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Overcoming Fear and Finding Peace: A Small Group Discussion and Prayer

Join us for a practical living session on anxiety, where we will discuss areas of our lives lacking peace. Through prayer, we will seek God's guidance for finding peace and overcoming fear. Let's trust in God and experience His peace and joy.

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Overcoming Fear and Finding Peace: A Small Group Discussion and Prayer

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  1. Practical Living: Anxiety

  2. Small Group Discussion & Prayer In what areas of your life do you lack peace? What things can we bring before the Lord in prayer that you might have peace?

  3. Sermon Outline A Discussion of Anxiety

  4. Anxiety Let’s call this what the Bible calls it. FEAR AND WORRY. It is an issue of trust in God and trying to control future outcomes. Definition

  5. Love vs. Fear Adams, Jay E. The Christian Counselor’s Manual. (Indio, CA: Biblical Counseling Foundation, 2012), 341.

  6. Love / Trust Over Fear / Worry The temptation to fear and to worry are common but can be overcome as you trust God for all things and in all circumstances. As you remain obedient to Scripture you will not be hampered by fear and worry. Instead you will experience the peace and joy that God provides through the Lord Jesus Christ. (Psalm 37:1-5, 56:11; Matthew 6:33-34; John 14:27, 15:10-11, 16:33; 1 Corinthians 10:13, 31; Romans 8:28-29; Philippians 4:6-9; 1 Peter 3:13-16; 1 John 4:18, 6:4-5). Broger, John C., Self-Confrontation: A Manual for in-depth Biblical Discipleship. (Indio, CA: Biblical Counseling Foundation, 2012), 336.

  7. Five Manifestations of Anxiety An object legitimately fearful The experience of fear erroneously associated with what should be a non-fearful object The presence of certain persons, places, or things that remind you of a fearful consequence of sin. A way of life developed under truly fearful conditions that has persisted although those conditions no longer exist A way of responding originally as a manipulative act which has now become a reality Adams, Jay E. The Christian Counselor’s Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling. (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1973), 413-425.

  8. S Circumstances Causing Fear / Worry Broger, John C., Self-Confrontation: A Manual for in-depth Biblical Discipleship. (Indio, CA: Biblical Counseling Foundation, 2012), 339.

  9. Overcoming Fear / Anxiety Eliminate Fear by Love (1 John 4:18) Identify the source of the fear / anxiety Is it a fear of death? Is it a fear of God or of man? Is it a fear of consequences? Is it a Phobia? Prayer / Repentance Separate the fear experience from the fear object Understand the spiral of fear Trust and Obey

  10. Biblical Responses Broger, John C., Self-Confrontation: A Manual for in-depth Biblical Discipleship. (Indio, CA: Biblical Counseling Foundation, 2012), 339-340.

  11. CONCLUSION See you next Sunday! Come forward if you need any prayer or assistance.

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