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You're Doing it Wrong if You Pray While Worrying
A faith conversation about prayer, trust, worry and learning through hardship
How does prayer call us to trust God while we are worried? This Search 185 conversation offers a personal faith reflection on worry, surrender and growing through hardship, with discussion of Matthew 6 and Philippians 4:6.
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[0:00] Say that again.
[0:00] >> If you pray, don't worry.
[0:02] >> Okay.
[0:02] >> If you're going to worry,
[0:04] don't pray. Why bother praying? It It's
[0:06] >> Yeah. That's
[0:07] >> It's It's
[0:08] You're You're wasting your time if
[0:10] you're praying.
[0:11] >> statement.
[0:11] >> Very wise. And it And made so much sense
[0:14] to me that it's like either you're going
[0:15] to trust God or you're not. There's no
[0:17] gray area in between. I trust him
[0:20] or I have my
[0:21] doubts and I'm going to hold on to a few
[0:23] things just in case he doesn't come
[0:24] through.
[0:25] >> Right.
[0:26] >> And
[0:27] and it was like, "No, it's all or
[0:28] nothing with him. It's like you give me
[0:29] all your life,
[0:31] your complete self to me,
[0:33] and if you hold back,
[0:35] then I can't help you
[0:37] when you get into those those situations
[0:39] because you're holding back. You're You
[0:41] don't want the grace that I want to give
[0:43] you. You don't want to learn the lesson
[0:46] through that difficult time that I'm
[0:47] trying to teach you because you think
[0:49] it's a punishment. It's not a
[0:50] punishment. It's a um
[0:53] It's a classroom.
[0:54] >> Yeah. Training.
[0:55] >> You're It's training. You're learning.
[0:57] And if you reject the suffering, if you
[1:00] reject the training that God's giving
[1:02] you, then you're rejecting the
[1:05] the power, the beauty, and the grace he
[1:06] wants to give you as a result of that.
[1:09] And And to me, as I read the scriptures,
[1:12] Matthew chapter 6 was a huge one and
[1:13] then uh Philippians chapter 4
[1:16] uh this one came to mind, too, during
[1:18] that time.
[1:19] And it's uh in verse 6, Philippians 4:6,
[1:22] it says, "Have no anxiety about
[1:23] anything."
[1:25] It's like that says it all right there.
[1:27] >> Mhm.
[1:28] >> Ea- Easier said than done.
[1:29] >> Easier said than done.
[1:30] >> But here's God telling you, right?
[1:31] >> Mhm.
[1:33] >> Have no anxiety about anything, but in
[1:35] everything by prayer