Overcoming Anxiety 1

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Overcoming Anxiety (1)

• Matthew 619-25

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ANXIETY

• Anxiety Disorders are the most common mental
  illness in the U.S. with 40 million (18.1) of
  the adult U.S. population (age 18 and older)
  affected. (adaa.org)
• Over 800 million annually on anti-anxiety pills
• More people visit doctors for anxiety than for
  colds
• Anxiety disorders cost the U.S. more than
  42 billion a year

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ANXIETY

• There are physical mental components to anxiety
  that can be diagnosed treated
• There is a spiritual component to anxiety that
  Christians must not ignore
• Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
  prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let
  your requests be made known to God. Phil. 46

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Medically Speaking

• A feeling of apprehension and fear characterized
  by physical symptoms such as palpitations,
  sweating, and feelings of stress. Anxiety
  disordersfill peoples lives with overwhelming
  anxiety and fear. Unlike the relatively mild,
  brief anxiety caused by a stressful event such as
  a business presentation or a first date, anxiety
  disorders are chronic, relentless, and can grow
  progressively worse if not treated.
  (MedicineNet.com)

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Medically Speaking

• Recommended treatments (each has its place its
  limitations in a balanced life)
• Medication (1 Tim. 523)
• Diet (Matt. 1517)
• Exercise (1 Tim. 48)
• Rest (Mk. 631)

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ANXIETY

• Care, concern or worry that consumes takes over
  ones view of self and approach to
  life, Matt. 625
• A distracting care
• Satan works on our minds to distract, discourage
  destroy us, 2 Cor. 43-4 (211)

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ANXIETY Worldly Care

• Mark 419 Cares of this world
• Worry that distracts from serving God
• merizo to divide, distribute
• Distraction, worry, anxious
• Husband 1 Cor. 732-33 (34)
• Martha Luke 1040-41

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ANXIETY Worldly Care

• Anxiety offers an unbalanced perspective of
  lifes circumstances, Matt. 619-25
• Can cause depression, Prov. 1225
• Weighed down with wrong things, Lk.
  2134

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ANXIETY Worldly Care

• Anxiety is a choice,
  Matt. 624-25 Jno. 141, 27
• Jesus, Lk. 2240-44
• Apostles, 2 Cor. 47-15
• We are not enslaved to our thoughts bring every
  thought into captivity to obey Christ! Rom.
  1221 2 Cor. 105

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ANXIETY Worldly Care

• Anxiety is both the cause and effect of misplaced
  focus and emphasis, Matt. 622-25

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Anxiety What it Does

• Isolates you, Lk. 626
• Elijah (1 Kgs. 199-10)
• Jesus (Matt. 41 511)
• Anxiety looks inward rather than outward upward

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Anxiety What it Does

• Profitless, Psa. 1271-2
• Paralyzes, Prov. 2213 (2613)
• Phobias (fears), Matt. 2525
• Peace disrupted, Lk. 1040
• Pinches the word, Matt. 137, 22