrow, pain, separation, sin
and and death, a horrible death, painful death, but I'm going
to rise. I'm going to last. I'm going
to rise. And they didn't want to listen
to it. They didn't want to hear that. They didn't want to hear
that. Oh, but you need to. This is
evident. It's evident. Seventy years is
all the Lord has promised them. If 80, that's by reason of strength. Not yours, but the strength that
God gave you. Okay? 80. And then if we live
past 70, it's borrowed time. If we live past 80, boy, the
next breath isn't it? It's got to happen. That's what
our Lord said. But that's one point I wanted
us to consider. I never really, really, really
considered. He knew the future. He knew it. And it was bad for him, the immediate
future. But he set his face like a flint,
trusting in his Father. He had to live by faith as a
man. And he did, without fear, without worry, without anxiety,
peace and calm. And he had nothing. And he lost
everyone. He said his face like that. Peace. Peace. I want that. And we don't know
the future. We don't know what tomorrow holds.
He knew the future from the past. And it's a good thing we don't. Isn't it a good thing? If you
knew what tomorrow's fishing for the day is, if you knew you
couldn't live today, you couldn't stand it. You couldn't get back. Faced with the prospects of something
terrible happening, you couldn't make it. And so he says, don't
worry about tomorrow. Got enough trouble today. Let me read, let's just read
through some scripture, okay? Let me take a few more minutes. You turn to 2 Corinthians 5. 2 Corinthians 5. Turn over there. May God's words speak to us. In Acts 20, Paul was leaving
the church at Ephesus. And they knew he was going to
die, and he said, and he did too, he said, I go bound in the
Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that befall me there,
but the Holy Ghost's witnesses to me saying bonds and afflictions
await me." He knew, he knew. The Lord told him. But he said, none of these things
move me. Neither can I my life near unto
myself that I'm going to finish my course. Now where would a man get such
confidence like that? How could a man face what he
was about to face? Where'd he get that? Wouldn't
you like to have that? Where'd he get that? The same place you
did. The same place. Faith comes by
here. He was in prison. He told Timothy
or one of them, he said, bring the scrolls, whatever you did. Bring the cloak. I'm cold. And
bring the parchments and whatever you do, don't forget the Bible,
because I can't make it without them. And neither can we. 2 Corinthians 5, now this is
the words of Paul, yet this is the words of God through him,
and it says in verse 1, 2 Corinthians 5, we know this, if our earthly
house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building
of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven. In
this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed upon with our house
which is from heaven, so that being clothed we shall not be
found naked. And we're in this tabernacle, we do groan, we're
burdened, not just to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that is, with
righteousness. Mortality, sin and mortality
swallowed up of life. Life more abundant without sin.
And he goes on down to say, verse 6, we're confident knowing that
while we're at home in the body, we're absent from the Lord. We
walk by faith, not by sight. But we're confident, I say, willing
rather to be absent from the body and be present with the
Lord. Philippians 1. Chronologically,
Philippians 1. Turn there real quickly. I'm
out of time, but we need this. Philippians 1, verse 20. And I quoted this to you. Philippians
1, 20. My earnest expectation and hope
is that nothing I shall be ashamed. Remember that? That may not be
a shame. But with all boldness, as always,
now also Christ will be magnified in my body. Whether by life or
death, for me to live is Christ, to die is gain. If I live in
the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. Yet what I shall
choose, I want not. I'm in a straight betwixt the
two. I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is
far better. 2 Timothy 2. And I quoted this, but we need
to know where it is so we can go back and read it for ourselves.
2 Timothy 2. 2 Timothy 2, verse 11. It's a faithful
saying. You love 1 Timothy 1, 15, don't
you? This is a faithful saying. Here's
another one. It's a faithful saying. If we
be dead with Him, we're crucified with Christ, we shall live with
Him. He that believeth in me, Christ
said, shall never die. Do you believe this? Yes, He will. We will. Chapter
4 of 2 Timothy, chapter 4, verse 6, says, I'm ready to be
offered. At the time of my departure is
at hand, I've fought a good fight. I've finished my course. I've
kept the faith. It has laid up for me a crown
of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give
me at that day. Well, I wish I was like Paul.
I wish I could say that. Hold on. Read on. Read on. Not
to me only. But unto all them that love his
appearance, the same thing awaits, the same reward, a penny. And in closing, and I was going
to have you read so many others in 1 Thessalonians, I would not
have you ignorant brethren concerning them which sleep. The Lord is
coming back. They will come with him. We will
meet the Lord in the air. He said, Comfort one another
with these works. But 1 Corinthians 15, and this is it. 1 Corinthians
15. You see, we have a great hope.
And the only reason we call it hope is because we're not there
yet. But it's sure because our hope is in Christ. Our hope is
in His Word that's settled in heaven. Our hope is in God who
cannot lie. God who had promised us eternal
life. The only one who is not lying
to us is told, if you believe, trust me, you have life. This is not over. This is not
it. 1 Corinthians 15, verse 1, Brethren, I declare unto you
the gospel that I preached unto you, you received it, and you
stand, by which you are saved, if you keep in memory. If you
hold fast to what I preached unto you. I delivered unto you,
verse 3, all that I received, that I heard, how Christ died
for our sins according to the Scripture. You see, the sting
of death is sin. The reason people fear the unknown
is because they don't know God, and they're yet in their sins,
and they have no peace and no rest because they're fearing.
It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God. And even though they don't believe God, if there's still
that unrest, Because God puts it there. Because they're going
to face Him. But if you're in Christ, you
don't need the fear. You don't need the fear. He died
for our sins. The sting of death is sin. He
was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scripture.
He arose. He was seen of twelve. Cephas,
Peter. Peter said, we have a sure word
of prophecy. A more sure word than that. But you do well to
take heed. What you're hearing right now. Five hundred saw him
at one time. And Paul said, I saw him last.
And he went on to say, verse 16, if the dead rise not, Christ
didn't rise. Wasn't raised. But if Christ
is raised, be not raised, your faith is vain. What we're doing
is ridiculous. And all those that died believing
on him, verse 18, they perished. They just died like a dog. If
in this life only we have hope in Christ, we're of all men most
miserable. But now, Christ is risen. He is risen. He is risen. Go on down to verse 51. And I show you a mystery. We
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment,
the twinkling of an eye at the last trump, the trumpet shall
sound. The dead shall be raised incorruptible. We shall be changed. And this
corruptible will put on incorruption. This mortal will put on immortality. Then when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass. The saying that is written, death
is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, the
strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God which giveth
us the victory through Christ, our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore,
my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable. Let nothing trouble
you. Always abounding in the work
of the Lord, about the work of the Lord. Your labor is not in
vain. Labor is not in vain. This is
not in vain. Everything else is in vain. Vanity of vanities.
All else is vanity. It's all perishing. Everything
in this world is perishing. This is not. And a wise person
would set their affection on things that don't perish and
come and hear about those things for your own peace and comfort. Don't boast of tomorrow, don't
worry about tomorrow. Right now, I venture to say,
you had more peace than you did when you came, if you heard that,
don't you? Because we've heard from our
Lord. So go back and rehearse these
things. Ask the Lord to put these things
down deep in your ears and plant them, write them on the tables
of your heart. And remember unto you later the
word upon which he's caused you to hope. Ask him, Lord. When
you start getting worried, call. Lord, you said. Tell me what
it was you said again. And you'll have peace.