Biblical Anxiety Relief: Finding Perfect Peace in God | Isaiah 26:3-4
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Jonny Ardavanis
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Over 1.6 billion Google results for "how to find peace" – yet anxiety continues to plague our generation. In this episode, we explore Isaiah 26:3-4 and discover why true peace isn't found through self-help books or better circumstances, but through a steadfast mind fixed on God.
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KEY TOPICS COVERED:
- The difference between happiness and biblical peace
- Why God's peace is "shalom shalom" (perfect peace)
- How meditation on God's character transforms anxiety
- The battle for the mind in the Christian life
- Practical steps to experience lasting peace
MAIN SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 26:3-4 "You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD himself, is the Rock eternal."
Whether you're facing trials, anxiety, loss, or uncertainty, this conversation reveals how peace isn't something we pursue – it's something we receive when we fix our eyes on God's unchanging character.
To read more on anxiety and what the bible says, read Jonny Ardavanis’ book, Consider the Lilies: Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God” - https://a.co/d/hYKfnw6
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you type in, how can I find peace? It's 1.6 billion results, all with differentiating answers. |
| 0:05.8 | Self-help books are the number one selling category of books almost every single year. |
| 0:09.5 | Because people are chasing peace. It kind of draws our attention to a reality that people are starving for. |
| 0:14.9 | They're hungry for peace, and they live in this anxious, fearful, and despairing world. |
| 0:20.2 | You know, David Saxon says in his book, |
| 0:22.8 | the Battle for the Mind, that our spiritual life is more akin to wolfing down a burger on a |
| 0:27.7 | highway than enjoying a gourmet meal. And oftentimes, people give God their mental leftovers, |
| 0:34.1 | so to speak, and then they wonder why they're anxious. They maybe kind of throw up this prayer in the morning. God help me not to be anxious, but God doesn't just want to |
| 0:40.0 | remove our anxiety. He wants to replace our anxiety with an active trust in who he is, which is |
| 0:45.0 | the product of dwelling deeply upon his character. |
| 0:56.8 | Hank, welcome back. |
| 0:57.9 | It's good to be here, Johnny. |
| 0:58.5 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:59.8 | Happy New Year to you. |
| 1:03.8 | One thing that people listening are watching may not realize is even though it's 40 degrees outside in Franklin, Tennessee, it is raging hot in here because we have to turn the air off |
| 1:08.8 | in order to do this podcast. |
| 1:10.4 | To save money, we actually just made this studio a sauna. |
| 1:13.2 | So by the end, we'll have a nice glisten going. So you guys can be praying for us. Well, hey, well, this year we're not necessarily quite sure what you bring in to the year. But, you know, one of the things that we were talking about beforehand, Hank, is that our lives are often filled with difficulty, temptations, trials, sometimes, you know, whatever that may be, people may be walking through seasons of sorrow, a miscarriage, infertility, a lost job, a lost loved one. |
| 1:38.6 | You know, Jerry Bridges draws our attention to the reality in his book, Trusting God, that sometimes the pain in our life is like a flash flood |
| 1:44.2 | that just kind of eviscerates everything all at once. And then at other times, the pain or the |
| 1:49.9 | trouble and the tears in our life are just kind of these compounding leaks that compound and |
| 1:54.8 | exacerbate over time. It just feels like little thing here, little thing here. And then it just |
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