Stop All The Worrying

When it comes to doing things for God we waste a lot of time trying to figure things out. I’m currently attending a bible college and recently we had a guest speaker and his wife speaking on prophecy and on letting God work through you in order to further His kingdom during our lecture hour. One day they asked us to get with a partner and pray over them then ask God to reveal something about them to us that He needed/wanted our partner to hear. When I did this exercise I spent most of the prayer time worrying about what God wanted me to tell my partner. When it came time for me to tell my partner what God had spoken into me I froze up, I had no idea what He wanted me to say. It was terrifying, thankfully once I got started talking God began to move and I was able to tell my partner what God wanted me to say in the first place. I had wasted so much time worrying that I almost missed what God wanted me to say.

This is a problem Christians face every day. We are asked by God to do something for Him and we blow it by trying to figure out what He wants us to do. It’s not just when we are telling someone what God wants them to hear but when God prompts us to speak to someone about Him or when we feel like we should give money to a visiting missionary or even when we feel like the person sitting in front of us needs a friend. We waste time wondering things like, well what if they don’t want to listen? What if they cuss me out? Will I have enough money for the week if I give to that person? Will they turn me away? Sometimes we worry that we won’t know what to say when the time comes. We think that we need to know exactly what to say and because we don’t then its not going to work. But that’s not how God wants us to follow Him. Sometimes its just best to act now think later when it comes to listening to God. In Matthew 6:30-33 (NKJV) Jesus tells us,

²⁸ “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; ²⁹ and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹ “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

He is telling us here not to worry about the little things, as in what were going to wear and where our money is going to come from. As long as we are doing what the Lord asks us to do then He will provide for us. Not only does the bible tell us not to worry about our finances and daily needs but it also tells us in 2 Corinthians 3:12 “Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech” Here we are told to be bold for Christ because of our faith in Him.

The next day of classes the guest speaker finished they asked us to find another partner and we were going to put into practice what he’d just spoken on. This time we weren’t going to pray over the person first but we were going to declare what God wanted to tell them. The guest speaker asked us to think of one thing that we needed breakthrough for in our lives and to tell it to our partner. You can imagine how I felt faced with this new task, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to do this exercise but I had faith that God could and would give me the word He wanted my partner to hear. I was partnered with a person that I’d never met before, she was a wonderful young lady who was bright and outspoken, but she was having problems giving her testimony to someone God had told her to share it with and wanted breakthrough in that area. The preacher asked us not to pray over the person but to say “I command that in the name of Jesus you will have breakthrough over…” and to let God’s word flow through us after that. When it came my turn to speak over my partner I took a deep breath and said the words, as I said them I felt the Spirit of God moving through me and before I knew it I was speaking words over her life that I’d never even thought to say. I didn’t waste time trying to figure out what God wanted me to say I just said the words we’d been told to say and then everything came naturally.

I almost lost my chance to do what God wanted me to do by worrying about not saying the right thing and worrying about what I was suppose to say. But the second time I didn’t worry, I simply trusted God and my partner was blessed for it. How much more would we get done for God if we simply trusted Him when He asked us to do something? How many people would be touched and changed for Christ if we would just open up our mouths and tell them about the love of Jesus? God is not asking you to talk to that person because He wants to see you fail, He wants to see them changed and He knows that you are the person who can help them. The bible says that God will never give you more than you can bear and He will never send you some place your not ready for. Romans 8:31 (NKJV) says, “What then shall we say against these things? If God is for us who can be against us?” So why worry about failure when God is with you?

If you are stuck by fear or even doubt then even after reading this then I challenge you to think about how much that person NEEDS the love of Jesus in their life before you let the opportunity slip away. Go out and talk to someone about God without worrying about it. I dare you.  

More Verses to consider:

Luke 12:31
2 Timothy 41:5
 Psalm 111: 5

2 Corinthians 9: 10

Luke 12: 24