In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Next on In Touch, all our anxieties, part one.

Anxiety is not just the mere emotion, sometimes it's a very painful emotion, and sometimes unless

dealt with can become very destructive in a person's life.

Yet all of us know what it means to feel anxious, and we feel anxious about different things.

For example, you're sitting on the expressway.

This traffic has stopped absolutely dead.

You've been late twice this week already on your job, and you know

this is going to be bad news if you walk in again this morning late. You heard on the radio that

stock market filled 500 points yesterday, and all of your savings are there. Not only that,

you've just been to the doctor a couple of days before, and you didn't get any very good news.

You discovered that

there were drugs in your son's room and you suspect that maybe your daughter is pregnant.

You think that'd make you anxious? That'd make you anxious. All of us have anxiety for different

reasons in our life. And yet in spite of that, God knows how to handle

all of our anxieties no matter what they may be. And so as we think about it and think about what

Jesus said about it, Jesus said a lot about it. In fact, in the sermon on the Mount, for example,

of the 111 verses, 10 of those verses deal with the very idea

of anxiety.

And he tells us how we're to handle it.

So I want you look, if you will, beginning in this 25th verse of the sixth chapter of Matthew.

He says, for this reason, I say to you, do not be anxious for your life.

As to what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor for your bodies to what you shall put on,

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