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Negativism
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The Anxious Heart
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The Problem

• Anxiety means to be divided
• Worry means to choke or to strangle

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Proverbs 1225

• Anxiety in the heart of a man weighs him down.

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• Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows,
• but only empties today
• of its strength."

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Anxiety
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The Predicament

• Jesus saw anxiety
• as a problem of trust.

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Matthew 624-34

• 24 No one can serve two masters. Either he will
  hate the one and love the other, or he will be
  devoted to the one and despise the other. You
  cannot serve both God and Money.

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• 25 "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious for
  your life, as to what you shall eat or what you
  shall drink nor for your body, as to what you
  will put on.
• Is not life more than food, and the body more
  than clothing?

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• 26 Look at the birds of the air they do not sow,
  neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and
  yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
• Are you not worth much more than they?

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• 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a
  single hour to his life?

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• 28"And why are you anxious about clothing?
  Observe how the lilies of the field grow they
  do not toil nor do the spin, 29 yet I say to you
  that even Solomon in all his glory did not clothe
  himself like one of these. 30 But if God so
  arrays the grass of the field, which is alive
  today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace
  will He not much more do so for you, O men of
  little faith?

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• 31 Do not be anxious then saying, or What shall
  we eat? or What shall we drink?' or 'What shall
  we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these
  things, and your heavenly Father knows that you
  need all these things.

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• 33 But seek first his kingdom and his
  righteousness, and all these things will be given
  to you as well.

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• 34 Therefore do not be anxious about for
  tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has
  enough trouble of its own.

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The Prescription
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Philippians 44-9

• 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it
  again Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident
  to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious
  about anything, but in everything, by prayer and
  petition, with thanksgiving, present your
  requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which
  transcends all under-standing, will guard your
  hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

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• Praise
• Poise
• Prayer
• Peace

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• John 1633 says, "I have told you these things,
  so that in me you may have peace. In this world
  you will have trouble. But, take heart! I have
  overcome the world."