Hello my friends welcome back it is time for another episode of the morning mindset.

I'm so thankful that you're with me.

I'm so thankful that you've joined me for this series about anxiety.

If you know anybody who struggles with anxiety, Christian or non-Christian, I want to encourage

you to tell them about this short series that we're doing here in the morning mindset.

We're trying to approach this subject biblically through the words of Jesus.

But we also, as in today's episode, are going to consider some other perspectives that

come from the day in which we live and I'll clarify that in just a moment.

But if you want to tell someone about this series of the morning mindset, you can pause

your player right now, find the sharing functionality and send a text, send an email and let them

know why you're recommending this set of messages to them.

All right, let's talk about the issue of anxiety when it comes to medications and treatments

that are available today. It is very possible that someone out there who's listening and is hearing

these teachings that I'm giving from the book of Luke about anxiety will feel that they are

less than an adequate believer or not faithful enough because they try to apply the things that

Jesus taught. They do their very best to pray, to trust God, to increase their faith because

that's what Jesus diagnoses as the problem, which we haven't quite gotten into in the book of Luke.

But we will be getting there in future episodes. And that person can still be struggling with

anxiety, can still be having these overwhelming feelings of anxiousness and fear and stress and

things like that. And in our day and age, we do have what I would consider to be the blessing

of both knowledge and medications to help with conditions that are caused by either physical

situations, like the brain does not produce a certain amount of a certain chemical that

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