Are you strangled by fear and worry. Self Reliance and Self Effort won't take you to true Shalom peace

1. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
It Matters to Him about You
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2. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
‘God’s plans like lilies pure and white unfold. We
must not tear the close-shut leaves apart, Time
will reveal the calyxes of gold’
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3. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
‘Its better to look ahead and prepare than to
look back and despair’
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4. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
‘God formed us, sin deformed us, but only Christ
can transform us’
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5. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
Do not worry about anything, but in everything
by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let
your requests be made known to God. And the
peace of God, which surpasses all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your
minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6, 7 NRSV
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6. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let
petitions and praises shape your worries into
prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before
you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness,
everything coming together for good, will come
and settle you down.
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7. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
It’s wonderful what happens when Christ
displaces worry at the centre of your life.
Philippians 4:6, 7 (The Message)
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8. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
Worry has a fascinating etymology which can be
traced back to the Old High German "wurgen"
which means "to strangle"
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9. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
Fret (derived from an Old English word fretan
meaning "to eat") means to affect something as if
by gnawing or biting
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10. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
Worms eat you when you’re dead; worries eat
you when you’re alive. (Jewish Proverb)
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11. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
Worry is like a rocking chair; it will give you
something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
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12. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
E+R=O.
Event + Response = Outcome.
Self Reliant Response
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13. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
Do not worry about anything, but in everything
by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let
your requests be made known to God. And the
peace of God, which surpasses all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your
minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6, 7 NRSV
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14. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
E+R=O. Event plus Response equals Outcome.
Supplication (deesis from deomai = to want, to
beg, to pray) refers to making known of one's
specific needs, even conveying a sense of an
urgent request to meet that need.
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15. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
E+R=O. Event plus Response equals Outcome.
Be made known (Let God know what is troubling
you) (gnorizo) is a command (imperative) in the
present tense (continually do this, make it the
habit of your life).
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16. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
E+R=O. Event plus Response equals Outcome.
God knows all our needs before we ask Him, He
delights to have that expression of our confidence
in Him which intelligently utters our needs in
detail in communion with Him. Vine
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17. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
E+R=O. Event plus Response equals Outcome.
Outcome - Peace, a sense of wholeness.
This peace, this knowing of God’s presence with
us, becomes like the reassuring presence of a
protector watching over us.
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18. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
Some final thoughts.
• True ‘Shalom peace’ can never be found within
the context of self reliance and self effort.
Abraham, Gideon, Mary
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19. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
• A message rehearsed in the heart is a message
believed in the mind. What message do you
keep telling yourself?
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20. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
• Make it a daily habit to develop your
relationship with the ‘With me’ God.
• Write out your prayers
• Speak out your prayers
• Breathing exercises. Worries out, Christ in
• Add to the ‘worry’ picture - the loving arms
of Christ around you
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21. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
• Prayer and committing the worry to God
doesn’t mean a 'hands off' approach to life's
struggles. Prayer is an invitation to face the
future out of the context that God is 'with me'
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22. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
It Matters to Him about You
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23. Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105
Barry Pearman (Pastor)
River Valley Baptist Church
To Glorify God in all we do, say and are.
About Me: barry pearman
Web: www.rivervalleybaptist.org.nz
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On A personal note, Barry writes a Blog on Mental
Health, Spiritual Formation and Soul Talk –
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