WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:16.480 Do you have fear in your life that's just paralyzing? 2 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.080 Well, I've got a word for you today. 3 00:00:19.080 --> 00:00:23.960 I think it will help you tremendously, and I'm going to try to keep it straightforward 4 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:25.080 and simple. 5 00:00:25.080 --> 00:00:29.800 I've got some great scriptures you might want to write down and think about this week. 6 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:31.800 We're talking about anxiety and fear. 7 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:33.960 This is season six, episode three. 8 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:38.580 I'm Leanne Friessman, and this is Restoring Word. 9 00:00:38.580 --> 00:00:42.640 I really feel the need to talk about anxiety and fear. 10 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:44.440 I'm a special education teacher. 11 00:00:44.440 --> 00:00:51.520 I work with children who oftentimes have a lot of hurt, and they've been bullied or they've 12 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.640 been abused. 13 00:00:53.640 --> 00:01:01.960 And we're trying to get them to learn again so that they can succeed in life. 14 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:03.320 And really, that's a process. 15 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:08.200 You know, we're all on a journey, and this journey is not easy at times. 16 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:12.720 I'm going to start out first with some great scriptures out of Ephesians. 17 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:14.600 Then we're going to go to 2 Timothy. 18 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:18.360 But out of Ephesians, we're looking at chapter four here, and this is verse 17. 19 00:01:18.360 --> 00:01:24.320 We're going to go all the way through verse 24, and I'm going to kind of start and stop. 20 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:27.400 And you might want to look at the Bible with me today. 21 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:34.320 This, I say, therefore, and I testify in the Lord, this is Ephesians 4.17, sorry, that 22 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:43.080 you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk in the futility of their mind. 23 00:01:43.080 --> 00:01:46.760 When people don't know Jesus and they don't know any better, they're just trying to figure 24 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:48.920 it out in their head, right? 25 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:52.920 They're not inviting God into the situation at all. 26 00:01:52.920 --> 00:02:00.120 Verse 18, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because 27 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.920 of the ignorance that's in them, because of the blindness of their heart. 28 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:05.120 You know, God bless people. 29 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:09.020 They don't know any better because nobody shared the good news of the gospel with them. 30 00:02:09.020 --> 00:02:14.720 And if they're in a church that doesn't teach them how to do what we're talking today, and 31 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:18.040 today it's really a verb, okay? 32 00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:19.920 This is a verb. 33 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:21.600 This is something that we do. 34 00:02:21.600 --> 00:02:23.320 We walk this out. 35 00:02:23.320 --> 00:02:28.760 Well, if somebody hasn't been taught how to do that, they don't know any better, right? 36 00:02:28.760 --> 00:02:29.760 Okay? 37 00:02:29.760 --> 00:02:33.000 It's not necessarily their fault or because maybe they're in a church they haven't been 38 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:42.480 taught, but you can, you can awaken your spirit man and you can walk in peace. 39 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:49.320 Okay, verse 19, who being past feeling have given themselves over to lewdness to work 40 00:02:49.320 --> 00:02:53.360 all uncleanness with greediness. 41 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.480 That's not how we were to think. 42 00:02:55.480 --> 00:03:00.600 We weren't to think sensuality or, or greediness or corruptness. 43 00:03:00.600 --> 00:03:05.520 You know, that isn't the way that God wants us to think in, in life. 44 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:09.080 Verse 20, but you have not so learned Christ. 45 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:13.200 So they, they, they don't know about the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit wants to work 46 00:03:13.200 --> 00:03:14.200 in their life. 47 00:03:14.200 --> 00:03:22.000 Verse 21, if indeed you have heard him and have been taught by him, the truth is in Jesus. 48 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:23.000 Okay? 49 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:27.680 The truth, the spiritual truth, the spiritual victory is in Jesus. 50 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:36.400 Verse 22, that you put off concerning your former conduct, the old man, which grows corrupt 51 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:38.800 according to deceitful lusts. 52 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:47.000 So you have to literally, you know how, like how you put on a coat and you take off a coat? 53 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.480 It's an action. 54 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:52.600 When you're growing in God, it's a choice. 55 00:03:52.600 --> 00:04:00.760 It's a decision to begin to renew your mind, to fill your spirit man with the word. 56 00:04:00.760 --> 00:04:09.240 It's a choice to take the old you and discard it and bring in the new you. 57 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:10.240 And it's a journey. 58 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:11.920 I mean, it doesn't happen overnight. 59 00:04:11.920 --> 00:04:15.720 And by the way, you get to do it for the rest of your life because I don't care who you 60 00:04:15.720 --> 00:04:19.200 are or where you are, guess what? 61 00:04:19.200 --> 00:04:22.360 You're going to always have to renew your mind. 62 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:24.160 It's a beautiful thing. 63 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:26.040 It's a powerful thing. 64 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.320 It will change you forever. 65 00:04:29.320 --> 00:04:33.960 Verse 23, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. 66 00:04:33.960 --> 00:04:40.160 So this thing here, how you think what goes on in between your ears, you have to renew this. 67 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:44.640 You have to do it all the time. 68 00:04:44.640 --> 00:04:50.680 That you put on the new man, which was created according to God in true righteousness and holiness. 69 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:57.240 So what you do is, you know how your normal flesh is, but you make a choice to get into 70 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:58.240 the word. 71 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:00.040 And when you get into the word, then... 72 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.480 And your mind, your new man, is renewed, it's created in true righteousness. 73 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:12.360 Why? Righteousness comes when we know we are in what? Right standing with God. 74 00:05:13.280 --> 00:05:18.200 And right standing with God leads us into 2 Timothy 3. 75 00:05:18.440 --> 00:05:19.200 This is good. 76 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:22.960 2 Timothy starting in 17, 16 and 17. 77 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:27.040 All scripture is given by inspiration of God. 78 00:05:27.640 --> 00:05:33.680 So we can go to the Word, we can go to our Bibles and know that the Word of God is inspired and it's profitable. 79 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:35.400 Profitable for what? Doctrine. 80 00:05:35.400 --> 00:05:46.040 Number one, if you're studying the Word and you know what the Word says, you're not going to buy into some weird theology or some weird concept of who God is or who he isn't. 81 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.000 Why? Because you know the Bible for yourself. 82 00:05:48.520 --> 00:05:54.040 That's why I teach everyone I know, go get yourself a study Bible and learn how to use it. 83 00:05:54.960 --> 00:05:58.320 OK, it's profitable for doctrine, for reproof. 84 00:05:58.320 --> 00:05:59.800 What are we talking about with reproof? 85 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:05.720 Well, when you read the Word, you realized, oh, I got some issues here. 86 00:06:08.520 --> 00:06:13.640 And you might have been a Christian like me for 30 years, and then you realize, oh, I still got issues. 87 00:06:13.640 --> 00:06:16.080 Yeah, I do still have issues. 88 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:20.320 OK, we're all on this journey. 89 00:06:21.320 --> 00:06:27.280 But if you if you read the Word, you realize now there's something you got to repent of, right? 90 00:06:27.280 --> 00:06:29.520 And for correction, what will happen? 91 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:31.160 Uh oh, this is off. 92 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:34.880 Now I got to fix it for instruction in righteousness. 93 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:39.200 So the Word is going to teach you how to walk with him. 94 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:41.880 Isn't going to be easy all the time, right? 95 00:06:42.520 --> 00:06:44.760 And let me finish this verse here. 96 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:51.200 That the man of God might be complete and equipped for every good work. 97 00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:56.040 Now, being equipped for every good work is a process. 98 00:06:56.280 --> 00:06:58.920 You get the Word hidden in your heart, right? 99 00:06:59.200 --> 00:07:00.960 You get it down in you. 100 00:07:01.640 --> 00:07:09.960 And what happens is the old man, the old way of thinking, the depressed, the anxious, the fearful 101 00:07:10.880 --> 00:07:12.600 man begins to change. 102 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:15.480 And some people will say, well, Leanne, how do you know God is real? 103 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:16.640 I can tell you God's real. 104 00:07:16.640 --> 00:07:17.920 And you know how I know God's real? 105 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.840 Because I see what he does in other people's lives. 106 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:27.440 My dad was a brilliant man and a good businessman, but he had a lot of unforgiveness in his heart. 107 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:36.120 And I'm telling you what, when he started teaching the Word and sharing the Word with others, there was this awesome transformation that happened in his life. 108 00:07:36.760 --> 00:07:37.960 It was beautiful. 109 00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:41.200 And he began to grow and he wanted to teach. 110 00:07:41.200 --> 00:07:43.080 And the more he taught, the more he wanted to teach. 111 00:07:43.080 --> 00:07:46.880 And the more he got into the Word, the more hungry he got for the Word. 112 00:07:47.200 --> 00:07:48.080 And it was beautiful. 113 00:07:48.080 --> 00:07:51.040 You know, I really love the logo, Restoring Word. 114 00:07:51.840 --> 00:07:56.280 If you look at my logo, now, Restoring Word came because my husband's an auto-bouting man. 115 00:07:56.280 --> 00:07:57.000 And what does he do? 116 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:09.000 He takes vehicles that are old classics, a lot of them, and they'll spend a lot of money to restore them back to what they originally were. 117 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:17.440 Well, if you look here at what happens here, the Word of God is alive and it comes out and it restores your mind. 118 00:08:17.440 --> 00:08:19.760 And then what happens when your mind is restored? 119 00:08:20.080 --> 00:08:22.800 You want more of the Word. 120 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:27.200 And then the cycle starts over and over again. 121 00:08:27.200 --> 00:08:28.120 I love my logo. 122 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:41.280 The Word of God will restore your anxious, troubled mind so that you can think clearly and walk in peace. 123 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:45.120 All right, let's look at James 1, starting in verse 2. 124 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:52.800 My brother encountered all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 125 00:08:52.800 --> 00:08:55.440 We're all going to have trials and we're going to have them our whole life. 126 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:01.520 But as you go through them, you learn how to walk victoriously through them. 127 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:02.080 All right. 128 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:05.760 Why? Because the testing of your faith produces what? 129 00:09:05.760 --> 00:09:06.440 Patience. 130 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.440 Why? Because you know he's good and he always shows up. 131 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:18.080 Verse 4, but let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 132 00:09:19.400 --> 00:09:22.720 And lacking nothing isn't a financial thing. 133 00:09:22.880 --> 00:09:32.640 Lacking nothing is, you're so content with your life and who you are in God that you're not looking for something else to fulfill you and make you happy. 134 00:09:33.520 --> 00:09:38.000 You know where that peace and that joy and that fulfillment comes from. 135 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:38.600 Okay. 136 00:09:38.640 --> 00:09:46.400 Verse 5, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all liberally without reproach. 137 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.280 If you ask God for wisdom, he wants to give it to you. 138 00:09:51.040 --> 00:09:52.760 He will give it to you. 139 00:09:54.280 --> 00:09:55.440 And it will be given to him. 140 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:59.200 Verse 6, but let him ask in faith with no doubting. 141 00:09:59.680 --> 00:10:00.040 For he. 142 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.000 U-doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 143 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:08.000 You know, when you're on this roller coaster in life, you're going to have ups, 144 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.000 you're going to have downs, you're going to have ups, you're going to have downs. 145 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.000 Okay? That's not how you're supposed to live. 146 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:17.000 God wants you to just stay in this steady place. 147 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:20.000 Okay, so there's a storm. You're steady. 148 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:23.000 Okay, so there's waves. Okay, you're steady. 149 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:27.000 Well, things get difficult. Uh, I know God's good. I'm steady. 150 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:32.000 There's no more of these emotional roller coasters and depression and 151 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:35.000 happy, happy, happy and depressed, depressed, depressed. 152 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:42.000 There's a consistency that begins to form in your life from being in the Word. 153 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:46.000 For let no man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. 154 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:52.000 He's double-minded man and he's unstable in all of his ways. 155 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:57.000 You know, people that are fearful and anxious. 156 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:59.000 They're unstable. 157 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:04.000 They can do weird things and say weird things and like, where's that coming from? 158 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.000 And why are they thinking about it that way? 159 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:09.000 Have you ever run across people that are like that? 160 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.000 Like, why? What are you thinking? 161 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.000 Like, where's that coming from? 162 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.000 A lot of them. 163 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:20.000 Okay, but the Word of God is alive and it wants to come. 164 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:27.000 And the Holy Spirit wants to use the Word, the living Word, to renew your mind. 165 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:30.000 But guess what? You're going to have to do it. 166 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:31.000 What does that mean? 167 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:34.000 That means you have to crack your Bible open and nobody can do it for you. 168 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:37.000 You've got to do it for yourself. 169 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:40.000 I recommend that you get a good study Bible. 170 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:44.000 Okay, just go get it. Learn how to use it. 171 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:48.000 Okay, and verse, this is Philippians 4-6. 172 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:55.000 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication and thanksgiving. 173 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:59.000 Prayer, you pray, you're worshiping God, you're honoring God. 174 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:05.000 Your supplication, that means you're bringing your issues to God and He's carrying them for you. 175 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:10.000 You give those problems, you give that fear, you give that anxiety to God. 176 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:13.000 With thanksgiving, you're thanking Him for carrying it. 177 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:17.000 I can't tell you how many mornings I come and sit down in this chair and I think, 178 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:22.000 how in the world am I going to do this job? 179 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:23.000 I have no idea. 180 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.000 It was so bad when I first started. 181 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.000 It was almost like a panic attack. 182 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:28.000 I understand. 183 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:30.000 It's so hard. How are you going to do it? 184 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:33.000 I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. 185 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:35.000 That's what I choose to speak over myself. 186 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:38.000 Let's go on with the rest of this verse here. 187 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.000 Prayer, supplication, and thanksgiving. 188 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.000 Thank God for doing it. 189 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:44.000 Pray about it. 190 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:45.000 Give Him your burdens. 191 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.000 Thank Him for taking it. 192 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:49.000 Let your requests be made known to God. 193 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:50.000 Verse 7. 194 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.000 This is the gem. 195 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:56.000 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding. 196 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:04.000 Do you know that you can have peace that doesn't make sense? 197 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:10.000 Do you know you can have peace that is so heavy you don't even understand it? 198 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:14.000 I experienced it when I lost my dad. 199 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:20.000 I was able to maintain clarity of mind and make decisions that he needed me to make. 200 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:21.000 Why? 201 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:26.000 Because of Jesus, not me. 202 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:30.000 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding. 203 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 You can have a peace that doesn't make sense. 204 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.000 You can have a peace that you don't understand. 205 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:40.000 You can have peace that is not logical. 206 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:42.000 How can I be logical in the middle of this? 207 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:46.000 You can be, because Jesus is in you. 208 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:53.000 And the peace of God, verse 7, which surpasses all understanding, again, 209 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:57.000 will guard your heart and your minds through Christ Jesus. 210 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.000 What does the word do? 211 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:02.000 Think of it as guarding you. 212 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:05.000 It's your protection. 213 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:07.000 It's the wall you place around you. 214 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.000 I like to think of it as a wall of fire that's around me. 215 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.000 The Holy Ghost is around me. 216 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:14.000 I'm going to walk through this today. 217 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.000 I don't have any idea how I'm going to get this done. 218 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:19.000 I have no idea what I'm going to do today. 219 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:21.000 I don't get it. 220 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.000 But I have him all over me. 221 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:25.000 And his presence is all over me. 222 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:29.000 And I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. 223 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:36.000 And I can operate in that peace and be for others what they need me to be. 224 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:39.000 That I can't do in my own self. 225 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:40.000 It's not logical. 226 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:42.000 It doesn't make sense. 227 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:46.000 In my own self, I'm still wanting and lean towards this. 228 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:52.000 But when I'm in him and I renew my mind, I'm a different person. 229 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:53.000 And guess what? 230 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.000 I do it every morning. 231 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:56.000 And so should you. 232 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:57.000 I get up. 233 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:58.000 I sit on the couch. 234 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:00.000 I have a coffee and I say, Oh, Jesus. 235 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.000 How am I going to do this today? There's just no way. 236 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:11.000 I invite you into my day. Why? Because I know me. 237 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:16.000 But I also know you. And you're good. And I can trust you. 238 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:21.000 Thank you for liking and subscribing and sharing. We need to grow this channel. 239 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.000 And I want to get this message to the people that need it. 240 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.000 Please share it with someone you think it would help today. 241 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:29.000 Thank you for listening. 242 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:31.000 You're welcome.