Overcoming Anxiety Steps

Overcoming Anxiety Steps (Worksheet)*
1. Turn to God in prayer.
2. Resolve all known personal and spiritual conflicts.
3. State the problem.
4. Separate the facts from your assumptions.
a. List the facts relating to the situation.
b. List your assumptions relating to the situation.
c. Verify the above assumptions.
5. Determine your active response.
a. Identify what you can control as a matter of personal responsibility.
b. Identify what you have no right or ability to control.
6. List everything related to the situation that is your responsibility.
7. Follow through on your list of responsibilities. Become accountable to someone for fulfilling your goals.
8. Trust that the rest is God’s responsibility.

At the Home of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42 NIV)
38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one.[a] Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

*Resource from “Letting go of Fear” Pg 257 by Neil T. Armstrong and Rich Miller