RERUN - Ep. 159 - Anxiety Attacked
The Living Waters Podcast
Living Waters
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In today's episode the guys discuss anxiety, an unfortunate mark of our modern lives. Everything about the modern age is intended to make us feel most comfortable, yet this is clearly not working. This is because we are not meant to be the center of our own universes. For example, God created us to till the ground and have a relationship with the food we eat and the environment around us. As humans, we were intended to spend uninterrupted time in Creation.
The guys define anxiety as a feeling of worrying or unease, typically about some outcome. By looking for distractions from our anxiety, we are actually diving deeper into our anxiousness in the long run. It is rest that our body needs to defeat anxiety, not busyness. When Peter saw a resurrected Jesus with his own eyes, his anxiety disappeared. To overcome anxiety, we should orient our lives in such a way that points us to Christ through prayer and meditation and take extended time to disconnect from music and technology to truly converse with God and spend time in His creation. When we are disconnected from the earth, we are missing out on God and His gift to us.
We so easily forget that we are promised an eternity with the Lord. God gives us sacred moments to remember this truth, but we must make our eyes available to notice them. The more we really see these instances, the more anxiety dissipates. Then, they make the distinction between genuine concern and anxious worrying. Issues are not issues at all, but rather the steppingstones to get us to where we are meant to be. The great antidote to anxiety is to speak with God. When we go before God in prayer, we go before our father who knows and loves us unconditionally for who we are and has a plan for our lives.
February reruns of our 5 most popular episodes.
Thanks for listening! If you’ve been helped by this podcast, we’d be grateful if you’d consider subscribing, sharing, and leaving us a comment and 5-star rating!
Visit the Living Waters website to learn more and to access helpful resources!
You can find helpful counseling resources at biblicalcounseling.com.
Check out The Evidence Study Bible and the Basic Training Course.
You can connect with us at podcast@livingwaters.com. We're thankful for your input!
Learn more about the hosts of this podcast.
Ray Comfort
Emeal (“E.Z.”) Zwayne
Mark Spence
Oscar Navarro
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello friends. Thank you all for tuning in today. Over the next few weeks we'll be featuring some of the most downloaded episodes from the Living Waters podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | We hope you'll enjoy revisiting some of our favorite episodes. |
| 0:14.0 | You know, I've always loved the description of the Proverbs 31 woman where it says, |
| 0:19.2 | and she smiles at the future. |
| 0:21.8 | It's such a beautiful attribute. smiles at the future. |
| 0:22.7 | It's such a beautiful attribute |
| 0:25.0 | when you can look toward the future and smile. |
| 0:27.5 | And every Christian can. |
| 0:28.8 | You know, there are some things about the future. |
| 0:30.3 | Of course, it should make a sweep, |
| 0:31.6 | like the plight of the unsaved right and |
| 0:34.7 | the outcome of life for the lost but when we think about our future in the |
| 0:40.4 | Lord you know I was in Mississippi recently as I talked about in the last podcast and my friend Dustin was was driving me somewhere down the street and he he was oblivious to this because we were |
| 0:52.6 | fellow shipping but I was looking out the window and and the sun |
| 0:56.0 | was I think maybe setting and there's beautiful light and it was it was on this |
| 1:00.5 | forest it was just a real idyllic kind of a scene and I just in an instant envisioned eternity and and the |
| 1:09.8 | undeniable reality that we are going to be with the Lord forever and the new heavens and the new earth. |
| 1:16.0 | And I just, my eyes just teared up. |
| 1:17.8 | It was like this overwhelming gift from the Lord at that moment. |
| 1:21.4 | Like, I'm kind of, you know, we we get so we forget about that we go about life |
| 1:25.1 | We're but we're going to be an eternity with the Lord |
| 1:42.0 | I was recently radically refreshed at a regional Starbucks and it wasn't just from the strawberry lemonade refresher that I consumed. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Living Waters, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Living Waters and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.