The Three Days You Should Never Worry About! Series

SPIRITUAL GROWTH ENHANCERS

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COLUMNIST: Rudolf Nii Yemoh Mensah, Prelate, Oasis Potterlight Chapel International

PASSAGE: Matthew 6:26, NLT: "Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren't you far more valuable to him than they are?"

THE THREE DAYS YOU SHOULD NEVER WORRY ABOUT!

BACKGROUND: This passage exposes our needless worries and cares for this life and affirms the faithfulness and providence of God!

MAIN MESSAGE

This verse continues the discussion of worry about material provisions. In this verse, Jesus tells his followers not to be anxious about food, but to rely on God as the birds, who are worth far less than people are fully provided for.

We need food, shelter, protection, clothes, jobs, money, rest, enjoyment, relationships, peace, freedom, significance, identity, knowledge, and a whole list of other things.

The birds seem to go about feeding themselves, but it is God who feeds them. Remember there are three days you should never worry about. They are yesterday, today and tomorrow. You can't live in the past. Neither can you live in the future? You can only live today and the following are reasons why you should never worry about these three days.

Hebrews 13:8, CSB: "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

Jesus Is Lord Of Your Past

You can not do anything about your past. You can't go back to your past to change or correct anything there. Your past is no longer there. Your past is no longer in existence. Your past is gone beyond your reach. Your past is past.

Let it go! Nobody has control over the events of the past and nobody have the power to visit the past unless one person. Only one person can do that and His name is Jesus. The Scripture affirms that He is the same yesterday. That means only Jesus have the power to visit your past and straighten up things for you. May the Lord of the past visit your past today.

Only Jesus can visit the past. No sorcerer, witchcraft, occult or shrine can go back to the past. Not even satan and his dark powers of darkness can go back to the past. What is past is past before the Lord, the creator of heaven and earth.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:8

Only Jesus has the power to do anything about your past and say anything about it. He is the Alpha and Omega. This is what you should know--Alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet and a title of Christ and God in the Book of Revelation.

Jesus in His divine revelation to John disclosed that He is the first and the last, the beginning and the ending. That means He knows the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. He is the Lord of the beginning (yesterday)!

If Jesus holds the power of yesterday then only He holds the key to visit your past. Now He is saying to you, do not worry anymore about your past. Leave it before me to handle. The circumstances of your past cannot close the chapter of what the Almighty can do for you today and the coming future.

Jesus Is Lord Of Your Today

Yes, He lives with you at the moment. He lives with you in the present and will always make arrangements for what you can have daily. The reason why you shouldn't worry about today is that Jesus holds the day. He makes provision for the birds of the air on daily basis and can equally make provisions for yours.

He is the "beginning and the "ending" suggests that He can begin the day with us, go through the day with us and end the day with us successfully. He is not just Lord of the past but Lord of the moment. He is Lord of the day! He is Alpha!

He Is Lord Forever

This means that He permanently remains the Lord of the past, present and future. This is why He is the Alpha and Omega... The first and the last, the beginning and the ending. Why then should you be worried about your past, present and future when Jesus is saying worry not about these three days because I am in control and I have already taken care of them?

Matthew 6:11, NIV: "Give us today our daily bread."

In teaching us how to pray, Jesus didn't say that we should ask the heavenly Father about our past and tomorrow needs. He said "this day". We are to ask for God's provision on daily basis not weekly, monthly or yearly basis.