Give Your Worries to Jesus

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Nancy feared the future, seeing only trouble. Her husband Tom had fainted three times during a hiking trip in rural Maine in 2015. But doctors at a small nearby hospital found nothing wrong. At a larger medical center, where doctors conducted additional tests, they also found no problem. “I was very afraid,” Nancy stated. As her husband was released, she questioned the cardiologist one last time, asking, “What do we do now?” He gave her a word of wisdom that forever changed her outlook. “Go live your life,” he said. “It wasn’t in a flippant way,” Nancy recalls. “It was his advice to us.”

Such guidance captures Jesus’ instruction in the Sermon on the Mount. He said, “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?” (Matthew 6:25). Such guidance doesn’t say to ignore medical or other problems or symptoms. Instead, Christ simply said, “Don’t worry.” He then asked, “Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” (v. 27).

The prophet Isaiah offered similar wisdom. “Say to those with fearful hearts, ‘Be strong, do not fear; your God will come’” (Isaiah 35:4). For Nancy and Tom, they’re inspired now to walk more than five miles a day. No longer walking with worry, they step out with joy.

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0:00.0	Do not worry about your life.
0:04.0	Matthew chapter 6, verse 25.
0:07.0	Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.
0:14.0	Give your worries to Jesus was written by Patricia Raybon and read by Joyce Dinkins.
0:27.6	Matthew chapter 6, verses 25 through 27 read,
0:34.4	Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear.
0:41.5	Is not life more than food and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow or reap or store away in barns. And yet,
0:50.3	your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you
0:58.5	by worrying at a single hour to your life? Give your worries to Jesus Written by Patricia Raybon.
1:13.3	Nancy feared the future, seeing only trouble.
1:18.2	Her husband Tom had fainted three times during a hiking trip in rural Maine,
1:23.6	but doctors at a small nearby hospital found nothing wrong.
1:28.5	At a larger medical center where doctors conducted additional tests, they also found no problem.
1:35.9	I was very afraid, Nancy stated.
1:39.7	As her husband was released, she questioned the cardiologist one last time asking, what do he do now?
1:47.3	He gave her words of wisdom that forever changed her outlook.
1:52.6	Go live your life, he said. It wasn't in a flippant way, Nancy recalls. It was his advice to us.
2:02.3	Such guidance captures Jesus' instruction in the sermon on the Mount in Matthew
2:07.7	6. He said, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body,
2:24.3	what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothes?
2:35.7	Such guidance doesn't say to ignore medical or other problems or symptoms. Instead, Christ simply said, do not worry. He then asked, can any one of you by worrying at a single hour to your life?
2:43.8	The prophet Isaiah offered similar wisdom.
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