Let it Go!: Breaking Free From Fear and Anxiety
By Tony Evans
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Tony Evans
Dr. Tony Evans is one of the most respected pastors in America. The first African American to graduate with a doctorate of theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, he is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship. Dr. Evans is also president of the Urban Alternative, a ministry that promotes spiritual renewal in America through the church. The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans is broadcast daily on radio and TV all over the world. Learn more at TonyEvans.org.
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Let it Go! - Tony Evans
Storms
BREAKING FREE
FROM
EMOTIONAL
STRONGHOLDS
Perhaps you have heard the story of the man who was hiking alone in the mountains when he slipped and fell off a cliff. The only thing that kept him from plunging to his death down a deep gorge was a tree growing from the side of the cliff. As he fell, the hiker grabbed a limb and hung on for dear life.
Clinging tightly to the tree limb, the man began shouting desperately, hoping that someone might be coming along the trail behind him. Help! Help! Is there anyone up there?
But no answer came back.
Finally, as he neared exhaustion, and his grip on the tree limb began to weaken, the hiker yelled again in total desperation, Is there anyone up there?
This time, a booming voice answered, Yes, I’m here.
The hiker was elated. This is great! Who are you?
It’s the Lord.
Oh, thank You, Lord!
the hiker gasped. What do you want me to do?
Let go, and I’ll catch you.
But the terrified hiker was too afraid to let go of the limb. So he cried out again, Is there anyone up there?
The Lord answered again, I said, let go of the limb, and I’ll save you.
But the hiker couldn’t bring himself to let go of the only piece of security he thought he had. So after thinking about it for a minute, he shouted, "Is there anyone else up there?"
That fictional hiker is like a lot of real-life Christians who are clinging desperately to all manner of emotional security blankets. These believers often think their twisted-up emotions are their source of security, when in fact, these emotional problems are the very things keeping them from being really free.
What Christians in this situation need to do is what the hiker in our story needed to do: Let go of that which cannot rescue them anyway and trust God to honor His promises.
My goal for this booklet is to help people in bondage to various emotions and anxieties break free through the truth of God’s Word and the power of the Holy Spirit. We’ll address the anxiety first, and then I want to give you biblical examples and patterns for handling the emotional storms of life that are sure to come your way.
The word I will be using for these traps (into which even Christians can fall) is stronghold. My prayer is that Christians in these predicaments will learn to understand and apply the Bible to their lives in ways that they can let go of any emotional stronghold the Enemy may have built in their lives.
FREEDOM IS AVAILABLE
If you or someone you care about is in the grip of an emotional stronghold such as anger, depression, fear, worry—or even some sort of substance abuse—I am here to tell you that there is freedom available in Jesus Christ.
The world’s word for things that hold people hostage is addiction. We hear it said that people are addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, or whatever it may be. The problem I have with this word is the implication it often has that we are powerless victims of our circumstances.
In other words, calling something an addiction suggests that we have an excuse for what we’re doing, either because we don’t have the ability to break it, someone else caused it and thus it isn’t our fault, or we have bad genes or a bad environment that set us up for this problem. Some people may even say their addiction has all of these elements.
Now I know that many psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals would argue that the concept of addiction doesn’t mean there is no way out. But for our purposes in this booklet, I’m not interested in what the professionals say nearly as much as I am in the popular perception of what it means to have an addiction—for two reasons.
The first reason is that I believe the average person thinks of an addiction as something that is somehow not the victim’s responsibility, which often helps the person dodge the real issue. The second reason is that calling something an addiction doesn’t