Life Detox: Overcoming Anxiety - Peter Tan Chi

[Music] greetings in the wonderful name of our lord and savior jesus christ i want to praise god for last sunday's anniversary service it is indeed god's work we praise god for all the participants and all the interactions remember our mission continues this sunday we want to begin a new series it's called life detox overcoming toxic realities now let me ask you what enters your mind when you see the word d talks let me help explain this first you have to define what is toxic the word toxic simply means any poisonous substance in your body that can cause harm or eventually it will cause death and my friend poisonous substance toxic substance can have immediate effect or it can have long-term effect for example years ago people have no idea that asbestos is toxic it was used for a lot of materials from pipes to roofing materials to walls cigarette my goodness for many years people had no idea that cigarette smoking secondary smoking is cancerous it can cause death it can harm your lungs i want to discuss toxic emotions because toxic emotions are as dangerous if not more dangerous why because we don't think of this emotions as toxic like anxiety worry fear entitlement purposelessness anger but the good news is this we will help identify what are toxic emotions not all of them but we will discuss in the coming series how do you overcome toxic emotions this series is so important because it has now been proven beyond any doubt the connection between toxic emotions and our physical health toxic emotions like worry anger releases hormones like cortisol adrenaline etc that can harm your health the biggest challenge today especially during this pandemic is a toxic emotion of worry anxiety fear it is the number one mental disorder in america today have different names for this panic attack anxiety disorder traumatic stress disorder it affects the heart it affects your blood pressure it affects your immune system it affects your stomach that's why many people have ulcers and if this is prolonged eventually it has been proven it shortens life it costs unnecessary early death but what is more serious about this topic is the reality that toxic emotions will not only harm your physical health it will harm your relationships with the people around you your family members it will also harm your relationship with god this topic is so relevant today especially among family members it has been proven anxious parents will inevitably produce anxious children children copy the worries and the anxieties of parents therefore it is extremely important that parents understand they need to learn to manage these toxic emotions called anxiety worry because the way you handle issues problems your own worries will impact your children god's desire is for us to have healthy emotions let me repeat not all emotions are bad but here are the extremes why are we talking about emotions to me emotions is something that was invented by god it is what makes us human the only question is this do you have positive emotions or do you have negative emotions and how do you deal with emotions for some people they deny they think it is not important at all they don't deal with emotions for the other extreme you allow emotions to control you both are not healthy learn to manage emotions today we are going to deal with anxiety worry is it wrong to be anxious well let's find out from jesus jesus gives us a command in matthew chapter 6 verses 25 26 let me tell you what it says for this reason i say to you do not be worried about your life as to what you will eat what you will drink or for your body as to what you will put on jesus gives us a command do not be worried about your life grammatically it's in the present tense stop worrying meaning they are worried you see jesus knows that we all worry about finance about food about clothing and he tells them stop worrying in fact he gave them solutions he told them look at the birds of the air verse 26 i take care of them then he tells them don't worry because you cannot do anything about it that's verse 27 what can you do to add life if you are worrying warring is useless and then verse 28 he tells you why are you worried about clothing look at the grass look at the lilies of the valley i take care of them he reminded them that we have a heavenly father who will take care of us so let me share with you how do we overcome toxic emotions the beginning of the series is called overcome anxiety assume personal responsibility there are four hours i like you to remember the first r is realize we all struggle with anxiety number two go to the root problem number three recalibrate your thinking and lastly you must recognize god you must recognize who god is let's begin with psalm 42 verses 1 and 2 as the deer pants for the water brooks my soul pants for you o god my soul prayers for god for the living god when shall i come and appear before our god psalm 42 is an amazing sound it deals with the reality of anxiety of worry it begins by telling us the heart of the author we don't know who the author was but he says the following as the deer pants for the water brooks my soul pants for you o god what the author is saying is lord i long for you as the deer is thirsty for water lord i thirst for you look at verse 2 my soul thirst for god for the living god when shall i come and appear before god here is a description of a good man he longs for god notice what he tells us the reality of problems he talks about his tears my tears have been my food day and night while they say to me all day long where is your god you see you must realize all of us struggle with negative emotions here the author is saying i'm crying you know what was the author's problem he was being attacked where is your god what kind of god do you have the author continues these things i remember and i poured out my soul within me what do you mean i remember he now remember the good old days sometimes when you remember the good old days your anxiety will increase your sadness will increase he said i used to go along with the throne and lead them in procession in the house of god with the voice of joy and thanksgiving a multitude keeping festival the author apparently was a song leader he was a worship leader he said i use to attend worship services if those were good times but not this you must realize you must admit we do struggle with worry anxiety look at verse 5 he now asks why are you in despair o my soul why have you become disturbed within me hope in god i shall again praise him for the help of his presence this phrase why are you in despair oh my soul first you have to realize there's a problem he realized he was struggling with what anxiety worry why are you in despair oh my soul why have you become disturbed within me so first principle is to humble yourselves and admit realize there are issues you struggle with many people will not want to admit they are into denial when you are into denial how can you grow how can you improve once you are willing to admit then and only then can you move forward and that's why in matthew chapter 6 jesus knew that disciples were struggling with anxiety with worry that's why he told them do not be anxious grammatically what is jesus saying do not be anxious about your what food clothing shelter jesus is saying stop being anxious in order to be helped you need to realize you are struggling with this in the past i did struggle with worry anxiety what do i mean when i first got married i'm a lovely wife young family ccf has not started yet something happened to our family business my father used to own the largest textile mill and we put up a chemical plant to supply the raw material it's one of those amazing projects but believe it or not i got kicked out of our own company i was fired from my own job it affected me emotionally i was thinking how can i provide for my family how can i provide for our future by the grace of god god help me overcome anxiety and that's why i want to share these principles with you realize it number two root problem you go to the root how do you go to the root in psalm 42 the author repeated many times talking to himself he repeated why are you in despair of my soul why have you become disturbed within me when you ask the question why why deals with root problem many times we are superficial we don't deal with root issue beware of superficiality i remember years ago when i stepped on something on the beach and i thought all i needed to do was to put some antiseptic and then the wound in my foot will get well but you know the reality it did not get well before i knew it i saw some infection and i realized this is serious i cannot just put antiseptic then i discovered the root problem you know what was the root problem there was a tiny splinter that got into my foot and i realized until that splinter is removed my foot will not heal the throat is many times we deal with problems superficially we think the problem is because of others we think the problem is because of circumstances it's called superficially analyzing the problem they blame their husbands they blame their wives they blame their fathers they blame their past you will not resolve your problem until you go to the root beware of blaming others i remember this father which i've been ministering to a successful businessman at that time he was not in ccf but by the grace of god i was able to counsel him he was complaining about his wife he was complaining about his family when i told him do you know your root problem you see he could never see that the root problem was himself it took years finally he said peter i finally got it the problem with my family is not my wife it's me now by the grace of god is growing when i counsel people rule number one you got to let them realize there's an issue second you got to go to the root the why you got to ask them what is causing this problem have you ever tried talking to yourself i call this self talk i practiced this in my life i remember years ago when somebody criticized me i was disturbed i was bothered but then i learned to ask why why are you disturbed either why are you bothered when somebody criticizes you as i asked myself the why i began to discover many times is because of my pride you see pride will cause us to become defensive pride will cause us to be angry and then the lord will talk to me the lord said peter humble yourself the truth is this when people criticize you it is not true you surrender it to god and if it is not true it's a warning they see that you are this even though you are not so it's a warning so whatever it is criticism can become a blessing because you you process it many times i'm tempted to attack the person i'm tempted to say why don't you talk to me straight why do you have to talk to other people the moment i do that i am deviating from the issue the issue is about me so learn to talk to yourself learn to talk to your heart ask yourself the following questions why why do you feel this way emotions is the window of our soul it reveals to us what's going on are you aware that your spiritual health and your emotional health are interrelated many times people don't understand what is spiritual maturity they think of spiritual maturity is bible study head knowledge i now submit to you spiritual maturity has everything to do with emotional maturity imagine a bible teacher he knows a lot but then when he's criticized he loses temper he throws a tantrum he reacts is that person spiritually mature or not spiritual maturity is the ability to manage and control your emotions and that's why this topic is important you need to understand what is causing the trigger why are you always angry why are you always worried and as you go deeper and deeper you will go to the root problem and before you know it god will speak through your heart through his word and you will learn to listen next recalibrate recalibrate means what you have to renew your thinking it is so powerful because what a man thinks in his heart so is he that's what the bible is saying what you think will impact your emotion it will impact your action but the battle is in the mind what do i mean let's look at the bible though we walk in the flesh we do not war according to flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses paul is not talking about the reality of spiritual warfare we do not war the world war is what a reality of battle there's a battle going on right now there's a wire ongoing right now which your eyes don't see ladies and gentlemen i want to listen very well right now at this very moment there's a war going on in your mind it's called spiritual warfare he's saying we are destroying speculations every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of god we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of christ recalibrate the mind why he is saying we are taking every are you aware of what you're thinking do not let your mind tell you what to think you must tell your mind what to think you must learn to control the thought life meaning don't allow satan to plant thoughts in your mind we are taking every thought captive notice every thought let me give example many times thoughts enter our mind and if you are not careful they impact your emotions i remember years ago after the massive earthquake that devastated baguio city i thought one of my friends died the truth is my friend did not die but in my mind they died what is not true became true for me the power of thinking and because i thought they died it affected me emotionally what's my point many times you become victims of what satan wants you to think you cannot overcome your toxic emotions unless you recalibrate your thinking romans chapter 12 verse 2 do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind do not allow yourselves to be influenced by the values of the world do not be conformed by the world by others be transformed that is a command it's in the present tense how are you transformed what's amazing the grammar here is in the passive voice in other words to be transformed you have to allow yourselves to be transformed it is not in the active voice it's passive allow yourself to be transformed by the renewing of your mind the verb here is in the active voice you now assume responsibility for the renewing of your mind and how do you renew your mind you have to examine and recalibrate your thinking are they biblical are they truth or are they worthy values are they your opinion you have to recalibrate your thinking through god's word because truth is crucial in thinking wrong thinking produces what wrong emotions and many people are worried they are always nervous why because of wrong thinking i guarantee you if you think negatively if you always think of problems if you think of what may happen if you think of what will happen to your children if you think of what will happen to you tomorrow and it's all negative guaranteed you become nervous you become anxious the key to transformation is the renewing of your mind that's why the apostle paul says we need to take captive notice the grammar take captive every thought you cannot allow your mind to become lazy do you all recall the t principle t e a thinking is going to affect your emotion and your emotion will affect your action that is why you need to recalibrate your thinking properly if you allow the devil to say you will always be a failure because in your past your parents said you are a failure if you allow those thoughts to enter your mind you'll be thinking you will never succeed [Music] if you believe in the lies of satan that god does not have your best interest at heart you are worried about marriage you're worried about your career if you begin worrying about these things guess what will happen you will not interpret everything that happens to you as something negative you will never consider that disappointments can be god's way of protecting you god's way of blessing you so be careful how you think wrong thinking is going to produce wrong emotion and wrong emotion will produce wrong action in second summer chapter 10 the bible tells us it happened that the king of the ammonites died in hanun his son became king so here is the background of the story king david wanted to console the son of the king of ammonites because the king the father died and the son hanun became king so what was david's motive david said in verse 2 i will show kindness to hanun the son of nehas just as his father showed kindness to me david sent some of his servants to console him concerning his father i want you to notice something in this story the motive of david was very good the motive of david was to console you know in filipino with this culture when somebody dies you want to drop by you want to consult them you want to give your condolence you want to comfort that's exactly what david did he sent a delegation but what happened instead of accepting the consolation the love and the kindness of david the bible tells us something happened notice that phrase but when david's servants came to the land of the ammonites look at the next verse the princess of the ammonites said to hanon their lord do you think that david is honoring your father because he has sent consulters to you has david not sent his servants to you in order to search the city to spy it out and to overthrow it in short they planted evil thoughts in the mind of the sun but the sun did not evaluate the thoughts the psalm did not put it in a suspense file he did not ask questions he jumped to the conclusion what was the conclusion what did hanon do he took david's servants shape off half of their beards cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips and send them away ensure what they hadn't do hannon embarrassed the representatives of david he insulted them and guess what happened after this that's the problem wrong thinking will lead into wrong conclusion wrong emotion wrong action would you believe it a war followed after this event imagine a useless war that was caused by vain imagination the bible is very clear the bible tells us judge not and be not judged you need to recalibrate your mind stop judging stop being critical look at verse six when the sons of ammon saw that they become odious to david the sounds of ammon sent and hired armenians in other words this is called confirmation bias if you think somebody does not like you that's in your mind you are judging the person every action that he will do you can interpret it as what not being nice to you even if he smiles at you you'll be thinking look at his smile he's sneering at me wrong thinking will lead to wrong emotion and it will lead to wrong action can you imagine because of vain imagination because of wrong thinking a wire broke out unnecessarily and over 40 000 people died what a tragedy and this is what happens when you do not guard your thinking you don't recalibrate your thinking it will cause a lot of damage in my case i've learned to have a suspense fire if i don't understand something i cannot figure it out i don't jump to conclusion i have learned and i refuse to jump to conclusion i have to check is this true is this not true personally there are times when i am tempted to jump the wrong conclusion i remember calling somebody over the cell phone and the person did not reply i was beginning to think is the person angry at me but praise god i decided not to jump the conclusion when i met the person i asked him i said did you receive my texts did you receive my phone call i have not been getting any feedback from you is there a problem hey look at me with a strange face he said when did you text me when did you call me i gave him the date of the phone call then he looked at his cell phone would you believe it there was no record now how did that happen honestly i don't know many things in the philippines and i don't have to figure out everything but one thing i know guard your thought life recalibrate and when it is not biblical you reject it but you got to recalibrate you have to renew your mind based on what the bible is saying be responsible for what you think i remember years ago my wife was telling my son you are making me angry and my son told my wife mom you taught me nobody can make you angry you choose to be angry mom nobody can make you irritable you choose to be irritable how true it is for me during this pandemic i have a choice i can count the blessing i can focus on the truth about god and entrust the situation to the lord and i can learn to relax or i can be worried i can focus on what may happen tomorrow i can focus on all the possibilities of what may go wrong let me share with you the true story of victor frankl victor frankel was a doctor he was a psychiatrist he married a christian girl but he was jewish when he was put in prison during the nazi occupation his entire family were also placed in the camp he lost his father he lost his mother in the death camp he lost his wife he lost his daughter in short this guy has every reason to be angry he has every reason to be worried about his life he was tortured humiliated maltreated and yet he was able to survive according to him he discovered that the last human freedom that nobody can take away from you is the freedom to choose your attitude this is what he said to choose one's attitude on any given set of circumstances to choose one's way of responding is the freedom that nobody can take away from you and you know what he did he chose to have the right attitude he did not allow his enemies to make him into a victim and the brace of god was able to write an amazing book in search of excellence the lesson here is very simple according to another author chuck swindoll he said life is about percent what happens to you 90 percent is your choice what is saying is this you and i don't have to become a victim of our circumstances of our environment you don't have to be a victim of your past you have power to choose and that power for me is a gift from god and that's why god wants us to recalibrate our mind and lastly just like the psalm is saying you have to recognize god in your life it's one thing to believe in god it's another thing to trust god it's one thing to believe that god exists but it is another thing to practice to recognize his presence what does it mean to recognize god to recognize god is simply this i do my best with what is within my control and what is outside my control i surrender that to god what does it mean to recognize god to recognize god means i accept my limitation i cannot control everything i cannot change people accept your limitation assume responsibility for what is within your control after doing your best surrender everything else to the lord trust him if you keep trying to control others if you keep trying to control how they should react how they should respond you will become a nervous wreck you will be a difficult person to live with you will always be angry and above all you will always be anxious and worried and you become toxic and that my friend is the meaning of toxic emotion you hurt others by the way you respond learn to rest in the lord learn to entrust to him the things that worry you and trust to him your loved ones your family members including your past that he will do something supernatural to make it better but you got to do your part pray give thanks and rest and that is exactly what the psalmist discovered the psalmist recognized the solution is ultimately god hope in god i shall again praise him for the help of his presence what does it mean to hope in god the author is now realizing at the end of the day it is god to hope in god comes from that word to wait expectantly it comes from the word to trust to believe so to hope in god is to recognize that god is bigger than your problem god is bigger than my worries god is bigger than my anxieties because you are able to recalibrate your mind you are able to realize who god is then you can thank him in advance for i shall again praise him the help of his presence what do you notice his problem is still the same instead of becoming disturbed they are becoming depressed look at this emotion it's now positive hope in god by recalibrating the mind by knowing it is god that's bigger than my problem i shall again praise him he is putting your confidence that god is able to solve our problem for the help of his presence it is trusting that ultimately god will pull through what does it mean to recognize god to recognize god is to apply philippians chapter 4 verse 6 to 7. the bible tells us be anxious for nothing this is a command don't worry is in the present tense stop being anxious daily stop you have to remind yourself this is a present tense command every time i worry i remind myself peter it's time to recognize god it's time to pray and that's what the bible is saying but in everything especially when you worry by prayer supplication notice different words for prayer with thanksgiving my friend god is telling us i am here tell me your problem notice let your requests be made known to god so i'm sharing with all of you as you learn to recalibrate your mind as you learn to go deeper to your problem at the end of the day the final solution is none other than god here is the formula of dealing with anxiety recognize god when you recognize god what you do you pray when you recognize god you learn to give thanks are you thankful do you give thanks the bible says in everything give thanks people who don't know how to give thanks are always worried they're always anxious can i tell you something when you learn to give thanks in advance just like what the bible is telling us be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer with thanksgiving what is the promise of god he says and the peace of god notice his peace which surpasses all comprehensions it will surpass your thinking it will guard it will protect your hearts it will protect your minds in christ jesus many years ago i attended the leadership training in arrowhead spring california in that training i heard the story of dr bill bright he talked about a staff member whose fiance died the day before the wedding she felt so bad she could not sleep she tried medication she tried counseling she took pills but she she was a wreck then she went to see dr bilbray and dr bill bright asked her in love and compassion have you ever thanked the lord for what happened to your fiance you can imagine the reaction of this girl she said how can i thank the lord he's supposed to be my husband and god took him away dr bright said well the bible says in everything give thanks this is god's will for you in christ jesus have you ever thanked the lord i make a long story short this girl cried in tears and then she thanked the lord the next day she called up bill bite immediately she said sir for the first time i slept like a baby i had perfect peace what's the lesson god promised us if we recognize him if we entrust our dilemmas our worries to him he tells us the peace of god will protect us the moment you thank god you are saying lord i trust you the moment you thank god you are saying lord i don't understand why this thing happened to me but i thank you i know you have the best plan for my life to recognize god is to realize that god is in control that's why romans 8 28 is foundational romans 8 28 tells us god causes all things to work together for good to those who love him to those who are called according to his purpose this has impacted my life i'm learning that including my past including my mistakes including what others have done god can cause it to work together for good and that can only happen if i surrender my past psalm 138 verse 8 it says god will accomplish all things that concerns me what an assurance that when you surrender your life to god is going to accomplish all things concerning you including how long you will live including who you will marry including the problems you are facing now but the only way to overcome fear and anxiety is to recognize god trust him let's hear the testimony of the power of trusting god when it comes to overcoming sadness loneliness let's hear our friend mr henry c while many people celebrated after watching you in your testimony in church how you found christ is i would have to say a few months after is your daughter passed away yes how are you today how are you today big boy it's of course the most saddest and the most painful things that ever happened in my life and right before it happened we were every day we enjoy being close my daughter my wife family and life is a blessing but we took everything for granted but all of a sudden everything changed with an unexpected departure of my dear daughter janu and left me thinking what is life all about death will come sooner to anybody and all your loved ones and sorrow will surely be with us when it comes this makes me think if there is no living hope in jesus life is entirely meaningless did you ask god why why lord why well yes in a way yes but i was praying more for a miracle to happen uh because i read also in the bible the book of job the lord he gives and he takes blessed is his name so i just stick to that but you never a big boy went through a period of blaming the lord no i i didn't feel that but because i trust in the lord completely and lean not on your own understanding how did you do that just starts in the lord you know you know it was really so painful and it made us cry and cry and even something like up to now but uh we just completely trust in the lord just hold our each other's hands and trust in the lord wow did you go through a period of self-blame yeah no i because i trust the the lord has um the best uh he has the best intention for all of us even if it's to take away i'm sure there's a good reason for that like in isaiah 57 it is reason that he protects his his his floods big boy if you did not know christ do you believe kakayan no i think i would be your total wreck by now because we were so close what do you miss most about her is it the conversations was she a christian also she was very firmly with the lord and maybe the lord wants her to be home already you know these are things that are we call sorrowful joy we feel very sorrowful about about her departure missing her so much but the joy is that we know exactly where she is today with the lord with jesus christ in heaven and that is the joy and then someday i know that we're all be reunited together so there's a sourful and there's a joy in life i mean those words sorrowful joy they're so opposite it's either they feel sorrow or they feel joy but sorrowful joy is uniquely felt by someone who clearly has hope faith that even if you don't see where they are you know that they're in a better place that's what we call the living hope because christ is resurrected and we will be resurrected also someday you will notice how mr c process the death of his daughter how he process his disappointments the truth is he knows that god knows everything that god wants what's best for us and that god loves him god loves his family and god knows what is best god's time is best and that's the meaning of trusting god brothers and sisters emotion is a gift from god make emotions your friend realize we all struggle with this until you realize until you humble yourself until you are ready to admit that there's an issue you need to deal with how can you improve after realizing you have an issue then you must go to the root problem ask why what is the root cause if you keep blaming others you will never improve what's the root problem and what will you discover you have to recalibrate your thinking you must assume responsibility for wrong thinking because it is wrong thinking that will impact your emotions and your emotions will impact your actions and lastly the solution is to recognize god is to realize god is bigger than your problem you need to let go let god so my lesson is this to recognize god is to be responsible for what is within my responsibility what i can control in fact in this call vid 19 pandemic may i remind you you cannot control tomorrow you cannot control what the government will do however you do what is within your control be careful be healthy exercise there are many practical ways to deal with anxiety and worry but can i tell you something in my own ministry in my experience with thousands of people for many years i've noticed god's solution is the best it is not taking pills it's not taking medication again i'm not saying don't take pills don't take medication but i'm saying most of our emotional problems are connected with spiritual problems learn to solve your problem spiritually how recognize who god is when you realize who god is you'll learn to trust him you'll be amazed what will happen to your temper what will happen your emotions what will happen to your worries if you are still struggling with worry with anxieties i like to help you perhaps you have not realized you need help perhaps you have not gotten the root problem or perhaps your mind has been recalibrated with truth or the most important you have not recognized only god can solve your problem only god is bigger than your problem so i like us to pray together by surrendering your life to god let's pray father in heaven i come before you recognizing that i do struggle with anxiety with worries today i surrender to you all my worries all my anxieties i surrender to you my life my future i know you love me [Music] i know that nothing is impossible with you i know you know what's best so i give you my life i invite you today lord jesus to come into my life as my lord and my savior i accept your gift of forgiveness i accept your gift of eternal life change my heart i accept your peace knowing that you are in control jesus name i pray amen and amen if this message has been very meaningful to you kindly click on the space provided below we'll be happy to chat with you in a short while we will have discussion questions and i hope you'll discuss this with your family members but before the discussion questions we will have fast track and hopefully it will be a blessing to you also god bless hello cca family we just opened our new series life detox and now we're here with our senior pastor dr peter tanji to answer our questions pastor peter the first question is this one of the advices you gave today is to listen to our hearts listen to it you said we will be able to understand and we will be able to recalibrate our thinking if we take time to listen to our hearts but the bible also says that the heart is deceitful above all things how do we know if it is good or bad to listen to our hearts what i said is talk to your heart you got to talk to your heart first and when you talk to your heart you are telling your heart what you are feeling right now is it correct in other words the way you talk to your heart is to ask your heart is the feeling is the conclusion correct the final test is is it biblical or not but if you don't talk to the heart you won't allow the heart to think to respond so i'm glad you brought it up so to talk to the heart you tell your heart why you are interrogating your heart and the answer is not biblical you tell your heart that's the problem you are not biblical so when i interrogate my heart why are you angry why are you reacting because i was criticized so i tell my heart so what the bible says be humble so what are you trying to prove you see i turn my heart the heart is not biblical so now your heart will not be able to respond all right i like that your heart cannot deceive you if you yourself know the truth and if you can preach the truth to your heart pastor peter for the second question we're in a new round of lockdowns but the problem remains the same many people are actually turning to various means to cope up with their anxiety or depression like substance abuse or even simple things like you know over consumption of media how can we help family members or even friends who are going through these kinds of addictions it's a real problem today because some people are confined in a small space and worst of all they're surrounded by toxic people with toxic emotions they can run away so what do you do this message is designed to help people process things for example you are in a tight space and your family members are toxic you now need to learn to find a time where you can be alone with god where you can be alone to recalibrate your mind where you can be alone to talk to your heart that a long time is crucial with god but not just a long time and that's why we encourage people to be part of a community you got to be part of a support group and that's what we call d group because the christian life is never to be lived alone these problems will come the shortcut solution is take pills the shortcut solution is leave them get rid of them cancel them those are shortcut culture but god is different god is saying i want you to grow so you got to learn to process and learn to count your blessing that's why this is very important series i agree pastor peter and like the one you mentioned in the message we should be thankful we should really see the blessings from from god pastor peter the last question is this for christians who struggle with common mental and emotional problems like anxiety fear depression and and they've been going through this and they've been using this to minister to others do they just accept this illness or this problem as part of life or will they still hope that the lord will deliver them from these sicknesses and will he my concerns are certain assumptions like people who are struggling with this they can use this struggle to help others that's correct but if you are still struggling with it and you help others process it but you don't have victory how in the world are you going to help them eventually these are the basic realities our struggles our problems there is no problem that is so big that god cannot resolve i've seen people basket cases they have to take medicine for life to heal their mind to heal their anxiety i've known them i've seen them delivered by the power of the holy spirit by the power of god's word so to answer your question definitely there's healing i want you to imagine imagine there's no healing how are we going to encourage others are we just going to tell people well it's okay i'm struggling with it so let's all struggle to get there that's one kind of healing but that to me is not god's design god's design is very simple jesus said i came that you might have life and have it abundantly that's why be careful when we read secular literature or even so-called christians claiming certain things it has to be biblical and the biblical is this god is bigger than all our problems and god can solve our problems and god wants to solve our problem but the question is are you willing to recognize it admit are you willing to go to the root problem it might be painful because it is really you isn't about your loved ones it's not about your relatives it's you and are you willing to recalibrate are you willing to renew your mind to recalibrate your mind there's no shortcut you've got to study the bible you've got to meditate on it and lastly are you willing to always put god first make him central are you willing to be prayerful thank you pastor peter there you have it brothers and sisters it has been a wonderful sunday fast track for the launching of our series but before we end we would like to invite you to what's gonna happen on wednesday pastor peter what do we have on wednesday every wednesday we will have different panels some panels will be handling young people some are teenagers some are older people but different panel for a specific group of people to discuss this topic so this week wednesday we will be discussing the reality of anxiety worry how do you deal with it so please watch out for the announcements from our glc and our ccf channels we have youtube instagram facebook and then you can see there how to participate and how to catch this webinar that will happen on a wednesday night we'll see you there the following are discussion questions that i hope you'll discuss with your family members especially your small group or your immediate family question number one on a scale of one to ten how emotionally healthy am i you ask yourself ask them am i emotionally healthy rate yourself next you ask your neighbor ask your loved ones will you please raise me how i am emotionally 1 to 10 10 being like jesus i'm healthy 5 my emotion is up and down up and down next question what makes you worry and anxious and lastly what steps should i take should you take to overcome anxiety [Music] again may i remind you we will have discussion questions and question and answer forum on wednesday night and i'll be there to participate

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Published: Sun Sep 05 2021