Battling Anxiety Is a Blessed Struggle

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🗓️ 9 April 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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To our fears, God speaks beautiful promises. And the most precious of all may just be that he is with us, always and forever.

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0:00.0	A few years back, I had a chance to sit down with some friends of ours at CCEF, the Christian
0:09.7	Counseling and Educational Foundation in Philadelphia.
0:13.2	This included Ed Welch, Bible Counselor, and the author of a wonderful book titled
0:17.5	Running Scared, Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest.
0:22.1	Ed has called the Battle Against Anxiety a Blessed Struggle, and asked him how, how is
0:28.3	this struggle against anxiety a Blessed Struggle?
0:32.4	Here's what he said.
0:34.4	The Battle Against Fear is a Blessed Struggle.
0:37.9	It sounds a bit odd, doesn't it?
0:40.7	But I think I've said those very things, and I thought those very things, so there's
0:44.7	something to it.
0:45.7	And here's one of the ways to look at it.
0:49.3	When John Wesley was dying, allegedly, he had a group of people around him just speaking
0:55.8	and praying and reading the promises of God.
0:59.5	And he said to them, yes, all these things are true.
1:02.4	But the greatest is this, God with us.
1:05.5	And in that, the struggle with fear, if you're prone to fear and anxiety, it is a wonderful
1:11.7	struggle.
1:12.7	Because it seems as though the most beautiful things that God says are reserved to people
1:18.5	who wrestle with fear.
1:20.0	Psalm 23.
1:21.0	It all turns on, I am with you, okay?
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