When Anxiety Attacks

Rejoice (4:4-5)

• God commands us to rejoice because our tendency is to complain.
• Showing a reasonable approach for handling your concerns is proof of God’s presence in your life.

Reject (4:6-7)

• When you treat anxiety only as a condition and never as a submission, you will never be free from it.
• Some people are more prone to worry than others, but that doesn’t mean you have a free pass to indulge.
• Anxiety is the admission that we don’t think God is able to handle our problems.
• Don’t let anything force you to worry, but let everything cause you to pray.
• You cannot experience God’s peace until you relinquish your problems.

Reorient (4:8-9)

• You must discipline your mind to focus on what is right rather than obsessing over what is wrong.
• Your concerns are great, but your God is greater.
• You haven’t sinned when anxiety attacks; you sin when you refuse to fight it.