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Worry Class #4 · Wetumpka Church of Christ Online

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All right. Good night.
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Good evening to everyone. About to wish you a good night,
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and we're having gotten started yet.
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Yeah. Great to see everybody this
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evening. Hope everybody's had a good day
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so far and appreciate you being here.
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It's just great to have an opportunity to gather together
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middle of the week and towards the end of a day and just spend
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a little bit of time together. Hopefully, encouraging and
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Supporting an edifying. One another Tonight we are going
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to focus, our time specifically own anxiety.
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We've kind of hit some major issues with with whirring, xiety
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depression. Just kind of lightly hitting at
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times all three, but we're going to specifically try to dive in
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tonight a little bit too of the issue of anxiety.
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And hopefully, we'll say some things tonight that will be,
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that will be hopeful. And helpful in dealing with this
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issue, the Lord wants us. To be at peace with ourselves
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and in our lives, you know, we think about Psalm 23.
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The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want he leaves me.
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Beside Still Waters. Now, what does that mean?
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What do you know about sheep and their relationship with water
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and their preferred drinking sources?
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According to what? I have read.
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She do not like moving water. It stresses them out and makes
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them jittery. And so a fast-moving River a
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sheep's not going to stick his head in and drink a sheep as
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preferring to drink from Still Waters.
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That's that's the water that has Preferred.
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That is what keeps them calm and keeps them from being over
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stimulated and Rest. And so, when David talks about
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the Lord, being his Shepherd and leading him beside Still Waters.
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What what David is saying is that the Lord is taking me to
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places that provide for me, peace of mind and provide for me
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opportunities to not feel. So jittery jump re jumpy anxious
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worried stressed. All those things, that that many
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of us struggle with Most of us, maybe even all of us, struggle
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with anxiousness or anxiety at times, there are certain life
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circumstances that we face. That all of us face is human
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beings. If we live long enough, that
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provide opportunities for anxiety opportunities for
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anxiousness, and then there are some where it is a habitual and
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chronic struggle. We were talking about worry.
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Good bit last Wednesday together.
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And we talked about the fact in scripture supports this, that
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worry is a natural emotion. And when it is contained, when
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it is kept in its proper confinement, it's a useful
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emotion, isn't it? Useful for us to be genuinely
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concerned about our family about our friends, about Humanity in
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general. So Paul talked about one of the,
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the For Christ, was his daily anxiety for the churches and
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that words translated different ways depending on the
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translation that you're reading from.
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And remember, we talked to before and Philippians 2, where
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Paul basically commended Timothy because of the level of concern
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that he had, that Timothy had for the Philippian church that
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basically rivaled the level of concern that Paul himself had
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for the Philippian church, and so this worry Is this emotion of
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warrior concern as it is translated sometimes when that
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word appears in the New Testament is natural.
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It's natural and it's useful when it's kept in its proper
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place. But like most emotions when we
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allow them to run, amok picture if you will and I've been in
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houses like this and maybe you have a large dog that you keep
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in an inside kennel. And as long as that dog is
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inside that kennel inside your house.
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No problems. No issues.
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But if this is a high-energy untrained dog, you know, what
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can happen when he, or she is let out of the kennel,
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especially if it's in an unsupervised.
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I know some people who have an inside dog, they keep the dog
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kennel while they're at work because they know if they allow
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the dog to run free in the house for eight hours while they're
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gone. They're going to come home and
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it's going to look like, you know, a looting situation has
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occurred inside their house. And so what anxiety is is
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basically, when worry has been allowed to run amok, it's no
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longer kenneled. It's no longer confined.
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And now it is just running rampant through your mind,
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through your heart. Just wreaking havoc knocking
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over everything, Breaking All the breakables that it comes in
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contact with. So that's what anxiety does to
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us. And if it is a chronic in
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habitual thing, that of course it can, it can be debilitating.
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One of the things that that anxiety does and we've talked
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about these emotions and depression being being basically
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a state of being of existing. Okay, I completely forgot where
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I was going. Just stay away.
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That just, that was here. One minute Jeremy and gone the
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next. I am feeling a little anxious
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right now. Yes, trying to figure out what
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train of thought I was on that is causing causing some
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anxiousness. Definitely, you know, we're
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talking about these emotions and boy will get back there in a
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minute. Let me just share with you now,
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I full disclosure here. I have not dealt with chronic or
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habitual anxiety in my life. Personally.
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I have had Episodes of Tom's of anxiousness but they have been
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temporary and seasonal for me. So I cannot fully empathize with
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those where it is a chronic and habitual issue that you have
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fought maybe for weeks months or even years.
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But I have family that have struggled and many people that I
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have talked with, and, and spent time with over the years, have
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have shared with me. Me visit, this being a chronic
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habitual situation and issue so I can speak to things that I
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have been told and I can speak to things that I have read.
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I can't speak and then I can speak to how it's made me feel
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in the, in the times in which I've experienced it, where it's
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not, you know, being over an extended period of time.
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So, you know, I don't speak with, you know, with great
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knowledge or authority on this issue.
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Incoming from trying to understand fully, those who you
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feel like it has, it is debilitated.
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It is been a debilitating thing. Okay.
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Now it finally came back Jerry where I was going well to see.
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So these it's a gang of Thieves, worry, anxiety, depression.
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One of the things that anxiety robs us of is it Robs a Clarity
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of seeing what's right in front of us?
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And enjoying the moment. And remember when we talked
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about Mary and Martha and the word worried anxious comes up in
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Jesus describing Martha and her mind set it.
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What it was that was fueling her to be.
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So intent on making sure she provided Jesus with a perfect
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meal and she's missing the bigger picture.
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And that is this opportunity to spend time as Mary was doing
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just at Jesus feet learning from him.
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And so Jesus basic was saying to Martha Martha, you've allowed
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your anxiousness, your concern. You're worried.
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It's robbed, you of seeing the blessing.
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That's right in front of you as a basically, he was saying more
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that I need you to understand this.
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This mindset is distracting for you.
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Mary was aware of the circumstance, was aware of how
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precious of a moment. This was and is taking full
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advantage of it. You were distracted by your your
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concern for making sure this, this beautiful meal was prepared
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for this occasion. Nothing wrong, you know with
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wanting to prepare, prepare a great meal.
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Nothing wrong with wanting to entertain, nothing wrong with
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putting a lot of effort and energy into being hospitable.
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Nothing wrong with those things. Except when our are over
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anxiousness are over worry concern about something over.
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Here distracts us from something.
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That's that's better. Just as a silly fun not to me.
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But example like today there was a lot of things on my to-do list
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today with both Church stuff and hospice stuff.
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I had a lot of stuff to try to get done today.
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And it also kind of try to make sure I look back over the notes
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for tonight a couple of times throughout the day, but I made
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it a point to take a really scenic route detour.
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Two of the things I had to do to stop by brookies house to hug on
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Weston's room because they're only going to be five months and
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change, you know, for a short time and I'm not going to lose
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an opportunity because I'm busy and I've got all these things
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going on. If there's a way that I can add
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it into the day. I'm going to add into that exact
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because to me, that's one of the most important things going on
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in. My life is, is building a
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relationship with those two little boys.
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So I said, I'll I'll take a detour.
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I'll go way around for where I needed to be next to drop in and
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see them and you share a few laughs with with the boys and we
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had a great conversation. They just had some real
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insightful things to share with me.
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Day and year, we just had a really great back and forth,
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banter. And it was fantastic, but I
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needed. I needed that and I was not
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going to let my anxiousness of all the things I needed to get
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done today. Robbed me of at least one moment
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during the day to do something like that that I felt is.
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You know, you're in what Jesus said, Mary has chosen the best
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part. It's not that Mary had chosen
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made a bad choice, in being hospitable and and wanting to
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provide a great meal for her Savior and her master, but Mary
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had made the better choice and that was just slow down stop.
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Stop being distracted and anxious about all these are the
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things that that you think are important.
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You need to get done. Focus on what's right here in
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front of you. And that's one of the things
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things, Ian T robs us of yet me Lemonhope.
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Get you. I think Neil was your hand
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there. Yeah, lay it on us.
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Yes. Yep.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, powerful Point their nail.
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That is that, that is so true. And, you know, replacing
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something. That's unhealthy with something.
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That's healthy. You know, sometimes you think,
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well, fear is unhealthy in any context, no fear of the Lord is
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not. And so to replace maybe some of
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these lesser fears that are causing this anxious.
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And I love the way that you described that anxiety does two
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things. One thing, it does it sometimes.
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Throws the blanket over those Things that are right in front
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of us and keeps us from seeing those things that are good right
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in front of us and then it takes the legitimate.
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Like you said, legitimate bad things often, but it magnifies
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them to the point where now they just look like this unknown
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unbeatable Foe. And so you have replacing the
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fears that you were. Experiencing from those two
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scenarios, replacing it with this healthy fear of the Lord,
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realizing his power, his majesty and his ability to help you
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whether those storms. Yeah, really great observations
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there. Yeah.
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Hope Absolutely.
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Hoping that is one of the big things that anxiety does.
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One of the big examples of thievery.
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The way as described in some of the material.
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I'm going to share with you in. Just a moment.
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It is three responses that that anxiety can can arouse within us
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fight flight and freeze. And when you feel debilitated by
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anxiety, Sometimes it is a freeze reaction.
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Where now, you just feel, literally paralyzed.
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You don't want to leave the house.
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You don't want to pick up the phone.
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You don't want to interact with friends, family, loved ones,
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your community. And so, yes, and then it is,
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it's putting a barrier between you and one of the things that
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can help manage that anxiety. And that is those acts of
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service and love for others that as we well know.
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When we do those acts of service and love for others, it raises
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those hormones, those chemicals in our body, that, that help us
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with our mood, your dopamine's, and your serotonins, and your
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epinephrine, sign out in a pronounce that one, right?
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But thank you know what I'm talking about.
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But yes, fantastic point there. Hope.
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I think I missed a yes. Brother.
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Danny. Thinking about all this, because
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I'm hurting. Chronically anxious.
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They didn't want to leave the house, right?
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Somebody could Billy is, are really afraid of the storm.
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So they, so in fear of that, if they can't enjoy the perfectly
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good days because they're thinking about what might come
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down the road. The they're they're conscious
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constantly. Thank you though, and then they
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help of course, arriving just doesn't Oh my God, dying.
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And always look at a lot of things that than that absolutely
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brother. Dan is.
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Paying a fee, goes back to a point.
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Yes. I want to hear from you too.
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That just the great email that you allowed us to read for
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everyone when we begin this class and, you know, one of the
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things that you said in your personal experience, and I know
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this is a common issue with many that, that struggle with it,
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chronically or habitually, is this tendency to try to carry
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guilt and regrets of the past worries and concerns about the
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The future and add those into the Satchel of of the current
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days already existing concerns. You remember when Jesus is
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trying to tell us, not to worry, Matthew chapter 6.
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What does he say about the reason not to worry about?
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Tomorrow is sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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So in essence, you say, listen, this life is not a walk in the
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park. So each day is going to produce
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its own set of challenges, its own set of obstacles and issues.
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So in other words, you'll have enough to deal with With just
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dealing with what comes up in this 24 hours, but if you've got
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this sack where, you know, your carried around today's troubles,
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but you've added into that sack yesterday's regrets and the
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things that, you know, that bother you from mistakes or
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choices, or things that have happened to you or things that
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you've done, whatever. And then, you're worrying and
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start about the stuff in the future.
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And now, you throwing all that stuff in the Satchel.
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It is an unbearable bag to carry.
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Nobody can can Walk around with a bag that full that that bag is
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full and overflowing. And so that's why Jesus saying,
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let tomorrow will worry about itself sufficient for the day,
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is its troubled. So don't don't add into that
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sack of your daily issues. The things that that you're
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bringing back from days, already gone and what you're worried
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about could happen in the days ahead.
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Yeah, Peyton. I need to weigh more than they
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did. Yes.
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Yeah. I love it.
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Peyton, you hit the nail on the head?
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And no, it is not a me. It is a way that you were
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talking about in everything that I have read.
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The the expectations that we allow culture and Society to
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place on us this level of busyness that we feel like,
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okay. Well we have to do this because
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this is what culture Society is telling us.
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It is one of the At the top of the list of those that list, the
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things that are reasons for the anxiety epidemic.
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And that is everybody that studies.
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This is we are the most anxious collection of human beings that
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has existed as of yet. You know, I won't bore you with
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all the statistics but I read multiple sources and I know
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anxiety disorder is an inexact science, you know you You can do
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a blood test to determine if you have leukemia, you know, you can
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do a test to determine if you have strep.
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The test for anxiety disorder is not as an exact science as that.
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So, you know, but for those that make those medical diagnosis,
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they say it's to the tune of and Jeremy.
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You can tell me if this stat is similar to what you come across
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in your education at work. ENT of the current population.
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They believe has either a diagnosed or they have it.
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It's just not been diagnosed case of anxiety disorder, the
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percentage, the, the numbers of millions of the people that that
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have medication for these kinds of issues, it's over 25 million
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just in this country and I like to speak very carefully when we
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start talking about medication as being a problem, because
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there are There are examples of anxiety that that are external
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to anything involving life experience.
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Meaning your body is not producing those those hormones
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that we were talking about a few moments ago.
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Your body's not producing them naturally at the rate in which
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your body needs in order to function without having anxiety.
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And so there, there are scientific diagnosis for anxiety
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disorders. What I'm saying not One who has
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been told by Medical Professional, you have an
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anxiety disorder was based on a scientific.
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Okay, we've done the blood work. Your you're lacking in this
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particular hormone, this particular hormone.
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We're going to give you some medication to balance those
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things out. So I'm not saying that throw out
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the baby with the bathwater. And anyway, I won't get too too
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often any of that brother cliff and then, Brother, David,
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Absolutely, brother. Clavin is such a Great point.
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You make in taking us to that scene in the garden.
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Where Jesus. If he's not experiencing
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anxiety. I don't know what it is in that
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prayer in the garden and G. There's a part of Jesus that is
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looking at the hours to come as an unbearable burden.
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That's why he praised three times for the Lord, to let the
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cup pass. So, there's a part of his
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Humanity that's looking at what's before him, and he's
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viewing it as being unbearable. And He's praying earnestly to
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the Lord, for a way out and we see God to his own son.
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Does not give him a way out. But what does he give him?
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An angel to minister to him? He gives him the strength, he
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needs to, okay. I'm going to help you realize
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this is not an unbearable life experience.
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You can do it. It's not going to be easy.
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It's going to be indescribably difficult, but he sent an angel
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into the garden to minister to Jesus, to give him the strength.
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He made to handle those last few hours before he could say it is
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finished. And so, you know, when we're
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dealing with those things that causes anxiety, worry.
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Not every time the answer is going to be just completely
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removing the root cause, but what God does is provides us
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with that tool if we, if we trust in him and believe, Leave
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that that he has the ability to do it.
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He gives us the tools that we need to weather it to make it a
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bearable burden to make it something that we can actually
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get through Brother David. Yes, yes.
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Medical. Yeah, there's a medical
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component to some some anxiety. Yes.
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I'll Brother David such a fantastic way and it is right on
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the money. Yeah.
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Now I get to you in just a second.
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Let me just piggyback on that real quick because it is so
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germane to something that I read, Benjamin of the book that
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you loan me. Redefining anxiety by dr.
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John Delaney. And the way he visit he was
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someone that he's got training and expertise in in anxiety.
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He's all he was also a personal suffer from it to the point
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where it It almost did him in so he can both empathize
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sympathize. He knows it from an internal as
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well as tons of study Education and Research that he's done on
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it. And the way that he describes
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anxiety is anxiety, is is not the problem.
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Anxiety is an alarm system to let you know that there is a
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problem somewhere else. Kind of like it was anybody
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around when the tornado sirens were tested today.
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I was I was driving and I was driving closer to one of those
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Sirens. So it was getting louder as it
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was going, and that thing will make your heart rate.
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Even when you know, it's a test, you know, it is such a relief to
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me when you hear that lesson. Oh, thank goodness, man, with
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that thing ever. Quit.
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Imagine anxiety as a siren or or in simpler terms.
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A smoke alarm in your house. And so anxiety is letting, you
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know, there is danger in your ecosystem.
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What what makes you who you are. And so what is most beneficial
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for the person who is dealing with anxiety is not to take the
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batteries out of the smoke alarm not to what walk out of the
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house and leave until it stops, alarming not to distract
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yourself so that you're not hearing it by putting a Plugs in
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your ears but finding okay. Is there?
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Smoke is there fire? Why is this alarm going off?
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And they that gets to your point where we have to ask ourselves
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those questions. Okay.
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What what is it? This that's running in my mind
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that is causing me agitation. That's causing me.
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Anxiety, that is distracting me from why would much rather be
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doing right now? What is it?
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And what, what a lot of us tend to do, is to do something to
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mute the sound, rather than to deal with what it is, that's
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causing it. And what Delaney said is when he
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was talking about medication. He said, for some that
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medication is essential because there is a medical reason for
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why the anxiety is is happening. For others.
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It is it is masking. The issue that has not been
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dealt with reconciled resolved and sometimes it's as for some
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people that everybody is case is unique, but for some people,
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they're going to feel less stressed by turning off the
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news. I've had multiple people that
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have said to me, my mood has improved since I turned off the
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news. I have had other people who have
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said when I decided to You no longer allow my phone to rule my
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life. My mood improved, my stress.
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So sometimes people have been able to diagnose themselves.
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And so that you're not dealing with a medical issue.
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You're not dealing with a chemical imbalance.
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There's something in your life that is setting off that alarm
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and now you've searched through your mind and your heart.
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Okay, here it is. Here's where the smoke is.
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Here's where the fire is. Now.
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Let's get the smoke in the fire out of the house.
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And now the alarm will go off on its own.
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And so it is such an important exercise is Delaney said it
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Brother. David is you said so
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beautifully, its identifying, those stressors.
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Sometimes it is Peyton going back to your point.
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This I am allowing myself to give into this cultural
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expectation of fill. Every moment with something.
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You got to be accomplishing something, every single moment,
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Delaney goes on to say, I'm getting way way down in the
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notes. He says, You have to stop
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believing the myth that you can be all things to all people at
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all times. He said that, that is a myth, it
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cannot be accomplished. It cannot be done.
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And you got to quit trying to tell yourself that.
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You can have it all. Be it all, do it.
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All. He says, nobody can have it all,
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be it all, do it. All.
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He says, we are human beings, not human doings.
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He said if your doings are getting in the way of your
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being, then you need to remove some of Of the doing so that you
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can get back to being and I thought, wow, that was, that was
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one that I filed away for for a long-term meditation, Neil what
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you got, brother? Fantastic Point nail.
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That's I think about the words, the devotional song when you
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were talking about. When did the Lord cry out
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through all this, that he endured.
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When did he cry out? It was.
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And the the words that saw me in thorns on his head.
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His spirit is hide yet. It was a heartache that made him
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cry. It was that that Agony of
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separation from the Lord? What those three hours of
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Darkness represented on the cross from the sixth hour to the
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ninth hour that Darkness representing God.
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Father, turning his back on the sun, him bearing, the sins of
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the world alone. You remember that?
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That sense of aloneness. Jesus was already anticipating.
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I think is in John chapter, 16 Henry, the exact verse but he
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and the conclusion of his conversation with the apostles
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before he leaves to go in the garden and pray.
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He says you're going to leave me alone.
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And Jesus is already anticipating and one of the
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other books. I'm reading a book that bats
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will Barrett Baxter wrote. I like calling triple because
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it's kind of hard to say it. Triple B wrote a book called
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when life tumbles in back in the 70s and he was talking about
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what are the things that contribute so much to depression
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is loneliness is being alone. And and so when Jesus had to
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spend that time on this, particularly those three hours
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on the cross feeling for the first time in his eternal
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existence, this separation from the father.
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It was that. That is when you hear him cry
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and Jesus doesn't even Ask anything for himself until I
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think it's John's account that says, and when he knew that all
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things had been fulfilled. He said, I thirst, and then
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allowed himself to receive a little bit from what they
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brought him because he had already paid the price at that.
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Quote, because right after that, he says, it is finished right
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after that into your hands. I commit my spirit.
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Yes, sir. Brother.
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Shane are, I'm terribly, sorry. Didn't see where the hand came
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from. Yes, Tiffany.
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And TV. That is so true.
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We We, in fact, we touched on that in the very first class in
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Peyton's email that he allowed us to have read for everybody
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touched on that as well. That sometimes the worst thing
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that you can say to a Christian is, well.
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Are you praying enough? Are you studying up or you read
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your Bible enough? You know, sometimes that is
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being said to someone who in the previous two weeks.
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They've never paid more in their life in the previous two weeks.
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They've never read their Bible. Or in their life and they're
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still dealing with these issues. And in essence.
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What is being insinuated and it's not intentional, you know,
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when we say things like that, but what's been insinuated?
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Okay. Well, you probably just need to
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ramp up your Christian. Walk a little bit.
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You're not, you're just not quite living the Christian Life,
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good enough right now. And that for people that are
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believers and we don't know, you know what their pattern of
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spiritual behavior is being and the weeks previous.
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I mean, it may be that they have never prayed more.
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Never studied more and it's at that point in time.
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Yes. It may be a valley that they're
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in that it's just going to take more time and it's going to take
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some divine intervention, beyond our comprehension and
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understanding to get us through of yet being very careful and
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How we tried to. Diagnose someone's condition and
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prescribed for them. The necessary thing they need to
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do it. We had to be so careful with
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people that are going through this.
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Yes, brother Danny. A piece of tape, over the check,
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engine light in your car sooner or later.
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Something's going to happen. It is going to break down in the
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same way with us. If we don't deal with that
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anxiety, we can't always do it alone time.
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We have to have counselor education, all of those
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different things but It has to be dealt with it.
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Whatever way it needs to be dealt with for pretty soon.
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Some breakdown. That is so true, brother Danny.
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That's one of the points that that dr.
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Delaney makes in this book that he wrote redefining anxiety.
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Where if we just continually try to mask or mute the alarm?
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And again, we know their medical contributors to anxiety, that
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it's not as easy as going into the room.
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Finding where the smoke of the fire is put it out.
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The alarm is going to go out. So we know that not all cases.
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That's that's going to work. But there are cases where and
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here's what he talks about. And I know I think I'm getting
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the heads up that that time is up.
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Is that what's happening here? Okay, so let me just read this
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one. Rapping.
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We'll be done and we'll pick up here toward Will.
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And next Wednesday, meds can be helpful in needed when anxiety
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and depression are based upon a chemical imbalance and internal
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problem or a chronic illness. But meds or not.
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The ultimate answer a solution for anxiety that is caused by
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actor, external problems, such as toxic relationships, improper
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work-life, balance fast-paced, lifestyle, unrealistic
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pressures, and expectations. You may be stuck in an
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unsustainable overwhelming, life sucked into the chaos and
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disconnection of the modern world medication will not fix
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those things. They will only mask them or numb
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you to the effects of them and eventually, they will that they
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will be overcoming. So we'll stop there.
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Thank y'all so much. Great comments and observations
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will pick up there. We've got a good bit more to say
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about anxiety and maybe some things that will help us cope
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with.