Anxious for Nothing by Max Lucado

Week 9: Chapter 8 — You Can Count on God

Read Chapter 8 of Anxious for Nothing. Primary Scripture: Philippians 4:19; Matthew 6:25–34.

The final full chapter brings together the book's argument with a simple, audacious claim: God can be counted on. Lucado invites the reader to move from knowing this intellectually to staking life on it.

Discussion Questions

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1.Lucado draws on Philippians 4:19 — 'My God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus' — as the capstone of Paul's argument. What does it mean that God's provision comes 'according to the riches of his glory' rather than according to our circumstances or our deserving?

2.Jesus' words in Matthew 6 — 'Look at the birds of the air... Consider the lilies of the field' — are an invitation to learn theology from creation. What is Jesus arguing about God's character from these natural examples? And why do you think this argument doesn't always land emotionally even when we accept it intellectually?

3.Lucado makes the point that worry is essentially a failure of memory — we forget what God has already done and project that scarcity into the future. He invites readers to build an 'Ebenezer' — a memorial of God's past faithfulness. What would be on your personal list of Ebenezers?

4.Lucado acknowledges honestly that 'meeting needs' does not always mean giving us what we want — and that some prayers for physical healing, financial rescue, or relational restoration are not answered the way we hoped. How does he hold together God's faithfulness and the reality of unanswered prayer? Do you find his answer satisfying?

5.Lucado uses the phrase 'God is not finished with you yet' to describe an unfinished story that looks like abandonment from inside the chapter but makes sense from the perspective of the whole book. Can you identify a moment in your past that looked like God's absence at the time but looks different in retrospect?

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Closing Prayer

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Father, you have a track record. You have split seas, fed wanderers with bread from heaven, raised the dead, and kept every promise you have ever made. Forgive me for living as if you are new at this and might let me down. My needs are real, my fears are real, and you see every one of them. Meet me according to the riches of your glory — which is a category far bigger than my circumstances. I am counting on you. Amen.

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