What to Do With Your Worries

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7(ESV)

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Life  happens and  we  all  face things in our lives that   makes us  anxious  especially when we  don't have  all the  answer to fix the  situation ourselves. This is when we  must  look beyond ourselves and  our  abilities and  seek  Christ and His abilities. Worry  distracts us  from  trusting  God  fully and it  keeps us  stuck in our emotions. The  tricky  thing  about our emotions is that they aren't  reliable and the enemy  will feed your anxiety with  all sorts of  lies to keep you  stuck in one place.  God  never intended for you to carry all your burdens, in fact  Matthew 11: 28-30 say this.

“Come to me all of you who are tired from the heavy burden you have been forced to carry. I will give you rest.  Accept my teaching. Learn from me. I am gentle and humble in spirit. And you will be able to get some rest. Yes, the teaching that I ask you to accept is easy. The load I give you to carry is light.”  Matthew 11:28-30 (ERV)

So what  should we do with our worries and the  anxiety?   Give them to  the Lord  because  He cares  for you, give it to the  Lord because   He  promises to  give you rest and  relieve you  of all the things that are weighing you down.  God   has given  you His  word but  you must  be  willing to  first admit that you need His help. You don't  have to spend  anymore time  trying to figure things out on your own because  when  you let go  God  will  release from your burdens and replace them with a peace that only He  can give.  When we  are  receptive to His  grace He will fill us with exactly what we need to move forward and win the battle over  anxiety and  worry.

Love,

Count Your Blessings

11 Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. Philippians 4:11 (NLT)

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If you where to  sit  and think  honestly, would  you find that you spend more time complaining rather than  counting your  blessings? We  have  all  had  instances in our live where we couldn't  take  our eye's off of   ourselves and  what we are lacking. The  danger in  complaining is that   we  begin to lose  sight of  what God is  doing right now in this moment and we  fall into  the trap of  discontentment. The thing is,  we may   never have everything  fall into place the way we would like or have all the things we desire, but keep in mind that the very thing you are  complaining about someone somewhere would love to have  a portion of what you have.


Today I challenge you   to  purposefully  count all the blessings  in your life  as well as how God has blessed you over the years. Nothing is too small  to list. Keep  this list where you see it often and  throughout the day  add more things as you think of them .You can keep this  list on your phone , office  or  posted around the house. What this will do is  build  a heart of gratitude and  worship. We  will begin to  look back at our list and pin point  where His  love  towards us kept us from being discourage  by our circumstance and how He   graciously  reached His hand down to us and gave us the ability  to  keep  going. Let this act of worship shift your thinking and  heal your heart.




Love,