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[Applause]

i love your pastor

you do too

and i love this church

may god's richest blessings to be upon you

you

it's a great great honor i bring you

greetings from san antonio texas

texas

i've been there since uh 1988

and they're telling me that as i get

older my sermons

are getting longer

in fact

just a few weeks ago a gentleman got up

right in the middle of one of my sermons

and he started walking out

can you believe that

i said hey where are you going

he said well i'm going to get a haircut

i said well why didn't you get one

before you came in he said i didn't need

one before i came in [Applause]

we're not too bright down there in south texas

texas

i told the church a few well it's been a

few years ago i told the church i won't

be hanging around after the service

today because i'm going to catch a

flight i'm going to uh manhattan

so as soon as the sermon was over i

hurried out went to the parking lot

one of our ladies at the church chased

me down

and she said pastor did you say you're

going to manhattan i said i did

she said could you say hello to my son

while you're there

and i said

it's a short trip and that's a big city

give me his contact information let's

see what happens she said that's the problem

problem

we don't

we don't know where he is

we've lost contact with him

i said well then how can i say hello to

him she said well i'm thinking you might

just bump into him

i said that's not gonna happen

you don't just bump into somebody she

said you never know keep an eye out for

a guy his name is john dunn

i said i'm not going to just run into

somebody named john dunn she said you

never know keep an eye out

walking down a main thoroughfare and

over the entryway to a building were the words

words

done in bradstreet

and i thought that guy's name was

john dunn

so i walked in

i went up to the receptionist

and i said

ma'am can you tell me

do you have a john here [Laughter]

[Laughter]

she said we do down the hall first door

to the right

so i went down the hall and there was a

i walked through the door and there was

a gentleman stepping out of the stall

he said i am

you didn't like that joke did you

so these three pastors are sitting in a

something about the mood at the moment

caused one of them to say

but i gotta tell you brothers

i have a gambling problem

in fact

a lot of the church money i've lost gambling

gambling

the second pastor said

said well

well

as long as we're confessing

i've got a bit of a

drinking problem

nobody knows about it but

sometimes those trips i tell the church

i'm going to study wow

wow

those two pastors wait for the third to

speak up

but he doesn't say anything

he just sits there fishing

finally they looked to him and said pastor

pastor

we're confessing our sins

anything you want to get off the chest

he said well i will say this

i struggle a lot with gossip and i can't

wait to get off this boat [Applause]

we are really enjoying being here and

god's richest blessings on the campus

can i ask your indulgence on something i

would typically when i go speak at a

church shake as many hands pray with as

many people as possible but you know

what happened to me two weeks ago

i came down with shingles and this is

not a joke

have you ever heard of shingles does

that happen in indiana

boy it sure happened in texas

and i got to tell you i've got enough

juice to get me through the sermon but i

got a hydrocodone waiting on me in the

hotel room

so if you'll forgive me as soon as we're

done i'll just slip out okay

lord jesus have mercy upon us now as we

open our hearts

as we open your word

let your blessings please be upon pastor

steve and sandy

what beautiful wonderful hearts what a

great work they do and have done

forgive our speaker

his sins are many

help us to see jesus

just jesus

through jesus we pray

and all god's people said

it's 2 30 in the morning and you can't sleep

sleep

you toss and you turn you pound your

pillow you adjust the blankets you roll

to this side and then the other nothing works

works

everyone else leaps

your spouse has taken up residence in

dream land

the dog is curled up at

the foot of the bed everyone else sleeps

but you

in six hours you'll be walking into a

new job new office new chapter new

season new world you'll be the rookie

on the sales team

you're wondering if you made the right decision

decision

the hours are going to be long the

competition is severe

besides you're 23 years old right out of

college starting your first job you're

33 years old two kids to feed in the

family to care for you're 43 years old

latest victim of downsizing 53 years old

not the ideal age to change careers

you're 63 years old what happened to

retirement plans and time with the

grandkids and here you are starting over

regardless of the age

the questions fall like hailstones

will i make enough money will i make any

friends well i have a cubicle well i'll

be able to learn the software program

the sales pitch

while i'll be able to find my way to the bathroom

bathroom

thoughts rage through your mind like a

like a tornado through a kansas wheat

field suddenly you feel a pain in your

neck and a new strand of anxiety takes

over oh no it's it's cancer

just like granddad

i'm gonna have to have chemo how will i

endure chemo and a new job will the

your mind is restless

the only light in your room are the lights

lights

that come from that clock that tells you

every minute is passing with

less and less of a chance of getting a

good night's sleep you cover your head

with a pillow and you feel like crying

what does all this anxiety mean

all this trepidation

all this restlessness all this

insecurity what does it mean

simply this

it doesn't mean you're emotionally underdeveloped

underdeveloped

it doesn't mean you're stupid

doesn't mean you're demon possessed

doesn't mean you're a failure

doesn't mean that your parents failed

you or vice versa and this is important

it doesn't mean you're you're not a

christian christians battle anxiety

jesus battled anxiety for heaven's sake

in the garden of gethsemane he prayed

three times that he would be delivered

from the cup he was about to be given

his heart pumped with such ferocity that

the capillaries broke and rivolets of

crimson streaked down his face he was he

was anxious

but he didn't stay anxious

he entrusted his fears to his heavenly father

father

and he completed his mission

with faith and he will help you do likewise

there is a pathway out of the valley of fret

fret

and god used the pen of the apostle paul

to sketch the map

rejoice in the lord always he wrote again

again

i will say rejoice

let your gentleness be known to all men

the lord is at hand be anxious

for nothing

but in everything

by prayer and supplication

with thanksgiving

let your requests be made known to god

and the peace of god

which surpasses all understanding will

guard your hearts and your minds

through christ jesus finally

finally

brethren whatever things are true

whatever things are noble whatever

things are just whatever things are pure

whatever things are lovely whatever

things are of good report if there is

any virtue if there's anything

praiseworthy meditate on these things

a person would be hard pressed to find

the passage of scripture more practical

and relevant to this day and age would

americans don't agree on much these days

that's why we were surprised a couple of

months ago when according to a usa today

survey conducted at the latter part of 2021

2021

9 out of 10 americans agree

that we are having trouble staying

staying sane

it's all we can do to keep our heads on straight

political chaos the pandemic on

on certainty

certainty

about the economy and the future

the journal of the american medical

association cited a study that indicates

an exponential increase in anxiety and

depression people of each generation in

the 20th century were three times more

likely to experience depression and

anxiety than people of preceding

generations three times

how can this be

cars are safer than ever

we regulate food and water and electricity

electricity

gangs do prowl our streets but most of

us don't live under the danger of

imminent attack

yet if worry were an olympic event the

united states would win the gold medal

our college kids are feeling it as well

in a study that involved more than two

hundred thousand incoming freshmen

students reported all-time lows and

overall mental health and emotional

stability one psychologist

robert leahy

pointed out that the average child today

exhibits the same level of anxiety as

the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s

1950s

kids have more toys clothes

opportunities than ever but by the time

they leave home they're wrapped tighter

and we're paying a price for it

to see the consequences of anxiety just

read about half the ailments in any

medical textbook

do not fret wrote the psalmist in psalm

37 and verse 8 it only causes harm amen

amen

arm to our necks

our backs our bowels our jaws

anxiety can twist us into emotional

pretzels it can make our eyes twitch our

blood pressure rise our heads ache and

our armpits sweat

anxiety ain't fun

i certainly don't mean to leave the

impression that anxiety can be waved

away with a simple sermon from a guest preacher

preacher

in fact for some people for many people

god's healing will include the help of

therapy and or medication

and if that

describes you please

please

you're not a second class citizen

let god's ministry come however god ministers

ministers

most of us however

would benefit greatly from a good dollop

of philippians chapter 4 verses 4

through 8. i think this passage from the

book of philippians provides wonderful

spiritual tools for overcoming anxiety

be anxious for nothing wrote the apostle

cut us some slack here paul we want to slay

slay

aren't you asking a lot

how about just be anxious

but the apostle paul doesn't seem to

give us any room to wiggle

be anxious for nothing not a zilch zero

is that what he wrote well not exactly

he wrote this phrase in that active

tense in greek which implies an ongoing

state it's this life of perpetual

anxiety that the apostle paul is walking

us away from he could have written and

we could translate it do not allow

yourselves to be caught in a state of perpetual

perpetual

anxiety the presence of anxiety is

unavoidable but the prison of anxiety is optional

and so the apostle offers here some ideas

ideas

on how to win the war on worry

and to help me remember these ideas i've

turned them into

a handy helpful little acrostic c-a-l-m

c-a-l-m [Music]

[Music]

you want to know how to stay calm

calm

the apostle says first of all celebrate

god's goodness celebrate

celebrate

god's goodness rejoice in the lord

always again i will say rejoice boy he

comes at us with both pistols doesn't he

exclamation points repeating it

rejoicing the lord always again i'll say

rejoice listen to me locato rejoice

rejoice

you want to deal with anxiety don't

meditate on the mess

meditate on your master

it does you no good to ponder your problem

it does you no good to ruminate

on your struggles

rejoice in the lord

the more you look at god the more your

problem is brought down

to its proper size

size

as the psalmist said i will lift up my

eyes into the hills

from whence comes my help my help comes

from the lord

who made the heaven and the earth do you

see the intentionality in the words

i will lift up my eye we get to choose

where we look

we get to choose where we look i will

lift up my eyes unto the hills you gain

nothing by setting your eyes on the problem

problem

but you gain everything by setting your

eyes on the lord was this not the lesson

that the apostle peter learned on the

stormy sea of galilee

he was a fisherman he knew what those

10-foot waves could do to small boats

maybe that's why he volunteered to climb

out of the boat when he saw jesus

walking on water through the storm and

he cried out lord if it's really you

command me to come to you on the water

and jesus said come

and peter left the boat and walked on

the water to jesus but when peter saw

the wind and the waves he became afraid

and he began to sink

as long as his eyes were on the master

he could do the impossible

but when his eyes were on the storm he

sunk like a stone

rejoice in the lord

are you sinking like a stone today

could it be

because you're looking

i wish you could have met my dad

he was a west texas mechanic

in the oil field

shaped like a radiator

block of a guy

had a great laugh

and he had a nightly ritual

that i've never seen imitated by any

other person

first of all he loved

buttermilk and cornbread

is that just a texas thing you've heard

of others

it's not that bad

i'm not into it myself but hey

he loved it and every night

he would meander into the kitchen after

the two boys were in bed after his wife

was in bed he would meander in his tank

top and his long underwear

into the kitchen and there he would pour

himself a glass of buttermilk and he

would crumble up some cornbread and he

would sit there and scoop it out

we lived in a small house three doors

front door back door garage door and he

would then rotate walk through the house

checking all the locks

loudly enough that we could hear the

click click click click click click

and then he would stand in the center of

our small house and he would bellow

the house

dear friend god has brought you here

so he as your heavenly father can tell you

you

you can rest

i know the news says otherwise

i know the paper says otherwise i know

your friends say otherwise but let me

tell you your heavenly father is running

and as you inhale him

you can exhale hope

hope

would you receive that

i believe right now the spirit of the lord

lord

and he just wants you to know the house

is safe

and nothing is going to pass through you

that doesn't first pass through him i

have no inclination to believe that god

loves cornbread

and buttermilk

and he doesn't need to check the doors

indeed he is the door

and nothing will come your way apart

from his permission

the scripture says this in first timothy

chapter 6 and verse 15.

god is the blessed controller of all things

things

the king over all kings

and the master

of all masters

if he sustains all and controls all

don't you think he has authority over

this situation that's keeping you awake

at night

what about his mercy is god's grace

great enough to cover all of your sin

yes there is no condemnation for those

who are in christ jesus you can rejoice

in his sovereignty you can rejoice in

his mercy that's step one

face god before you face your fears

then you'll be ready to number two ask

god for help

the apostle says let your requests be

made known to god fear triggers either

god said call on me in the day of

trouble psalm 50 and verse 15.

jesus said ask and it will be given to

you seek and you will find knock and it

will be open to you there's no

uncertainty in that promise

no perhaps or possibly will jesus states

unflinchingly that when you ask he

listens so ask ask

ask

and when anxiety knocks on the door of

your heart would you say

reduce your request down to a statement

and present your request to your

heavenly father pray like jesus who said

give us this day our daily prayer engage

engage in promise based prayer the

scripture says let us then approach

god's throne of grace with confidence

the path to peace is paved with prayer

the old testament prophet said put the

lord in remembrance of his promises and

keep not silence

isaiah 62 and verse 6.

god told isaiah and he tells you put me

in remembrance let us contend together

isaiah 43 and verse 26

god commands you

to remind him of his promises

so when you have a problem find a

promise with which you can face your problem

problem

and make a prayer out of it

lord did you not say you would walk me

through the valley of the shadow of

death lord did you not say that you

would walk me through the waters lord

did you not say that you would never

leave me that you would never forsake me

find a promise that fits your problem

and then just build a prayer around it

these prayers touch the heart of your

heavenly father and activate activate

miracles are set into motion

will your prayer the answer to your

prayer come overnight it might

then again it might not

but you will overcome

you will overcome and having done so you

can do this

you can leave your concerns with god

first you celebrate your heavenly father

then you ask the lord for help and then

you leave your concerns with god let god

take charge

let god do what he is so willing to do

guard your hearts and minds through

christ jesus you leave your concerns

with him just leave them with him have

you ever taken something to an appliance

repair shop to be repaired

maybe a toaster or a vacuum cleaner

maybe it quit working and you tried to

fix it but you had no success so you

took it to a specialist you explained

raise your hand if you offered to stay

did you bring a sleeping bag and throw

it out on the floor and say i'll sleep

here and watch you work

you left it with him

the arrangement is uncomplicated you let

him fix it

take your problem

give it to your heavenly father and

leave it with him

it's no longer yours to carry no longer

yours to carry

and when the devil

stirs your memory about that problem say

well you're gonna have to talk to god

about it because i left it with him

raise your right hand please

and repeat after me i hereby

hereby resign

resign

as ruler of the universe

it was never your job anyway

god does not need our help he does not

need our counsel

he does not need

our advice

we leave it with him then

then

knowing that we all of a sudden have all

of this brain space available because

we're not thinking about our problems

anymore all of that space can be occupied

occupied

with gratitude here's what the apostle

says but in everything by prayer and petition

petition

by prayer and supplication

with what thanksgiving

thanksgiving

with thanksgiving

let your requests be banged on

to god did you know that anxiety refuses

did you know

that anxiety

refuses to share the heart with gratitude

gratitude

when anxiety sees thanksgiving walk in

my friend jerry has taught me this

he's 78 years old and he regularly

shoots his age

on the golf course

if i ever do that i'll need to live to

his dear wife ginger battles parkinson's disease

disease

and what should have been a wonderful

season of retirement has been marred by

multiple hospital stays and medication

and struggles many days she cannot keep

her balance

and most days

jerry stays by her side and on the rare

occasion he does get out to play golf he

has to provide a caregiver

but he always has a smile

he always has a joke and he always beats

one day walking down the fairway i said

how do you do it jerry really how do you

do it

i think i'd be bitter

i'd be resentful but you're so

he said well every morning

and i say ginger do you want to sing a hymn

hymn

and every morning she says yes

and i say what do you want to sing

and she says why don't we sing

take a moment and follow jerry's example

take a moment

what blessings have come your way today

what blessings any friends

good health

enough provision to drive a car to come

to church

warm bed and which to sleep do you have

some blessings

as you list your blessings do you not

notice the trepidations begin to slip

out the door

the quickest way to deal with anxiety is gratitude

gratitude gratitude

gratitude

the more grateful

the heart

the less anxious

the soul

as you look at your blessings you will

see anxiety slip out one heartfelt thank

you will suck the oxygen out of the

world of worry

so say it often take your mind off your

burdens and count your blessings

now when you aren't focused on your burdens

burdens

you have sudden availability of some

brain space so use it for gratitude but

then also and then lastly

meditate on good things

just meditate on good things

and the apostle gives us a pretty good

list here it takes up a paragraph

finally brethren

whatever things are true whatever things

are noble whatever things are just

whatever things are pure whatever things

are lovely whatever things are of good

report if there is any virtue if there

is anything praiseworthy

meditate on these things

don't let anxious negative thoughts take

over your mind meditate

meditate

on good things anxious negative thoughts

did you see what i just did a-n-t

a-n-t

a counselor told me that once

he said most people who struggle with

anxiety let those little ants

anxious negative thoughts

just creep into their brain

and take over their thoughts but the

apostle says meditate

meditate on

one of the toughest days of my life

found me

in a diner in dalton georgia

i was 19 years old

summer job

i was a thousand miles away from home

and i was spending each night in a

salvation army shelter where the night before

before

an inebriated guy on the bunk above mine

had rolled over and thrown up

if homesickness were water i would have

been soaked to the bone

on the promise of new sites and fast

cash i had taken a job and joined up

with two friends

to sell books door to door

my friends quit and went home during

sales school

i was all alone

so i went out my first day

into the field and i made a discovery

that i wish someone had told me before i

left and that is people don't like

door-to-door salesman

did you already know that

hello i'm max slim

this went on all day and the second day

was not any better

around noon of the second day i

pulled my car into a diner and i took my

bruised ego in and i sat down and i

ordered a hamburger and i felt sorry for myself

myself

as i was paying my bill i spotted a

display of of magnetized rubberized

truisms little slogans maybe you have

won or have seen them you can buy them

and affix them to your refrigerator or

your stove

and there was one that was shaped like a

lemon and as i begin the quote you'll be

able to finish it

the quote said when life gives you a lemon

you have the same little

rubber lemon don't you

i know the slogan is worn out

it's folksy it's corny it's homespun but

somehow in my 19 years i'd never heard

it and i needed to

so i bought that little

thing i took it out to the car and i

have fixed it

to a metal strip on the dashboard of my 1973

1973

and whenever i got discouraged i would

just rub my thumb over

that little rubber lemon

and remind myself

i can make myself miserable

or i can make myself

some lemonade

now you know people still slam doors

and i still wondered what in the world i

was doing so far from home

i was 19. you know i turned 67 a couple

of weeks ago i'm closing in on 50 years

half a century has passed

and much has changed

it does

of course my prospects of a miserable summer

summer

are nothing compared

to some of the lemons that you've been handed

last sunday at church i visited with a

single mom

three kids

pulling at her from every direction

all single-digit age

she hadn't heard from her husband

she said max i can't remember when i've

had a good night's sleep

a few months ago i received a call from a

friend a former neighbor of ours

who was about to have to take

the car keys away from her dementia-ridden

dementia-ridden husband

and now he can't drive a car

i need to return a call to a friend

who's going through a divorce

and he is honestly convinced he'll never

be happy again

life still

gives lemons life gives lemons to old

people to young people

life gives lemons to

bad people to good people

life gives lemons to all people life

comes with lemons but you know what my friend

friend

[Applause]

many years ago ago i wrote this resolve

in my journal

today i will live today

yesterday has passed

tomorrow is not yet

i'm left with today

so today i will live today

relive yesterday no

i will learn from it

and i will take joy in it

but i won't live in it

the sun has set on yesterday

yesterday

the sun has yet to rise on tomorrow

worry about the future

to what game

it deserves a glance nothing more

i can't change tomorrow until tomorrow

today i will live today

i will face today's challenges with

today's strength i will dance today's

waltz with today's music i will

celebrate today's opportunities

with today's hope today

may i laugh listen

learn in love and tomorrow if it comes

in his fine book

who has passed on into heaven

retired episcopalian priest in san antonio

antonio

in that book he tells a story about

growing up in georgia

and as a 12 year old boy his summer job

was to pull stumps out of the ground

the purpose of that was to turn those

stumps into fire kindling

that could be used

used

later in the year

he remembers on one occasion his father

driving off to work as he went out to a

particular stump

and he worked all day on that stump and

he could not get it out of the ground

he used every tool at his disposal and

he pushed and he pulled that he pushed

and he pulled

and he was covered with sweat and

finally his father came home

his father parked his car his father

walked to the field his father walked

over to

bill where bill was working and bill was

just pulling and tugging on that

stump and still couldn't get it out of

the ground

the father sat on another stump

and watched his son work

until finally the father spoke up and

said bill

i think i see your problem

and bill said what

and the father said

you're not using all your strength

oh that

caused bill to erupt

dad i've been working all day

i'm exhausted i've used all my strength

and the father said no you haven't

and the boy said yes i have

and the father said no

for some of you this business of dealing

please forgive me if i'll leave the

impression that it can be dealt with easily

easily

i do not mean to do so

but i do mean to encourage you

who is saying to you i'll help you

in the anxiety that has marked your days

thus far need not mark them from now forward

forward

there is a new day awaiting you my friend

friend

and in the name of jesus christ the king

of kings the miracle worker

we declare over you

you

fresh healing

fresh hope

fresh strength your heavenly father here

to help you strengthen you and to guide you

you

and to lead you

into a life

in which you can honestly say i'm anxious

anxious

for nothing

gracious heavenly father now have your

mercy upon all who hear these words

you be the speaker

and you please do what only you can do

and that is bring healing

from top to bottom

from inside out

do the work you can do please

we declare and pray in the name of jesus christ

christ

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