2. Set Free Give Up

3. Woke up worrying

4. Matthew 6 and 7

5. How does worryAnd anxietyInterfere with your life?

6. Does God want itThat way?

7. I have come that youMight have lifeAnd have it to the full- Jesus

8. That your joyMay be full- Jesus

9. We write these thingsThat you may fully shareOur joy- 1 John

10. The way of the Kingdom is toEntrust yourself to God's careThe way of the Kingdom is toEntrust others to God's care

11. Matthew 7

12. Do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you- Jesus

13. Cuz…that was a realTemptation

15. Giving…to be seen by menPraying…to be seen by menFasting…to be seen by men

16. …they have received their reward

17. Giving…Father will reward youPraying…Father will reward youFasting…Father will reward you

18. But we don't serveIn order to get a…?

19. Reward- Apodidomi= give back, recompense, restore

20. Reward- Apodidomi= give back, recompense, restoreRender unto Caesar what is Caesar's

21. Reward- to gain what is already Yours in ChristThat which is lost by Giving, Praying, FastingTo be seen by men

22. Some made their livingBy doing these things

23. Some made their livingBy doing these thingsGiving= Trust God! Praying= Trust God! Fasting= Trust God!

24. Quit trying to controlThe outcome and instead Trust that God will Meet your needs

25. Don't lay up treasures on earth…You can't serve God and money

26. The issue isTrust Versus Control

27. God wants moreFor youThan you wantFor yourself

28. Identity is in ChristYou carry a crossBecause you're dead

29. What do dead peopleControl?

30. When a believer lives out of his or her identity, there's peace and a changed life

32. “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on

33. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

34. God provided lifeGod provided a bodyDo you really thinkGod can't provide the rest?

35. Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

36. Do you really thinkGod cares more for birdsThan for people madeIn his image?

37. And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?Do you not knowJust how little control you have?

38. And why are you anxious about clothing?

39. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these

40. They don't worryBut they still wind-up beautiful

41. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

42. Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?

43. For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all

44. Butseek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to youRepetition: continually add

45. Reward: Living in What's already yours

46. But seek first…and all these things will be added

47. Either I trustOr I try to figure outHow to get my own needs metAn forfeit what's mineIn Christ

48. If then you have been raised with Christ, seekthe things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of GodRun after as a primary concern

49. Live out of who you areRun after Eternal Things

50. Live out of who you areRun after Eternal Things:Love, serving, sharing, becomingFollowing, worshiping, forgiving