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Hostage: Worry

intro
1. worry- German word "wurgen" meaning to strangle/choke
2. worry is the sin of distrusting the promises and power of God
how do we stop the strangle hold of worry?
1. Ph. 4.4-9
Do what God says
1. rejoice
  1. repeated
  2. not based on circumstances
  3. no situation beyond God
2. be gentle
  1. worry often leads to irritablity
  2. worry means we are self focused
  3. focused on what is not going right
  4. God is at hand!
3. give God what I can't handle
  1. Jesus spoke to this in Mt. 6.25ff
  2. what caused worry then, still exists 2day
  3. Point - prayer relieves anxiety
  4. significance - pray w/thanksgiving
4. Ph. 4.4-6
cultivate right thoughts
1. Ph. 4.8
2. rearrange life & thought so God's peace can work
3. main verb is "think"
  1. to focus
  2. mediate
4. 7 qualities of right thoughts
5. think right thoughts about situation and God
Rest in God's Peace
1. Ph. 4.7
2. it is a divine peace
  1. not based on whether or not circumstances changed or needs where met
3. it trancends understnading
  1. peace exels knowledge
4. it stands gaurd
  1. military term
  2. keeps the junk out!
take home
1. what is consuming you?
2. what is strangling you?
3. Say "I will trust God no matter what

Hostage: Worry

	Created by Ross Johnson almost 11 years ago