Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, December 27th. Are you feeling stressed out and a little uptight? If so, today's message is just for you. Here's a practical lesson on handling all our anxieties. When anxious moments just grab you and you have no warning that it's coming, how do you respond to that?

You feel worried, you feel somehow fearful, there's some bit of uncertainty about something you've heard or some situation you find yourself in.

How do you handle anxiety?

God's way of dealing with anxiety is not in a bottle. It's not by

blame. It's not by stuffing and denying it and suppressing it. It's not any of that. Anything that

you and I face in life, our Heavenly Father, who already knows about it, who is the great physician

and who's the one who instructs us in the ways of dealing with every

aspect of life he's given us the ways of dealing with anxiety well the best place to find out

is in the instruction book for living that's the word of god so i want you to turn if you will

to philippians because the apostle paul certainly knew something about anxiety, and he certainly knew

something about how to deal with it, or he would never have made the statement he makes in this

fourth chapter of Philippians. And I want us to begin reading, if you will, in this fourth chapter.

And let's begin with the fifth verse, and we'll read through the 11th verse of the fourth chapter.

And Paul says, let your forbearing spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.

Be anxious for nothing. Don't be anxious about anything. But in everything by prayer and supplication

with Thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.

And he says, and when you do, and the peace of God, which is the very opposite of anxiety,

and the peace of God which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right,

whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is good repute, of good repute. If there is any

excellence, and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. The things you have

learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these

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