Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, December 31st. If you find yourself worrying about what the new year may bring, uncertainty, challenges, or tough decisions, pause and turn to God’s word. It can give you deep confidence to face what lies ahead. Find that strength and hope in confidence to face the future.
Would you turn please to Matthew chapter 6 and I want us to begin reading in verse 25 and read through verse 34. And the title of this message is confidence to face the future. There might be many many reasons for us to have doubts and worries and fears and anxieties. But Jesus gave us in this passage some principles that ought to alleviate that for us in order to teach us that our circumstances should not be the determining factor as to whether we should feel confident or whether we should feel anxious. So he begins in the
sermon on the mount here in verse 25, having said that man should not serve two masters. He says, “Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life what you shall eat, what you shall drink, nor yet for your body what you shall put on. Is not your life more than meat, and the body more than raignment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap.
Nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feedth them. Are you not much better than they? Then he says, which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature? And why take ye thought for raignment? Consider the liies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin.
