2. Providing Encouragement for Handling Life’s Concerns
Key Outcome of Series:
Providing Encouragement
for Handling Life’s Concerns
that cause us to Struggle
with Worry, Anxiety and Fear!

3. How Do You Stop
Unstoppable Worry?
Joshua 1: 8
Matthew 6: 27

4. each car a different worry,
Imagine…
Your Worry feels like
a long freight train;
each car a different worry,
it stretches for miles

5. their worry is out of control;
One feels as though
their worry is out of control;
it feels like it is
impossible not
to worry

6. Depicts real-life incident that
2010 Movie “Unstoppable”
Depicts real-life incident that
occurred on May 15, 2001
Trains air brakes
were not attached!

7. Worry can fill our trains boxcars with toxic thoughts that
Faith Struggle:
Worry can fill our trains boxcars
with toxic thoughts that
threaten our hope, joy and peace;
derailing the life
Jesus has for us!

8. “Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Jesus asked:
“Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Matthew 6: 27

9. Worry Does not add value
Faith Struggle:
Worry Does not add value
to our life; Worry Steals our focus, steals our passion, steals our purpose

10. But a good word makes it glad.”
Faith Struggle:
“Anxiety in the heart
causes depression,
But a good word makes it glad.”
Proverbs 12: 25

11. The most important DAILY task of a train conductor,
as they attach multiple boxcars, is to ensure every
air brake hose is attached!

12. Faith Response:
We need help
building our
mental and spiritual
train DAILY!

13. HOW?

14. God’s Guidance to Joshua:
“Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.”

15. Neuroscience Research: —75 to 98% of mental,
physical, & behavior illness
stems from one’s thoughts!

16. Neuroscience Research:
—Almost 40% of our population worries daily;
most always early in morning
or late at night

17. a lot about our thought patterns and cared enough
Centuries ago
God spoke to Joshua;
evidently HE knew
a lot about our thought patterns and cared enough
to provide us with the
spiritual guidance we need!

18. LIFEWAY Research: —Only 19% read Word daily
—25% read it few times weekly
—14% read it once a week
—22% read it maybe monthly
—last 20% not at all

19. God’s Word is Alive… If we meditate on it, His Word will accumulate,
impact, and change our lives
for His glory and our good!

20. when God’s Spirit-breathed
Unstoppable Worry
Can be Stopped
when God’s Spirit-breathed
Words Invade our Life!