Know Your Enemy. Part V.

2 Tents joke.

Anxiety isn’t that your in a storm, so much as there’s a storm coming..and it’s gonna pound you disproportionately.

Mt 6:25–34 ““Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need th…”

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Fear not is in the bible 365x

Max Lucado said “Worry has never brightened a day, solved a problem or cured a disease.”

It’s like a rocking chair, we put alot of work into it, but it aint goin no where.

Here’s some sobering stats.

USA is the most anxiety ridden country on Earth.

Anxiety disorder is the the #1 mental health problem in women, and #2 in men.

JAMA says each generation is 3x more likely to experience depression than the previous generation.

Incoming freshman in University's have all time lows in mental health.

The avg child has the mental health of a 1950’s psychiatric hospital’

WHY?

Technology

Pace of Life

Shouldas= Living in the past

What Ifs?= Living in the future

“Little Faith” Keep your eyes on The Master

Running ahead of God

Worry is Sin. It’s practical atheism.

Tornado Siren..

The Worry Remedy:

C = Celebrate God’s Faithfulness. Be thankful!

Phil 4:6-7 “do not be anxious 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.”

A = Ask/Prayer

1 Pet 5:7 “casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.”

L = Leave it, don't pick it back up

Eprisantes, Greek only used 2x in New Testament

M = Meditate on good things

Phil 4:8 “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”

Have Faith!

Psalm 34:19 “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”

James 1:6 “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.”

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In Closing. It’s all about trusting God and watching out for “The Fisherman.”

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