Title: Anxiety is a Waste of Time
Meta: If you give into anxiety you will reap fear, condemnation, and discouragement. Anxiety is a wasted choice that dishonors the Savior. Rather we must not yield to anxiety, but take everything to the Lord in prayer.
Tags: anxiety,anxious,fear,doubt

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If you choose to give in to anxiety,

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does it help you?

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What good's it going to do you?

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It's wasted energy.

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It's wasted.

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Everything's wasted in it.

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You will reap - if you give into anxiety -

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you will reap fear,

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condemnation,

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discouragement,

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I could name probably twenty other things

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anxiety will bring.

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So, anxiety is a wasted choice

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that dishonors your Savior.

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So if we learn to say,

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I am not yielding to anxiety.

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My Lord has told me in Philippians 4:6

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the response is prayer.

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Father, You know what I feel right now.

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Faith is not denying the presence of fear.

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It's facing it,

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and it's turning to the Lord and addressing it.

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Father, You know I'm afraid right now.

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That's what I did about that surgery.

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Father, You know I'm afraid right now.

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Help me right now.

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And I would use God's truth.

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And the fear would dissolve.

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Peace would come.

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So, be anxious for nothing,

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but in everything...

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it's a learned habit.

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It's a spiritual discipline.

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You replace and you defeat fear

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with a response of trust.

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Father, here's what I'm fearing,

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but I'm giving this to You.

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I thank You - with thanksgiving -

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I thank You that You're sovereign.

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You rule over this.

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Take care of this.

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I'm asking You for this.

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And then, Paul said,

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the peace of God will guard your hearts and minds

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in Christ Jesus.

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Turning to the truth and promises

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must be our response.