Practical Steps to Overcome Worry Today: Philippians 4:6-7
Worry means: “to seize, especially by the throat, with the teeth and shake or mangle, as one animal does another.”
Worry is Satan, grabbing you with vicious teeth and shaking you back and forth until you are totally disoriented. Then batting you around as you stagger in confusion and try to escape the thoughts that are tormenting you. Satan "worries" us the way a cat "worries" a small mouse.
Satan's teeth are thoughts, the concerns/ the worries that grab on to us and won't let go. Worry also means: “to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts.” Dictionary.com
This video shows you, step by step, God’s way to overcome Worry in your life.
00:00 Pepper’s story
2:34 Activation
3:12 1st Step: Zero Tolerance for Anxious Thoughts or Fears
3:56 2nd Step: Faith Repels Fear
4:26 3rd Step: Pray Specifically and Thank God.
5:20 4th Step: God’s peace will guard your mind and your heart.
6:10 Overcome Worry Through Holy Spirit, God’s Word, Faith and Perseverance
Philippians 4:6-7 gives us God's instructions how to overcome an anxious mind.
ACTIVATION: Break these verses into action steps. Step by step you will overcome worry and live in God's peace.
1st Step – Decide not to accept anxious thoughts or allow them a foothold in our minds and hearts.
Fear is not from God. 2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV
For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Philippians 4:6 NIV
6 Never worry about anything.
NEVER – not ever, not even once. Have zero tolerance for fear or worry in your thoughts. Immediately overcome them! This is not only possible. This is God’s normal for you. Expect and accept nothing less.
2nd Faith repels fear. The two cannot coexist. Let your faith in God’s goodness, His love for you, and His power give you faith to pray through what you are worrying about. Your faith is based on God’s character – not the specific result you desire.
Philippians 4:6TPT
Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude.
3rd Step Pray Specifically and Thank God.
Philippians 4:6
“Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude.
Tell him every detail of your life,”
Tell God your problem and ask Him to help. Tell him everything. Then thank him in advance
Hebrews 11:1 EASY
“This is what it means to trust God: We will be sure about the things that we hope for. We will be sure in our minds about things that we cannot even see.”
Our faith is in the character of God. Think of all he has done for you and your faith will soar. Faith thanks God for the victory before we see the answer in the physical realm.
4th Step God’s peace will guard your mind and your heart.
Philippians 4:7 then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will guard your heart and mind through Jesus Christ.
Peace guards your heart against worry, questions that would undermine your faith, even bad news. God’s peace gives you authority to calm the storms in your life, just as Jesus calmed a storm (See Mark 4:35-41)
Worry is a nagging spirit. It will come back again and again. Worry’s strategy is to wear you down and wear you out until you give up and let worry and fear run rampant in your mind.
Holy Spirit will help you!
1 John 4:4 ICB
Many of God’s promises are achieved only through faith and endurance. Endurance is patient perseverance.
Hebrews 6:11-12
“... follow the example of those who are going to inherit God’s promises because of their faith and endurance.”