Overcoming Stress and Anxiety
1. We all deal with stress and anxiety
Proverbs 12:25-“Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression
2. Turn to God’s Word
Philippians 4:6-“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
1 Peter 5:7-“casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
Matthew 6:25-“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?”
Matthew 6:31-33-“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
3. Follow the example of Jesus
Luke 8:46-“Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.”
Matthew 8:18-“And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side.”
Philippians 4:6-“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
Matthew 8:21-22-“Then another of His disciples said to Him, ‘Lord, let me first go and bury my father.’ But Jesus said to him, ‘Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.’
Matthew 6:33-“ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
Mark 4:37-41-“And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, ‘Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?’ Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be still!’ And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. But He said to them, ‘Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith? And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, ‘Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
1 Peter 5:7-“casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”