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If you don't want to live in anxiety, fear and worry, put the matter in God's hand.

Today Pastor Greg Laurie points out that God invites us to cast our cares on him.

He's more than capable of handling them and he assures us that he cares.

So at night when you're going to bed you say, well Lord, here's this problem, here's that problem,

and there's five more. Here you go. I'm going to sleep. I'll talk to you in the morning.

That's exactly what you should do.

This is the day when the lost are found. This is the day of a moment again.

Amazing grace, that's sweet and strong.

Again you can't let me hate you for seeing you.

This is the day the day when life begins.

Worry can burn through our minds like a forest fire.

It consumes our sense of peace and well-being, our emotional equilibrium and passion,

our entire outlook on the day. What extinguishes that fire that tries to burn through our serenity?

Today on the new beginning Pastor Greg Laurie answers that question.

We'll see prayer can keep us from worry, but we have to have perseverance because worry can keep us from prayer.

Glad you're along today for a practical study.

Why don't you grab your Bibles and turn to two passages today.

They're going to be Matthew, chapter six, and Philippians, chapter four.

Matthew, six, Philippians four. This is part three of a three-part series that we're calling

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