Unwinding Anxiety
“You Are Not the Only One”
1 Kings 19:1-18

“We are in a 20 year low in mental health” – Gallup Assessment of Mental Health, 2001-2021

“42% of Americans are wrestling with anxiety” – US Census Bureau, December 2020

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	How is your anxiety level?

“If there is a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy heart.” – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy 

“If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family there would not be one cheerful face on the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln

“You may have no outward cause whatever for sorrow and yet if the mind is dejected, the brightest sunshine will not relive your gloom.” – Charles Spurgeon

Biblical Figures with anxiety
	Martha – Luke 10
	Job 
	Jonah
	King David – Acts 13:22
	Moses 

“Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my (anxious) thoughts (cares)!” – David, Psalm 139:23-24

Anxiety
	Overwhelming fear or worry from misplaced attention

1 Kings 19

You are not the only one!

Amazing how 1 event can bring anxiety 

Angel…
	Doesn’t condemn a lack of trust
	Acknowledges that we are spiritual and physical beings
	Knows that anxiety is complex 

60-80% of physical problems are anxiety & stress related – US National Institute of Health

Soul <—> Body

“Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy.  Happy people just don’t kill their husbands, they just don’t!” – Elle Woods, Legally Blonde

“What are you doing here, Elijah?”

Fight anxious thoughts with God’s truth!

“Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.” – Proverbs 12:25

“The dark night of the soul calls for a spiritual response, not only a therapeutic one.” – Thomas Moore, Clergy

Fight anxious thoughts with God’s truth!

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	10 Truths from God

Fight anxious thoughts with God’s truth!