DAILY TRUTH - You’ll NEVER Get Rid Of Your Anxiety, Unless You Do THIS ONE SIMPLE THING!
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God is sovereign over all things, including suffering and sin. God is in control, which frees us up from having to be in control. For the one who does not believe in the sovereignty of God, then that person will be given to fear.
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Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry because you're spending your
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cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
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God. You're listening to Daily Truth. God is great in the sense that he sovereignly controls
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after witnessing the tragedy of this past week?
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by being vigilant, wise, shrewd, and strategic.
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by believing that God is sovereign over all things,
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which frees us up from having to be in control.
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For the one who does not believe in the absolute sovereignty of God
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as some kind of irrational, angry, paganistic God,
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but controlling all things in a benevolent way,
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who does not believe God is sovereign over all, and he is working, not just salvaging.
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God is not just salvaging and fixing things on the back end, but God is working, that is
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orchestrating, designing, decreeing all things from the beginning, even suffering, even sin,
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for his glory and your good. For the one who rejects that, that person must be in control.
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if god is not in control and the one who is sovereign and in control of all things is not
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also loving and benevolent and controlling and working all things for you and your eternal good
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then that person will be given to fear that will be an emotional fretting anxious person
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it only makes logical sense but for the person who believes that god doesn't just salvage
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bad things but he controls and dictates all things
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if you don't believe in the sovereignty of god how do you sleep at night you may attempt to
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console yourself by saying well but as for me in my house we will serve the lord what about your
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drunk neighbor who doesn't serve the lord who gets behind the wheel of the car and as you're both
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entering the neighborhood he's choosing to be a fool and threatening the lives of your family
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by his negligence. Brothers and sisters, it's not enough to say, well, I have chosen to submit
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myself to God's sovereignty. No, it must be true sovereignty. If sovereignty is something that you
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must submit to in order for it to exist, it's not the biblical sovereignty that we see spoken of
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of god god is controlling all things we see even in the narrative of joseph in genesis he says to
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his brothers when they finally repent for selling him into slavery in egypt he says brothers you
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meant it for evil but god took your lemons and turned it into lemonade you meant it for evil
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but god changed it and salvaged it on the back end and made a good as good as possible of a situation
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out of a very bad scenario, said the Bible, never. No, it's the same word. You meant it
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in intent. You planned it before it was even done. It was your plan, your motive, your intent,
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your design to do me evil. And God, same word, meant it for good. He designed it. You designed
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it and you bear moral culpability for your sin and yet standing above and beyond you is an
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infinitely wise and powerful God who works through the creature to orchestrate that which is good and
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pleasing in his sight. It's not only that God salvaged the situation that you intended for evil
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but God planned it for good. You meant it for evil. God meant it for good. And he goes on to say
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that a very many people might be saved. Had Joseph not gone to Egypt and risen through the ranks
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and become the second in command viceroy under no one but Pharaoh himself, interpreting Pharaoh's
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prophetic dreams and with wisdom and discernment coming up with a strategy and plan to prepare for
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the famine of seven years had it not been for that everyone would have died and joseph like david
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is a type of christ thrown into the pit as christ was thrown into the grave risen from the pit but
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sold and betrayed by his brothers for silver just as Judas betrayed Jesus he then rose though he
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ascended to the right hand of Pharaoh as Christ has ascended to the right hand of God and through
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Joseph and his wisdom many did not perish but were saved just as Christ by his life death and
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resurrection has saved eternally many souls. All of this was not salvaged by God, but planned
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and decreed by God. So how do you resist the feelings of worry and anxiety and fear that give
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way to actions and speech that come out of anxiety and worry and fear and thoughts incessantly bent
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on anxiety and worry and fear? Belief. Belief. That's how you do it. You believe. You believe
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that we live in a world that's tarnished by sin and evil, but that there is a God who is not only
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powerful, but also good. And he doesn't just salvage things. If he makes lemonade, it's not
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because man gave him lemons and it's all he had to work with. If he makes lemonade, it's because
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he gave man those lemons because God wanted lemonade because it's delicious. God made the
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decision. God is in charge. Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end?
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Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry. And from the bottom
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of my heart, I say thank you. I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just,
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you can't afford it. In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean,
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we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites
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lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply
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cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession. We are living in
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a recession right now regardless. Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the
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grocery store. You cannot support financially this ministry at this time nor should you but you could
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still help us tremendously. I am asking you please if you're willing to do so take one minute of your
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time. Leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform, iTunes, Spotify, whatever that
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might be. This is the way the system works. We want to be innocent as doves, but shrewd as vipers.
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We need to be strategic. You leave us a five-star review, and our podcast shows up for more people.
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