When Anxiety Attacks
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Anxiety is a bully
Definition of bully
(Entry 1 of 4) 1a : a blustering, browbeating person especially : one who is habitually cruel, insulting, or threatening to others who are weaker, smaller, or in some way vulnerable tormented by the neighborhood bully.
How does anxiety bully us?
Paul’s 3 Principals for Curing Anxiety:
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.
Right Praying — vs.6
---It connects us to the present
---Give God the pain of the past and the uncertainty of the future.
---Thanksgiving: When anxiety, worry or fear tries to come for you, stop and count the things that you are thankful for....
---Thanksgiving reminds us that God provided in the past and He’ll continue to provide in the future.
---Gratitude will help you connect with the present and cultivate optimism for the future.
---Peace happens when we are set free from our stress, worry, and uncertainty.
---It’s not based on our surroundings. It’s based on our standing with God. Prayer connects us to God’s presence.
---God’s presence is our source of PEACE!!
“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?
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
What is a yoke?
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.