What the Bible Says About Anxiety (Matthew 6 Explained)
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Madison Prewett Troutt
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Grant gets real about ANXIETY… what it looks like, how it shows up in our everyday lives, and why it's something so many of us quietly carry.
Anxiety isn't just about what's happening around us… it's often rooted in what we believe about God.
Is He near?
Does He actually care?
The truth is, God is not distant in heaven, removed from your situation. He is present, personal, and fully aware of what you need, even before you ask.
And the way we fight anxiety isn't by trying to control every outcome… it's by learning to worship in the middle of uncertainty.
In this conversation, Grant talks about:
-How anxiety can reveal misplaced trust
-What Jesus meant when He said "do not worry about your life"
-Why God's nearness changes everything
-How worship becomes a weapon against anxiety
My prayer is that you would be reminded of God's closeness and begin to experience the kind of peace that only comes from trusting Him.
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| 0:00.0 | Matthew 6.25 says, therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body what you will put on. |
| 0:13.8 | Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? |
| 0:17.8 | Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet |
| 0:22.9 | your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? In which of you, by being |
| 0:30.0 | anxious, can add a single hour to a span of life? I've been someone that has struggled with |
| 0:36.3 | anxiety in my life. |
| 0:38.1 | And I remember studying this passage and hearing the words from Jesus, do not be anxious. |
| 0:47.3 | And I was thinking to myself, what was the most unhelpful words that someone could tell me in the midst of my anxiety. Yeah, it was |
| 0:57.3 | don't be anxious. And I just was thinking, why is it different when Jesus tells me to not be |
| 1:05.3 | anxious? You know, if my friend says, Grant, just don't be anxious. I'm like, hey, that's not helpful. |
| 1:11.3 | But when Jesus says it, there's life and peace. |
| 1:17.2 | Well, the person that responds to you, don't be anxious. |
| 1:23.0 | The weight in which they carry over the situation determines how powerful those words are to you. |
| 1:29.8 | And so if I was rushed to the hospital and my friend said, Grant, don't be anxious, you're going to be all right. |
| 1:37.8 | That's a different story than after all the tests, the doctor walks in and says, hey, Grant, don't be anxious. All the tests are |
| 1:46.2 | perfect. You're perfectly okay. That second one with the doctor changes the game for me more than it |
| 1:52.9 | does the friend. And what I want to say to somebody is, it's not just a friend or a parent or a |
| 1:59.5 | sibling saying, don't be anxious. It's the God that |
| 2:03.2 | holds all of creation in his hands saying don't be anxious. I think there's two different |
| 2:09.8 | responses when we start to feel worry. I think we can begin to take worry into our own hands |
| 2:15.9 | and say, how am I going to figure this out? |
| 2:19.0 | How will this work out? |
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