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Max Lucado
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November 22 - November 23, 2023
Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs.
You’re part Chicken Little and part Eeyore. The sky is falling, and it’s falling disproportionately on you.
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.
The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.
Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Celebrate God’s goodness. “Rejoice in the Lord always” (v. 4). Ask God for help. “Let your requests be made known to God” (v. 6). Leave your concerns with him. “With thanksgiving…” (v. 6). Meditate on good things. “Think about the things that are good and worthy of praise” (v. 8 NCV
Celebrate. Ask. Leave. Meditate. C.A.L.M.
Celebrate God’s Goodness
You can’t run the world, but you can entrust it to God.
Paul’s prescription for anxiety begins with a call to rejoice.
This verse is a call, not to a feeling, but to a decision and a deeply rooted confidence that God exists, that he is in control, and that he is good.
He had stabilized it with a sturdy belief system. How sturdy is yours?
If your belief system is strong, you will stand. If it is weak, the storm will prevail.
Building my belief system on God because He is my firm foundation and cornerstone
Belief always precedes behavior.
To change the way a person responds to life, change what a person believes about life. The most important thing about you is your belief system.
Sovereignty is the term the Bible uses to describe God’s perfect control and management of the universe.
The formula is simple: Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear.
Too too good 🙌🫨
That’s why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can’t take control, because control is not ours to take.
Rather than seeking total control, relinquish it.
Wish I had a physical copy of this book to highlight every fricken thing..but this will do
You can’t run the world, but you can entrust it to God. This is the message behind Paul’s admonition to “rejoice in the Lord.” Peace is within reach, not for lack of problems, ...
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“God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13).
He was protected by God’s strength, preserved by God’s love. He lived beneath the shadow of God’s wings. Do you? Stabilize your soul with the sovereignty of God.
Lord help me live beneath the shadow of your will for I know that you are my hiding place and my refuge.
“There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD” (Prov. 21:30
He names the stars and knows the sparrows.
His eye is on the sparrow and me
“Who can act against you without the Lord’s permission? It is the Lord who helps one and harms another” (Lam. 3:37–38 TLB).
LAMENTATIONS 3!!!!!!!!
But on a real God is a just God and only He can judge righteously
He was, and is, alive, on the throne, and worthy of endless worship.
God is worthy to receive my worship.
God calmed the fears of Isaiah, not by removing the problem, but by revealing his divine power and presence.
Your anxiety decreases as your understanding of your father increases.
My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness. So I say, “My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD.” Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness. Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me. (Lam. 3:17–20 NASB)
LAMENTATIONS 3 ONCE AGAIN EVERYONE. MAX LUCADO KNOWS THE WAY TO MY HEART AND THIS BOOK IS ON THE WAY TO A FIVE STAR RATING 🙌🙌🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🫨🫨🫨😱😱
He was anxious enough to write a book called Lamentations. But then he considered the work of God. He purposefully lifted his mind to thoughts about his king. Note the intentionality in his words: This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
Mhmmmm mhmmmmm this right here
The LORD’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I have hope in Him.” The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him. It is good that he waits silently F...
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Rejoice in the Lord’s Mercy
Guilt frenzies the soul. Grace calms it.
The apostle Paul clung to this grace. To the same degree that he believed in God’s sovereignty, he relied on God’s mercy.
As Paul told Titus, “God’s readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation’s available for everyone!… Tell them all this. Build
up their courage” (Titus 2:11, 15 THE MESSAGE).
divine grace that is greater than sin.
My salvation has nothing to do with my work and everything to do with the finished work of Christ on the cross.
There is a reason the windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror.
What you did was not good. But your God is good.
In the great trapeze act of salvation, God is the catcher, and we are the flyers.
Your Father has never dropped anyone. He will not drop you. His grip is sturdy and his hands are open.
Place yourself entirely in his care. As you do, you will find it is possible—yes, possible!—to be anxious for nothing.
God uses everything to accomplish his will.
It is one thing to rejoice in the Lord when life is good, but when the odds are against you?
The use of the present participle implies that Jesus is continually active in his creation. He exercises supremacy over all things.
“For in him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28 NIV).
