Bible Study on overcoming anxiety - "You can be peaceful!" Philippians 4:6-9
Mood:
lyrical
Topic: Anxiety/Worry
Part 1Study the following verses and then write down everything they indicate about anxiety or worry. (Remember that in the King James Version the words care and careful are often synonyms for worry.)
- Luke 10:38-42: Martha allowed herself to become distracted with much serving and being troubled over the things of this world instead of choosing to make the Lord her portion
- Proverbs 28:1: The righteous aren't worried or anxious but the wicked become anxious to the point of fleeing even when no one is pursuing them
- Ezekiel 4:16,17: Having little to eat and drink brings about anxiety and dismay
- Luke 8:14: The word of God is choked out by the cares of this world and the fruit of a righteous life never grow to maturity
- Luke 21:34: Worry and anxious thoughts about the cares of this life will weigh down your heart
- Proverbs 15:13,15: Worry and anxious thoughts about the cares of this life will crush your spirit. Being free of these things is like giving your heart a continual feast
- Psalm 38:3-8: Worry and anxious thoughts about the cares of this life will bow you down prostrate to the point that all day long you will go about mourning and groaning. There will be nothing sound in your flesh and your health will fail you. You will feel as if you are carrying a burden that is too heavy for you.
- Genesis 45:3: Anxiety will not allow relationships to be restored
- 1 Samuel 28:20-23: Worry fills you with fear to the point that there is no strength in you. Your life can become filled with terror and your responses irrational
- 2 Thessalonians 1:7: you are not to worry when you are afflicted because we will be granted relief when Jesus returns
- Psalm 77:4-10: you have trouble holding your eyelids open. you can become troubled to the point you can't speak. you can feel as if God has turned his back on you