4 Ways to Respond to Anxiety (Philippians 4:6–9)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.0 | Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 through 9. |
| 0:09.0 | Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving, |
| 0:15.0 | let your request be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, |
| 0:20.0 | will guard your hearts and your minds |
| 0:23.2 | in Christ Jesus. |
| 0:24.6 | Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, |
| 0:30.0 | whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable. |
| 0:32.1 | If there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. |
| 0:45.3 | There's so much we could talk about here and pray according to, but I want to give you a quick acrostic, |
| 0:52.3 | and I'm going to hit it super fast, but this is a |
| 0:57.0 | miraculous command, meaning it's a command that comes from God that can only be accomplished |
| 1:02.4 | by the miracle of His Spirit, because we are anxious about many things in our lives and in this |
| 1:09.3 | fallen world. |
| 1:14.9 | And God just told us, don't be anxious about anything. |
| 1:20.8 | So how is that possible? And here's an acrostic I want to give you stop. Whenever you begin to have an anxious thought or to worry, pause and stop in these four ways. |
| 1:31.9 | So S, seek God in prayer about everything. |
| 1:36.8 | That's clearly what God is saying here. |
| 1:39.4 | Don't be anxious about anything, but pray about everything. |
| 1:43.8 | Martin Luther once said, pray and let God worry, which |
| 1:47.0 | obviously God doesn't worry, but that's the whole point. We can trust him. So whenever we have |
| 1:51.8 | an anxious thought or we're worried about something, immediately stop and seek God in prayer. |
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