Freedom Sunday | ANXIETY ATTACK | Pastor Chad Dingess | 7/7/2024

Proverbs 12: 25 (NKJV)
Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad.

• Your emotions are valid. But they’re not permanent.

• Your situation feels hopeless, but with God there is always hope.

Lamentations 3: 20-23
I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. ²¹ Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: ²² Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. ²³ They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Galatians 5:11
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”

1. REMEMBER God’s faithfulness.

Joshua 4:5 (NLT)
“Each of you must pick up one stone and carry it out on your shoulder—twelve stones in all, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. 6 We will use these stones to build a memorial. In the future your children will ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 7 Then you can tell them, ‘They remind us that the Jordan River stopped flowing when the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant went across.’”

2. RECRUIT an army to march with you.

Joshua 6: 2-3 (NLT)
But the Lord said to Joshua, “I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its strong warriors. 3 You and your fighting men should march around the town once a day for six days.

3. RELEASE control through prayer.

Joshua 5: 14-15 (NLT)
At this, Joshua fell with his face to the ground in reverence. “I am at your command,” Joshua said. “What do you want your servant to do?” 15 The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did as he was told.

4. REPEAT until…

Joshua 6:20
When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed…