Worry Is A Liar

Overflow with Craig Booker

“We’ve already established that the root of worry is fear. And fear doesn’t come from God. Thus, at the heart of worry is the devil. And Scripture is clear the devil is a liar.”1

Louie Giglio

“When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44).

“To put it simply, worry isn’t just a bad habit. Worry is an Enemy tactic-a strategy built on lies that are designed to rob you of peace and tear your mind to pieces.”1

Louie Giglio

The Four Lies of Worry

Lie 1: Something really bad is going to happen.

“A 2019 study from Penn State showed that roughly 91 percent of the things we worry about never even happen.”2

“…most of what you’re spending your time worrying about won’t happen.”1

Lie 2: The more you worry about it, the better your odds of avoiding it.

“…the Enemy wants you to believe that if you worry or fret over a certain outcome long enough, you can keep something bad from happening.”1

“I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” (Matthew 6:25-26, 34)

Lie 3: I have no choice-I’m a born worrier.

Louie opens by telling a story about how his parents were big worriers.

“Being sixteen, I was clueless about most of the weight my parents were carrying. But that night, as I went to leave our apartment and walk to a friend’s house, he said, ‘I’ve just had the worst day of my life. I need everyone to just stay in the house tonight.'”1

“I only fully understood this when I was older and I started having the same feelings. I realized that I, too, could easily tip toward fearing a dreadful outcome. I would naturally obsess over the question, ‘What’s the worst thing that could happen?'”1

“if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”

(2 Corinthians 5:17).

“We may have a genetic tendency toward worry. And, more powerfully, we may have been weaned in a worrying culture. Worry is what we saw others do. Worry is what we learned. Worry is what we are prone to repeat.”1

“if you are in Christ, all those old patterns were disrupted the instant you were born again. You have a new Father in heaven. He has never worried for one second in His eternal existence. He wasn’t worried yesterday. Nor is He today. He will not be worried tomorrow.”1

Lie 4: I can control the outcome by worrying.

“You are not God. While worry wants you to think you’re in the...