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I want to speak today about a message that would be titled, When Exiety Strikes.

A few vivid moments in my life when I've experienced anxiety.

One of them was when I became a lead pastor and I moved from the youth ministry to lead the church

and I was hit with 20 different problems. I didn't have to deal as a youth pastor.

One of them was to figure out a software the church needs to use

for its management. And I said, you know, in youth ministry, it was easy. You just choose the type of

pizza you feed the kids with, you know, Papa Jones or little Caesars, but softwares. And then there was

the kids ministry protocol. We didn't have kids ministry we have today. And then somebody said, we have to have check-ins for kids ministry. And then there was the kids ministry protocol. We didn't have kids ministry we have today. And then

somebody said we have to have check-ins for kids ministry. And then there was a gazillion other

problems we never had to deal with when we were just having a youth church. Kid you not, for next

three months, I would wake up at two o'clock in the morning. My brain wouldn't sleep. All these worries and concerns

and softwares and this and what people were saying and decisions that I had to make. To the point,

I would tell my wife, I'm leaving the house and I would go to church from about 2 o'clock to 3 o'clock in the morning.

Not because I was prayerful. It's because I was

stressed out. It's because there was a lot of anxiety and I would just pace back and forth and they say, God, you didn't give us the power for this stuff. He gave us power to heal the sick, but we got a lot of problems in the Western Church that we need to solve. And I don't know how to solve these. I don't know what to do with these things people looking at me and say you need to make the final decision

and i do not want to make a mistake And I don't know how to solve these. I don't know what to do with these things.

People looking at me and say, you need to make the final decision.

And I do not want to make a mistake.

After about six months, started to sleep better and no longer was waking up at 2 o'clock in the morning because of those pressures.

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