{"id":5842,"date":"2019-10-01T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2019-10-25T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:23:00","slug":"how-jesus-addressed-fear-worry-and-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=5842","title":{"rendered":"How Jesus Addressed Fear, Worry, and Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Editors Note:<\/em><\/strong><em> This is the first article in a series on addressing fear, worry, and anxiety over the next few weeks.&nbsp; It is more general in nature because future articles will be giving more specific strategies on how to deal effectively with fear, worry, and anxiety.&nbsp; Our BCC Staff writers have spent a great deal of time working through these issues, and we pray that series will be a blessing to you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everyone worries.&nbsp; Everyone has a problem with anxiety &ndash; including me.&nbsp; Despite the fact that we generally think God is against our fear, worry, and anxiety, we don&rsquo;t ever seem to completely overcome its harsh grip.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>God created us as emotional people. Our emotions are given by God to put us &ldquo;into motion.&rdquo;&nbsp; For instance, anger is driven by a sense of injustice and a desire to oppose something that we feel isn&rsquo;t fair or right.&nbsp; In the same way, fear is a God-given emotion when our mind alerts us to danger, real or perceived.&nbsp; Anxiety is what we feel when our body is responding to the emotion of fear.&nbsp; Worry is the thought process that mulls over and gives power to the object of our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our world is more anxious than ever. This article shares some of the key passages on anxiety from the Bible and includes 4 principles that Jesus taught about anxiety. Each principle also provides an action step to take in helping us overcome anxiety.<br \/>\nThe post How Jesus Addressed Fear, Worry, and Anxiety appeared first on Biblical Counseling Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":5844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[868,800],"tags":[239,871,252,870,240],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-center","category-selected-authors","tag-anxiety","tag-bcc-anxiety-series","tag-fear","tag-for-those-seeking-hope","tag-worry","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BCC-Favicon-150x150-7.png?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5846,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions\/5846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}