NO MORE ANXIOUS MIND! Luke 12:22-34 “And “A dd do not seek k what h you should h ld eat or what h you should drink, nor have an anxious mind.” (NKJV) A Jennifer Keitt Bible Study © 2010 All rights reserved
Luke 12:22-34 Defeating Worry In Our Lives
Read the passage in Luke 12: 22-34. I’m using the New e King g James Ja es Version. e so Ponder & answer the following FOUR key questions Jesus asks in the text: 1. 1 Of how ho much m ch more mo e value are you than the birds? (v 24) 2. And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? (v 25) 3. If you then are not able to do the least, why i f the th are you anxious for rest? (v 26) 4. How much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith? (v 28) (What is faith?)
12 Significant Statements found in Luke 12:22-34: Ponder & Answer | 1. Statement: ‘do not worry’ (v 22)
| 1. Explain in detail what you should do instead of worrying.
| 2. Statement: ‘life is more than food, and the body more than clothing’ (v 23)
| 2 2. Describe D ib what h t else l life lif consists of and describe what else the body consists of.
| 3. Statement: ‘consider the ravens’ (v 24)
| 3 3. What’s so special about birds that God takes care of them?
| 4. Statement: ‘consider the lilies’ (v 27)
| 4. Why do we need flowers? What difference do they make?
12 Significant Statements (con (con’t) t) Ponder & Answer | 5. Statement: ‘do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink’ (v 29a) | 6. Statement: ‘ . . . Nor have an anxious mind’( v 29b) | 7 7. Statement: ‘your Father knows that you need these things’ (v 30) | 8. Statement: ‘but seek the kingdom of God’ (v 31a)
| 5 5. Explain what Jesus means by this statement | 6. Describe in detail how p one’s mind from to stop being ‘anxious’ | 7. How can you be sure that God knows what you need? | 8. Where is God’s kingdom? How do we ‘seek’ it? How do we know h ’ f d it? we’ve found when
12 Significant Statements (con (con’t) t) Ponder & Answer | 9 9. Statement: ‘and and all these things shall be added’ (v 31b)
| 9 9. Is this figuratively or literally? How does this work?
| 10 10. Statement: ‘do do not fear . . . ’ (v 32)
| 10 10. Why do you think that Jesus said do not fear? What does fear have to do with worry & anxiety? i t ?
| 11. Statement: ‘sell what you have and give alms alms’ (v 33) | 12. Statement: ‘for where y your treasure is,, there your heart will be’ (v 34)
| 11. What does selling have to do with worry? | 12. Where is your heart? Prove it.
8 action steps t relieve to li an anxious mind! 1.Do not worry. 2.Consider the ravens. 3.Consider the lilles. 4.Do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink. 5.(Do not) have an p anxious mind. ((Look up Philippians 4:6-7) 6.Seek the kingdom of God (first). 7 D nott fear. 7.Do f 8.Sell what you have and give.