Rhythms of Renewal Bible Study Guide: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose
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Daily struggles with anxiety and stress make it difficult to receive God's peace. Trade your anxiety for the vibrant life you were meant to live through four profound rhythms: rest, restore, connect, and create.
The Rhythms of Renewal video study (DVD/video streaming sold separately) is your guide to daily rescue and a way forward into the peace your soul longs for.
As a society, we are in the throes of a collective panic attack. Anxiety and loneliness are on the rise, with 77% of our population experiencing physical symptoms of stress on a regular basis. We feel pressure chasing careers, security, and keeping up. We worry about health, politics, and many other complexities we can't control. Eventually we find our minds spinning, trying to cope or manage a low hum of anxiety, unlike ever before.
But it doesn't have to stay this way.
Rebekah Lyons draws from her own battle with depression and anxiety and shares a pathway to establish four life-giving rhythms that quiet inner chaos and make room for a flourishing life. By taking time to rest, restore, connect, and create, you will discover how to:
- Take charge of your emotional health and inspire your loved ones to do the same.
- Overcome anxiety by establishing daily habits that keep you mentally and physically strong.
- Find joy through restored relationships with your family and community.
- Walk in confidence with the unique gifts you have to offer the world.
With encouraging stories and practical steps to take action today, Rebekah will help you begin an intentional, lifelong journey toward sustained emotional, relational, and spiritual health.
Designed for use with the Rhythms of Renewal Video Study available on DVD or streaming video, sold separately.
Rebekah Lyons
Rebekah Lyons is a national speaker, host of the Rhythms for Life podcast, and bestselling author of Rhythms of Renewal, You Are Free, and Freefall to Fly. An old soul with a contemporary, honest voice, Rebekah reveals her own battles to overcome anxiety and depression--and invites others to discover and boldly pursue their God-given purpose. Alongside her husband, Gabe, Rebekah finds joy in raising four children, two of whom have Down syndrome. Her work has been featured on The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, CNN, FOX News, Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews, and more.
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Rhythms of Renewal Bible Study Guide - Rebekah Lyons
HOPE ON THE HORIZON
Have you found yourself trapped in addiction? Feelings of unworthiness? Loneliness? Depression? Isolation? Consumerism? Rejection? Image management? If so, know this: God makes a way of escape. Rescue is ready and waiting, but so often, we are unwilling to take a closer look. We get lost in our loops, engage in the same habits over and over again expecting different results.
What do you do when anxiety hits, when it throbs in your ribs or steals your breath? When your words race and you try a desperate attempt to yawn and fill your lungs? What do you do when this is the norm of your everyday life? What do you do when relapse hits? Silence settles, distraction fades and you face panic, depression, or anxiety again? What do you do when you descend into anxiety after being panic-free for years?
These are the questions many of us are asking these days. According to the American Institute of Stress (AIS
), 77 percent of the population experience physical symptoms associated with stress on a regular basis, 33 percent report living with extreme stress, and 48 percent indicate stress has a negative impact on their personal and professional lives.¹ The AIS estimates the aggregate cost to employers of stress-related healthcare expenses and missed work is $300 billion annually.² What’s more, according to the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI
), 18 percent of American adults currently suffer from an anxiety disorder. Some estimate over 35 percent of the population will experience an anxiety disorder in their lifetime.³ The NAMI indicates nearly 7 percent of the population struggles with chronic depression.⁴
This is why this five-session study is so important. As a society, we are in the throes of a collective panic attack. We nurse anxiety-chasing careers, hunger for security, and strive to keep up. We’re afraid we’re not doing enough. We obsess over health, politics, and a host of other things we can’t control. That’s when fatigue takes over. Fear rises. Finally, despair prevails.
As long as there is darkness in this world, we’ll be tempted to be anxious and fearful. But over and over Scripture tells us not to fear. Jesus said, with piercing clarity, Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid
( John 14:27).
The command not to fear is given over three-hundred times in the Bible (some say 365 times, once for every day of the year). In fact, it’s a phrase used more than any other command in the Bible.
Here is the good news. With a little intentional effort, stress and anxiety can be traded for peace and purpose. It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen. It might not be easy, but it can become your reality. That is what this five-session study is all about.
There are four biblical, God-given rhythms that help us replace fear with faith. They can teach us to nurture and sustain lasting mental health. These rhythms aren’t complicated. Each can be expressed in one word: Rest, Restore, Connect, and Create. These rhythms take practice. Simple acts like fasting from media (Rest), exercising (Restore), sharing a laugh (Connect), or recovering an old talent (Create) can help us break the anxiety-inducing cycles of the world around us. They can bring balance to our otherwise hectic lives. They will help us cultivate the spiritual and mental space needed to allow God to bring us past fear and into freedom.
These four rhythms fit naturally into the flow of life. The first two— Rest and Restore—are input rhythms,
rhythms that allow the peace of Jesus to fill us. The latter two— Connect and Create—are output rhythms,
which pull us out of our own heads and connect us to the world around us.
My hope and prayer is that five or ten years from now you’ll look back on your own season riddled with anxiety and see how God brought you to a place of health and peace through the rhythms of renewal outlined in this video-based Bible study. Please join me in praying that this journey of learning in a small community of people will transform your life and theirs.
A fellow traveler on the road to renewal,
Rebekah Lyons
OF NOTE
The study introduction and quotations interspersed throughout this study guide are excerpts from the book Rhythms of Renewal and