Tag: anxiety
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Alert [1-minute read]
27Then everyone will see the Son of Man coming on a cloud with power and great glory. 28So when all these things begin to happen, stand and look up, for your salvation is near!”… 34“Watch out! Don’t let your hearts be dulled by carousing and drunkenness, and by the worries of this life. Don’t let that day…
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7 Lines [1-minute read]
1Praise the Lord, my soul. Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty… 33I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. 34May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the Lord.–Psalm 104 A psalm celebrating God’s sovereignty over…
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Simple Questions to Help Anxiety [1-minute read]
6do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure,…
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Inside-Outside Change [1-minute read]
2And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he…
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God Meets Us Where We Are
1Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, 2saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”–Matthew 2 The magi will teach us something…
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Paul’s Anxiety
24Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 26on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger…
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The Captive Mind
5…and take every thought captive to obey Christ…–2 Corinthians 10 Paul was teaching the Corinthian church about the war the were all involved in. He would later famously teach the same truth to the Ephesian church (ch. 6) with the ‘armor of God’ passage. The war is fought not in the flesh as in armies…
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To Whom Do You Turn?
1I lift up my eyes to the hills.From where does my help come? 2My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. 3He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.–Psalm 121 I journey with depression. I face moments of anxiety. I have lived with MS for over half of…
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Two Spheres of Existence
33I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”–John 16 (with emphasis) Jesus had just got done speaking about a timing coming when he would be taken and they would all scatter. It would no…
Joel M Bradshaw 