Chilling Down Your Worries

Philippians 4:4-9

Main Idea: Four steps to find and maintain peace amidst the troubles and conflicts of life

1. Set yourself up for worry free living
   • Rejoice in the Lord
   • Determine to be reasonable/gentle
2. Replace sinful worry with thankful prayer
   • Prayer: Interceding for others
   • Supplication: Praying for urgent needs
   • Requests: Specific requests not mere generalities
3. Take charge of your thinking
   • True: Setting the realities about all things into proper relationship to the gospel and Christ’s Lordship.
   • Honorable: what is noble, what elevates the mind from the cheap, tawdry or vulgar
   • Just: all kinds of righteous thinking and behavior according to God’s character and commands
   • Pure: Sexual purity, proper motives, blameless actions
   • Lovely: That which is genuinely beautiful that gives pleasure.
   • Commendable: Speech, actions, or people that are admirable.
   • Excellence: All things virtuous (See Titus 1 and 2 for example)
   • Praiseworthy: People who set an example of virtue
4. Practice what you have learned and seen in others

Dan Jarms

Dr. Dan Jarms is teaching pastor and team leader at Faith Bible Church in Spokane Washington, as well as associate dean at TMS Spokane. He has been married for over 30 years to Linda, and has three adult children. He earned his B.A. in English at the Master’s College, B.Ed. at Eastern Washington University, M.Div and D.Min in Expository Preaching at The Master’s Seminary. His other interests include NCAA basketball, gardening, brick oven cooking.

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