Sermon Notes : Dr. Dharius Daniels – Arresting Anxiousness

Hi friends! Below you’ll find my notes for Dr. Dharius Daniels’ sermon Arresting Anxiousness. This message is from Elevation Church on December 1, 2024.

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Please keep in mind that these are not my own thoughts, but rather the notes that I took while listening.

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Sermon Notes : Arresting Anxiousness

• Phillipians 4:4-8
• The most common command given to humans from God in the Bible is fear not.
• Over 300 times in scripture. 
• If God says something a lot it’s because we need to hear it a lot.
• God wants everyone to have peace. 
• The enemy uses a weapon of anxiousness to keep us from that peace.
• Wasted worry. 
• It’s become a social norm but it doesn’t have to be normal for those of us in the kingdom. 
• This doesn’t mean we won’t have anxiousness, but we don’t have to let anxiousness have us.
• What happens with them does not dictate and determine what happens with me.
• You’re different from. 
• God makes exceptions. 
• You don’t have to deny your circumstances but you can deny it’s influences.
• Arresting anxiousness requires making adjustments. 
• There’s 4 areas. 
• Perception
• Anxiousness doesn’t come from what we see, but it comes from how we see it.
• No matter what you’re in, it may not mean what you think it means.
• Sometimes anxiousness isn’t an event but as a result of our interpretation of what we think it means.
• God redeems the meaning. 
• Praise
• Engage in a spiritual of discipline called the practice of gratitude.
• God chooses what God uses to give us what we don’t deserve = a means of grace.
• Prayer. Sometimes God won’t do things because we don’t ask.
• Praise doesn’t get us gifts from God, praise gets us him.
• From omnipresent to manifest present. 
• Praise is an invitation for God to show up. 
• When God’s in the room anything that’s not like him gets pushed out.
• Psalm 16:11
• Praise shifts our perspective. 
• The problem isn’t too big, your God is too small. 
• Praise reminds us of his largeness. 
• Prayers
• Supplication : making specific requests. 
• It’s not to notify God of a needs but to express our dependency and to remind us that we don’t have control.
• We don’t pray to remind God, but to remind ourselves.
• Some of our anxiousness is us trying to play God’s role.
• I can control my actions, but God controls outcomes.
• Some of the weight we carry isn’t weight God gave us, but weight we assumed. Our shoulders aren’t strong enough to handle God weight.
• Practices
• Warning against an undisciplined imagination. 
• Spiraling. 
• Take every thought captive. 
• Don’t allow those thoughts to accumulate because they then become strongholds.
• Has God ever not come through? Has he not given what you needed?

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