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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good morning everyone. My name is Pastor Gail and I
have Stephanie with me.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Say hi Stephanie, good evening, good early morning everybody. How
are you doing today? Thanks Pastor Gail for having me.
I always love being here with you and sharing God's
word with everybody out there. I hope everybody's doing good.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yes, and today. I don't know if you've ever struggled
with being overwhelmed with anxiety. This is something that we're
going to talk about today. The subject is overcoming anxiety.
We have some points we want to go through, and
so I just want to say right now, overcoming anxiety,
you always need to have something good to fill your
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mind with. And so I do want you to know
right away that I have a podcast channel. It's called
Healing Begins Spiritual Care. It on Amazon, Google, Spotify, anywhere
you get your podcasts. It's all about encouragement, it's all
about healing. It's all about whatever subject that the Lord
would have me to address, like we're doing right now.
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So the principles for overcoming anxiety, What's number one, Stephanie.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Trust in God. I'm actually thinking of that. Proverbs says
trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean
out on your own understanding, but on all your ways
acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That is Proverbs chapter three, verses five through six. And
so this is one area that I will say, I
know how spiritually mature somebody is in when they're in
a storm and they have a trust in an abiding
peace with God that is not shaken. That shows me
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someone who has grown in their mature and growing in
their faith. Go ahead, it says in what does that
say in Philippians chapter four.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, So the Passion translation says, don't be pulled in
different directions worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer
throughout each day, offering your faith filled requests before God
with overflowing gratitude. Tell them every detail of your life.
Then God's wonderful peace that transcends human understanding will make
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the answers known to you through Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And that version in the Niva says, then the God
of Peace will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus,
And it talks about in that scripture. This is a
really good scripture talks about it tells you how to
keep the peace and how to keep the pieces thinking
on the things that are pure, lovely and good report
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and then it says that would guard your heart minding
Christ Jesus, the God of peace. The word is Shalom,
the God of everything you need, and so conquering anxiety
can be very, very difficult. Now for those of you
that struggle with panic attacks. On my podcast channel, I
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don't know if it's number somewhere between twenty one and
twenty four, I have a peace not Panic meditation tool
you can do where I do the deep breathing techniques
with you, and I also have music to back it up.
It's been a wonderful tool that spiritual care we have
used because really, anxiety and panic are very real. These
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are real things. What's number two?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Number two is pray and seek God's peace. So really
just along the same lines, you know, you got to pray,
talk to God, tell them what's going on, be honest
with them about what's happening, and then be still and
listen for him to give you his piece. What is
he going to t tell you? What's the lie you're believing?
We always say to our people, and what's the truth?
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And didn't just get real still? Ask him Jesus, what's
the lie, I'm believing, be real still and listen. And
then when he tells you that, say what's the truth,
and he's going to impress it. It'll come as a thought,
it might come through a verse, it might come through
a hammer song, you know. But write that down and
hold onto that reality, because that is the truth.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Psal I'm forty six, Verse ten. I believe. It says,
be still and know that I am God. You know
what The hard part for me is to be still.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, it takes practice.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, what happens is if you get in a real
quiet place and you're going to get really quiet, all
of a sudden you have all these thoughts invading your
mind and trying to distract you. So sometimes it takes
time to be still. You might have to put on
some I have this music I play but it doesn't
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have words. Yeah, but it helps me get into the
presence of God. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, Soaki music we call that. You can search that
on Spotify and find a soaking channel for.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Or on Google.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Number three renew your mind Romans twelve two says not
to be conformed of the pattern of this world, but
be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so you
can test and prove what God's will is, his good,
perfect and pleading will.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Amen. I love the Passion translation. It says, stop imitating
the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but
be inwardly transformed by Holy Spirit through a total reformation
of how you think. This will empower you to discern
God's will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and
perfect in His eyes.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
All right, point number four, Cast your cares on the Lord.
One Peter five and seven through nine says, cast all
your anxiety beyond him, because he cares for you. For
your adversary. The devil prowls around like a roar and
line singing someone whom he may devour. Resist him. Stand
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firm in the faith. Now, Stephanie, tell us how you
cast your care on the Lord.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, you talk to him about it. Casting your care literally,
just you don't carry it yourself. If you think about
maybe holding a big old pile of heavy books, right,
to cast those on the Lord means you hand those thoughts,
all of those books full of thoughts, all those books
full of the worries, all those books full of concerns
regarding your circumstances over to him by talking to.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Him about it exactly. So, Cassia, And by the way,
is how many times a day do you cast your
care on the Lord?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Pretty much all day long? If I'm being honest, every
time something comes up, I'm like, Lauren, can you take
care of this one?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
A lot of times on a lot of times people
don't understand that. It's that very reason that we have
to do it daily, because the way I'm used to
handling a care is by grabbing on what, thinking about it,
mulling it over in my mind, revealing it. So a
lot of times I'll give a care to God and
realize ten minutes later I've taken it back.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, that's a discipline. That's a practice, kind of like
we talked about in the last show fasting. The more
you practice casting your care on the Lord, the easier
it gets.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So when it comes I talk to God a lot
and I say, you know what, Lord, you're my father,
I said, you're my administrator, you're my manager, you're my
work boss if you will. So whenever anything comes into
my family, my work life, my ministry, my situations, I'm like,
I don't know what to do about this. So I'm
handing this over to you and asking you to number one,
show me if what my part is, and show me
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what your part is. And then I just don't worry
about it. And every single time God always comes through.
He'll either bring me the right person or he'll bring
me the answer through another individual or a TV show
or a billboard like today's radio show. It's amazing. He
loves you so much. He wants to teach you and
lead you and guide you because he's a good father.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Then point number five focused on the present. But I
want to add this. I want to add something to this.
I think focused on the present is good because it
says that Matthew six thirty four, don't worry about tomorrow
but each day well, or to stay grounded in today's grace.
But why not focus on a promise that God has
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given you something for your feature. Now. It may not
be fulfilled yet, but the Bible says of all of
God's promises are ya and amen in Christ. So why
not focus on something not only on today, but why
not focus on the good things that he says he's
going to bring into your hands tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, that's so good, And I just love the idea
that God's name is I Am right, it's I am so.
I am Jehovah Jira, I am Jehovah Rafa. I'm your provider,
I am your healer. I am this and that and
the other. So he's the god of this moment right now.
He's there for whatever you need in every moment. And
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if he's I Am, you know that when you get
to that future, you're not going to be by yourself
because he's the I am. Well.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What blows me, yeah, what blows me away about that
is because God knows from the end from the beginning.
He knows. He knows everything. He knows what we go through,
he knows what we struggle with. He knows it all.
So Rita point number six point number.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Six says, meditate on God's truth.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
All right. Psalm twenty three one through four. I love it.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want he
make a fee to lie down on green passers. He
lead a fee beside the steal waters. He restores my soul.
I just love it. Psalm twenty three is such a
good PSM. Meditate on God's truth and then number seven
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one says, find strength in God's presence. Fear thou not
frying with you, be not dismayed frying thy God. I
will strengthen you. Yeah, I will uphold you. Yeah, I
will uphold you with my mighty right hand. That might
have been King James all the days. Then in verse thirteen, though,
you got to go to verse thirteen because he says,
I'm the Lord, will take you by the right hand
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and we'll walk with you all right. Read point number eight.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Are point number eight is be grateful.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh, Thessalonian says, and first Assalonians five sixteen through eighteen
is that we are to be thankful in every situation.
And we know that gratitude shifts your perspective. Rejoicing and
thankfulness brings peace. You ever wake up in the morning
and thank God you got another day on the earth.
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All the time, you ever thank Him for the air
that you breathe. I do, the car you drive, the
shoes you wear. I do the person you're going to
go do a podcast with.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I did, Actually I did thank you for that today.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
You know, Stephanie has a favorite song. We've come to
find out it's from toy Story. I got you have
a friend in me. Anyways, I shouldn't be singing on
the radio. I'm telling you that right now, so so
be grateful. But also nine I think is really important
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seek fellowship and support.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, we got to bear one another's burdens. You know,
life is hard and we need community, and it's we're
not intended to do alone. When God created a dumb
or humankind in the Hebrew, he created the male and female,
so even in the beginning there was community. We're meant
to do life together with other people.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well exactly, and so but also when you're learning to
overcome anxiety, it's good to be with other people because
it saysn't If you read one Corinthians ten thirteen, it
talks about temptation, but then it says the temptation you're
undergoing is is such as this common demand. So in
other words, there's been other people that have been through
these same temptations made it. Now you can find tremendous
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peace in support by coming alongside other people that you
have been that have been experiencing anxiety just like you,
but people who've made it and overcome it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, sure, you know, you can receive counsel, you can
receive encouragement. How did they get through this? What did
they do that helped them when they were really struggling?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Definitely?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
All right? Repoint number ten.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Point number ten says go for counseling or seek healing ministry.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And Proverbs eleven fourteen James five point fifteen talks about
God works through wise counsel and healing prayer. Christian counseling
or healing ministry can bring lasting freedom. And so as
we're talking about overcoming anxiety, if you're going going through anxiety,
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I want you to know, first of all, you're not alone.
You're not the only person that experience anxiety. I want
you to know you can have victory over anxiety and
the most things that are not I want you to
know that God loves you. Did you know your love
by God? Did anyone tell you this morning that he
loves you and that he cares about you wherever you're at.
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So the thing I find with anxiety is where you
have your mind fixed. So maybe it's not good to
watch news twenty four to seven. Yeah, maybe there's only
what one good way to do the news by turning
it off. Maybe it's not good too if you're sick
with something to look everything up on WebMD. I mean
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that would drive me crazy. I don't do any of
that stuff. So you know, it's good to control what
you're bringing in your mind, what you're listening, what music
you're listening, what you're watching, where you're going. All those
can contribute to you being overwhelmed with anxiety. But what
I was saying, Stephanie, is that suddenly they would be
overwhelmed with God's peace.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, that in the.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Room they're in right now, wherever they're at, they'd be
flooded with peace. They would be flooded with peace. Yes,
And so right now, why don't you lift up a
prayer for those that are struggling with anxiety, Stephanie.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Father, we just bind the spirit of fear in the
Mighty name of Jesus Christ. We thank you that fear
is a false prophet trying to lead your people astray.
Fear is false evidence appearing real. So we bind the
spirit of fear and anxiety and the Mighty name of
Jesus Christ. And Father, I asked that you would fill
their heart and their mind with hope, with truth, and
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that you Holy Spirit would bring to remembrance all the
promises that you've spoken to them over their lives, and
that you would fill them with the faith to help
them in any area where they're struggling with unbelief. That
you would wash over them with you your love, that
you would comfort them with people with words of encouragement,
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with messages through TV shows, through Facebook, through whatever, and
that they would know that they know that they know
that you have spoken to them and even comfort them
through the show, through our words, through this prayer, And
that that anxiety would quiet right now, just like a
bathtub's being drained, that it would just begin to be
less and less and less even as we pray these words,
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and that they would have peace and be able to
be still and know that you are God. We pray
this in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Amen, and Lord, we pray that you break anxiety. In
the name of Jesus. We pray that they would be
overwhelmed by your peace. You know, everywhere people are at
right now, I just see somebody listening to this program
in the dark now if it's one even in the morning,
everwhere dark. But I see you kind of listening with
your eyeshot setting on the floor and it's dark, and
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you're just listening to our words come through your I
pray right now, in the name of Jesus, as we
would speak, our words would be words of life, words
of health, words of encouragement. I pray that you would
bring peace to where there's been unrest. I pray that
you bring hope where there's been hopelessness. I pray that
you bring light where there's been darkness. And Lord, help
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people to know they can conquer anxiety. And so I
thank you for the healing of the soul. If it's
because of hurting events they've been through, where they've been hurting,
where they've not been able to break the back of anxiety,
I pray they would come for help as spiritual care
consultants and get the healing they need and get the
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breakthrough from anxiety. In the name of Jesus. Stephanie, why
do you tell people a little bit about what you do?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, So I run an apostol cob out a Lancey, Michigan.
Love what I do, and I'm an author and a consultant.
So work with people to help them fulfill their destiny
and to get wholeheart. That's my primary job. I love it.
You can go to Stephanie A. Butler dot com and
find out more information about what I do there.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
All right now, my name is Pastor Gail. You all
know that I'm the executive director. I'll Spiritualcare Consultants, which
is a healing ministry in Hastings, Michigan. So if you
need healing for the wounds of your soul, you can
call two sixty nine nine two nine and two nine
oh one and set up an apployment. Two sixty nine
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nine nine two nine oh one and set up an apployment,
and there's no charge. We see people in person, we
see people over zoom. So you can go to Spiritualcareconsultants
dot com to learn more about the ministry, or you
can go to www dot ss and Sam Season Cat
seasoncat Healingbegins dot com, which is our media site, and
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you can watch videos and testimony of what God has
done for other people. You can see books that I've written.
So right now, I got out the Unexpected Call about
my trip to nine to eleven. I've got out God moments,
amazing encounters with the Divine in everyday life. I've got
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out Jesus in the Mountains. It's about the mission trips
we do in all the amazing things we see Jesus
do I've got out the heart of healing because God's
heart is to heal you. It's all about our ministry,
how it began and the healing process we use. And
book number five is coming out next week. God Moments
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volume number two, another account of amazing stories of the
Divine in everyday life. And by the way, the reason
we tell you about these resources is because when you're
going through anxiety, you need help. When you're going through anxiety,
you need stuff to read, you need stuff to put
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your mind on right stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Absolutely, And I would say that book pastors talking about
the God Stories is a fantastic one to get because
hearing other people's testimony strengthens your face and you're like, Wow,
if God did it for them, they'll do it for me.
He can do it for me too. So that's a
great way. Look for testimonies of other people who've overcome anxiety,
and that's a great way to do it. So that
resource page with those videos and testimonies will be great
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help to you.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
For sure, I'm hearing a song. There is no secret
what God can do. When he done for others, he'll
do for you. With arms wide open, he'll pardon you.
There is no secret what God can do. And you know,
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the thing that I'm seeing right now is God is
by those that are listening right now. I see Jesus
by several people right now, and he just has his
arms open. He just has his arms open. You know
what he wants. He want you to run into his
arms and give him all your stress, all your anxiety,
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all you worry, all your fear. You know. Bible says
that he carried our sorrows, and he carried our infirmities,
and the Lord carried it, and he bought and paid
for it, and he got the victory over it so
he could heal you from it. That's exactly why I
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still see him. His arms are open. Why don't you
just say, Jesus, I run into your arms right now,
forgive me my sins, Come into my heart, fill me
with the Holy Spirit, fill me with your peace. That's
what he desires to do. You know, you've never been alone,
whether you understand it or not. The Lord has been
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by you every day, whether you feel it or not,
He's there. He cares for you. Bible says that he
is close to the broken hearted, and he saves those
that are Christ the Spirit any other thought, Stephanie, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I was just hearing that verse. Come unto me. All
who are laboring and are heavy leaden, and the promise
he gives is, I will give you rest.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Take my yoke. My yoke is easy, and my burden
is like I'm reminded of how oxen will have a
yoke on themselves to oxen that are pulling, and that's
the same, it's the same picture. But Jesus is in
the yoke with you, and he lifts up and he
carries your burden, so your burden can be lifted. So
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many of you, I'm reminded of that old song burdens
are lifted at Calvary. Jesus is very near. And that's
the thing I want you to know this morning. You know,
if you're under anxiety, I want you to know that
Jesus is very near. He is with you, He's not
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far away. All you got to do is say his name,
Just say it's Jesus. Jesus. Sometimes one of my most
powerful prayers are Jesus. That's helped me.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
So as we wind up this wonderful segment, Stephanie and
I love to talk to you, don't we do.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
We're so glad you're listening today. We just thank God
for you and we're excited to hear the stories about
everything He's spoken to your heart and how maybe you're
being encouraged or help. Be sure to reach out to
Pastor Gal and share those stories with him. We'd love
to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
My email is share at Healing Beegins Radio dot com.
Made the Lord bless you, made the Lord keep you.
Made the Lord cause us face to shine on you
and give you peace. And may you always know that
you can overcome anxiety with the presence of the Lord.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Have a good morning, Amen, have a beautiful day.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
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