SECRET BAGGAGE (Part 4) • ”Anxiety & Fear” • Barry Bandara

• This Series: Each of us has unresolved issues that we carry around. In a word, it’s called baggage. Although you do your best to ignore it, conceal it, or fake it, your baggage burdens your life while slowly squeezing out hope for your future. Before passing your baggage on to your children, let’s unpack this dead weight so you can begin living a life of freedom that God desires for you.

 

• This Week: Fear and anxiety are often believed to be synonyms with similar symptoms. But they are not. Fear and anxiety are like cousins; they are different although closely related. Anxiety is an unfocused, objectless, future-oriented fear. Anxiety is an irrational, “what if” kind of worry. Anxiety is our body’s natural response to stress. It's a feeling of worry or apprehension about what is about to come, or what may never come. Thankfully, scripture gives us the antidote to our anxiety!

 

Key Phrase: “The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything…” Philippians 4:5-6