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the holy Gospel of our Lord and 
Savior, Jesus Christ, according 

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to Matthew, Therefore I tell you
do not be anxious about your 

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life, what you will eat or what 
you will drink, nor about your 

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body, what you will put on is 
not life more than food and the 

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body more than clothing. 
Look at the birds of the air, 

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they neither sow, nor reap, nor 
gather into Barns and yet your 

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heavenly father, feeds that are 
you not of more value than they 

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And which of you by being 
anxious can add a single hour to

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his span of life. 
And why are you anxious about 

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clothing? 
Consider the lilies of the 

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field, how they grow? 
They neither toil nor spin yet. 

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I tell you, even Solomon in all 
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one of these. 
But if God, so clothes the grass

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of the field, which today is a 
lie and tomorrow is thrown into 

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the oven. 
Will he not much more clothe, 

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you Oh, ye of little faith. 
Therefore, do not be anxious 

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saying, what shall we eat? 
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What shall we wear for the 
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After all these things and your 
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need? 
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God, and his righteousness, and 
all these things will be added 

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to you. 
Therefore do not be anxious 

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about tomorrow, for tomorrow 
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sufficient for the day. 
Is it on trouble? 

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The gospel of the Lord. 
May the words of my mouth and 

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the meditation of my heart be 
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In your sight, O Lord, my rock 
and my redeemer, I'm at what a 

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joy to be with you all this 
morning, happy, June, happy 

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summer, and all that. 
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Drive this morning and like 
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they're dogs at running and all 
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going on over in. 
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iron up gorillas already. 
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I don't know what's going on 
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But looks like it's going. 
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It's my joy to bring to you. 
A teaching from Jesus, from The 

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Book of Matthew which I just 
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So that's the text we're going 
to be using if you'd like to 

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follow along in your Bible or in
your bulletin from Matthew 

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chapter 6. 
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of a time when I was having 
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kids were really little and we 
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dinner enjoying time together 
and then that beautiful time 

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comes when the is go outside and
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there and the adults can have 
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It's so magnificent. 
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onto the patio, and there's a 
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So the adults were at the table 
having a A conversation and the 

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kids were out there playing. 
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thought that's beautiful, they 
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Look how should say, what a gift
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care and then the sliding door 
cracked open and I could hear 

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all the yelling and the whining 
and the fighting and the 

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carrying on. 
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like the burden of having to 
provide for them and thinking 

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they're exhausted and I'm going 
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give them behaves and this is 
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So somehow the barrier of sound 
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saw their preciousness behind 
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felt the burden. 
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gave into the heaviness of 
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And, and taking care of them, 
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And I've wasted precious energy 
and time worrying about how 

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things are going to be provided 
for me, and for my kids, instead

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of living in faith. 
And yet the Lord has always, he 

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has always provided We can sew 
something that Jesus is getting 

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at in this text. 
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one second. 
I think I've got one of my pages

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in the wrong order. 
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the end, okay, half the that's 
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I think something Jesus getting 
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could see our lives from his 
perspective, without all that 

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noise of fear, Without the 
driven thoughts about all the 

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things that we know that we need
and how we're going to get them.

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That we would see that our lives
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intends to provide for our 
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If we can see the goodness of 
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is fatherly care. 
Then we can breathe and we can 

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be present to his provision for 
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right around us. 
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worry for what we will eat or 
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focus on the important things, 
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of others, the assurance, and 
confidence in his provision, and

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him his goodness. 
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directive in just. 
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times do not be anxious. 
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Do not be anxious. 
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we should take away from this 
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What does this mean? 
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anxious, this must be possible. 
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something, if it wasn't 
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It must be something we can take
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thoughts or he wouldn't ask it 
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talking about the kind of 
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experiencing or the condition. 
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what you will drink, what you 
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thought Thoughts around 
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of anxiety because Jesus is wise
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with people and he knows the one
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with anxiety doesn't want to 
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So, I mean, Jesus isn't just 
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people telling them not to be 
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not how he is. 
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be struggling with constant 
anxiety more days than not that 

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impacts your sleeping and you're
eating and your relationships 

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and your work. 
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problem than what Jesus is 
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And you may need medical care, 
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that's really important. 
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But I also hope that you don't 
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is just don't be anxious because
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And as Jesus is teaching, he is 
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we know that when Jesus looks at
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their bodies and their families 
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preoccupied that they're anxious
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and he wants them to be free 
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weight of anxious. 
I bought especially thoughts 

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around, whether they will have 
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So, let's just walk through that
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Therefore I tell you do not be 
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you will eat or what you will 
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you will put on is not life more
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clothing. 
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is preoccupied with thoughts 
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drink so much so that it impacts
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them to step back and consider 
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look at her and lilies. 
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lilies are proposed so that more
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by these things up, a little 
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scanned flowers. 
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birds of the air, they neither 
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Two barns and yet your heavenly 
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of more value than they and 
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and fail to sow seed. 
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really have to do anything. 
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one commentator? 
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question with this. 
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birds but he hardly ever makes 
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open beaks. 
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providentially puts worms where 
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So Jesus message is not do not 
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we're made working for food is 
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on how to get food. 
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are you anxious about clothing? 
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field, how they grow? 
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I tell you even Solomon in all 
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one of these. 
But if God, so clothes the grass

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of the field which is today 
alive and tomorrow thrown in the

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oven, will he not much more 
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faith? 
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Do not be anxious. 
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See that slow down attend to 
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That these birds are my 
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They are small and insignificant
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And if I do this for Birds, what
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valuable than those tiny little 
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These worries you have about 
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to your life? 
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you give to these thoughts, have
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substance of your life at all 
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Two wasted effort. 
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the lake, you have to walk down 
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You can't get to the leg by 
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Have you ever seen anyone even a
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beautifully, and these lilies 
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They're going to be burned the 
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to dress them like royalty. 
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burned in the fire in 24 hours. 
You are Eternal, you have an 

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eternal life. 
He knows what you need is given 

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you life. 
You will provide the clothing 

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that you need. 
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physical needs. 
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Jesus taught us to ask for our 
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To give a cup of cold water to 
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attending to our needs and the 
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Is part of Loving Care. 
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hunger know, the pain and fear 
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need, that's not to be ignored. 
There's a lovely book that I 

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read called sleeping with bread.
And in this book, the author 

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tells a story of children that 
were orphaned in the bombing 

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raids of World War Two, and the 
children that were fortunate 

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enough to land in refugee camps,
had lost so much and had 

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experienced starvation. 
They were so fearful that many 

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of them couldn't sleep or they 
would awaken at night and go and

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make food. 
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sending each child to bed with a
piece of bread to whole bread, 

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real food, the hold and they 
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knew when they would wake up, 
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Those adults wanted to help the 
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Now this book is about teaching 
the prayer of the examine which 

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is a prayer that helps us give. 
Thanks to God for how he's fed 

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us today and open our hearts to 
the faith that he will again 

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feed us to Mark. 
So the examine is a helpful 

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prayer to engage if you'd like, 
to practice this of considering,

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what is the bread that God has 
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Will and get again. 
Give me read tomorrow. 

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So moving on in the passage, 
therefore do not be anxious 

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saying what shall we eat? 
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Or what shall we wear for the 
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After all these things and your 
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need them all. 
So Jesus said that these anxious

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thoughts, cause us to ask 
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How will I feed and clothe 
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Jesus points out that 
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Worry about this because they 
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know. 
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you do know. 
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father. 
Does he see your need and does 

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he care? 
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He's provided provided 
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insignificant birds for little 
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And so much more for you. 
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if we really believed. 
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believe that he will take care 
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give us what we need. 
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because he knows that those 
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so much so that they can become 
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thoughts, Spin, and spin as we 
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and solutions turning the mind 
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And in this position, there is 
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be open to Be present to be calm
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This is so important because 
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place and being present with God
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place that we meet him, that we 
appreciate his gifts and that we

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learn to trust in his provision.
What would it be like to live in

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deep assurance that God would 
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What space would that open up in
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currently filled with Benning 
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Just sitting here today what 
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Like if your heart would be at 
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in peace and calm, God wants to 
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This is the where the Holy 
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This isn't something we can do 
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Because that quiet on the inside
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If we want to read the scripture
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speak to us through it, that 
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If we're going to study, if 
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from the beginning to the end, 
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creative work or knowing others 
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receiving God's love The world 
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and quiet with a capacity to 
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other. 
We need people who can be with 

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others in really hard place. 
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that are able to love to remain 
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who are willing to lay down 
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of quietly receiving God's love 
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that we have the strength to 
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But seek first, the kingdom of 
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all these things will be added 
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Jesus is asking us to seek the 
kingdom because he wants our 

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minds focused there on his 
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Heavenly Kingdom, and what's 
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that we will see him face to 
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kingdom now and experiencing his
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that I think embodies this 
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fixed mind of Faith toward where
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The purpose of his life, the 
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resolved energy to continue the 
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He's a creature of low estate, 
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He did not consider his task too
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Small to pursue a glorious 
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that led to his faith in Aslan 
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Country and anyone guess who it 
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Reepicheep. 
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spoken over reepicheep. 
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cradle, a wood woman, a dryad 
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Where sky and water meet, where 
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reepicheep to find. 
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eat and he said I do not know 
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it has been on me all my life. 
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Pursuit was so fixed in his mind
that he would go through any 

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path. 
Any hardship and he privation 

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abandonment injury, Hurry to get
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who would go into the utter East
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He was like, this is in my in my
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He says my own plans are made 
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Dawn Treader, when she fails me,
I paddle least in my coracle 

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when she sinks, I shall swim 
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And when I can swim, no longer, 
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country or shot over the Of the 
world in some vast cataract. 

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I shall sink with my nose for 
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Such a in aslan's country, such 
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what was spoken over him would 
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So that nothing no hardship or 
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doing that. 
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If reepicheep see, thoughts had 
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daily provision. 
If he had spawned his spots 

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around daily, how he was going 
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I mean, they're in a boat going.
Who knows where they have no 

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idea. 
He may not have had his mind and

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his heart full of where he was 
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forward day by day. 
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kingdom. 
The kingdom, the future that the

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father himself loves me that I 
will see him face to face but I 

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am marked as Christ's own 
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That's the future Kingdom. 
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Now making himself know, even in
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his creation. 
He is good and I will choose to 

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believe that he will provide 
everything I need and not waste 

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my life. 
Worried about how it's going to 

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happen, but knowing that I'm 
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to provide for me. 
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therefore, do not be anxious 
about tomorrow, for tomorrow 

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will be anxious for itself. 
Have worries robbed you of the 

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gifts of the present moment. 
Having zayat he's robbed, you of

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receiving, God's love that 
coming to you right now. 

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Do you desire an open heart to 
receive his love and the 

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Assurance of his provision for 
you that he sees your needs? 

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He's able to provide for you. 
His gentle word to you. 

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Is you not being What Assurance 
of his goodness and care for 

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you. 
And you see today? 

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What bread are you already 
holding that? 

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He's already given you. 
And would it help you to 

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literally go outside and look 
the birds probably, would, I 

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think there's actual clinical 
evidence that it actually would 

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help you. 
So Jesus was right on the mark. 

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This case gospel is consist 
that. 

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I'm not getting you. 
I mean, it's true. 

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Look at the birds. 
But truly, if you look at herbs 

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and flowers, you will feel 
better. 

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You will do better either. 
It's just true. 

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But we can only meet God in one 
place, and that's this place 

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right now. 
This moment we can't receive his

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peace yesterday. 
We can't receive his love for 

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tomorrow, but he comes to us now
right now with his love and 

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prison. 
So as We Gather today around the

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table, Jesus comes to us, then 
plea and physically, he gives to

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us his body and blood Even if 
your heart is heavy, your mind 

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is spinning. 
You can come to him and see. 

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You are a good father. 
I trust you'll provide for me, 

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feed me now and receive the 
tangible presence of his body 

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and blood by opening your hand 
and saying, thank AMA. 

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Let me just pray for you now. 
Lord you. 

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Now when you look out on your 
people that you see anxious 

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thoughts and eating we confess 
the ways that we have failed to 

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trust you, We repent and we turn
to you. 

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Now, we believe Lord help our 
unbelief. 

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And Lord where there is need, 
would you come in your abundant 

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provision and here for these, 
your little one? 

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Home, you know and love. 
Would you lift? 

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Now, anxiety. 
But that has robbed and joy, and

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present. 
And would you Holy Spirit send 

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now? 
You are loved and he May the 

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peace of the Lord to send on us.
Now as we lift up his name and 

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blackton Father, I believe, you 
know what I need. 

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I will not be anxious. 
Come Holy Spirit, and the peace 

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of God, which transcends all 
understanding will guard your 

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heart and your mind in Christ 
Jesus.