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LifeTrak with Chuck Swindall is a presentation of Insight for Living Canada.
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If there is one addiction that is the top of the list for most people, it is the one that
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we tend to approve of and even overlook.
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It's okay, everybody does it.
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It's addiction to anxiety.
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It's being in bondage to worry.
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For most people, they would have to admit that their worry list is longer than their
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They are quicker to tell you what they're worried about than they are able to admit what
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they've been praying about.
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I had a man tell me at the close of our second morning worship service today, I didn't
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know you had been looking into my mail and into my house, but he said, you just told me
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the story of my life over the last and he named the number of months.
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He said, I am a classic worrier.
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You know what was interesting?
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He didn't look like it.
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I don't know what a worrier is supposed to look like, but it wasn't him.
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He looked like your ordinary garden variety man.
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But the fact is true that deep inside his life, there is a reservoir of ever increasing
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He said, I worry when I awaken, I worry through the day, I worry about things that have
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never happened and often don't, and I worry when I go to bed at night.
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I am your classic worrier.
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He said, thanks for knowing what to preach on.
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I said, actually, I preach on what I need to hear and I let you listen in.
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I may look like a guy that wouldn't worry that much, but believe me, I fight it just like
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I'm not addicted to it, but I could be.
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I came across a wonderful book that has been put back in print.
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Maybe it never left print, but it's sort of left the popular ranks years ago, written
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in 1963, but now redone in the concepts of the 21st century.
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It's called None of These Diseases, written by two believing physicians who address how
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disease affects the spirit and the life and often makes a sick.
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That is the disease of worry.
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Listen to their words from this book.
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Throughout human history, infection causes most diseases and death.
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At the dawn of the third millennium, health enemy number one is stress.
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The American Academy of Physicians estimates that two-thirds of doctor visits are for stress-related
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Your soul is born with a need to know and experience God.
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Without this intimate connection, your spirit is in chaos and longs for peace.
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Then comes stress, loss of alludment, loss of a job, of the pain of rejection.
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This external stress may disrupt your illusion of internal peace and make you aware of your
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Then they go into it a little more scientifically.
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Your brain interprets this unrest as fear, anxiety, swery, anger, or other emotions.
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Through its nerve network, the brain sends alarm signals throughout your body, without asking
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your permission, your glands release adrenaline, cortisone, insulin, and other stress hormones.
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Every organ becomes overexcited.
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In short, you are stressed out.
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It isn't unique to the 21st century, but it's become far more prevalent.
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It may be your number one battle, or it may rank among the top three or four.
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Anxiety causes stress, and stress is our number one health enemy.
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Chances are, you have something stressful on your mind right now.
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Jesus said that when you come to Him, He'll give you rest.
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This isn't simply nice thinking, it's truth to live by.
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And it's a far greater remedy for stress than any doctor could prescribe.
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Listen to more of Chuck Swindall's LifeTrack messages at LifeTrack.ca, that's L-I-F-E-T-R-A-C.
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LifeTrack, where life and truth meet.
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The preceding LifeTrack presentation was brought to you by Insight for Living Canada.
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The original message, God's Peace in Philippians 4, was copyrighted in 2005, and this LifeTrack
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sound recording was copyrighted in 2012 by Charles R. Swindall Incorporated.
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All rights are reserved worldwide.
