Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, December 7th.

As the end of another year nears, it's normal to feel concern about the future.

But God doesn't intend for anxiety to overshadow you.

Today's podcast gives practical insight into overcoming worry.

What do you worry about most in life? Is it your health, your marriage, your children?

Maybe you worry most about what other people think about you.

Maybe it's because you're worried because you don't know what God thinks about you and you're concerned about that.

Maybe it's your finances.

What is it that you worry about most? Do you know why

you worry? You see there's one thing to be concerned about things to have a genuine

sense of responsibility, to be concerned about things, things that need to be

corrected, but worry is something more than that. And what I want to talk about in

this message is this, not some pie in the sky kind of possibility. I want to talk about a legitimate,

genuine, real, practical, effective way to overcome worry in your life. You do not have to worry. It is not the

will of God. It is not the plan of God. You say, but you don't know my circumstances. I know that God knows them, and because

he does know them, he would not say, do not worry, do not worry, do not worry if he intended for us to worry. So what we want to talk about is this. How do we overcome?

Worry in our lives. How do we dispense with it? How do we put it aside? And so I want you to turn if you will to Matthew

chapter six the sermon of the mount and I want us to read the 25th through the

34th verses and in this passage Jesus gives us some arguments of why we should

not worry and it's interesting also that one of his methods of teaching was

repetition and so in this passage you'll find six times he talks about

worry. Three times he makes the statement do not worry, do not worry, do not worry, do not

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