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Anxiety
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Main Idea: Our anxiety raises when we take our focus off Christ
Good Evening!
It is great to be with you all tonight!
We are currently in a new series called Broken.
Living in a world where we can be honest instead of hiding behind the word I’m Okay.
This series is about changing the conversation when it comes to our brokenness, loneliness, depression and anxiety.
Several weeks ago we kicked off the series by looking at the brokenness of Gideon and we hopefully came to this understanding that God loves people despite our brokenness.
Then we talked about Loneliness.
We talked about how your generation the Generation of Gen Z, is the most connected generation of all time, yet it is the loneliest generation of all time.
But there is hope because as we discussed loneliness is just an obstacle to God’s goodness.
Before the Super Bowl we talked about depression.
How depression can leave us hopeless but Christ gives us hope.
I hope that these last couple of weeks you have been able to have some good conversations about mental health.
And I hope that this is not a stoppage in conversations after tonight.
That we keep talking about it and helping each other through it.
This leads us to part 4 of our broken series.
Tonight we will be looking at Anxiety.
I want us to be clear on what anxiety is
Anxiety is— is a sense of uncertainty.
“Anxious individuals tend to have an intolerance for uncertainty.
Sometimes people with anxiety call this “fear of the unknown.”
Those who chronically worry equate uncertainty with bad outcomes.
To lower the risk of a future threat, people with anxiety may try to minimize the number of uncertain situations they encounter.
This avoidance strengthens anxiety in the long run.”
So what does this look like?
You see many times we fear the unknown.
And when you have crippling anxiety, the more of the future that is unknown the more fear you will have.
And in these moments it can be easy to forget that we serve a big God who can handle all things.
Me:
CrossFit Open on Friday—
3 Wall Walks
12 DB Snatchs
15 Box Jump Overs
15 min to get that in as many times as you can.
162 reps
the leaders currently has 390 reps
In the gym I am 10 out of 24
USA- 21,701st out of 57,531
Making my place in North America 24,512th out of 65,537
in the world 52,339 out of 144,445
We:
Have you ever been anxious about something?
Open it up
Can you think of a time where you let fear get the best of you?
Like you had ever intention to not be anxious but found that it only made it worse.
The more unknown it is the more fear seems to rise in us.
It can be about a test, because grades can be unknowns.
It can be about a relationship
A game— An event—
Has anyone ever text you and said, we need to talk how about tomorrow or next week?
And they give you no detail about the meeting?
I am so anxious for that meeting.
It is the worse!
What college you are going to get into.
What will you do for the rest of your life.
It is easy to be anxious.
But here is the rub— God does not give a spirit of anxiety.
But so often we find ourselves distracted by fear.
When God wants to give us peace.
He gives us rest— not to worry as Jesus talked about in Matthew 6.
At the end of the day you can’t control so much of what you are anxious about.
I long for peace.
Do you?
I think truthfully we get distracted often.
And when we get distracted by worldly problems that can be solved by an infinite God— we get fearful and anxious.
We try to fix all our problems and try to limit the variables.
We take everything in our own hands because if we don’t then who is going to be in control— and a ship without a captain will eventually crash.
To us we are saving the ship but in reality the best captain is God and you are hogging the wheel.
He knows where we need to go— that is going to involve letting go of that worry, and fear and that is scary.
I believe that anxiety rises when our focus is off Christ.
God: Anxiety raises when our focus is off Christ.
I want us to look at the story of Peter and Jesus.
Matthew 14:22-33
If you have your Bibles turn there.
While you are getting there let me break this down a bit.
Jesus had just fed 5000 people on the heels of hearing about the death of John the Baptist.
And he is about to send them all away and this is where we will pick up the story.
Jesus puts his disciples in a boat and then he dismisses the crowd.
But check this out, after all of that is done, what does Jesus do?
He get by himself and he prays.
You see so many times we get stuck in the ebbs and flows of life that we forget to get away and pray to God.
We get nervous and anxious about what is coming up instead of going to God in the moment and just being alone with him.
It must have been some time later, because the boat is far from the shore, and the water is rough.
The wind was against them and the waves were pushing them out further from the shore.
Never fear— Jesus had the Airwalks 2000 sandles with flotation device on it and he walks on water.
Towards the disciples.
Now, I don’t know about you all, but being in water at night is probably the scarest thing on the planet.
We had a pool growing up and when had a light for the pool but if that light got switched off— I was done— for I was convinced that a shark was going to eat me in my pool.
You can’t tell me that water at night is not scary.
It is terrifying.
I can imagine this boat bopping up and down and in total darkness.
The 12 would not want to give the impression that they were scared.
However remember when that storm come on them and Jesus was napping and they freaked out.
We know they already are a little on edge in the boat.
The waves are getting bigger and maybe a storm was moving in again.
But this time they have no Jesus.
But Jesus is coming and he is walking on water.
This is why their reaction when they see something in the middle of the sea is to cry out it’s a ghost!
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