* Worry weakens your Work!

* In the parable Jesus is sharing He shows us three things that hinder our faith:

* Worry

* Wealth

* Widgets

* Worry is a matter of FOCUS.

* EX: Peter walking on the water.

* How do you get over worry?

* The two-question grid (taken from a book called “Life’s Amazing Secrets”):

* Do I have a problem? If not, then WHY WORRY? If yes, then…

* Can I do something about it? If not, then WHY WORRY? If yes, then DO SOMETHING!

* Key - you shouldn’t worry about things you can’t control.

* And if you do have a problem but you can do something about it then you don’t really have a problem - you have an OPPORTUNITY!

* Peter could control whether or not he got out of the boat.

* He couldn’t control whether or not he floated.

* So long as he did what he could control and focused on Jesus with what he couldn’t control, there was no worry.

* But then he took his focus off Jesus and started worrying about what he couldn’t control, so he began to sink.

* EX: testimony of writing my fourth book.