When your mind starts spinning, reverse your worry.
why do you worry what do you worry
about more than anything else what’s the
thing that had you up at 3:30 this
morning and your mind started spinning
because this is what happens your mind
starts spinning some of us get up to use
the bathroom and then we never quite
make it back to a rested state because
our bladders and our brains are both
under demon possession and so both of
them are too full and so we wake up in
the middle of the night and here we
are and this is how it happens for me my
mind just starts spinning spinning and
the way that it is constructed in the
original language I’ve studied this
passage quite a bit I’ve come back to it
several times in preaching is that it
says do not worry that’s the command or
take no thought that’s literal take no
thought think about that he’s saying a
thought that presents itself to you can
start you spinning in a direction if you
take it but it can’t start you spinning
if you don’t hold on to it I preached
the whole message one time called hold
that thought hold that thought and you
get a hold of a thought and you let
it take you somewhere but where you take
that thought eventually you find out it
takes you somewhere and for me a lot of
times I end up in this spin cycle do you
know what I’m talking about talk to me
this spin cycle of stress I noticed this
about worry worry is circular worry is
going round and round it’s not being
concerned about something that’s
not what Jesus means by don’t worry this
isn’t Jesus Bob Marley moment you know
because I was reading it like look at
the birds yeah it almost sounds it
almost sounds like Jesus is telling me
not to not to pay my bills just look at
the birds
let’s look at the birds and the flowers
isn’t it beautiful isn’t God good isn’t he
just the best don’t you just love Jesus
and his muchness yeah it’s not what he’s
saying you know you want me to be like a
bird Lord no I want you to observe
the birds I want you to consider what
they know that you don’t and maybe what
they know that you don’t is because they
live where you don’t at a higher
altitude observe the birds if I could
title this message something other than
reverse you’re worried I’d call it look
up because in order to consider the
birds you’ve got to stop looking all
around you to make sense of your life
you know because as long as you look
around you you spin around and around
and around and around but when you break
the cycle and consider that there is a
God above you who is gone before you who
lives within you who is always for you
and that you are spoken for and known
and named and called and chosen and set
apart you’ll see your life at a different
level can I preach a little bit
because I’ve been doing this a lot it’s
funny that I just finished a whole
series about anxiety called triggered
and here we are back in this same idea
still spinning still spinning
worry is like this
it’s around and around and around but
notice one thing about all my spinning
other than the fact that some of y’all
are getting dizzy just watching me do
this imagine how it feels to actually do
it imagine how it feels for me actually
doing it well this is what it feels like
when you’re spinning spinning spinning
lots of motion but I keep ending up
right where I started
I’m right back here only now I can’t see
straight now that’s what it’s like to
toss and turn over stuff you can’t
control because after you’ve spent all
night spinning all day spinning in your
head and what if and you know it
starts with the most innocent thought
the devil the
devil’s been at this a long time sweetie
he’s not gonna give you a bad thought
he’s gonna try to give you an innocent
thought and get you to take it in the
wrong direction
a scenario that on the surface doesn’t
seem that bad it’s the way
you spin it it’s like you know Fox News
and CNN it’s one story they’re
telling but it’s spinning different ways
and it’s how you spin it that determines
how you see it I am preaching Matthew
chapter 6 like it’s my last time today
because when you get in that spin cycle
it’s just around and around and around
and around and it doesn’t make any
difference I’m not getting anywhere I’m
not working on it I’m not making
progress anywhere and the devil gets me
so dizzy that now by the time that I’m
facing my real life challenges I don’t
have the equilibrium to apply the effort
in the direction that would create a
result because I’m so dizzy I can’t find
my balance and now I don’t know who to
trust
I don’t know what to do whoa hang on I
need a minute
I need a minute I’ve been spinning by
the way that’s why it takes you a few
minutes when you get to church
to get your heart in the right place for
the caffeine to kick in and for you to
stop spinning Jesus said look up at the
birds and then look at the flowers the
flowers so you want me to look up or you want me to look
down I want you to look both and notice
something that the flowers don’t do that
your mind has been doing lately he said
when you look at the flowers notice how
they do not labor or give me the verse
please
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they do not labor or and yet your father
they don’t they don’t spin they
don’t so the birds don’t store away the
flowers don’t spin yet look how God
does that on that level and if he made
you in His image what makes you think
that you have to spin out in these
cycles you know these tormenting cycles
these confusing cycles where you start
thinking you know oh my god my kid
needs braces and you know it’s
the littlest things isn’t it it’s the
littlest things that get you spinning my
kid needs your kid is only two years old but
my kid’s gonna need braces
cuz the first tooth grew in kind of
crooked and now you’re looking at one
crooked tooth and your two year-olds got
one little crooked tooth growing in and oh my
god they’re gonna need braces and braces
with inflation it’s gonna cost four
hundred and seventy three thousand
dollars and then I won’t have any money to
send him to college so they’re only
gonna have to resort to gang violence
and then my child is gonna wind up in
prison I’ma visit him now your in
prison and your kid is two and your kids
still two and you didn’t keep him out
of prison and they’re still gonna need
braces so you’ve been going around and
around and around in circles but God
said today is your day to stop spinning
if your mind has been doing this
I came to preach to you and the presence
of the Lord is in this place and your
Father knows what you need
so stop spinning stop worrying about
what God is already working on and just
worship him
come on take 15 seconds I know you can’t
do it all the time but you’re in the
right place today
let’s give him praise and honor and
glory that our needs are met for His name is great
that’s all worship is you know worship
is worry in reverse see worry is when I
start with my situation and then I spin
around and round and round and round and
round and round and round and round but
God said stop spinning and instead of
starting your meditation with your
situation
start with your source when you know who
your Father is it sends you spinning in a
different direction come on I know who
he is I know what he’s done and I know
what he’s gonna do stop spinning find
seven people tell them stop spinning
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