Welcome to a New Way of Life

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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 Welcome to A New Way of Life. The material
in this episode is inspired by Winning the War

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on Worry by Louis Giglio. Note: I will talk a lot
about mental health but please note this is not

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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. Welcome to a

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New Way of Life. We’re going to begin this episode
talking through the introduction to book, which is

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winning the war on worry by Louis Giglio Louis
Giglio says worry is so prevalent in our society

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and throughout our daily lives that it often
feels inescapable instead of worrying being

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an occasional event many of us have learned to
embrace worry as part of the fabric of Our Lives

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worry has become woven into our regular rhythms
and for many of us it’s become an identity we

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say I’m a worrier it’s just the way I am as a
result we live in a Perpetual state of being

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worried about something in fact you might might
already be worried about the promise and Prospect

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of this book he goes on to say as Believers
we are meant to live a life characterized by

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the light and easy yoke of Jesus that’s Matthew
11 30 and the more room we give what he refers

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to what ifs the more heavily burdened we become
so he goes in the first that first introduction

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he talks about these what ifs what if I lose
my job or what if you know someone gets hurt

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and that’s what I mean by what ifs there’s another
quote uh to open this it’s by Arthur Summers Roche

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and it says worry is a is like a thin stream of
fear trickling through the mind if encouraged if

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encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other
thoughts are drained in my own words I said worry

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is an equal opportunity offender like it doesn’t
care who you are how much money you have what

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family you come from uh it affects us all and
Louis goes on to say worry can weasel into the

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hearts of Business Leaders professional athletes
High School seniors first-time moms creatives and

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artists and producers and designers and software
Engineers it can creep into the minds of chefs

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and astronauts truck drivers and teachers it
can even get into the minds of pastors and

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people who are called to work for the church
and Louis goes on to say worry is a choice

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voice and he also alludes I didn’t put this in
there but he also alludes that he knows that

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it’s not always that simple he talks about how in
other books that he’s written how he’s been rather

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transparent with his struggle with anxiety fear
and worry and so that’s why you know he says that

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he knows it’s not that simple he goes on to say
God can conquer worry because he has already been

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Victorious over the ultimate route of worry which
is fear uh we’ll dig into this in a later chapter

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but first John 4 18 says it so well there is no
fear in love but perfect love drives out fear

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it goes on to say God is greater than fear and all
its cousins depression anxiety panic and worry and

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if God is greater you and I can experience freedom
from the grip of worry that robs us of sleep and

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peace Louis says I believe that as we go through
this next chapter together the truce you encounter

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will have the potential to set you on A New Path
and give you the tools you need to replace worry

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with a greater sense of trust in the almighty
throughout our journey together we’ll look at

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both the theological and the Practical we’ll
fix our eyes on the only one who has perfectly

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conquered worry and anxiety while also setting
our feet into motion as we go to war on worry if

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you stick with this I believe you’ll find help for
the headache and hardship lingering in your life

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however please understand this is no self-help
guide this the essence of winning the war on

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worry is knowing you can’t do it on your own like
most attacks of the enemy when we battle worry we

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can’t make or muster a strong enough defense
by ourselves it is only by the might of God

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and the love of Jesus that we can stand firm take
ground and win this fight you know so hopefully

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you’re kind of seeing some kind of theme kind
of transfer from our last study about you know

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making this positive progress in our lives and
the theme is is that we can’t do it alone and

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now we shouldn’t do it alone many times I think
we we want to do it on our own because we don’t

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want to depend on other people we we don’t want to
burden them uh maybe we’re embarrassed by how we

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feel or the emotions that we’re experiencing and
we’d rather not bring people in for one reason or

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another and so I think the theme that we’re seeing
between these two studies is that it’s essential

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that we bring not only other people in but got
into the story he goes on to say my goal is to

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point you to the one who is greater to The God Who
encourages his people Philippians 4 6-7 of the NLT

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says don’t worry about anything instead pray about
everything tell God what you need and thank him

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for all he has done then you’ll experience God’s
peace which exceeds anything we can understand

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his peace will guard your hearts and Minds as you
live in Christ Jesus and Louis continues on and

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says remember when I said that the enemy loves to
utilize the weapon of what if instead of fixing

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on what ifs let’s commit right now to acknowledge
that God has already provided us with the truth

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of what is like is God doesn’t deal in confusion
he doesn’t leave things to chance and he is never

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unsure of the final outcome he doesn’t do if he
is and that is a truth on which we can build our

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foundation wherever you are in reading this no
matter what you’re walking through I encourage

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you to speak out this reality God I believe
you are greater specifically you’re greater

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than whatever I am worrying about right now that’s
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