A Different Perspective Official Podcast - The Mustard Seed of Faith // Five Ways to Overcome Fear, Part 5

Maybe you’ve been listening to me this week talking about getting rid of fear and worry out of your life – and thought, well, OK – but I just don’t have enough faith to do that.  Well – if that’s the case then this message is definitely for you.

We're talking this week, on the program, about banishing worry and fear from our lives. Five practical things that we can do. And my hunch, my hunch is that there'd be a few people. Maybe one or two. Sitting there, listening to it all, saying, "Well, I'm not sure if I can believe that". The guy is saying pray and let God take the worry away. That's what His word promises (Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 and 7).

Replace the negative thoughts with positive thoughts (Philippians chapter 4, verses 8 and 9).  Believe that you can do all things in Christ Jesus who strengthens you (Philippians chapter 4, verses 10 to 13). And get still before God. Let Him give you gladness and peace (Psalm 46).

It's all really good stuff. That's what we've looked at over the last four days on the program. But there is someone saying to themselves right now, "Yeah right. That all sounds really good but I'm not sure that I can believe that it works. Maybe it works for other people who have more faith than me. But I just don't think it's going to work for me. In fact, I know it's not because I don't have enough faith."

And if that little thought is running through your mind today, it's okay. Because you are not alone. Truly. Lot's of us have those thoughts from time to time.

If you want to get rid of the worry and fear and stress and anxiety in your life. If you kind of believe that maybe, just maybe this stuff might work but you don't feel as though you have enough faith. Then this program today, well it's just for you.

Each one of us has at least a few issues in our lives causing us stress. We do. No-one's immune. Sometimes they're external. Sometimes they're internal. And sometimes, in fact, most of the time it's both. It's not just the circumstances we're faced with but how we see them and process them and react to them and deal with them.

I don't have to go through some exhaustive list. You know exactly what they are in your life. And I know what they are in my life. And we know them because they tower above us like, like big mountains. So big and so dark and so impossible and so immovable.

The person who hurts us who's just never ever, ever going to change. The sense of inadequacy and inferiority that we have inside that it's just never ever, ever going to go away. The anger we feel, the resentment. The financial hardship. There I go, I'm making a list. Couldn't help myself.

These are dirty great immovable mountains. They just won't move and budge out of our lives. They're too tall and steep and frightening to climb. They're too wide to go around. And as for shifting them out of the road. Well that's completely and utterly impossible.

Got the picture, ri