The Blessing of Anxiety

Chandler Corzine

Boundaries • Sermon • Submitted a year ago

1 Peter 5:6–11

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Overcoming anxiety always makes you stronger, more firm in your faith, and more steadfast in the next trial.

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Intro

-Story of 2022 sermon

-Word for my year is: Anxiety

-Panic attack at Top Gun

1 Peter 5:7-11

1 Peter 5:7–11 NIV

7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. 10 And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11 To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

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The Blessing of Anxiety

-Tonight we are going to focus on 3 key words given in verse 10: strong, firm and steadfast.

Strength is your greatest weakness

-When you are your strength, you will always feel weak.

-Anxiety reveals the areas of our life where we are relying on our own strength for hope and healing.

Exodus 15:2–3 NIV

2 “The Lord is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. 3 The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name.

-Story about covid, MCL, Summer lung infection, and fall lung infection causing me to rely on my own strength.

-Where are you relying on your own strength for hope and healing?

Firm faith is never seen

-If your faith is only rooted on what you can see , your faith will crumble.

-Anxiety focuses your mind on where your faith truly rests.

Hebrews 11:1 NIV

1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

-You will only find life when you learn to live by what you can’t see

2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV

7 For we live by faith, not by sight.

-Story about feeling like a failure consistently because of my present reality

-Are you allowing your life to only be dictated by what you see?

Remain steadfast and see the other side

-There is no way out, there is only a way through

-Anxiety will show you what really matters in your life.

1 Corinthians 15:57–58 NIV

57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.