“I’m anxious”

“shepherd and he's a good and powerful shepherd and it says i i shall not want how do we walk in that the promise has been proclaimed over us that if the Lord is our shepherd we shall not want but I don't know about you sometimes I don't always walk in that sometimes I walk around feeling like I'm wanting very much I'm anxious I'm frustrated I'm trying to go off and solve problems on my own”

“Like, I'm not making sense of anything, as the Ecclesiastes writer Solomon would say, under the sun. And I'm just looking out and I'm going like, where is there any good in all of this? In the same way, that's what David's looking and saying and reflecting. It's like, how can we fix this? What do we need to do about this? I'm overwhelmed and I'm stressed and I'm anxious. And then he very quickly, in just a half a verse, turns his attention and he goes, Lord, shine the face of your glory.”

“how important scripture is. And I talked about a little bit earlier, like if you wanna hear from God, open his word. That's right. He'll talk to you. Like it's amazing. We have a playbook in football and y'all have a manual probably for your job and things that you look at. Like that's God's playbook for us. I mean, every situation you're gonna find yourself in, he gives you the answer. I'm feeling, man, I'm feeling fear. I'm feeling anxious. God didn't give me a spirit of fear. Power, love, sound mind. That's what God gave me. Like, I think this world and a lot of people are gonna tell you you are something.”

“We wonder why we're anxious in the world today, right? But I'm telling you, some of you are getting anxious because I'm talking about Starbucks right now. And if you could, you would mobile app order and have a drone deliver it to you in your seat, right? That may happen. There we go. Somebody's even got it right here. Here we go. Stopped on the way in. I mean, let's just understand that was an”

“And one is the confidence of looking up to that occupied throne, knowing God is still in control. Even as believers, sometimes we can get tricked into thinking, man, I'm anxious, I'm worrying, the world's unstable. What is my kid's future going to be like? What are my grandkids' future going to be like? So when we know there's an occupied throne and all this fits into God's plan, that gives us confidence and we have an amazing future to look forward to. Every leadership book I've ever read, every coach's book or anything like that, all talks about casting a vision.”

“when I'm going in to speak on Sunday mornings on the Augusta campus, you would find that the scripture above that door is the scripture I'm going to share with you. If you could pick up my journal and begin to read it, which you couldn't because my handwriting is so illegible, But if you could find it, you would see many times I have emphasized or highlighted this verse. And then certainly in any Bible that I've ever used, you will find this verse marked.”

“Well, I'm certainly, as I said, glad to look you in the face and see you eye to eye once again. Yes, I've been out on all of our Warren campuses here across the months of July, and it's been such a wonderful privilege to be on each of those and to be swapping that out with our lead campus pastors who've been here to be with you. But I just want to say to those of you in the chapel, welcome, and we're glad to connect with you, those of you who are online, and certainly those of you who are watching through our Warren A Way of Life broadcast.”

“you were lost and you're anxious, I'm going to have to copy your anxious because I don't even know how to spell that. That's a hard word to spell. All right. So you were lost and you were anxious. All right. So before Christ, sorry. Oh gosh. You saw me doing that. So before you were lost and you were anxious, what happened when you were lost?”

“I-A-M. He is the great I Am. And He is absolute in power because everything in life is proportionate to how you see God. Fear lives with the two-word question, what if, what if. One of the greatest pictures of the power of God and the confidence in the power of God was what happened in the lives of Daniel's three friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.”

“Okay, 930. I see you. I see you. We've trained you to wake up early, and now you can't break the habit. Welcome to this place, and welcome to our new times, new hours. I'm glad that you're here. I'm glad that your family's here, and I'm anxious to get started today. Well, as we do get started, I want to kind of start with a little bit of a survey of the room. I want to know you a little bit better today. And so I want to ask you this question. How many of you in the room”

“But Alex said, I'm a head of a pastor search committee. We're not sure what to do, but we've heard about an adoption. We know about Warren. We wondered, would you consider having a conversation with us? And I said, where are you? And he said, well, we're in Belvedere, South Carolina. He said, we're not far from where you are. As he said that, I started thinking, because for the previous two years to 18 months,”

“business of trusting the Lord and doing good I love the action of that it's not that we've got to sit around and sort of twiddle our thumbs. I'm real, real bad at sitting around, especially if I'm worried or anxious. I like to do something. And yet God is giving us something constructive here that we're to do. We are to trust in the Lord and do good. In other words, we're to discipline ourselves to make our chief concern, the concern above any other concern”

“God has blessed us I'm just saying to you you can't ever begin to imagine what God will do with people who are willing to say Lord just take us and use us and I could have never imagined there was not a there was not some master plan there was not some big dream it was just a matter of day by day week by week as a church us following God and God has blessed this church but folks he's not finished. And let's just be sure we remember how important it is to hold on to willingness.”

“And this anchor that I'm talking to you about today only works if you quit pointing the light at your head. God is always present. God is absolute in power. God is a promise maker and a promise keeper. And when you begin to point it at your feet in the very specific areas and arenas, you know those lights never go off. Nick, what do I need to do to get this thing off quickly? That's all right. I'll just burn it up. Let it sit there. Mr. Technology. There it is. I got it. Good. Just took a swipe or two. It's hard to swipe while you speak.”

“If we focus on that, everything else has to fall in line. But oftentimes, when we get distracted and we lose focus on what really matters, we can become anxious. I'm going to say it again. Oftentimes, when we lose focus and we get distracted and we don't concentrate on those things that really matter, we can become anxious,”

“I guess you're facing me, so his right hand would be over here. It's always opposite when you're speaking to someone. But Jesus is at the right hand of the Father and it says that he is seated on the throne. You see, when someone comes to your house and they finally sit down at the table and they kind of lean back or they sit down on your couch and maybe they even prop their feet up, This is a posture of comfort. This is a posture that I'm not anxious,”

“But another bad attitude is being anxious and fearful that you won't have the answers. It's one thing to say, I don't have to have the answers. But if it still makes you anxious and fearful, I'm not keeping up with my slides, am I? Then it's still just as bad. So, assuming you have to have the answers or you have the answers, that's another problem, I guess. if you're the kind of person that is kind of a fix-it person, how many fix-it people do we have”

“It's going to be one anxious experience after another because I'm constantly living in fear of my lack of control and constantly living in anxiety because of my persistent momentary myopia. So what is it that Jesus tells them? Well, first he tells them that life is full of anxiety-producing experiences. Life is full of anxiety-producing experiences. Jesus knew that what was about to happen”