Don't Worry

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life,

what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.

Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Matthew 6:25

Jesus does not mince words. In Matthew 6:25 He issues a direct order: “Therefore I tell you, DO NOT BE ANXIOUS about your life!” This is no polite suggestion; it is a royal decree from the One who holds the galaxies in place. Worry is rebellion—an accusation that the Father’s hand is too small, too slow, or too weak. Today we take that rebellion by the throat, crush it under the heel of Scripture, and advance deeper into the unshakeable heart of Christ.

Drag the Monster into the Light

Anxiety feeds on shadows. Expose it. Take paper and pen and write the precise fears that stalk you: overdue bills, medical reports, wayward children, uncertain futures. Name them as the enemies they are. Then rise—literally stand—and pray with authority: “Lord Jesus, I am anxious about ______. You commanded me to stop. I believe You are sovereign, loving, and sufficient. I cast this burden at Your feet.” Seal it with gratitude for one proven deliverance. Make this your morning drill. Skip it, and you surrender ground to the foe. Fight.

Hammer Home the “More”

Jesus detonates a truth-bomb: “Is not life MORE than food, and the body MORE than clothing?” He is declaring war on small horizons. Your existence is not a balance sheet; it is an eternal inheritance.

Remember, the five loaves and two fish became a banquet for thousands, with twelve baskets of surplus mocking every scarcity. Proclaim over your life: “My life is more than my lack—it is hidden with Christ in God!”Inscribe it where your eyes cannot miss it. Let the miracle of multiplication obliterate doubt. The hands that fed the five thousand grip your tomorrow with unbreakable strength.

Birds do not hoard. Lilies do not fret. Yet the Father sustains and adorns them (vv. 26–30). Jesus orders us to look—to see His care in real time. Step outside and see just one bird in flight, one flower in bloom, one child at play. Declare, “Father, You feed the sparrow, You clothe the grass, You redeemed me with Your blood. Anxiety ends here.” Inhale His provision; exhale the lie. Deliberate wonder is non-negotiable. Neglect it, and you choose blindness over divine vision.

Interrogate the “Therefore”

The word therefore links this command to the prior warning: you cannot serve God and money (vv. 19–24). Anxiety is the alarm that a false master sits on the throne. Examine your thoughts, and where you find anxiety, repent without excuse. Why, because worry is the product of doubt.

Jesus says,

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matthew 6:25-34)

“The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer… Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.”[1] Prayer is the bridge from panic to peace.

Battle Prayer (voice it with conviction)

 

Father, I renounce worry as treason. You decreed STOP—I obey, by Your Spirit, obey. Shatter my idols of control. Ignite my faith with Your infinite “more.” Transform every fear into fervent pursuit of Christ. I claim today’s manna and tomorrow’s blood-bought grace. For the glory of the King who never slumbers—Amen.

The victory is sealed in crimson. Live like the conqueror you are in Him.

[1] John MacArthur, Anxious for Nothing: God's Cure for the Cares of Your Soul (Colorado Springs: David C Cook, 2012), 45.