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PAUL TAUTGES

Contents
Tips for Reading This Devotional 7

Introduction: When Panic Attacks 11


A BriefWord on Medication 17

DefiningAnxiety
Dayl: AnxietYDistracts Us 2l
Day2:AnxietyWeighs Us Down 23

Day3:WeAreEmbodied SPirits 25
Dry 4zWeAreWeakandLimited 27

Day5: DisorderedWorshiP 29
Day6: Discontent and Coveting 31
DayT:WickedEnvY 33

Day 8: Perfectionism May Cause Anxiety 35

Day 9: Anger, Irritability, and Frustration 37

Turning to God in Our AnxietY


Day l0: ln the Pasture of the Good Shepherd 41
Day ll: "Come to Me, and IWill GiveYou Rest" 43

Day l2zYour Heavenly Father Cares 45


Day 13: Your Heavenly Father Provides 47
Dry l4zYour Heavenly Father Knows 49

FightingAnxiety
Day 15: Choose to Rejoice 53
Day 16: Worry about Nothing; Pray about Everything 55
Day lTzFind Peace through Prayer 57
Day 18: ThinkPositive 59
Day 19: Cultivate anAttitude of Gratitude
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v ofTruth 63
o Day2}zKillWorrywithDaggers
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Day2l: CastYour Cares 65
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iI Dry22z SoberUP! 67
Dayl3zEntrustYourself to God Night 69
at

Day24tRememberthe Promises of
God 7l
Day25: Cripple the Power of Fearwith
Faith 73
Drry26zTrust in the LordwithAllYour
Heart 75
inAllYourWays 77
tt Day2TzAcknowledge the Lord
Day28: Relaxin God 79

Day2gzAlways Remember and Never


Forget 81
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Day 30: KeeP Yourself in God's Love 83

Day3l: CallYour SecuritY Guard 85

c Conclusion: "Return, O My Soul' to


Your Rest" 87

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Acknowledgments 93
Notes 95

Suggested Resources for the Fight 99


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wn,rnun you EX,ERTENCE nagging worl'y or debiritating panic, Godt word


offers hope and help. In this 31-day devotional, pastor and bibi.d counselor paul
Thutges delves deeply, but gendy, into the heart offear and unbelief, using daily read-
ings, reflection questions, and plactical application to fuel the faith that srrengrhens
inner securiry and peace.

[n the 3l-Day Devotionatrs for Life series, biblical counselors


and Bible reachers guide you rhrough scriptur.e passas", rhat speak
to specific situarions or stnrggles, helping you ro apply God,s Word
ro ).our life in pracrical ways day after day.

"Paul rhutges, a respected pastor and counselor, has the experience


and gospel focus
to help rhe anxiety sufferer."
TA.IPP, Pastor; Author; Conference Speaker
-TEDD
"This devotional heavily emphasizes practical ways we can
reflecr on, and in many
cases act on, the insights Thutges unearths in the passages he chooses."

-"ALASXIAIR G&OVES, Execatiue Director, Christian Counseling and Educational Foanda-


tion (CCEF) New England; Director, CCEF School of Biblical Cawniling

"Tautges, with vulnerable transparenry, offers wise counser


in this sma.ll yet
critical work on anxiety. . . . His gende explanations and careful
adrnonitions acr as a guard'and guide."
*-T" PALE J0trINSON, Executiue Director ,4ssociation of Crttfied Biblical Counselors; Asso-
ciate ?rofessor of Biblical counseling Midwestern Baptist Theokgiial seminary

Paur, TeurcES serves as senior pastor of colllersrone corn,runity church in


Mayfield Heights, ohio. Fle is a member of the Associatio'of Ccrtified Biblical
counselors, a council board member of the Biblical counseling coalition, ancl the
author of ntimerous books and ar-ricles.

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