Ep. 20 - Accepting the Worst

Excel Still More

Kris Emerson

Self-improvement, Increase, Jesus, Achieve, Spiritual, Health & Fitness, Best, Goals, Faith, Religion & Spirituality, Excel, Christianity, Education, Grow

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🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Send us a textChristians are optimists. We know the Lord is with us and we always expect the best. And yet, many of those same Christians struggle with Worry. Why is that? Well, maybe it's because we are so prayerful about it going right, that we haven't prepared ourselves to handle it going poorly. And the fear of it not working out can be crushing for people. In Dale Carnegie's book, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, he identifies one sure fire way t...

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.
0:09.2	I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.
0:19.9	Thank you for joining. Let's get started.
0:26.7	All right. Today I'd like to begin by asking a couple of questions just to make sure that you and I are on the same page.
0:33.5	Do you ever feel like you have issues with worry? Does anxiety become a problem in just getting through
0:39.8	everyday life? Here we are trying to get better. We want to excel still more. We want to be wise small,
0:47.1	all the stuff we talk about. And then some little thing can pop up. And it causes us so much
0:53.3	stress and discouragement. And it causes us so much stress and discouragement, and it concerns us so
0:56.9	greatly that we can completely lose track of where we're going. We pretty much just pile that under
1:01.8	the term worry. It's something a lot of people deal with. I do, and you probably do as well.
1:07.2	Now, here's what's interesting about that. It's very easy for me to show you biblically that that is not the way Jesus wants us to live.
1:14.5	He wants us to stay focused on the peace that he provides.
1:17.4	He wants us to continually rejoice in who he is, and when we face things that are difficult,
1:23.0	and we will, he expects us to face that with a sense of courage and resolve. And here's the thing, if I could just
1:29.8	push this a little bit further. This idea of worry and anxiety is something that, quite frankly,
1:36.2	Jesus said, should not be a part of the Christian's life. Do you remember in the sermon on the
1:40.8	Mount? Not only did he open up by talking about how Christians will
1:44.7	continue to live blessed lives as they face extreme and difficult circumstances, he goes on to say
1:50.8	in Matthew chapter six, do not worry. Take no thought. That is, do not let your mind be mentally
1:59.4	divided from who you are and what you're doing.
2:03.3	Three times it says, do not worry.
2:06.7	And you probably remember that he wasn't talking about things like the grade that your kid's going to get on his next test
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