Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the morning mindset. It's time for you and for me to get

our minds aligned with the truth of God. You hear me say that day after day, week after

week, and I do because it's a need that never changes. We leak. We lay down at night and

faith leaks out of our heads. Leaks out of our hearts. We need a refresher and a reset

every day. And that's what the morning mindset is here to help you do. Today we'll be looking

at Luke 12 versus 25 and 26. But before we get there, I want to remind you that on Fridays

we publish a bonus prayer episode. I want to encourage you to set aside time somewhere

over the weekend to listen to that prayer episode and pray with me for the needs that

are submitted. These are needs from people just like you all around the world who submit

their needs for us all to pray for. If you have a request, you would like to have submitted

for one of the Friday pray together episodes. Please go to carrygreen.com slash prayer.

You can find that link in the description of this episode as well. Alright, Luke 12,

we're in the middle of Jesus teaching about anxiety. And in chapter 12 versus 25 and 26,

this is what Jesus says. He asks a question. And which of you by being anxious can add

a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that.

Why are you anxious about the rest? Now this may sound a little odd to us at first, because

Jesus, first of all, makes a very commonsense statement. Nobody through their anxiety is

able to add even a single hour to the length of his life. Anxiety doesn't work that way.

In fact, anxiety does the opposite. It actually has been shown scientifically that anxiety

decreases your lifespan through the stress and emotional angst that happens in your body.

It puts a toll on you and decreases your lifespan. In Jesus is saying, it's pretty obvious.

You cannot increase your life by being anxious. But then he says this statement that at first

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