The Antidote to Anxiety
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Christians are not immune from worry. Yet our sovereign, gracious God has provided the ultimate remedy for our fears. Burk Parsons delivers a devotional message today, explaining what we should do with our anxiety.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Burk Parsons is senior pastor of Saint Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, FL, chief editorial officer for Ligonier Ministries, editor of Tabletalk magazine, and a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow. He is author of Why Do We Have Creeds?, editor of Assured by God and John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology, and cotranslator and coeditor of A Little Book on the Christian Life by John Calvin.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today on renewing your mind, you'll hear a devotional message originally recorded and released exclusively to a special group of people, the ministry partners of Ligonier Ministries. |
| 0:12.3 | Here's a preview. |
| 0:13.5 | The antidote to anxiety is prayer. And the only way we pray is when we humble ourselves, because prayer is an act of humility. |
| 0:23.8 | When we pray, we are acknowledging that we are not God. |
| 0:27.9 | We are acknowledging that we are dependent. |
| 0:30.4 | We are acknowledging that we can't do it on our own. |
| 0:33.1 | We are acknowledging that we need the desperate help of the Holy Spirit, that we need the desperate |
| 0:38.6 | intercession of our Savior, Jesus Christ, that we need the mighty hand of God and His sovereignty |
| 0:44.3 | and providence to help us get through not just every day, but every hour. |
| 1:01.0 | Ligeneer Ministries was founded by R.C. Sprawl over five decades ago. And over the years, the Lord has used the financial and prayerful support of Ligonier's ministry |
| 1:06.2 | partners to fuel and grow this ministry. |
| 1:09.8 | And as they faithfully give each month to help more and more people |
| 1:13.0 | better understand who God is and to grow deeper in their knowledge of His Word, |
| 1:18.3 | we seek to equip them with discipleship resources |
| 1:21.2 | for their own growth and the growth of their families and communities. |
| 1:25.6 | And on today's special edition of renewing your mind, |
| 1:28.3 | you will hear a devotional message that Burke Parsons, |
| 1:31.3 | our chief editorial officer and the senior pastor at St. Andrews Chapel, |
| 1:36.3 | recorded for our dear ministry partners, |
| 1:38.3 | a message on anxiety and worry and the antidote to anxiety. |
| 1:48.4 | It's messages like this that our ministry partners receive throughout the year in addition to other discipleship resources. |
| 1:51.7 | I'll explain more later, but if you'd like to learn more, |
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