Jesus completely freed me from anxiety and in this video I want to do three things I want to tell you my story a little bit of my story and how I had terrible anxiety crippling anxiety secondly I want to show you in the Bible how Jesus used this specific verse to rid me of this anxiety by meditating on this specific verse and then thirdly how you can move forward with your anxiety and apply what I tell you in these next couple minutes so first of all for context my anxiety was extremely bad uh crippling uh
not wanting to eat uh the anx I would have anxiety and it it would flush out in different ways where I'd end up having uh manic behavior I would do just completely insane things to the point where I was putting my own life at risk where I was hurting others manipulating others to be in control um saying things that I didn't really mean and I just felt so trapped in that anxiety it was almost like when I would feel anxious about something and I would I'd give into it it's almost like I would want to
stay there I don't know if you can relate to that at all but it was so bad um like clinically just awful and so yeah that's that's it for context um not being able to breathe at times waking up in the middle of night in the of the night uh with panic attacks um and in full sweat um and so yeah I came to know the Lord and it was shortly after that when I met my now wife and I remember she was singing this song and it goes I'm not a singer she is but
it goes like don't be anxious about the point is it comes from a verse from Philippians and the verse says in Philippians 46 and 7 uh says don't be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving let your request be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses Every Man's understanding will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus so what I did uh every time I would have an anxious thought or I'd start to feel anxious I'd start to worry um about things that I can't control
or a situation or a relationship that I would want to control and it was coming from this intense place of anxiety I would remind myself of this verse I would say it and I would walk myself through it and I guess this kind of goes into the next part of what you can do as well I get anxious and then I go okay he says here don't be anxious about anything and I'd say to myself this is the command not to be anxious about anything like like my my flight got cancelled uh this girl is
she is she cheating on me uh oh my gosh she's not respond like don't be anxious about anything like I shouldn't be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving so God don't be anxious about anything God does not want me to be anxious about anything but what he does want me to do is by prayer and petition so prayer and asking with Thanksgiving so pray to God plead with God for him to help you say God I'm ious there's another verse that says uh uh to cast your your cares on
him your anxieties on him so cast those on him say Jesus I'm anxious I'm struggling with this I want to control this help me God and then with Thanksgiving so I would start to go into the things that I'm thankful for God I'm thankful for your word that I'm able to walk myself through this verse that you're able to guide me through this verse Lord I'm thankful for for this day the food that you've given me my my family and just walk down the list think of anything that you can be thankful for like there's
always something to be thankful for it can be air conditioning it can be food on your plate you can you might have one friend you might have no friends but you have clothes on your back if you don't have clothes on your back you've got breath in your lungs there's always something to be thankful for and so I walk myself down the things I'm thankful for and breathe just breathe and it says let your request be made known to God so I'd walk down this list I don't need to be anxious I can be thankful
for all of these things that God has given me I can trust him I can trust his plan God help me I'm struggling I I want to control the situation I know I can't control it God would you just help me have Open Hands help me Jesus and let in the last part of that verse says let your request be made known to God so you just plead with them say God would you take my anxiety away help me trust you in this situation and the next verse says in the peace of God which surpasses
Every Man's understanding will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus and so walk yourself through it and then the peace of God will be with you and so I would do this every time and the next verse verse 8 is is like the same thing but kind of um um like explained out a little more I guess you could say because like I said earlier to think about things that you're thankful for here in verse 8 he says finally Brothers uh think on things that are true things that are dignified things that are righteous
things that are pure things that are lovely things that are well spoken of if there is any virtue and of and if any praise take account of these things I'm not sure what translation this is I'm used to the ESV and this is a new Bible I think this is NIV but basically look in your Bible what verse 8 says and walk yourself through those words things that are righteous things that are good so don't think about the situation um and if it if you do think about the situation things that you can be thankful
for in the situation things that are good in the situation you know for instance um if it's a relationship problem you know don't think about the problem myself but think about God you've been able to use this person to speak to me thank you for that I'm thankful for them pray for them think about things that are lovely think about uh good things think about uh the sunset think about art think about beautiful music but dwell on the best things like so there's those things and then there's the things of God um which I would
say I have in the past when I've been in really hard times just think about all the good things that God has done and what I mean by that is I look around and say God thank you for the birds cuz he's Sovereign you know and and he is the one who's created everything so I just thank him God thank you for the trees thank you for the the beautiful blue sky and I just go down the list and then I'd start to think on things like God thank you that you were just and I
go into his character and so walk yourself through when you're anxious memorize verse 6 and 7 don't be anxious about anything but everything with prayer and supplication Thanksgiving let your request be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus and you walk yourself through that verse you command your heart you command your mind into this verse whatever you have going on about ible says take every thought captive to The Obedience of Christ and so if you think about a thought coming
into your mind wrestle it grab it and and say does this honor Jesus does this glorify Jesus and and you are in control of your mind don't let your mind dwell on bad things but as verse say8 says think about things that are good that are lovely that are pure that are righteous and the peace of God will be with you and so it was through doing this over and over and over and over that my brain I guess opened up new neural Pathways and I no longer would have anxiety in situations that I would
in the past it was completely gone and it was all through applying the word of God In Prayer applying the word of God In Prayer I'd walk myself through this verse in prayer and it completely God completely took my anxiety away his word literally healed my brain um which is so mind blocking so for you do that uh if you have anxiety first of all You're Not Alone um and you know talk to your doctor I'm not aor doctor you might need medication but stay in the word and memorize that verse um that's all for
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