Just Breath | If I Was The Enemy

Just Breath | If I Was The Enemy TEXT: Matthew 6:25-34; Mark 4:35-40; Philippians 4:4-7 BIG IDEA: The enemy of your soul wants you overwhelmed. But it matters who tells you not to worry. They say when you see something that frightens you, there’s an amygdala hijack that takes place in your brain. In that moment, that almond-shaped gland in your head gets filled with juice. This is obviously a very technical explanation … but it gives you one of three options: FIGHT. FLIGHT. FREEZE. Fight people stomp on the snake. Flight people start running away screaming like school girls. Freeze people become paralyzed. In moments of anxiety, you’re one of those three … FIGHT - FLIGHT - or FREEZE.

The definition of ANXIETY: an automatic reaction to a threat, real or imagined.

Matthew 6:34 - 7:1 “Do not be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Judge not, that you be not judged.” Matthew 6:25-34 “Take no thought for your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you — you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

Everything your enemy can’t kill, he wants to steal. Could the enemy be stealing your today by encouraging you to worry about your tomorrow?

Matthew 6:22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.” There’s a principle beyond sowing and reaping. The principle of sowing and reaping says if you sow sparingly you’ll reap sparingly, and if you sow bountifully you’ll reap bountifully.

Stop speaking negativity into your spirit - it’s working against what God wants to give you - and it’s ramping up the worry that’s attacking you

Mark 4:35-40 “When evening had come, Jesus said to His disciples, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd, they took Him with them in the boat. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke Him and said, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ And He woke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?’” Philippians 4:4-7 “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your gentleness be evident to everyone. The Lord is at hand; so do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” — Overcome being OVERWHELMED with

Rejoicing

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.” (Philippians 4:4) — Overcome being OVERWHELMED with

gentleness

’Let your gentleness be evident to all.’ (Philippians 4:5) — Overcome being OVERWHELMED with

prayer

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” (Philippians 4:6) — Overcome being OVERWHELMED with

preace

‘Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.’ (John 14:27 ESV) John 20:19-22 “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ’Peace be with you.’ When He had said this, He showed them His hands and side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, even so I am sending you.’ And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’”