While he was been chased, he fell into a pit of snakes and was trapped in
a car with a lion...
While that would be rather scary, it not something that is going to happen
to us here in England...
However, we all still worry about stuff...
What kind of things do you worry about / find frightening?
How do our fears / worries effect our day - day lives?
People refuse to go to the dentist
We know someone who will not fly
Spiders....
The Bible says that we should not worry
Philippians 4:6 "Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises
shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns"
1 Peter 5:7 "God cares for you, so turn all your worries over to him."
Why do you think the Bible says that?
When I am worried, I have found it helpful to pray about it...talk to
God...
What do you do when you are worried / frightened?
Have tried praying about it?
What happened?
Does it help?
End bit
To finish we're going to watch a clip from the movie Crash
In this clip a man comes home to find he daughter is hiding under then
bed...she's frightened
When her father finds her, he tells her not to worry...
She trusts believes him...
In a way that's a bit like the verses we read in the Bible
If we truly trust God, life we seem a lot simpler and we will find some
piece...
"Fear is the emotion that people feel when a danger is actually present,
while anxiety is the fear connected with worrying about danger that might
happen"
"With a phobia, the fear a person feels is out of proportion to the real
danger."
