~Be Anxious for Nothing~

This is from the devotional book, "How to Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer." Page 19. I hope this is as much a blessing to you as it was to me! ~Read Luke 12: 32. How much more, then, will it please our heavenly father to give us food and raiment? And since you have such an inheritance, regard not your earthly possessions. To the same effect, the apostle Paul wrote the Philippians: "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God." If men are not gentle toward you, yet neither on this account nor any other account, be not anxious, but pray. Carefulness and prayer do cannot stand together. "In everything" great and small, "let your requests be made known unto God"; they who by a preposterous shame or distrustful modesty, cover, stifle, or keep in their desires, as if they were too small or too great, must be racked with care. But from them they are entirely delivered, who pour them out with a free and filial confidence. "To God"-is not always proper to disclose them to people. "By supplication"- which is the enlarging on and pressing our petition. "With thanksgiving"-the surest mark of a soul fee from care and of prayer joined with true resignation. This is always followed by peace. Peace and thanksgiving are joined together (Colossians 3:15). Thus "the morrow shall take care for itself"- be careful for the morrow when it comes. Today, be free from care. "From How to pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer. Published by Barbour Publishing inc. Used by permission."