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Jack Graham - Help! I'm Afraid

March 1, 2026 | 27:29

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Help! I'm Afraid | March 1, 2026

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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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I think a lot of people think that we christians have it all
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Together. or maybe they think that we think we have it all
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Together. the reality is that we all as humans suffer fears,
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And anxieties, and doubts, and grief, and emotional health
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Issues. we all do. the bible does tell us to put our hopes
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And fears into the trust of jesus, but that doesn't mean
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That we don't have problems. that we don't face mental,
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Emotional struggles in our life. but, what does the bible
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Does promise? it promises us peace, and joy, and security.
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In today's message, we're going to dive into dealing with fear
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And anxiety. let's get to the message right now!
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In my fifty years i've never seen so many changes in our
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Culture as we're seeing today. and it is clear to me that we
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Are in avalanche... as a result of all the changes and the
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Upheaval in our culture, that we are in an avalanche of angst
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And anxiety. people are increasingly burdened and
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Broken, overwhelmed and over extended. we are worried, we
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Are wearied, we are fearful, we are fatigued.
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A recent study by the world mental health council surveying
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14 nations determined that america... americans... we are
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The most worried, anxious nation in the world. amazing
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Isn't it? with all the prosperity in our country and
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Yet we are plagued with so much anxiety. we spend billions of
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Dollars each year in this country on anti-anxiety
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Medication. anxiety disorders are the most common mental
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Illness in america.
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We are living in an extreme psychological pressure, whether
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It is divisive politics or your cell phone and its screens,
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Angry people and anxiety is often the result. add in...
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Especially to our young people, add in a secular world view
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That is being taught in our public schools... most of our
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Public schools and universities, and you get an
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Environment in which anxiety and fear is bred.
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Where there is no god, there is no peace! where there is no
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Spiritual light, only secularism and narcissism, is
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There any wonder that many of our young people are asking the
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Question: "is it worth it to live? how can i keep going on?"
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And many are killing themselves! the suicide rate is
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Up, up, up, among young adults under the age of 30, including
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Teenagers. and still even those who love god, who read the
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Bible... maybe even study the bible, attend church, can
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Struggle with anxieties of all kinds.
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Let me say that anxiety is a complex issue. and i certainly
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Would not purpose... and insult your intelligence to suggest
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That here in about 30 minutes that i can give you every
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Antidote to anxiety.
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Now professional and pastoral counsellors are very, very
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Helpful in times like these for each one of us. physicians and
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Therapists, appropriate medication is helpful for some
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And for some it is actually life-saving. and then there's
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Exercise, and good nutrition, and proper sleep, and healthy
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Habits which are effective in treating anxiety. but
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Ultimately it is god's word and god's wisdom that brings us
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Comfort and even the cure.
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Listen to this: “all treatments that assist us in containing
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And controlling our anxiety must be anchored in the hope
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And the peace that only god can give.”
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Romans 15, verse 13... one of my favorite verses... "may the
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God of hope..." and this is a prayer. it's my prayer for you.
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"may the god of hope fill you with joy and peace in
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Believing, that by the power of the holy spirit you may abound
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(overflow) in hope." god has promised peace beyond our
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Comprehension. in fact, jesus said in john 14 and verse 27:
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"my peace i give to you, not as the world gives. do not let
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Your hearts be troubles."
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Hear me say clearly to build our lives on a sure foundation
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Is absolutely essential in controlling our minds, our
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Mental health! so that when tribulation and trauma and
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Tests and trials and tragedies come our way... and jesus said,
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"in this world you will have tribulation..." when these come
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Our way, we'll not be blown away, but we can be strong and
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Steady in the storms of life, that we can face the gale-force
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Fears that come against us. because while we face our fears
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And deal with fears every day, we must never become obsessed
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With fear. in fact, the bible says in 2 timothy 1:7: "god has
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Not given us a spirit of fear... (an obsession of fear)
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But love, power and a sound mind."
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So, the answer to anxiety ultimately and eternally comes
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From the almighty. and we find it right here in philippians
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Chapter 4, verses 6 and 7:
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6)do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by
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Prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request
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Be made known to god. 7) and the peace of god which
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Surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and your
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Mind in christ jesus.
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Two words which i believe represent the antidote for
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Anxiety, the prescription for peace in our lives... two
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Words. grateful prayer... grateful prayer. what we're
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Told in god's word is don't be anxious. do not worry about
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Anything, but pray about everything. in other words, be
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A worshipper, not a worrier! turn your worry into prayers!
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If you have time enough to worry, you have time enough to
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Pray! grateful prayer!
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Now jesus spoke about this truth in the sermon on the
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Mount. this truth of not being worried about anything. and in
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Matthew 6 (you should turn to it in your bibles) he said,
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“therefore, i tell you do not be anxious about your life,
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What you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your
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Body, what you will put on. is not life more than food, and
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The body more than clothing? look at the birds of the air:
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They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your
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Heavenly father feeds them. are you not of more value than
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They? and which of you be being anxious can add a single hour
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To his lifespan? and why are you anxious about clothing?
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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they
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Neither toil nor spin, yet i tell you, even solomon in all
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His glory was not arrayed like one of these. but if god so
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Clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and
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Tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more
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Clothe you, o you of little faith? therefore, do not be
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Anxious, saying, ‘what shall we eat?' or ‘what shall we drink?'
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Or ‘what shall we wear?' for the gentiles (that is
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Unbelievers) seek after all these things, and your heavenly
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Father knows that you need them all.” and then verse 33: “but
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Seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness, and all
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These things (everything you need in life) will be added to
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You.” signed jesus!
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That's jesus' word on anxiety. he's saying to us worry is so
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Unnecessary. it doesn't accomplish anything. it is so
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Unhealthy and unproductive. it is even unholy because it
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Represents a lack of faith. he said, "o you of little faith."
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If you have fears without faith, that's a fail. and i can
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Imagine with a smile creasing his sun-encrusted face, jesus
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Looked up and as those birds, flying around, perhaps,
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Singing. he said, "look at the birds. they... they don't...
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They don't worry, they don't fret because even god takes
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Care of them. god even takes care of them. and if god takes
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Care of birds, don't you know he will take care of believers?
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That the father has promised to take care of the children."
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He said, "look at the fields." he said, look at nature. and
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Often when we are stressed or pressured or feeling anxious
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One of the best things we can do is to just get apart, even
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It's in your own backyard or find a place where you can look
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At the trees and hear the birds and... and look at god's
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Creation and find peace in that. if you can find an ocean
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Or a lake or even the face of a small child, find peace in what
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God has made and take a deep breath. jesus said, "look at
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The fields." look at what god has made, the flowers, the
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Birds... and know that sense god has made all of this, he
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Has made you and he cares about you." jesus even said, "not one
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Sparrow falls to the ground but that god knows and cares about
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That little bird."
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Now the birds do something; they fly around. doesn't mean
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They just sit and wait for the worms to just jump in their
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Mouths. [laughter] you know, the only birds that get fat are
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The birds we feed or put in cages. they're flying around
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And finding their food, and god is providing for them. and it's
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This superlative, yet simple lesson that... that god does
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Care about you!
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The point is, the more we consider the sovereign love of
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God, our heavenly father, the less we will worry!
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♪♪♪
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The bible tells us over 2,500 times that god has promised
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Each and every one of us joy and happiness in christ. this
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Includes peace, indescribable peace. even as believers in
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Jesus and those of us who know the promises of god. we also
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Know that we're not exempt from mental health issues and
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Emotional crisis in our lives. things like doubt and fear and
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Anxiety, grief and shame and loneliness. all of these can
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Steal our joy and our happiness, but we can face
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Life's challenges with confidence and hope in the lord.
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♪♪♪
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Now why do we worry if god is in control? why do we worry if
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God is in control? i've analyzed that on myself from
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Time to time. why worry? or as alfred e. neuman said, "what me
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Worry?" alfred e. neuman reference... first time from
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This pulpit, i think. [laughter] and that's another
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Generation.
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Sometimes i feel guilty if i don't worry! you know what i'm
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Saying? when something is wrong with myself, something in our
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Family, something in the church... if something is
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Wrong, i think i have to fix it first. and if i just give it to
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God in some way first, i think, well, if i don't worry about
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It, bad things are going to happen. am i telling the truth?
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If i don't worry... if i don't get my hands all over this and
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Fix this then... then bad things are really going to
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Happen! no! when we turn our fears over to god... truly give
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Them to him, then he begins to fix it. you can trust god with
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Anything and everything that concerns you!
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2 timothy 1:12: "this is why i suffer as i do but i am not
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Ashamed for i know whom i believe and am convinced that
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He is able to guard until that day (when i see christ) what
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Has been entrusted to me." god says, "give it to me. entrust
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It to me. i..." god is able to guard what you give to him.
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Here's my definition of worry: worry is assuming
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Responsibility that god never intended for you to have. let
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Me say that again. worry is assuming responsibility god
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Never intended for you to have. we are much better off... we
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Are healed of our anxious fears when we give them to jehovah
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Yehwah shalom... the god of peace. here's our lord jesus
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Christ who promised us this peace. he is the great
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Physician and he is the prince of peace. so pray and turn your
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Worries to grateful prayer.
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Because when you do, listen to me... [you] say, "what's the
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Point? everybody says pray; what's the point?" here's the
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Point! when you do, you will tap into god's power.
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Your faith grows when you pray, when you call on the name of
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God. and we transfer our trust from self to christ. and when
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We pray we receive abundant peace for our panic, for our
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Pressures and for our problems.
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Again, jesus said, “my peace i give to you.” and how does he
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Give it? he says, “ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and
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Ye shall find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” we are
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Strengthened when we pray, to get up and go again; to keep
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Going when we feel like quitting; to prevail. can i
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Tell you, i believe this with every ounce of my being; that
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Something supernatural happens when we pray in the power of
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Jesus' name! and that something supernatural is what god does
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In our bodies, what god does in our brain, our being! pray! and
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Watch god work.
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So, the first word prayer is stop worrying and start
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Praying. god is saying when you find yourself strangled by
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Worry, pray and practice my presence. pray and unleash
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God's grace and mercy to attack and defeat anxiety.
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Praise him through the storm! prayer tears down strongholds
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In your life. for some there is an obsession with fears and
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Anxiety. it can become a stronghold, a fortress of fear
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In your life. prayer is spiritual warfare. it's not
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Pretty; it's mess, but it's powerful. and prayer tears down
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Strongholds in our lives and transforms you mentally and
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Physically and spiritual... spiritually. it transforms us
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With peace. prayer!
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But i didn't say just prayer. my two words as the antidote
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For anxiety is grateful prayer! don't miss grateful prayer. in
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Fact, i want us to read that verse again outloud and i want
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Us to emphasize that word thanksgiving. let's put it on
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The screen. and when we get to thanksgiving, let's emphasize
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It. say it outloud. "do not be anxious about anything, but in
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Everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,
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Let your request be made known to god." when you mix in this
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Medicine of grateful prayer... when you mix in thanksgiving,
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You turn your partition into praise.
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You remember those ten lepers? jesus healed all of them, but
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Only one of the ten came back to say thank you. when we read
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That we may think to ourselves, “well, i know i would have been
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One of the nine to comeback, and maybe that's true. but i
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Got to thinking, one out of ten, ten percent of the healed
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Lepers came back to say thank you, jesus. i suppose that we
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Say thank you god, thank you jesus, about ten percent of the
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Time for all the things that he's done for us. one out of
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Ten of the blessings of god we give thanks.
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Ruth graham, billy graham's wife, said this: “gratitude
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Dissolves doubt, reinforces faith, and restores joy. you
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Would worry less if you praised god more!” gratitude destroys
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Discontent and dissatisfaction and discomfort, often the
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Sources of fears and anxiety. i would advise you to keep a
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Journal everyday and if nothing else in your journal, write
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Down two or three of the blessings of god upon your
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Life. it's a proven antidote for fearful problems and
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Psychological problems.
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I was once advised by someone... a counsellor i was
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Talking to... he's here this morning as a matter of fact to
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Write down my thoughts and write down my fears. i was in a
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Period of struggling myself and i was advised to do something
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That i've often advised others to do and that is to write it
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Out, to journal your experience, write down your
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Emotions because when you write things down, it enables you to
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Clarify some things and especially as a christian, when
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We begin to write down our praise and our prayers to god,
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God moves! "count your blessings; name them one by
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One" is an old, old song but it's an ever-new treatment for
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Anxiety and problems of all kinds. grateful prayer has a
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Profound impact... effect upon your mental health!
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The ability to say thank you, lord is one of the greatest
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Blessings in the life of a christian. (you can say amen to
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That!) [amen] god's peace is something you can't get
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Ultimately in a pill, you can't get it in another person, you
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Can't get it pie... as much as i love pie [laughter], to keep
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The alliteration going. it's something that truly god gives,
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This peace. he describes it in verse 6 as the peace that
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Passes understanding. as a christian we live with the
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Confidence of heaven and hope, and hope wins.
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Psalm 84:11, “the lord your god is a sun and a shield; he gives
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Grace and glory. and no good thing will he withhold from
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Them who walk uprightly.” bottom line: jesus christ is
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Lord! and because jesus is lord, when he is lord of your
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Life that means he's lord over every circumstance and every
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Situation of your life. the world can offer no greater
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Solution, more healing or more antidote to anxiety than the
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Presence and the power and the peace that god gives.
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As followers of jesus, we want to align our lives with the
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Will of god. the bible tells us as a part of that, that we
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Are to accept, expect trials that come our way, accept them
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Fully, and accept the fact that we are to persevere and what we
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Can do to relentlessly follow christ in the face of our
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Fears. so this is really the opposite of what an anxiety
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Suffer wants to do, someone dealing with anxiety. when
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We're anxious, we want to fight. we want to take control.
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But the truth is, what we need to do is to give all of our
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Fears, our anxieties to god. to truly trust him. as the
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Bible says, to throw all of your cares upon him because he
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Cares for you. so we give him our fears. we give him our
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Anxieties and trust him to take care of us. this is where you
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Can exercise your faith and let things go into the hands of
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God. you really can trust god with anything and everything
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That comes into your life.
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We are healed and made whole from anxious fears when we give
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Them to shalom, yahweh shalom, the god of peace. he is our
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Lord jesus christ who has promised us peace. he is the
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Great physicians, he is the prince of peace. so turn all
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Of your cares and concerns into grateful prayer. if it is
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Worth worrying about, it's worth praying about.
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Thank you for joining us today on powerpoint. i look forward
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To seeing you again, the next time!
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♪♪♪
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Jack Graham - Help! I'm Afraid

March 1, 2026 | 27:29

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