Desiree e-mails to ask, Pastor John, what advice and biblical encouragement do you have for

college graduates who are unemployed or have no certainty of a job in the near future?

Before I got really practical about strategies that they might be using or not using to

make themselves available to employers, I would want to talk at a deeper level first about,

do not be anxious about your life, what you should eat, what you should drink, what you should

put on. This is Jesus directly talking to this issue, it seems to me. Consider the birds of the

air, this Matthew 6, they don't sow or reap or gather in the barns, you're having the father

feed them, consider the lilies, they don't toil or spend, yet I tell you so, when I read one of

these, God will take care of you, seek first the kingdom, so that's my first counsel, seek first

the kingdom of God and His righteousness, be about kingdom things, which of course going to include

looking for a job and focused on God's glory and all these things will be added to you. You know what

amazing things about that is that it's followed by, they'll be anxious about tomorrow, this is verse 34,

for tomorrow will be anxious for itself, sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Don't make tomorrow's trouble part of today's burden because God apportions mercy for every day,

Lamentations 32, this dead fast love of the Lord, never ceases, His mercies never come to an end,

they are new, new, every morning, so each day has trouble of its own, Jesus said,

and Jeremiah said in Lamentations 322, every morning has mercy of its own, and I think Jesus has

tailor made the mercies for the miseries. So tomorrow you're going to have mercy for the challenge

of that day, trust him for this, take promises like, my God will supply every need of years according

to his riches in glory, for the pins 419, or God is able to make all grace abound to you so that

having all sufficiency and all things at all times you'll be bound in every good work, so that's

where I start, I start with the stunning, amazing, practical, precious promises of God to take,

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