Losing the Weight of Worry / Pastor Randy Goldenberg / FCF Church

``There is the same threat. There is the same fear. But instead of worry, what do we do? We trust. God is with me. He is for me. Christ demonstrated his love for me on the cross even while I was still living inconsiderate of him, living as a sinner. He he demonstrated his love for me. I don't have to worry that I'm facing this alone. Even if the worst happens, if my heart gets broken, if my life gets broken, he is the great restorer of hearts and lives. [01:21:04] (32 seconds)  #TrustNotWorry

Solomon in Ecclesiastes says, surely no one knows the future. Worry is an attempt. I wanna look at the future. I wanna see what's ahead and prepare myself for it. I I don't want it to be a surprise. I mean, if I'm prepared for the blow, prepared for the problem, it won't hurt as bad. No one knows the future and no one can tell another person what will happen. This is why we worry. [01:04:17] (21 seconds)  #FutureUnknownStopWorry

Worry dies to the degree that we understand and internalize. We gotta be familiar with God's purposes, his plans, his promises, his principles, and his processes. To the degree that we actually get familiar with these, internalize them, we will watch worry just diminish and lose all of its power in our life. I hope we'll all we'll all go on that journey and taste this in ever enlarging qualities. Let let let's let's pray. [01:35:12] (28 seconds)  #InternalizeGodsPromises

He's here with with a loving heart saying, come on. You don't have to live this way. It can be better. Let let me at least take a 10 pound weight off you. Maybe maybe you'll allow me to take a 20 pound off you. May maybe you'll dump the whole baggage of weight off you and start living in light of what is real. The father knows our needs and he really, really loves us. [01:33:38] (23 seconds)  #LetGodLightenYourLoad

We don't mean it to be, it just happens. And here's the worst, you're talking about a kick in the rear end, not only are 80% negative but 95% are what? Repetitive. They just keep looping over and over and over. We ruminate on the past. We worry about the future or we're full of self criticism. Now, I mentioned this earlier, 91.39% of all worries, what does it say? They don't come true. [01:23:37] (27 seconds)  #WorryIsRepetitive

You and I think between 12,060 thoughts a day. I bet you you know some 60,000 thought people. Their mind is just, you know, you know, it's just nonstop. And some of us are almost like Tai Chi 12,000 thought people. We're like in slow motion, you know. Nevertheless, be we Tai Chi people or be we, you know, overthinkers, roughly and this is troubling. Roughly 80% of our thoughts are negative. [01:23:09] (28 seconds)  #ThoughtsAreMany

I mean, that's that's life. Welcome to reality. Okay? So because of that, we worry because we want more and god built us for more and that desire for more is meant to lead us to god, lead us to Christ, lead us to the powers that he displayed, that he can bring the life that we really want and his promise is to do that very thing. [01:07:08] (24 seconds)  #BuiltForMore

I said a couple weeks ago something that I'm sure ruffled some feathers, but it's true. None of us, not one of us in here has the life we really want. Now I know some of right now, you're bristling up. You say, I don't know about you, Randy. I'm I feel sorry for you, but I'm doing just dandy. No. You you I understand you've learned to be content with things and that's appropriate. We'll see that later, but it's not the life you want. [01:04:50] (28 seconds)  #NoOneHasPerfectLife