Set Free from Worry and Anxiety Sermon.pptx

Throughout both the Old and New Testaments we are exhorted and even commanded not to worry or be anxious. However, we all struggle in obeying this wise counsel. We borrow trouble and our lives become increasingly unsettled. Constant connection to media doomsday scenarios adds great pressure, as does the relentless input from social media. Anxiety has become an epidemic impacting 20% of Americans today! In this sermon, we will begin with a 10-part description of the difference between worry and anxiety and will then look at two biblical examples, Moses and Elijah. We will also look at some of the Bible's many texts that comprise God's treatment plan to set us free of worry and anxiety.

1. FROM WORRY AND ANXIETY

2. IN ORDER TO BE SET FREE FROM
WORRY AND ANXIETY, WE NEED
TO KNOW...

‘THE
DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN THEM.

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. We tend to experience worry in our
heads and anxiety in our bodies.

. Worry tends to be specific while
anxiety is more diffuse.

. Worry is verbally focused
while anxiety includes verbal
thoughts and mental imagery.

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anxiety does not.

5. Worry creates mild emotional
distress, anxiety can create severe
emotional distress.

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. Worry tends to be controllable, anxiety
much less so.

. Worry tends to be a temporary state,
but anxiety can linger.

. Worry doesn’t impact our
professional and personal
functioning; anxiety does.

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normative ps He ¡cal
state while anxiety Is not.

13. IN ORDER TO BE SET FREE
FROM WORRY AND ANXIETY
WE NEED TO KNOW...

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14. Moses’
Struggle

A Sense of
Inadequacy
Exodus 3-4

15. Moses’ Excuses/God’s Answers

Q: Who am I that! should go to
Pharaoh? (Ex. 3:11-12)

A: | will be with you.

Q: What if the Israelites ask me
your name? (Ex. 3:13-14)

A: Tell them “I am” has sent me.

16. Moses’ Excuses/God’s Answers
Q: What if they don’t believe me or
listen to me? (Ex. 4:1)
A: God gave Moses Three miraculous
signs. (4:2-9)
Q: I am slow of speech and tongue (4:10)

A: | created your mouth! I will help you
speak (4:11-12)

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18. 3 Lessons we can
learn from Moses

1. Asense of
inadequacy
fills the
heart with
excuses.

19. 3 Lessons we can
learn from Moses

2. God has
answers to
our most
troubling
questions.

20. 3 Lessons we can
learn from Moses

3. Thereisa
point where
questioning
becomes
disobedience.

21. For God gave us a spirit not
of fear but of power and
love and self-control.

22. Elijah’s
Struggle

A Sense of
Isolation
1 Kings 19

23. «Elijah faced a real threat. (1 Kings 19:1-3)

* Elijah allowed this threat to grow beyond reason. (1
Kings 19:4)

* Before speaking to him, God sent an angel to
minister to his physical needs. (1 Kings 19:4-8)

« Twice God asks Elijah, what are you doing here?
(19:9,13)

* Twice Elijah expresses his sense of isolation: “I,
even | only, am left. (19:10, 14)

24. God’s Treatment Plan (1 Kings 19)
. God demonstrated his power. (19:11-12a)
. God spoke to Elijah in a whisper. (19:12b)

. God gave Elijah a job to anoint two kings. The
reign of Ahab and Jezebel was coming to an end!
(19:15-17)

. God gave Elijah reassurance. Seven thousand
had not bowed down to Baal. (19:18)

. God gave Elijah a helper. (19:19-21)

25. 4 Lessons
from
Elijah:

1. Attending to your
when you’re down. Don’t ignore them!

26. 4 Lessons
from
Elijah:

2. Don’t hide in a cave. Keep serving God, even
if the feelings aren't there.

27. 4 Lessons
from
Elijah:

3. Learn to listen to God's still small voice.

28. 4 Lessons
from
Elijah:

4. You are not as alone as you think!

31. REATMENT PLAN

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Matthew 11:28-29

32. 3. Fill your heart with
prayer and
thanksgiving.