Why Am I Anxious?
Psalm 139:17-23
David is focusing on external factors then the shift comes in vs23
From dealing with enemies to dealing with the inner-me.
David is about to take responsibility for his own anxiety.
"Search ME"
7 point test answering the question why am I anxious?
1. Intake
What hope do we have for peace if we don't have a place for it.
Before I can train what I let in, I have to track what I let in.
2. Imbalance
Be balanced in what you give weight to.
Sometimes we give too much weight to the wrong words, and not enough to the right words.
When someone doesn't like you, some times it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
You are worrying about something that God has already worked out.
3. Indecision
Set a d-day and make 3 decisions.
Do it or don't.
Opportunity for anxiety = options.
4. Integrity.
This only works if you're not living like a hypocrite.
The word integrity means whole.
All one person, all the time.
No being a 3 different me's...which mask to wear?
It's hard to ask God to bless a life that's foundation is cracked.
Remain unchanged with every encounter.
I want to be the real me. The called, chosen, real me.
5. Intention
Reduce anxiety by shifting my aim or plan.
Think about others.
Why didn't she speak to me? You should be asking, why didn't I speak to her?
Get out of the center and see things from God's point of view!
6. Imagination
Reclaim your imagination!
Take back your most valuable asset.
Take back the place in you that used to be playful!
Get back your child-like faith!
The devil wants to take the place that used to be your playground into a battleground!
7. Isolation
Right in the middle of the word anxious is the letter I.
Too often we are self-consumed.
I is in the middle of the word, but it ends with us.
A reminder that you're not the only one.
Father, show me the ways I'm thinking that are preventing Your peace from flooding my life. Amen.
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