Faith Friday #2 | How to Deal with Anxiety



Hello, everyone. And welcome to Faith Friday on Front Porch Politics Podcast. And a lot of you may be experiencing something new right now, along with many others across our great country. You may be dealing with anxiety. Anxiety because you can’t go do the regular things you’re used to doing. You can’t just go to the store. You may even have your children at home, and they may be driving you crazy. But faith is that unseen thing. That’s part of our life that will keep us from losing a good balance in life. So as we take this time together today, we’re going to study from the Book of Matthew. Faith Friday #2 will discuss how to deal with anxiety during uncertain times in life with a lesson from the book of Matthew, the 6th chapter.







Faith Friday #2 Introduction



We’re going to study in the sixth chapter. And inside the sixth chapter of the Book of Matthew, we’re gonna learn from Jesus himself. How that we actually deal with the anxiety that we have in our life, many of you right now. But if you are stuck at home with your children, and they may be driving you crazy. You may be worried about a spouse that is working in the medical field, such as a nurse or a doctor, whatever it may be. Or you may have a spouse who is driving a truck, having to haul all kinds of essential needed items to everyone else in our country.



And you’re worried about who they come in contact with during this time. Your elderly parents may be of concern of yours. No matter what it may be. I want you to remember something. I want you to take the time to slow down, stop whatever you’re doing and say a short prayer. Now, I know you may think, Well, that’s not gonna do me any good. But I promise you that praying makes a difference, and not just in how you deal with your anxiety. But if you don’t believe me in something, please take this to heart, that there is no doubt a creator that made us all. And he is is in control. And we’re gonna use today’s faith Friday from Matthew to try to explain to you how we have faith that everything’s gonna be okay no matter what.



Matthew 25:6 Lesson on Anxiety



In the 25th verse of the sixth chapter of Matthew, it says, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit to his stature? And why take you thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow, they told not Neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon, in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these.



Jesus is speaking to a very anxious crowd here. Now I’m sure several of the people in the crowd were anxious for several different reasons. What happened when Jesus was teaching? Well,