1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: Let us pray, and the peace of God, which passeth 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: Jesus Philippians four seven. My Father and my God help 4 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: me to turn my worries into prayers so that my 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: mind can be at peace. To day, I worry about 6 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 1: everything from financial matters to what I'll cook for dinner 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: or when I can get some time for myself. Father, 8 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: ease my mind from anxious thoughts so that I can 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: appreciate the present moment. My worries hinder me from loving, fully, 10 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: expressing genuinely, and living up to my full potential. Father, 11 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: guard my heart and my mind when these unfavorable thoughts 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: flood my mind. Amen, thank you for listening to to 13 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: day's daily prayer for more inspiration and an incredible message 14 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,639 Speaker 1: from our feature pastor. Stay tuned to prey dot COM's 15 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: Sunday service. Welcome to prey dot COM's Sunday service sponsored 16 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: by our trua Health Share. Follow this podcast and listen 17 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,559 Speaker 1: weekly to receive godly wisdom and practical advice for daily living. 18 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: Stay tuned for Sunday service coming up. 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That's my share dot org out tu a 28 00:01:47,240 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: health share where we care for one another. You're listening 29 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: to Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram here on 30 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: prey dot com. The goal of this teaching ministry is 31 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: to encourage and help Christians live like Christians Today. We're 32 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: highlighting a part of Chip's popular series, I Choose Peace, 33 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: based in Philippians Chapter four. Through the study, he's helping 34 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: us uncover and hold on to God's incredible gift of peace. 35 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: In this particular message, Chip dives into one of the 36 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: more notable passages in the New Testament and reveals how 37 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: in the most painful, intense, agonizing moments of life we 38 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: can find the peace that only God can offer. If 39 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: you're ready to learn more about that, get your Bibles 40 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,679 Speaker 1: out and go to Philippians, chapter four, verse six, for 41 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: Chip's talk in anxious moments, it is well with my soul, 42 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: It is well with my soul. You can sing a 43 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: song like that and not pause just to ask, how's 44 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: it going with your soul? I mean, is it well 45 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: when you think of the fears, the stations, the thoughts 46 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: about the future, how are you doing? Songs really powerful, 47 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: but the story behind it might be more powerful. It 48 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: was first sung in eighteen seventy six. It was written 49 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: by Horatio Spatford. He was an attorney that did well 50 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: in investments in Chicago. He was a close personal friend 51 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: of a guy named D. L. Moody who was an 52 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: evangelist of an earlier century. In eighteen seventy one, there 53 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: was a fire in Chicago. It's called the Great Chicago Fire, 54 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: and he lost almost all of his holdings, all of investments. 55 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: So any of you that have ever gone broke, that's 56 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: where he was. And as he began to build his 57 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: life up again, he just felt like, you know, we 58 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: need to pause for a moment. He said to his wife, 59 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: and he had four daughters, want you to get on 60 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: the ship. We'll all go together. Let's get a couple 61 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: months away to get perspective in Europe. I just ready 62 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: to get on the ship, and there was a zoning 63 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: problem with some property, and so he had to stay 64 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: behind for a few days. He says, I'll catch the 65 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: next ship. It is now a famous telegraph. The ship 66 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: with his wife and his four daughters was hit by 67 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: another ship at sea. It went down, and he received 68 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: from his wife a telegram that says saved alone. All 69 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: four of his daughters died in that ship right. Very 70 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: few weeks later, he was on a second ship to 71 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: meet his wife, and when he came to the place 72 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: where the two ships collided, the captain brought him and said, 73 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 1: this is about the place where you lost your daughters. 74 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: And the words that we sang earlier is As he 75 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: looked out over the ocean with the spirit of God 76 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: speaking into the deepest parts of his hurt and his 77 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: pain and his loss, he said, when peace like a river, 78 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:03,279 Speaker 1: it's well with my soul, like see Billow's role, it 79 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: is well with my soul. And I don't know about you, 80 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: but it seems humanly impossible to lose everything financially, lose 81 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: four of your daughters, and to honestly and sincerely say 82 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: it is well with your soul. And yet, if you'll 83 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: notice on the front of your teaching hand out, that 84 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 1: is exactly what Jesus promised his early disciples. And Horatio 85 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,679 Speaker 1: Spafford is just one person among millions over the last 86 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: couple of millennia have experienced the spirit of God to 87 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: do something inside of them that is beyond any human understanding. 88 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: The last night, Jesus with his disciple, said to them, 89 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: I have told you these things so to me that 90 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: you might have peace in the world. You will have trouble, tribulations, 91 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: But take heart, I've overcome the world. This isn't theory here. 92 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: We've had ten memorial services in the US thirty days 93 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: in our church. There's people all around you to have 94 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: lost a mom, a dad, a grandpa, a child, and 95 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: that's not unique everyone in this room right, we have 96 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: our issues, but we can choose peace. But how do 97 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: you choose peace and moments of extraordinary anxiety? That's what 98 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: we're going to learn as we do. Sometimes you have 99 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: to learn a little bit about the problem before you 100 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: can solve it. So let's do a little research together. 101 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: What exactly is anxiety? A textbook a definition, It's an uneasiness, apprehension, dread, concern, tension, restlessness, 102 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: and worry. The anxious individual often anticipates misfortune, danger, or doom. 103 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: We don't need that definition. That kind of describes where 104 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: a lot of us are multiple times a week at times. 105 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: The Biblical word for anxiety literally means to take thought. 106 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: It can be used in a positive way, like taking 107 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: thought for something positively, but mostly it's using the New 108 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: Testament for taking thought as being obsessed with something you 109 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,239 Speaker 1: can't get your mind off of it. The German word 110 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: comes from the word to choke or to strangle, and 111 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: anxiety at its heart has the idea inside your mind 112 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: of being pulled in two different directions. What makes us 113 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: anxious or causes it is fear of the future. This 114 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: is probably the most common one. Fear of failure, fear 115 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: of another terrorist attack, fear of an economic downturn, fear 116 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: that your kids won't turn out right, fear you will 117 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: be single the rest of your life. Fear that the 118 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: marriage that you're in is never going to get any better, 119 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: fear of rejection, fear of abandonment, you name it. For others. 120 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: Anxiety is produced by conflict in the present. Conflict in 121 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: your marriage, conflict with a friend, conflict at work, conflict 122 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: with a neighbor, conflict with one of your kids, conflict 123 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: with your in laws. A third cause for anxiety is 124 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: in the past regret. There's times when things are just 125 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: going well and you're just driving in your car and 126 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: out of the blue, you remember, oh my, what you 127 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: did back then that you hope no one ever finds out. 128 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: For some of us, we came to know Christ later 129 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: in life, and we made some mistakes, and there's issues 130 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: with some of our kids or some things about our 131 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: life that we can't change, and we just start getting 132 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: overwhelmed with I blew it, I blew it, I blew it, 133 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: and it produces this anxiety. Anxiety isn't just a little 134 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: thing to take a pill. Anxiety can ruin your life. 135 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: I have a friend who's a professor, a medical doctor, 136 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: and he wrote a textbook on psychological disorders. Here's a 137 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: list of things that anxiety produces in us mentally, spiritually, 138 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: and emotionally. Makes people hyper alert, irritable, fidgety, overdependent, insomnia, talkative, 139 00:08:55,200 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 1: poor memory, fainting episodes, excessive perspiration, muscle tension, headache including migrains, quivering, voice, hyperventilation, 140 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, high blood pressure. I don't know 141 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 1: about you, but that list alone tells me I don't 142 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: know how to get rid of anxiety, but I want 143 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 1: to get rid of it in a hurry. Right. Here's 144 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: that's the issue. How do you overcome anxiety? There's many 145 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: of you. This last week. You woke up at two 146 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: eleven and then three oh five or four oh seven, 147 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: and you're thinking about the future, and your mind it 148 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 1: goes over and over and over again, and you're very 149 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: fearful about something where you're in conflict with someone and 150 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: the stomach acid is going around, and how does that change? 151 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: That's what we're going to learn. Open your notes. I 152 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 1: want to tell you that you simply do not have 153 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: to live as an anxious person. It is possible to 154 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,599 Speaker 1: absolutely be at peace in the midst of horrendous, difficult 155 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: and uncertain times. Jesus promised it. My peace I give 156 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: to you. You might jot on the very top of 157 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: your notes. First Peter five seven. Peter would make a command, 158 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: and he would say, cast all your burdens upon the Lord, 159 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: because he cares for you, and the burdens are cares. 160 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: It's the picture of a like a nine or ten 161 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: year old boy coming home on Friday, and he's got 162 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: his backpack and he takes his backpack and he throws 163 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: it to the corner and goes, wow, no homework weekend. Literally, 164 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: and you know what, he doesn't go in and go, oh, 165 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: I wonder if I've got something to do later, or 166 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: he's eight years old, he just takes it off. There's 167 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 1: no homework, man, It's gonna be fun. That's the picture 168 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: of casting all your burdens on the Lord. Why he 169 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: really cares for you. You give your problems, your struggles 170 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: and anxiety to a personal God, who is in control, 171 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: who's all wise, who's loving, who's powerful, and you're the 172 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: object of his affection. And in Philippians chapter four, Versus 173 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: six and seven, he will give you a specific game 174 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: plan that every time anxiety comes and knocks on the 175 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: door of your heart, this game plan will teach you 176 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: that prayer can answer the door, and you can run 177 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: into your Father's arms and God will give peace. You're 178 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: going to learn that every time anxiety knocks on the 179 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: door of your heart, that you literally can let prayer 180 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: answer it and then run into your father's arms. You're 181 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: going to learn. Don't need to say it again. I 182 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 1: want you to read the text silently as I read 183 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: it out loud. Command, do not be anxious about anything. 184 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: Second command, But in every situation, by prayer and petition, 185 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: with thanksgiving, present your request to God. Promise, and the 186 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your 187 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Now, if you're 188 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: a little bit new, we study the Bible together, and 189 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: so one of the questions we always ask before we 190 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: make application is what does it actually say? And by 191 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: that you need to make some observations. The Word of 192 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: God is living, an active sharper than a two edged sword, 193 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: and its truth. The second question is, after what does 194 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: it say? Well, what does it actually mean? What did 195 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: it mean to its first century heres? And what does 196 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,839 Speaker 1: it mean to us? And then the last question that's 197 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: most important is, so, God, what do you want me 198 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: to do? How do I put this into practice? So often, 199 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: at least when I study, I will outline the text 200 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: what I've laid out here for I call it a 201 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: mechanical outline, just like would you study a poem or 202 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: study Shakespeare and you want to grammatically see what's happening 203 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: in it. So what I've done is I've taken it 204 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: in the original language and I've just literally put it 205 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: in order so you can see the grammar. You don't 206 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 1: need to know the original language. But in this particular case, 207 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: it's interesting that he takes a word completely out of 208 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: order to make his point. So notice just what I 209 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: lay at. The first command is nothing be anxious about. 210 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: If you have a pen, put a little arrow and 211 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: write negative command in your notes. In other words, we're commanded. Literally, 212 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: it's stop being anxious. Stop worrying. It's not just a 213 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: little thing. It eats up your soul, It ruins your emotions, 214 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: it thwarts your relationships, it chokes the life out of you. 215 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: Stop worrying. And if it's a command, that means there's 216 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: got to be power and a way to obey this command. 217 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: Notice the positive command. But in everything, He's going to 218 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: give us four specific words for prayer. After everything, put 219 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,359 Speaker 1: an arrow and put positive command in everything. By prayer, petition, 220 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: with thanksgiving, the request of you be made known unto God. 221 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: There are four words in the New Testament for prayer. 222 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: All four of them are right here. Here's what I 223 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 1: want you to know. When anxiety knocks on the door 224 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: of your heart, let prayer answer it. But not just 225 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: any kind of prayer. He's going to give you a 226 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: very clear using all four words. There's a specific way 227 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: to pray that when you're anxious, when you're fearful, when 228 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: the stomach acid starts, when you are awake and can't 229 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: fall back to sleep, when you have these scenarios where 230 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: you're projecting into the future, how terrible, now, what's going 231 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: to happen? And at your job and your kids aren't 232 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: going to turn out right, and this is going to happen, 233 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: and your marriage will never get better, and this thing 234 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: at work is never going to change, and the health 235 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: issue is always going to go from bad to worse. 236 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: Once you start down that track, there's a kind and 237 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: there's a way to pray that the spirit of God 238 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: will go hush. In fact, notice what the promise is. 239 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: The promise is that when you pray petition with thanksgiving, 240 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: and you make your requests known to God, the peace 241 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: of God, this beyond human understanding, will guard your heart 242 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: and your thoughts are literally your minds circle the word guard. 243 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: If you've ever seen the little commercial. I like this commercial. 244 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: It's the one where the guys in the bank and 245 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: the robbers come in and everyone's on the floor and 246 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: the lady looks up and says do something. He goes, Oh, 247 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: I'm not a security guard. I'm a security monitor. I'm 248 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: just monitoring. There's a problem here. That's this word. He says. 249 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: When you pray like this, the spirit of God that 250 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: gives you a sense of peace and calm will literally 251 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: guard the deepest parts of your life. And you're thinking, 252 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: and in fact, what we're going to learn is there's 253 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: times when you lose your peace when you realize there's 254 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: there's something wrong that Actually it's like the red light 255 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: on the dashboard of the car, and what it tells 256 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: you is that there's something wrong under the hood. When 257 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: you lose your peace, there's something about your abiding in Christ, 258 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: your focus, your mind, your trust is off of Christ 259 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: and onto something else, and your loss of peace is 260 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: like and it says, he'll act as like an arbitrator, 261 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: a monitor, so that you can get back in line 262 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: with that. Let's get to the application. Negatively, there's a command. 263 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: We've looked at them negatively and positively. You'll notice there's 264 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: four keywords that it's the how, and there's the promise, 265 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: which is the why. In your notes where it says negatively, 266 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: I would like you to write, stop worrying about anything. 267 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: Part of how our minds work. We see it, we 268 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: say it, we write it. It sticks. I just saw 269 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: a study about Harvard University recently that talked about those 270 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: graduates that actually wrote down their goals were eighty percent 271 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: more likely to succeed. I want you to write down 272 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: stop worrying. Don't just sit here and listen. You're not passive. 273 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: This is about your life today. In this moment second 274 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: where it says positive command, I want you to write 275 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: pray about everything, because we're gonna Here's the thing. Some 276 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: of us have practiced being anxious most of our lives. 277 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: We learned it from our parents. Almost everyone does it. 278 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: We think that what you do, you know when you worry, 279 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 1: is you take a pill for this, a pill for that. 280 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: When you feel uptight, we'll turn on the TV for others. 281 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: When you lose your piece, you go shopping for others. 282 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: You know, it's been really tough, and you're uptight about things, 283 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 1: and you wonder, and so you know, one glass of 284 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: wine made you feel a little bit better, and about 285 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,199 Speaker 1: three makes you feel a lot better. Some of you 286 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 1: had a prescription for some back pain, and when you 287 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: get up tight now you actually take some of those pills, 288 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: even though your back pain was months ago gone and better. 289 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: For others, some of us, it's maybe a little bit 290 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 1: more healthy. You just work. The moment you feel anxious, 291 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: you just start working because you feel like you're in control. 292 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: At the heart of anxiety is life is out of 293 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,959 Speaker 1: control and I can't handle this, so you do something 294 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: that gives you pseudo peace. For many of us, it's 295 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: just a trip to the refrigerator when we're not really 296 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: in need of calories. But there's something about a bag 297 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:58,719 Speaker 1: of chips, a bag of popcorn, some chocolate that just 298 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: makes you feel better for what right fifteen to thirty minutes. 299 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: There's all kinds of ways that we address our anxiety. 300 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: Most of them aren't very helpful. And then when we 301 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,400 Speaker 1: do a lot of those things, some of you log 302 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: on and surf, some of you spend mindless hours, not 303 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: because you want to or need to, because it's just 304 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: a distraction. Is there something wrong inherently with doing some 305 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: of those things? Absolutely not, but when I'm doing that, 306 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: because what I'm really trying to do is get my 307 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: mind off of this gnawing anxiety, you're not letting the 308 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: peace of Christ rule in your heart and in your mind. 309 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: I mean, my confession is my anxiety. Want you espn 310 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,640 Speaker 1: somehow watching other people play games makes me feel better 311 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,959 Speaker 1: for a half hour, or get into my work or 312 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: go work out bad evil. I don't think so. But 313 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:58,239 Speaker 1: when I do it instead of letting prayer answer the 314 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: door and let God work in my life, my heart 315 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 1: neither wise nor profitable. Now, what I want you to 316 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: see is that prayer answers the door. But it's a 317 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: very specific kind of prayer, Like you have lots of 318 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: challenges with anxiety. I think we all do, and I 319 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 1: think God would say, Okay, I want to teach you 320 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: a way to pray because I felt very anxious and 321 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: oh God, Help, Help, Help God, God, God, and then 322 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: I just pick up the backpack and put the burdens 323 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: right back on. So I want to walk through these 324 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: four specific words. You practice this and you do not 325 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: have to be anxious. The first word is prayer. It's 326 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: the most common word of the New Testament in prayer, 327 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: as the idea of turning in the moment you feel anxious. 328 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: It's turning my thoughts and my feelings upward. It's getting 329 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: an upward focus. It's adoration, it's pausing and recognizing. Wait 330 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: a second, in the midst of these struggles, right now, 331 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: I want to get my focus. Who is God worship? 332 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 1: I actually have more than a few struggles with anxiety. 333 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: I tend to juggle a few more balls, and I 334 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: can really juggle, trying to accomplish more than I'm really 335 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: capable of. And as a result of that, you know, 336 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but you can. You can 337 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: wake up. And if you if you wake up, and 338 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: as you're waking up, the first thoughts in your mind 339 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 1: is what about this? And what about that meeting? And 340 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: what about this? And one of my kids over here? 341 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: And then if you get up out of bed, wash 342 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 1: your face, and if you pick up your phone, oh 343 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: my gosh, DALs down seventy seven points and I'll just 344 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: check my email while I'm walking to make coffee. Oh 345 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,719 Speaker 1: my gosh. Pretty you know what you're setting yourself up 346 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: for disaster. The first thing you need to do in 347 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 1: the morning, every every morning, either Psalm twenty three or 348 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: the Lord's Prayer before I get out of bed, I realize, God, 349 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 1: if I don't see life through your lens, I'm going 350 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: to be in trouble because I know this life is 351 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 1: going to bring more challenges just the ones I know about, 352 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: they're more than I can handle. And it's interesting when 353 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: Jesus taught his disciples to pray, what did he say 354 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: when you pray, say, our Father, Oh so, in the 355 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: midst of all the craziness of the world, the one 356 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,479 Speaker 1: who created all that there is the one who sent 357 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: his son to die for you and rise from the dead, 358 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 1: the one who's the sovereign king, who's all wise, all powerful, 359 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 1: and all knowing of every circumstance, real, possible and potential. 360 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: He's your Papa. And say to him, who aren't in heaven, 361 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: You're not pulled into this or that you're the creator, 362 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: You're in control. Holy is your name. I can know 363 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the time that God will never 364 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 1: lie to me. God's always going to be pure his intentions. 365 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: So it's this moment where you you pause and you 366 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: get a high clear view of God. When anxiety knocks 367 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: at the door of your heart, Let prayer answer it, 368 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: and the first prayer is worship and adoration. So I 369 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 1: have a habit. As I'm laying in bed, I either 370 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: pray slowly through Psalm twenty three or the Lord's Prayer 371 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: or parts of it, and then I don't look at 372 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: my phone. I don't check my email. I have coffee 373 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: already made because that's a very important part of my 374 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,919 Speaker 1: early morning. And the dog and I are friends. So 375 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: I let the dog out, and every morning I take 376 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: my cup of coffee and my dog's out running around, 377 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: and I stand in my patio like I did this morning, 378 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 1: and I look up and I see these stars, and 379 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:48,719 Speaker 1: I forced myself out loud, Almighty, ever living creator. Little 380 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: people like me have stared at the sky for thousands 381 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 1: and thousands of years, and you created him. And this 382 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: is just the milky Way. There's one hundred maybe two 383 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 1: hundred billion stars in this little galaxy, and they didn't 384 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: know there's another couple hundred billion galaxies and the one 385 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: that placed these in the sky. At this moment, on 386 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: this day, I am the object of your affection. I 387 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: don't know how to pull off or what's going to happen, 388 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: but I'm going to go in and I'm going to 389 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: talk to you and read what you want to say 390 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: to me. But I'm going with you, the creative of 391 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: the world at my back. Here's what I can tell you. 392 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: As you get a really big God, you will get 393 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: really small problems. If you have really big problems, you 394 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: have a very small God. See what happens, what the 395 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: take thought of it means to focus on get obsessed with. Okay, 396 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 1: here's a problem. Kay, maybe eighty five percent or nine 397 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: percent of your marriage is pretty good, or at work 398 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 1: you really do have a good job, but there's a supervisor. 399 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: Or maybe you know you're single but you have some 400 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: really good friends, but you know, but whatever the part 401 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: that really makes you anxious or there's uncertainty, here's what 402 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: you do. You focus on it. You focus on it, 403 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: You focus on it, you focus on it. You focus 404 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: on it, and pretty soon and you look at all 405 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: of life through this thing, this anxiety. And then as 406 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: you look at all in life, the way we're made 407 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: is then your emotions and your physiology begin to respond. 408 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 1: And then your body and your world gets messed up 409 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: because you think this is the world. He says. When 410 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,479 Speaker 1: anxiety knocks at the door of your heart, Let prayer 411 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: answer it, and the first thing you do. This is 412 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: the God that can deal with that. Do you think 413 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: God can heal someone of cancer? We've seen it. You 414 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 1: think God can give people grace to go through cancer. 415 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 1: You think God can actually take someone that you love 416 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: to heaven and you recover from it and be okay, 417 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: knowing you're going to see them later. You bet. You 418 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: think God can give you a new job if you 419 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 1: don't have it. You think God can get into the 420 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 1: heart of one of your kids that's not welcome with God. 421 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 1: Do you think God can? Of course he can. Intellectually 422 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: you believe that, but it doesn't experience it until you 423 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 1: worship him. Put a little a the left of where 424 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: it says prayer and circle it and I'll tell you 425 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: why later. This second is petition. This is the second 426 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: most common word in the New Testament. It's focusing on 427 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: your need. It's a prayer that expresses my need or 428 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: my want before I ask. It's a sense that it's 429 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: the awareness that I am unable, that I have limitations 430 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 1: in this situation, that I need you God, I can't 431 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 1: handle this. Much of anxiety is about here's a problem, 432 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: or here's an issue, and the resource you unconscious look 433 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: to is what am I going to do? What am 434 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: I going to do? How do I fix it? How 435 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: do I fix it? And the more it's overwhelming, or 436 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 1: the more it's out of your control, and the more 437 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 1: you realize you can't fix it, guess what happens. It 438 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 1: just grows and grows and grows. And so the kind 439 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: of prayer that answers the door when anxiety knocks and 440 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: causes you to run to your father is first adoration. 441 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: And this is confession. God, I can't handle this. I 442 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: don't know what to do in this marriage. I've tried 443 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: everything under the sun. I can't get one of my 444 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: kid's attention for the life of me. You know what, 445 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 1: unless you like transfer my supervisor to Siberia. I don't 446 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't like me, She doesn't like me. 447 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: I feel like I can't handle this. Lord, I need you. 448 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: You know what that is called in scripture humility, dependency, 449 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: And you know what, You can't cast your cares on 450 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: Jesus as long as you're holding onto him and assuming 451 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: that some way, somehow my ability, my moxie, my personality, 452 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: my brains, I'm going to solve this, and so the 453 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: kind of prayer's first worship and then confession and you 454 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,959 Speaker 1: say you care for me, I can't handle this, and 455 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: then it positions you to begin to ask him, to 456 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:58,719 Speaker 1: really ask him for help. The third word is thanksgiving. 457 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: It's a very interesting pound word. It means to be 458 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: good or well and combined with grace. I love. One 459 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 1: commentator he says, the way this is phrase, it's like 460 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: sprinkling like salt and pepper into the rest of your 461 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: prayers where you're constantly giving thanks. I mean, I find 462 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: myself when I look at the stars and when I'm 463 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 1: worshiping God, all of a sudden, He'll just bring through 464 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 1: my mind. You know, you've got almost forty years with 465 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,120 Speaker 1: your wife, after all that you guys have been through, 466 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: and you know, think about what that day when your 467 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: one son was an ICU, or you know you thought 468 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: this was impossible problem God. Thanks. So I'm worshiping, but 469 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: I just sort of fall into Thanksgiving. Or how about 470 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: when you're confessing I can't do this, I can't do this, 471 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: I can't do this. You know what, God reminds me, Hey, 472 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: remember like two years ago or three months ago, when 473 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,679 Speaker 1: it was an impossible situation and you couldn't do it. 474 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 1: Do you remember what I did? Oh? Yeah, you were faithful. 475 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: Thank you. In fact, let me show you a little tool. 476 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: And I know some of you are not writers, you're 477 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: not verbal processors. I don't think people need to keep 478 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: a journal to be godly, okay, but if you're a 479 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: little add if I'm gonna you know, you know, like 480 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: in services like this, sometimes we say I want to 481 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 1: ask you a question, but don't raise your hand. Can 482 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: I try the opposite. I'm going to ask you a question, 483 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,640 Speaker 1: and I'm going to ask you to raise your hand. 484 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 1: Does anybody else accept me? Does your mind wander when 485 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: you pray? Oh? My gosh, it's just And then I 486 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,879 Speaker 1: feel so guilty. I mean, I've been out in the stars, 487 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 1: I've worked doing them, I'm reading the Bible. God, I 488 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: can't do this, and then my mind's all the way 489 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: over to here, and then it's over there, and then 490 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 1: it's over to know. And what I realize is I 491 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: can't concentrate very well. So when it comes to I'm 492 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: just and then I get paralyzed, and then I feel 493 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 1: bad that I can't concentrate, and then I tell God 494 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: I'm sorry and then it's like confession. Sometimes I just 495 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: give up and the anxiety doesn't leave. And here's what 496 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,959 Speaker 1: I've learned to do. I've learned when I'm going through that, 497 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: I realize that anxiety and biblical prayer cannot coexist, and 498 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: anxiety can't live with thankfulness. So, for example, I just 499 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: couldn't concentrate. Lord, I'm overly aware of what I am 500 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 1: not in varying degrees of what awaits me. I was 501 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: away for a few days. What I returned, you know, 502 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: I had like right anxiety, like two hundred emails, three meetings. 503 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: Holy Father, Please forgive me for my self focus, and 504 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: please renew my heart. In my mind, I'm viewing things 505 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: through a negative lens and it's producing negative emotions. And 506 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: so this is what I did. Thank You for the rest, 507 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: the walks, the time to read, relax and laugh with Teresa. 508 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: Thank you for Teresa that she said she's feeling better 509 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: physically than she has in a long time. Thank You 510 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: for the long and beautiful pool to swim and rehab 511 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: my back. Thank You that I rarely had to take 512 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: adville for the last few days. I mean, can you 513 00:29:55,360 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: imagine thanking God for no advil? Here's what I'm trying 514 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: to get. This is how life really works. It's in 515 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: the details of life where you said, well, no, that's big. 516 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: Thank you for the insight encouragement to listen to the 517 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: book by John Ortberg, The Life You've always wanted, and 518 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: the resilience and encouragement is brought to my heart. Thank 519 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: you for the god impulse to help people that we've 520 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: met on the streets that are poor. Thank You that 521 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: despite all the unpleasantness I see in my life, my 522 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: mistakes and leadership, personal struggles and failures as a Christian, 523 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: as a husband, as a father, and as a leader, 524 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: that you love me, delight in me, and have exceeding 525 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: mercy upon me, my family, my life, my ministry, and 526 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: that you're not surprised, you're shocked that I don't measure up. 527 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: You remember, even when I forget that I'm but dust, 528 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 1: I cannot in this life measure up. I am in 529 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,959 Speaker 1: need of your mercy and your grace every moment of 530 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: every day. The truth is, many of the things that 531 00:30:55,040 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: bother me about me, they bother me because they're true. 532 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: Anybody else have that? And so, but do you know what, 533 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: when I got done, I was at peace. See part 534 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: of all your psyche stuff is I don't measure up. 535 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,719 Speaker 1: I got to do this sometimes just being honest. And 536 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: you know what this is who God is. I have 537 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: great need. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, 538 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I'm gonna thank my way into 539 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: the presence of God. And then the last word is 540 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: a powerful word. And the last word he talks about us. 541 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: So what do you do. It's requests you outline your 542 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: specific needs. I mean, this is like, you know why 543 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: some of you don't experience much of God. You pray 544 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: prayers like this, Lord, bless my family, help me have 545 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: a good day, help my children, help me some day 546 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: some way, somehow to meet someone Lord, cause me to 547 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: gross spiritually somehow, some way. I mean, that's like my 548 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: wife sending me to the grocery store and say, could 549 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: you buy some food that we will all like and 550 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: that I will cook. Well, I mean she would go, 551 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 1: oh my gosh whenever she sends me, and if she 552 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: was here, she'd say, she doesn't send me very often. 553 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: Then I got a list and then it's like, here's 554 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: the label. It's got to be organic, it's got to 555 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: be this. She wants very specific things once you have. 556 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: This is who God is, this is your need. I'm 557 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 1: thanking him. What do you want? God? I ask you 558 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: specifically to move in my supervisor's heart, to give me 559 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 1: favor with him, and that I would have great affirmation 560 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: in this meeting. God, I'm asking you for X amount 561 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: of dollars because this is what's happening in our family situation. 562 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: I need that. God. I'm asking you for the best 563 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: doctor in all the Bay area. Help me get bring 564 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: someone in contact. How do we deal with this cancer? 565 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: Write specific things and expect specific things, and then like 566 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: a grocery list, give them to the God who's all wise, 567 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 1: all knowing, and you're a son as daughter, and he'll 568 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: help you, my little The next thing I do in 569 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 1: my journal is this is take I pray. Once I've 570 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: gotten there. These are all little boxes. I turn all 571 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 1: my concerns, all my anxiety into prayers. Here's a box. 572 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 1: There it is. Here's a box here it is. And 573 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 1: I'm turning them into requests. And this is a month 574 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: old all what about to have check marks next to 575 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: the box. You know what I'm experiencing. God's alive in 576 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: my life. God is showing up. I'll guarantee he's showing 577 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 1: up in your life. You just don't know it. You 578 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: don't track it, you don't pray specifically. Here's what he's saying. 579 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: When anxiety knocks at the door of your heart, let 580 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 1: prayer this kind of prayer, adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication. Let 581 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: prayer answer it, and then run into your father's arms. 582 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: Run into your father's arms. It's like, remember for some 583 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: of us, when you had small kids, or some of 584 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: you have small kids, when they have a bad dream, 585 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 1: what do they always do? Like they're four and they're three, 586 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 1: they have a bad dream, they get up, they run, 587 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: and what do they do? They're at through bedside. What 588 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: do they want to do? They want to get in 589 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,399 Speaker 1: bed with you. So what do you do? Well, open 590 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,839 Speaker 1: the covers, you go, brother, you know, because they take 591 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 1: up the whole bed and then they lay next to you. 592 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 1: And thirty seconds later, what do you hear? Do you 593 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:24,440 Speaker 1: think that's an accident? See, they think that their parent 594 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 1: loves them, is in control and it's a safe place 595 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 1: and they're at peace. And the God of the universe says, come, come, 596 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:42,239 Speaker 1: stop fretting, stop worrying, stop trying to figure out how 597 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: you can solve it all. In fact, the promise here, 598 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: peace and anxiety cannot write the word coexist. Peace and 599 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:57,640 Speaker 1: anxiety can't co exist. Second, anxiety and biblical prayer cannot 600 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:01,959 Speaker 1: co exist. Now I'm going to give you a little 601 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: warning because you know, I hope some of you are 602 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: going wow. Now, Okay, I get it. You know this. 603 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: I ask you to put an a A. Okay, anxiety 604 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,839 Speaker 1: is coming into my life. A adoration the next, put 605 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 1: the little letter C next to that one under the 606 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:24,440 Speaker 1: petition confession T for Thanksgiving, and then ask supplication. What 607 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: I'm actually going to ask acts. So it's just a 608 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 1: little axe. This is my when anxiety knocks at the 609 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: door of my heart. I'm going to let an axe 610 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 1: kind of prayer, adoration, confession, Thanksgiving and supplication. I'm going 611 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,359 Speaker 1: to let it answer, and I'm going to run into 612 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 1: my father's arms. Now here's the deal. If you never 613 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 1: played golf, if you never went bowling, if you never 614 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 1: played an instrument, or if you did it like thirty 615 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: five years ago, would you expect to go and roll 616 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 1: a three hundred or shoot par or would you expect 617 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 1: it is a skill to learn about a skill, to 618 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,800 Speaker 1: practice a skill to develop and that over time you 619 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 1: would get better and better and better and better. You 620 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,600 Speaker 1: don't have to live an anxious life, but you have built, 621 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 1: and I have built lifelong habit patterns to respond to 622 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 1: anxiety in ways that are very dysfunctional and very painful, 623 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: and they're bad for you, your soul, your relationship with God, 624 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,960 Speaker 1: your family, and with other people. So what I just described, 625 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 1: you're going to have to go into training and begin 626 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,880 Speaker 1: to practice. So when you feel peace leaving, because by 627 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 1: the way, you can do all four of those kind 628 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 1: of prayers in about three or four or five minutes, right, 629 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 1: you can take a break. I've had situations where I've 630 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: been in a situation I'm anxious like this, and I 631 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: don't know what to excuse me. I got to go 632 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 1: to the bathroom. I've gone in the bathroom while I'm 633 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 1: washing my hands. God help me to remember, and I'll 634 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,959 Speaker 1: just walk through that and ask the peace of Christ 635 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,120 Speaker 1: because I need your power. I need to abide in you. 636 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: I need your peace in your power. And Jesus said 637 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,800 Speaker 1: He's given it to as freely. To summarize on the 638 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: very back, Biblical prayer is God's antidote to anxiety. It's 639 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:20,880 Speaker 1: simple and yet profound. Biblical prayer is the antidote to anxiety. 640 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,840 Speaker 1: Every time you feel anxious this week, here's the word picture. 641 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,839 Speaker 1: When can you fill it in? Even without me saying, 642 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,640 Speaker 1: when anxiety pounds at the door of your heart, let 643 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,360 Speaker 1: Father forgive them. They don't know what they do. Okay, 644 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,719 Speaker 1: let's let's try. Let's try that again. That's the most 645 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,759 Speaker 1: unaffirming response to someone speaking I've ever had my whole life, 646 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 1: and I know you you were deep in thought. That's it. Okay, 647 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,560 Speaker 1: are you ready? Okay, let's try this again. When anxiety 648 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,000 Speaker 1: pounds at the door of your heart, let oh they 649 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,879 Speaker 1: are beautiful, Lord, answer it as you run into your 650 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:01,560 Speaker 1: Father's arms. What I understand is there might be some 651 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,360 Speaker 1: people that grow up like me. Is if God is 652 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,560 Speaker 1: not your father, if you've never received Him as your savior, 653 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:13,000 Speaker 1: this doesn't work because these promises aren't for people outside 654 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,920 Speaker 1: of Christ. And so the prayer that relieves the biggest anxiety. 655 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,239 Speaker 1: It was my most amazing experience. Even though I'd been 656 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,800 Speaker 1: to church, even though I intellectually believed in God, I 657 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,840 Speaker 1: didn't realize I needed to turn from my sin, my 658 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 1: self will and running my life and I need to 659 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 1: turn and say, Lord Jesus, I believe that you came 660 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,520 Speaker 1: from heaven, that you were, in fact God, and you 661 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: died upon the cross, And as you hung upon the cross, 662 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,080 Speaker 1: you paid for my sin and you covered or atone 663 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,520 Speaker 1: for my sin. And what you've said is that as 664 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,160 Speaker 1: many as believed and would invite you into their heart 665 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,520 Speaker 1: and life, you would literally take up residence. And that's 666 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,800 Speaker 1: how your peace starts. If you've never done that, we 667 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,600 Speaker 1: would love to help you on your journey to make 668 00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:01,400 Speaker 1: that decision, because He brought you here to day, because 669 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:08,400 Speaker 1: you matter and He loves you. You've been listening to 670 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,359 Speaker 1: Living on the Edge with chip Ingram here on Prey 671 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,359 Speaker 1: dot com. The message you've just heard is from our 672 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,840 Speaker 1: series I Choose Peace. 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