Be Strong and Courageous - I Will Not Be Anxious!: Overcoming the Fear of Abandonment, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We are in the midst of a mental health crisis, with anxiety, depression, and panic attacks soaring among all people groups. But there is hope! In this program, Chip shares God's effective antidote for worry. Get ready to learn practical solutions rooted in the comforting truths of Psalm 23. Unlock the biblical strategies for overcoming anxiety, finding peace, and resting in God's presence.
Main Points
What do you find yourself worrying about the most? How does your worry or anxiety, impact you mentally, emotionally, and physically?Three specific “I will” statements:
- I will not be afraid.
- I will not want.
- I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
- “I shall not be in want.” – Because the Shepherd provides all my needs: 1. Physical needs. --Psalm 23:2a | 2. Psychological needs. --Psalm 23:2b-3a | 3. Spiritual needs. --Psalm 23:3b |
- “I will fear no evil” – Because the Shepherd protects me from all evil.
- “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies” – You have the victory
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
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| 0:00.0 | We are living in a mental health crisis. |
| 0:05.0 | Anxiety and depression, panic attacks are at an all-time high, across all people groups, but especially those that are younger. |
| 0:14.0 | What's God's solution to real anxiety? |
| 0:18.0 | That's today on Living on the Edge. Stay with me. This is Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are a discipleship-driven ministry on a mission |
| 0:27.6 | to encourage Christians everywhere to live like Christians. We're in the middle of our newest |
| 0:32.6 | series be strong and courageous, and today as Chip teased, he's tackling a universal struggle, worry, |
| 0:38.8 | a feeling we're all confronted with daily. So what's at the root of this fear? And why is it so |
| 0:44.2 | pervasive? Well, in this program, Chip will shed some light on this topic and share practical |
| 0:49.0 | solutions rooted in the comforting truths of Psalm 23. So go there in your Bible now as we begin Chip's talk. |
| 0:55.9 | I will not be anxious, overcoming the fear of abandonment. |
| 1:00.8 | What do you find yourself worrying about the most? |
| 1:05.5 | What is it that causes you to be anxious? |
| 1:09.1 | Second question is, how does your worry or anxiety impact you, mentally, emotionally, |
| 1:16.6 | physically? |
| 1:18.6 | For some people, it's a really big deal. |
| 1:20.6 | I mean, it's panic attacks, it's lack of sleep, it's big issues, and for most of all of us, |
| 1:25.6 | there's worry that we have and struggles that we have. |
| 1:29.3 | Sometimes it's milder. |
| 1:30.3 | But I want to ask you, what is it that causes you to worry or be anxious? |
| 1:36.3 | And then I'd like you to think about when you are anxious or when I am anxious, |
| 1:41.3 | how does that undermine being bold and courageous? |
| 1:45.7 | I mean, when we are so fixated on, you know, I can't do this or what about that? |
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