The Bible and Anxiety on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people

face. Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go online and answer questions from several

hundred people who are doing online training for ACBC. Some of those questions were about how to use

the Bible to handle anxiety,

and I wanted you to hear that interaction. Here's what I said.

When working with a person who has anxiety problems and panic attacks, what is a good way to

encourage and direct them? For example, someone who tries quoting scripture and praying,

but claims that doesn't work and that they have a mental illness.

Okay.

That is a good question.

And there are a number of parts to it.

So let me, the first part is you've got somebody who has anxiety problems and panic attacks.

And what is a good way to encourage and direct them? So I want to say first of all that the Bible is all about our fears and

anxieties. In fact, I would say it even stronger than that, I would say that if the Bible

is not about our fears and our anxieties,

then I honestly do not know what the Bible is about.

Here's just one evidence of that.

The most commonly repeated command in the Bible is fear not.

So God, I take it just in terms of sheer accounting of commands,

God is very concerned with whether or not we are afraid.

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