Anxious For Nothing: Finding Peace in the Hard Places of Life:
Do the Next Thing: Acts 16:16-34 Philippians 4:4-9

– Anxiety: Pulls the Heart apart:

– God’s Peace Hold’s and guards the heart together

The Apostle Paul’s Hard Place: A Prison Cell in Philippi suffering from a Horrible Beating: Acts 16:16-34

The Apostle Paul’s Next Thing: Philippians 4:4-10

Philippians 4:9 The things you Have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

1st He Worshipped: Rejoice in the Lord Always and again I say rejoice. 4

– When There’s No Increase: We Bless the Lord. Habakkuk 3:17-18

– When There is No One Here to Help: We Magnify the Lord Psalm 34:1-8

– When There is Grief, we Do Not Give up Our Joy in Him.

Nehemiah 8:10 Do Not Be Grieved, for The Joy of the Lord is your strength.

2nd He Chose God: “The Lord is Near”. 5

– In His Presence is Fullness of Joy Psalm 16:7-

David Chose the Presence of God Over Fear: Psalm 27:1-

Mary Chose the Presence of Jesus Over Worried Activity: Luke 10:38-42

3rd He Prayed With Thanksgiving: He Thanked the Lord: 6

1 Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice Always 17 Pray without ceasing 18 In everything give thanks, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus!

4th He Changed the Direction of His Thinking: V 8