Everyone talks about Jesus being strong, but in Princeton’s view, the strength of Jesus is that he identifies with every struggle that we have, including anxiety. Did Jesus struggle with anxiety? Princeton answers in this episode.
Episode Highlights:
- Princeton talks about bad news, where Breonna Taylor, a black medical worker, was shot and killed by Louisville police officers.
- Officers are more concerned about the endangerment of the neighboring department than the fact that someone died in that incident.
- The incident made Princeton exhausted, broken, hurt, and infuriated in anger at the term "Justice", and the system.
- There's impending anxiety arising from the pandemic, politics, personal life, etc.
- Princeton talks about the good news where this podcast reached 1000 downloads, which means somebody is listening amid all the absurd things going on and being blessed by it.
- As the light is more powerful than darkness, let's continue to find the light of God and build a community to fight the darkness.
- Even a believer has an internal battle with anxiety and questions on how to get through as a believer.
- As Princeton asked the audience to raise their hands, about 80% to 85% of the room had experienced anxiety.
- John 10:10 “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
- In a salvific life, we get saved, reconciled back to God, thereby guarantees an everlasting life.
- God is concerned about the quality of life we have. A life that doesn't live under the control of anxiety.
- Isiah 26:3 says you are more than your anxiety, and it is not an identity.
- A healthy and peaceful life is possible by opening yourself first and starting the healing process.
- People don't reach out for help because they believe there is no help, or they don't deserve that help.
- It is important to teach that anxiety is a regular human emotion because we tend to feel that there is something wrong with us.
- The misconception of anxiety as being crazy is the device of Satan, so you don't reach out for help.
- The hardest part of healing is to tell what's going on, and opening up is disarming the darkness's power.
- 1 Corinthian 10:13 is powerful as it says, "no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind."
- Luke 22:39-44 talks about the anxiety of Jesus from the Garden of Gethsemane, expressing his emotions as being emotionally distanced from his assignment.
- Anxiety happens on three levels, physically, mentally, and spiritually.
- Jesus experienced anxiety when he took a step down to live in a body and walk amongst us and endure a death of violence.
- Princeton wants to destroy the idea that there is something wrong with you because of what you are going through.
- In the presence of agony, there's always a greater force that lives in you.
- The fifth truth about anxiety is that the Savior decided to say yes to experiencing anxiety so that you wouldn't be ashamed about yours.
- Luke 22 teaches us that Jesus lived your experience, so he knows how you feel.
- Jesus defeated death, so anything that's killing you doesn't have to control you.
- Jesus went through so that we could conquer shame.
- Shame prevents you from asking for help when you need it.
- God has always cared about our experience, God identified with our experience through Jesus.
3 Key Points:
- Anxiety is a regular human emotion that is common to all humans.
- There is nothing to be ashamed of with your anxiety because Jesus went through the same process.
- God identified with our experience through Jesus, so he completely understands how you feel and what you are going through.
Tweetable Quotes:
- "I am a spirit, a spirit that's inhabiting a black body"- Princeton Parker "Light is more powerful than darkness." - Princeton Parker
- "The beginning of breaking Satan whole is to bring the light to it" - Princeton Parker
- "Sometimes the message of hope is not always I'm gonna be alright, sometimes the hope is that He's with me." - Princeton Parker
- "The crazy part is, Jesus knows what I am going through”. - Princeton Parker
- "I want you to remember this episode. Hold up! You know how I feel, and you just not know because you're looking at me but, you know because you dealt with it." - Princeton Parker
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