Why Am I Anxious?

Elevation with Steven Furtick

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 15.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

“Why am I anxious?” We’ve all had to ask ourselves that question, and thankfully, asking it is the first step. In this impactful message, Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church walks us through seven reasons we might be anxious –– and ways to lean on God in those moments.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Stephen Fertake. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our
0:05.2	podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you.
0:09.4	Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life,
0:13.2	enjoy the message.
0:16.5	We want to shift gears a little bit this week and teach you a message that I taught
0:21.3	our staff. It's a different version of it, but I was sharing with our
0:26.1	staff on the subject of anxiety. And the reason that I did that is primarily because our staff is very
0:32.1	young. Many of our staff is very young.
0:33.0	Many of our staff have never worked in another work environment than Elevation Church.
0:38.0	It's a fast-paced environment, growth environment, and a lot of performance pressure.
0:43.8	And I felt like as the under shepherd that serves to oversee our staff, I wanted to share some
0:50.7	very practical principles on the subject of anxiety.
0:57.0	Don't judge me for this, but sometimes I do a YouTube search of myself, my own sermons. The only reason I do it, hang with me for a second, is when I want to
1:07.5	spot check and see how I can preach better, so I do that, but also I want to see what people are looking for, what kind of help they're looking for, what kind of subjects tend to draw people in so that we can tell them the goodness about Jesus Christ.
1:23.4	And in order to do that, sometimes I'll look and see what are the top sermons that have been watched,
1:29.2	that have been preached out of this pulpit because we give them all away for free in as many different formats as we can.
1:36.5	We kind of embrace the day that we live in and so right now people are watching on Facebook
1:40.8	live and YouTube live and the elevation church app and just watching you
1:49.4	you'd be shocked you would be so so surprised how many people are up in the middle of the night in another part of the world
1:57.3	and wanting to tune into your church and they write me they're coming to
2:05.0	They tell me they're coming to church like Morgan Freeman on a bucket list to be here and always thought that was cool because growing up for me church was not a bucketless type
2:16.8	Thought what made me want to die, but it didn't make me
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