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Steps to Overcoming Anxiety
Session #9
- Slide #2Worried people focus on their own needs.
Worried people focus on finding solutions for possible problems.
Worried people focus on their doubts.
- Slide #3The Lord's prayer is to be used as a model to train us how to pray.
He desires that we personalize our prayers.
• Declare the truth of God in relation to ourselves.
• Restored Relationships: Forgive and seek forgiveness.
Prayer is the means we come closer to God.
- Slide #4Declare the truth of God that is relevant to your situation.
We confront our worries with the truths of God!
Many of us forget that we are in a spiritual battle.
Wisdom is the gaining of God's perspective on our situation.
- Slide #5
Every worry is rooted in a lie about God.
Every worry, fear and stress is an attack on God's person and ways.
His intention about helping us (His love).
As one begins to assert the truth, the confusion gradually disappears and the issues come into proper perspective.
One main reason we need to frequently meditate on the scriptures is to give us ample supply of truths that are relevant to our difficulties.
- Slide #6Jesus teaches truth to build up our trust.
(1) Our souls are more important than our possessions. (6:25)
(2) God really cares for our bodies (6:26)
(3) Senselessness of worrying (6:27) Accept life's unchangeables.
(4) God's design to care for our lives is simply awesome. (6:28-30)
- Slide #7Prayer outclasses any other remedy because it eliminates anxiety.
Before every sincere confession, there is the revealing of God's person and truth.
A revealing of God's holy person and ways leads His people to humble but powerful prayers.
Many prayers are in vain because the hearer does not believe he has any real need.
Or if he is convinced of his need, he lacks the confidence (faith) that God can do anything about it.
- Slide #8This help might look differently than we expected
This process can take a considerable period of time, depending on how serious you are about pursuing these matters.
Anxieties are the fuel which feed the fears of our basic insecurities in life.
Insecurities are those unfulfilled needs of our lives. Our lives are occupied trying to meet those needs.
Alternative treatments unfortunately hide God's message from you.
- Slide #9
The root cause of all worry is that we do not trust God as we should for some perceived deep need of our hearts.
Hooked means that you sense something is wrong and you want to deal with it.
The line consists of a lot of lies.
There are usually more tears associated with this root worry, but it is dealt with in exactly the same way.
Ask Him to give you a scripture or a picture in your mind to assure you of His love and comfort during this particularly insecure time.
God made you to trust Him because He wants to be your first love.
- Slide #10
God is fully trustworthy.
The only way we will be able to overcome all worry is to fully trust in the Lord.
God takes special care for you.
God designed us to live one day at a time.
A procrastinator worries so much about tomorrow's tasks, that he does not get done today's jobs!
- Slide #11
Restoration is the scattering of doubt that God fully cares for me and the discovery of His real and constant love for me in this real world that I live in.
- Slide #12
Our worries, however, reveal the presence of idols.
We ourselves are the new cast of idols.
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