Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, December 31st.

If you find yourself worrying about what the new year may bring, uncertainty, challenges, or tough decisions, pause and turn to God's word, it can give you deep confidence to face what lies ahead.

Find that strength and hope in confidence to face the future.

Would you turn, please, to Matthew Chapter 6, and I want us to begin reading in verse 25 and read through verse 34.

And the title of this message is confidence to face the future.

There might be many, many reasons for us to have doubts and

worries and fears and anxieties, but Jesus gave us in this passage some principles that ought

to alleviate that for us in order to teach us that our circumstances should not be the determining

factor as to whether we should feel confident or whether we should feel anxious.

So he begins in the sermon of the mount here.

In verse 25, having said that man should not serve two masters, he says,

therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, what you shall drink, nor yet

for your body, what you shall put on. Is not your life more than meat and the body more than

raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather

into barns, yet your heavenly father feedeth them. Are you not better than they then he says which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his statue and why take ye thought for raymond consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin

and yet i send to you that even even Solomon in all of his glory was not

arrayed or dressed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothed the grass of the field,

which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, oh, ye of little

faith? Therefore take no thought saying, what shall we eat?

What shall we drink?

Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

For after all these things, do the Gentiles seek.

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