The Secret to Fighting Anxiety

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Worry gains us nothing. As soon as we discover we have a problem, God has already been working on it, and the solution is on the way.

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0:00.0	Well, happy Memorial Day for those of you who are listening in the States and hopefully
0:08.2	enjoying a nice long weekend.
0:11.2	And thanks for joining us again on the Aspecial John Podcasts as we enter our week number
0:15.6	280, week 280 in the life of this podcast.
0:20.7	We couldn't do it without you.
0:21.7	So thank you for listening and being a part of this project.
0:25.5	Thank you for your sustained interest over these years.
0:29.7	Well, I recently ran a quick search of the APJ inbox for the words anxiety and anxious.
0:36.4	And what I found is that these terms appear in 620 different emails, Pastor John.
0:42.5	Anxiety questions arrive for us every single week and they come in many different forms
0:48.7	from many different people with many different stories.
0:52.3	And I know Pastor, and you have some general thoughts on anxiety that you want to share
0:55.0	here in the podcast.
0:56.0	So today, I'll simply hand off the mic to hear from you on this theme more broadly about
0:59.8	anxiety.
1:00.8	Well, let me tell you a story with a twist which really happened, happened to me about
1:07.7	35 years ago, but it's a parable.
1:11.7	It really happened, but it's a parable.
1:14.3	It made such an impact on me that I remember it to this very day.
1:19.7	And it's intended, I believe, for me and I hope for you by God to be instructive about
1:27.4	anxiety and to help us live more free from the crippling and witness damaging effect of
1:39.0	anxiety.
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