Prayer and Peace

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Jan 11, 2015 by: Dale Thiele | Series: God's Grace to You | Category: Default Scripture: Philippians 4:4-8 Tags: Thanksgiving, noble Christian, anxiety, anti-anxiety, peace

God’s Grace to You
Prayer & Peace
Philippians 4:4-9

  • The Noble Christian Sin: Anxiety
  • The Anti-Anxiety: Prayer with Thanksgiving
  • A Heart & Mind Guarded by Peace

Questions for Further Study or Group Discussion

  1. Read Philippians 4:4-9. There is a series of commands here as Paul wraps up his letter to the Philippians. What, if any, relationship (grammatical, logical, theological) is there between these commands?
  2. What is anxiety? Why would Christians consider anxiety noble? Why would Paul command Christians to be anxious for nothing? How is anxiety a sin?
  3. Consider verse 8. How does this command to “think about these things” serve the command to be anxious for nothing? In other words, how does our thought process either feed anxiety or starve anxiety?
  4. What is the peace of God? How does this guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus? What does this practically look like?