Anxious For Nothing Part 1: Redefining Reality

ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING

Part 1: Redefining Anxiety

March 3, 2024

Philippians 4:6-8 (NKJV) Be anxious for nothing, 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 minds through Christ Jesus.

Redefining Anxiety

2 Corinthians 4:8 (NIV) We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

2 Corinthians 4:9 (NIV) persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

2 Corinthians 4:10 (NIV) We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

2 Corinthians 4:11 (NIV) For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.

• Anxiety is NOT .
• Anxiety is NOT .
• Anxiety IS .

How to Become Antifragile:

“Building a life that grows and thrives during times of great distress and upheaval.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Romans 8:37 (NLT) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

Romans 8:38 (NLT) And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.

Romans 8:39 (NLT) No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1. Embrace .

Matthew 6:25 (NIV) “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Matthew 6:26 (NIV) Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Matthew 6:27 (NIV) Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

Matthew 6:28 (NIV) “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.

Matthew 6:29 (NIV) Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.

Matthew 6:30 (NIV) If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?

Matthew 6:31 (NIV) So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

Matthew 6:32 (NIV) For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Matthew 6:33 (NIV) But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6:34 (NIV) Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Hebrews 11:1 (NIV) Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

2. Build .

James 1:2 (NIV) Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

James 1:3 (NIV) because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

James 1:4 (NIV) Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

3. the alarm.

2 Corinthians 11:28 (AMPC) And besides those things that are without, there is the daily inescapable pressure of my care and anxiety for all the churches!

4. Ask God and express to Him.

1 Peter 5:7 (NIV) Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

1 John 4:8 (NIV) There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

5. Identify the .

Psalm 139:23 (NIV) Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Psalm 139:24 (NIV) See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 139:24 (CEB) Look to see if there is any idolatrous way in me…

Psalm 139:24 (CEV) See if there is in me any hurtful way…

4 Primary Reasons for Anxiety

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6. Live in .

Romans 12:2 (GW) Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.