Sometimes the amount of anxiety indicates the significance of the assignment.
Speaker: Not provided
Shared by Elevation Church Elevation Church
Summary
Main message: Anxiety or fear does not disqualify you from God's calling; obedience and faithfulness in the assignment matter more than having perfect confidence or absence of emotion.
Key points:
- Sometimes anxiety signals the significance of the assignment, not that you shouldn't go.
- Feelings of fear or imperfection in faith don't prevent God from using you.
- Personal story: the preacher experiences severe anxiety before and during preaching yet still ministers effectively when he obeys.
- The expectation that the Spirit's presence eliminates all anxiety is misleading and can hinder people.
- We are called to walk by faith, not by sight — act in faith despite emotions.
Scriptures mentioned: none