Guest Speaker: Alan Jarboe
- Fear and anxiety are a bit different from each other. Fear seems more concentrated; anxiety seems more diluted and less focused.
- Anxiety can harm us.
• It weighs us down. Proverbs 12:25
• Anxiety can distract from what is important. Luke 10:38-41 - Fear and anxiety have a good side.
- Anxiety is meant to motivate us to two things: action and prayer. Philippians 2:28
- God’s main prescription for anxiety: pray and trust.
Philippians 4:6-7, 1 Peter 5:7, 1 Samuel 9:5-6, 1 Samuel 9:20 - Long-term answers to anxiety and becoming an less anxious person.
• Develop a heart that trusts God.
• Be proactive in your life.
• Live a righteous, holy life. - Develop a treasure chest of memories of times God came through dramatically.
- Some steps in dealing with anxiety.
• Acknowledge the anxiety to God. Don’t pretend. Psalm 94:19, 139:23
• Stop and think about when you became anxious. Deal with the cause.
• Consider whether your anxiety is a message from God for you to do something positive to alleviate the situation.
• Pray through anxiety.
• Leave the anxiety before God - Summary
• Anxiety has a purpose in God’s scheme of things.
• Anxiety is a prayer alarm.