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🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Every time you are prone to worry that is a call from God that it's time to pray. |
0:06.4 | Dr Tony Evans says our proper response to life's concerns has the power to transform |
0:11.7 | anxious thoughts into an abiding peace. |
0:14.7 | You will know God heard your prayer, not because your problem is solved. |
0:18.9 | You will know God heard your prayer because of the peace he gives. |
0:23.6 | This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, |
0:26.8 | author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff |
0:29.6 | Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, |
0:32.1 | and president of the Urban Alternative. |
0:35.0 | There's never a shortage of things to be anxious about. |
0:39.0 | Even in good times, we can find ourselves worrying that our situation will be turning bad soon. |
0:44.5 | Today Dr Evans points out that worry does nothing but eat us up from the inside. |
0:49.3 | And God has a better plan for us when anxiety begins to take hold of our thoughts. Let's join |
0:54.8 | him as he explains. Worry drains you. It incapacitates you. We got the pain of the past we worry about, the problems of the present and the |
1:09.6 | unexpected of the future. And Paul says in Philippians chapter 4, verse 6, be anxious anxious for nothing. |
1:25.0 | He says, it is unacceptable for you to be anxious about anything which makes anxious and worry a sin. |
1:35.0 | So when you or I allow something that concerns us |
1:41.0 | to grow to become a worry for us, we have in actuality rebelled against God. |
1:49.0 | Because we're told to worry about what? life will make you cry |
1:57.4 | Situations that you've caused or others have caused you will bring tears to your ass |
2:02.2 | But God says in the middle of your pain and |
2:05.1 | imprisonment, in the middle of your discomfort, I want you to make a big |
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