Finding God When You Need Him Most - Experiencing God When You are Gripped by Fear, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Fear, it’s a powerful emotion. What are you afraid of? And perhaps more importantly, how do you deal with fear? Chip helps us understand what God want us to know when we are paralyzed by fear.
Main Points Introduction: Fear – lit. “sudden attack,” A feeling of anxiety and agitation caused by the presence or nearness of danger, evil or pain. To feel frightened, timid, apprehension, terror, or dread. (Webster’s Dictionary)A song of hope and confidence for life’s darkest hours:
Psalm 46- God – Our source of hope: vs. 1-3
- God’s presence – Our reason for hope: vs. 4-7
- God’s calling – To experience His presence: vs. 8-11
- We don’t have to be afraid because God is “for us.” - Psalm 46:1-3
- God’s presence provides an unlimited supply of joy, protection, security, and deliverance even in the midst of our most severe adversity. - Psalm 46:4-7
- God implores us to come and experience His presence in our times of greatest need. - Psalm 46:8-11
- God’s presence brings peace moment by moment as we learn to trust Him. - Psalm 46:11
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.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of a positive biopsy report? Are you afraid your |
| 0:07.0 | marriage isn't going to work out? Are you afraid you're going to lose your job? How do you deal |
| 0:13.0 | with fear? What does God say to us when we're paralyzed by fear? That's today. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with |
| 0:25.1 | Chip Ingram. The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians |
| 0:30.0 | through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. Thanks for joining us as we continue our series |
| 0:34.7 | Finding God when you need him most. In this program, Chip will study Psalm 46 and explain how this passage provides us with hope |
| 0:43.0 | and a healthy perspective when the powerful emotion of anxiety threatens to overwhelm us. |
| 0:49.0 | So grab your Bible and let's join Chip for his talk, experiencing God when you're gripped |
| 0:53.7 | by fear. |
| 0:55.3 | I have written in my Bible a little note next to Psalm 46. |
| 1:02.1 | It's in green ink. |
| 1:05.1 | And it says Duke Medical Center, 21992. then parentheses I have moms dying and then highlighted in a green |
| 1:19.3 | highlighter pen it says God is our refuge in strength and ever present help and |
| 1:26.2 | trouble therefore we will not fear. Though the earth |
| 1:32.0 | give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though the waters roar and foam and the |
| 1:37.3 | mountains quake with their surging. That was 1992, and I was at the Brown Shoe Inn with all my family. |
| 1:47.8 | My mom went in for just a very normal checkup. |
| 1:50.6 | She had battled a very rare blood disease in the lupus family. |
| 1:54.1 | She took only an overnight bag. |
| 1:55.5 | It was just for some additional tests and she never left. |
| 1:59.1 | I got a call. |
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