Overcoming Anxiety in Your Family, Faith and Life (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Jason and Tori Benham describe the debilitating impact anxiety can have on our health, emotions, and faith. They define anxiety as “projected powerlessness” and believe it’s a form of spiritual warfare. The Benhams offer a 3-part strategy of “recognize” the source of anxiety, “renounce” the lies you’re tempted to believe, and “replace” the lies with God’s truth.
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| 0:28.3 | slash impossible. For me, anxiety is kind of a constant thing. I fight it a lot and it's just |
| 0:37.4 | that persistent feeling that |
| 0:39.0 | something's wrong but I couldn't really tell you what it is. When I'm anxious I think |
| 0:44.5 | about the situation over and over again and I notice it more so in my chest with my |
| 0:50.0 | heart racing a little bit. When I get anxious it's like I drank too much coffee. I mean, my mind is |
| 0:55.8 | racing and I'm jittery. When I worry, I get butterflies in my stomach. So at times when I get |
| 1:02.5 | anxious, I get a little bit of heartburn that just kind of builds up in my chest and just kind of |
| 1:08.4 | makes me feel a little sick and nauseous. Well, I wonder if you can relate to any of those comments. And if you or someone you know does and you're dealing with fear or worry or anxiety, hang on because we've got some great help for you today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John, you can just look at the news. It seems like |
| 1:28.3 | there's been a can of anxiety opened up. And I think spiritually speaking, it's true. I think |
| 1:33.4 | we are a more anxious culture than we've ever been. And everything is causing us worry and doubt. |
| 1:41.2 | And we've got to, as the Christian community, we've got to get a grip on this I had a friend |
| 1:45.7 | of mine who's a non-believers say if you guys are worried we should be really worried as the |
| 1:50.1 | non-believers isn't that interesting what are we projecting as the church in terms of our faith |
| 1:54.8 | our hope and I don't mean that to sound like a guilt thing because we have to deal with anxiety |
| 1:59.5 | we have it in our extended family. |
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