Putting a Dagger in the Heart of Worry

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Hello, and welcome to The Overflow Podcast. My
name is Craig Booker. The title of this episode

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is Putting a Dagger in the Heart of Worry. The
material in this episode is inspired by Winning

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the War on Worry by Louie Giglio. Note: I will talk
a lot about mental health, but please note this

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is not a substitute for therapy or mental health
care. I am not a counselor or a physician. If you need

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help with mental health challenges, please find a
qualified mental health professional. The title of

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this episode is Putting a Dagger in the Heart of
Worry. Last week, when we met, we were talking

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about the power of perfect love. We are I think
probably 3/4 of the way through the book, and so

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we have one more chapter we’ll discuss next week.
And then I believe that is the conclusion of the

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book. So this week again we’re talking about
Putting a Dagger in the Heart of Worry. He starts

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by why we’re here, like why worry is an issue with
a lot of people. And it says that you know far too

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often what happens and the reason that worry
sticks around is we become complacent . We just

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start accepting worry as just another part of our
lives. Louie says, “In the previous chapter, we looked

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at how the perfect love of God drives out fear
and leads us to surrender our idea of control

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which then leads us to worship rather than worry.
The more we discover about the love of God, the

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more we’re wanting and willing to surrender, and
the more worship we give to Him.” Louie goes on to

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talk about how God Delights in you and he says
the more we delight in God the more we discover

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that he Delights in US Zephaniah 3:17 says the
Lord your God is with you the mighty warrior

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who saves he will take great Delight in you in
his love he will no longer rebuke you but will

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rejoice over you with singing Louie goes on to
say God takes great Delight in you he qu quiets

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all forms of worry and anxiety with this perfect
love and just in case you ever are ever tempted

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to listen to the sound of the world and be pulled
back into fear God says that he rejoices you over

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you with singing that section caught my attention
that God Delights in me and in you I just don’t

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really think of it that way I guess and to be
reminded of that I think it’s really important

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just how special each of us is to God Louie
goes on to kind of pose the question how do we

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win the war on worry and he says we take back the
battleground of our minds we tear down the house

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that worry built and we set out to build a new
and peace-filled home on the most stable rocken

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Foundation the person and work of Jesus says it’s
time for a home renovation 2 Corinthians 10 4-5

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says the weapons we fight with we fight with are
not the weapons of the world on the contrary they

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have divine power to demolish strongholds we
demolish arguments and every pretention that

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sets itself sets itself up against the knowledge
of God and we take captive every thought to make

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it obedient to Christ Louie says you have the
power through Christ to identify and bind the

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power of every lie that comes into your mind
you can take captive every thought when you

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commit to this and put in to practice you begin
tearing down the house that wor he built Brick

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by Brick and thought by thought so he mentions in
this part just how he really covered this in more

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in depth in his other book um but so I wanted
to give that as a resource for anybody that’s

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interested so he says we need to basically we
need to stand ready uh when we start to do this

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process of taking our thoughts captive when we’re
trying to make positive progress in our lives as

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we’ve seen in past studies you know our enemy The
Devil is not just going to stand by and watch you

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make progress you know he comes to kill steal and
destroy he wants to tear you down as a child of

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God and so don’t just expect that the demolition
process to be easy understand that the enemy isn’t

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just going to sit there and take it as you pick
apart the house he’s built in your heart so as

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you start making this progress you know maybe you
need to maybe you need to reach out to a friend

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maybe you need to reach out to our community and
ask for prayer, we have a space just for that

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you know just say I feel like I’m under attack I
I’m really trying to address worry and I really

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would appreciate prayer and that’s exactly
what that’s for if you’re not comfortable doing

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a public setting, just direct message somebody. Ask
them for prayer um that you’re getting ready to go

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into this so they can check in on you and ask
you how you’re doing, they can pray for you.

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Louie goes on to say whenever you set out to
make change to start tearing down bricks and

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demolishing strongholds the enemy seems to rise up
and attack with even more Vengeance Isaiah 54:17

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in the NIV says that no weapon forged against you
will prevail Louie goes on to say you have all you

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need need offensively and defensively to start
this process of demolishing The House That wereb

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Built and remember the goal here is to change the
way we think he describes you know we’re not just

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trying to go for like a heap of Rebel where
we tear down this house that wor rebuilt like

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we want to completely wipe the Slate clean and we
want to change the way we think Philippians 4:8 of

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the NLT it says and now dear brothers and sisters
one final thing fix your thoughts on what is true

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and honorable and right and pure and lovely and
admirable think about things that are excellent

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and worthy of Praise so again how do we drive a
dagger through the heart of worry we think about

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different things than the things that are causing
us to worry Louie goes on he says controlling and

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then changing what you think about isn’t easy but
that doesn’t mean that the solution can’t be be

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this simple for most of our our dealings with
worry it really does boil down to US changing

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the way we think you see worry is born from fear
and the attempt for control but as worry grows

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up it lives and takes up resonance in the mind
over time it slowly but surely begins to building

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a house one brick at a time it takes that one
conversation one critique one circumstance that

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is out of your control and it slowly adds to the
structure a bit of anxiety here a dash of fear

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there and before we know it worry is taking up
a lot of real estate in our minds I don’t know

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if anybody else has had this experience but it
you know it it seems like it’s slowly built and

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it’s kind of in the background and then all of
a sudden worry has just grown so big at least

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in my brain at times that I I wonder where it came
from like where did all this happen like I didn’t

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always think this way I didn’t always behave
this way I wasn’t always such a worried like

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person and then all of a sudden it’s like that’s
all I do and so he asked the question where did

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that thought come from and he says worry thrives
in our heads because it feasts on the future and

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things that have that have not yet come to pass
I’d guess that if you took 10 minutes and wrote

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down everything you can think of that is currently
worrying you most of your list would be things

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that haven’t happened yet he goes on worry works
best when it can convince you to spend your time

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fighting imaginary battles therefore paralyzing
you paralyzing you to the real work at hand if

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our goal is to be transformed and to fully take up
our identity as a new creation a l son or daughter

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of the king of the universe we’ll need to start by
renewing our minds I think he’s referencing Romans

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122 uh he says as we take our thoughts captive we
slowly begin to deconstructing the house that were

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rebuilt if we’re going to place a dagger through
the heart of worry it’s not enough to tear down

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the strongholds worry has built in our minds we
need to remove and replace those thoughts with

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something else that’s where Philippians 4 comes
in he says you know basically start by looking at

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Philippians 48 and that says and now dear brothers
and sisters one final thing fix your thoughts on

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what is true honorable and right and pure and
lovely and admirable think about things that are

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excellent and worthy of praise and then if that’s
not enough to kind of filter your thoughts let’s

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look at Galatians 5:22 and 23 it says but the Holy
Spirit produces the kind this kind of fruit in our

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lives love joy peace patience kindness goodness
faithfulness gentleness and self-control there is

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no law against these things things so we’re using
Philippians 4:8 and Galatians 5:22-23 as a filter

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for our thoughts that’s how we’re practically
applying this so he says you can ask yourself

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does the thought line up with that which is
loving joyous peace peaceful or patient if the

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answer is yes keep that thought if the answer is
no if it doesn’t line up then you know it’s time

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for a replacement through the power of the Holy
Spirit we become competent to carry out all the

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good works that God has created for us to walk in
it says in the Old Testament God gave his people

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the Mosaic law and he commanded them to obey
every statute and decree he did this for two

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reasons first to show how holy and perfect he was
and second to show how impossible it was for us

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to reach the standard of perfection in effect God
laid on the Israelites an impossibly heavy burden

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and said see you can’t carry this on your own you
need a savior Louie goes on he says God fulfilled

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the righteous requirement of law in us who no
longer are bound to live according to the Flesh

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and the anxieties and so commonly that so commonly
drag us down we no longer live as slaves to those

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fears no longer are we destined to spiral into a
tunnel of control only to come out the other side

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with a mile long list of worries he says you don’t
drive the dagger of God’s perfect love through the

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heart of worry unless you realize that through
Christ you have the power to do all things so as

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we’re going through our thoughts and we’re trying
to ask this question where did that thought come

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from right because practically you know as we’re
going about our day you know we realize we have a

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thought and so we need to take it through our
filter here and look through Philippians 4 48

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in Galatians 522 and 23 and see how it lines
up if this is not from God we need to replace

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it with something else and not just something
else something that’s that is know that fits

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the criteria here all right so we have discussion
questions and there’s four here first one it says

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take a few minutes to write down any thoughts that
are worrying you right now this could be on your

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phone this could be on a piece of paper uh you
know just spend a few minutes to write down down

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what’s going through your head and that’s worrying
you below each thought write out a truth about God

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that you can use to refute and replace the thought
of worry two uh what inputs are constantly pushing

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thoughts of worry into your heart are there any
streams you need to cut off if you’re going to

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get serious about tearing down the house that
worry built three would be read Philippians 48

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pick one of the words Paul encouraged you to think
about and write out a list of thoughts that relate

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to that word four what does it mean that you
are a new creation in Christ 2 Corinthians 5:17

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what in your life has been made new that’s all
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