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Introduction
What are you worried about this morning?
What is your source of anxiety?
Write it down
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According to the New York Times, Americans are among the most anxious people on earth.
One study found that Americans were significantly more anxious than residents of nations like Nigeria, Lebanon, and Ukraine.
We spend billions of dollars every year on antianxiety medications and additional millions to fund research into the causes and cures for anxiety disorders.
Time magazine recently devoted its cover story to teenage anxiety, and the headline was: "The Kids Are Not All Right: American teens are anxious, depressed, and overwhelmed."
The article claimed that today's adolescents "are the post-9/11 generation, raised in an era of economic and national insecurity.
They've never known a time when terrorism and school shootings weren't the norm.
They grew up watching their parents weather a severe recession, and, perhaps most importantly, they hit puberty at a time when technology and social media were transforming society."
One expert said, "If you wanted to create an environment to churn out angsty people, we've done it."
One teenager explained, "We're the first generation that cannot escape our problems at all.
We're all like little volcanoes.
We're getting this constant pressure, from our phones, from our relationships, from the way things are today."
(https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/opinion/sunday/the-anxious-americans.html)
But Paul writes:
Philippians 4:6
6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
“Yeah, right Paul” You try:
Working two jobs
Being a single mom
studying for that test
I’ve got:
all these health issues to deal with
bills to pay ends to make meet
mouths to feed
socks to wash
projects to complete
oil to change
taxes to finish
emails to return
and now a Bible reading plan to complete (Thanks, Pastor Jason!)
Busyness is a word that describes most if not all of us, and anxiety is its handmaiden.
Anxiety is nothing new, and I’m convinced that
I’m convinced t
The cure for anxiety is less about the removal of our external problems and more about our resting in the God who can actually change them.
Psalm of David
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David must have found himself looking at someone who was not following God and seeing how easy their life seemed.
Can you relate?
Did you ever see someone who doesn’t follow Jesus and wonder why they seem to struggle less?
Wonder if you would worry less if you didn’t tithe?
Wonder if you would have less anxiety if you could get that extra work done on Sunday rather than meet the rest of the church.
“For most of us, it isn’t heresy or rank apostasy that will derail our profession of faith.
It’s all the worries of life.”
(Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy)
Of David.
Of David.
[1] Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not envious of wrongdoers!
be not envious of wrongdoers!
For they will soon fade like the grass
[2] For they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.
and wither like the green herb.
[3] Trust in the LORD, and do good;
Trust in the LORD, and do good;
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
[4] Delight yourself in the LORD,
Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD;
[5] Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him, and he will act.
trust in him, and he will act.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
[6] He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.
and your justice as the noonday.
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
[7] Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
over the man who carries out evil devices!
over the man who carries out evil devices!
[8] Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
For the evildoers shall be cut off,
[9] For the evildoers shall be cut off,
but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.
but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.
In just a little while, the wicked will be no more;
[10] In just a little while, the wicked will be no more;
though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
[11] But the meek shall inherit the land
But the meek shall inherit the land
and delight themselves in abundant peace.
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