Matthew 6: 25-34 Do not worry.

25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Thanks to Ben and Vincent for cooking their delicious salmon and veggie dinner! Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture but that's because it disappeared before I had time to bust out my camera! ;p

At this small groups we tried something a bit new-- ice breakers!

"What is one blessing you can share this week?"

Some people shared their victory in condo and apartment cleaning! Another shared a prayer answered after years of keeping the faith! And yet another shared a victory at work. Thanks for sharing!

This time around we talked about what it means to worry. The Bible tells us not to worry because God has us covered! He will provide us with the basic means of life.

Worrying is pointless, not beneficial! We'll end up spending our time in on the problem and fretting instead of working towards solving that problem.

Note verse 33-- this reminds us that we need to seek Him and His kingdom first!--then God will provide. --All things will fall in place.

He knows that we must get overwhelmed, as humans, too, as he tells us to take things one day at a time in verse 34.

What encouragement!

After the study we shared root beer floats with our birthday boy of the week, Ben!!!! Happy birthday! Thanks for being one cool kat!