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Winds And Waves Of Life
Contributed by Allan Kircher on Dec 13, 2014 (message contributor)
Summary: Paul says if all you ever pray about is what you need but you never stop and thank God for what you have you’ll always be anxious
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Pastor Allan Kircher
Shell Point Baptist Church
November 2, 2014
The Winds and Waves of life
***All Sermons are in condensed form****
Read…Phil. 4/Paul showing us how to be brave.
• Share a story/Bible/series being brave…..
• Learn best thru stories/Experiential learner
• Excited/potential for your life over next weeks
Thought you weren’t a courageous person but just didn’t know how/access/courage God planted inside of you.
• 2 Tim 1:7….
If you are a child of God it’s not right for you to feel intimidated by every bad report you hear………………
• Phil 4:6-7..be anxious for nothing/how you doing with that?
One/reasons were so anxious about what’s coming because were not thankful enough for what we already have.
• But in everything………
Paul says if all you ever pray about is what you need but you never stop and thank God for what you have you’ll always be anxious
• With thanksgiving….peace of God…….that’s what I want!....
• A peace the economy can’t take away……
• How many of you want v. 7 first have to have v. 6
• Be anxious for nothing. Tell someone.
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All of God’s children have some irrational anxiety Paul says.
• He wants/correct that in Phil. 4
• He says/some things you’re afraid/make no sense from heaven’s perspective
• Things causing you to shut down/paralyzing you
• senseless when you put it/context who God is in you
• He says I want you/train your heart/be anxious for nothing.
Come on get real Paul/preacher talk/watch CNN/world news…
• Paul says I’m prison bro/writing/after they beat/flogged me
• If your following after God’s purpose/got no reason anxious
• Anxious for nothing…..repeat.
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Greek word….anxious…Merimnate 17 times…..marinate…
• If/marinate/wrong thoughts/going/filled with fear…
• Merim(knot)te you get so knotted up with anxiety….
• Paul says do not be Merimate for anything….
• Don’t get tied up in knots about stuff.
But your saying, don’t we need to worry about some things concerned about some things. Yes, be concerned, no don’t worry
• That’s what Paul is saying/same word Merimate
• uses Phil. 2 Philippians letter to particular church
• Phil. 2 sent/ministry assoc. Timothy check/church/he can’t
• He describes timothy Phil 2:20…Genuine concern/Merimnate
Situations you deal with determines whether or not it is a genuine concern or a needless anxiety. Come on church
• Learn/discern/between a genuine concern/needless anxiety
• sometimes you can interpret/same event/both of those ways
• turn/genuine concern into/needless anxiety/way you approach it/Cause it’s the same word
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Sometimes you go thru a situation:
• deal with and handle it with strength/brave about it that’s/genuine concern
• All tied up in knots about something you can’t do much about anyway that’s a needless anxiety
• Here’s how you can do it…..be anxious for NOTHING…
• ain’t nothing but a thing…broken car.
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Be concerned about the state of your soul/your children’s soul/ God’s work in the world.
• Learn to look/things in your life….nothing but a thing
• Look what Paul says in Rom. 8:31…….things…..
• say it out loud…things
• If God is for us who…..gives me courage sometimes.
• When I feel opposed….God is on my side…
• If He’s not I’m in trouble.
Doesn’t matter what their saying about me it’s a matter of what God sees in me
• If He’s for me, who is against me doesn’t matter
• take a number I’ll still be standing
• You can have that confidence. It’s not cocky, it’s confidence.
• Next verse 32…..all things….skip 37…things
• v. 38-39….bankruptcy, joblessness, homelessness, addiction
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Be anxious for nothing……Do that this week….
• Shift over from needless anxiety to genuine concern.
• Another way to look at it……I’m anxious for nothing….
• That’s a good goal to have.
• But isn’t it also a statement of reality.
• How many times have we’ve been anxious for nothing.
• Don’t you wish we could have all those moments back…..
• Of worrying about something that never happened?
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have.
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How many times have you said, “All that was for nothing”
• When I Go away……
• So one day Jesus wants to go on a trip. Mark 4:35-36
• …..other side…Jesus been preaching all day
• Parable sower/soils…mustard seed….
• Jesus preached all day tired tells Peter let’s get out of here.
In the boat, other boats, don’t hear about them, but Mark is giving us an eyewitness account
Mark/way he wrote his gospel writes down what Peter says/why Mark’s gospel reads a little faster
• peter gets right to the point all about action
• eyewitness account/disciples being anxious for nothing.
v. 37….notorious for storms….You ever felt nearly swamped?
• I’m still showing up but barely.
• I’m making it and smiling/nobody knows what’s behind smile