Do Not Be Anxious!!!
From the Women of Faith Blog comes a timely article about anxiety and how prayer can help.
From a well-known verse: Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7 (NLT).
The author claims:
Statistics show that about 85% of the things that we spend time worrying about actually never take place! So much of our energy is spent worrying about things that by the end of the day or the end of the week will never happen.Anxiety is nothing more than fear-based and is definitely not from God. In fact, scripture tells us that there is a spirit that impacts us and causes us to worry. That spirit is the “spirit of fear”.For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. – 2 Timothy 1:7 (NLT).
The blog post continues:
The enemy can really use anxiety in many ways for the negative. One of the ways that he has become very crafty in using the spirit of fear and anxiety is to destroy marriages. Over the years of our marriage we have found some things that anxiety creates in our marriage. Maybe you can relate.
- More tension
- Separateness
- Fear of the unknown
- Identity distortion
The more that tension gets created in your marriage the more couples get agitated and step into conflict. Unhealthy conflict is divisive and doesn’t create anything but separation between a husband and wife. Once there is separateness a husband and wife have a tendency to fear the unknown. “What is my spouse going to do? Are they going to leave me? Are they going to find someone else to replace me? Are they going to go back to the addiction that used to control them?”There are many worries that get created through these questions and others. The reality is, during this entire time these events chip away at identity. When your spouse is tense, distant, wrapped up in fear and doesn’t know who they are, they are not very desirable to be around. It’s at this time that the world would say, you deserve better. You deserve to be happy. You shouldn’t be treated that way.Unfortunately, this leads some people to searching for answers through divorce. We have to step in and find some ways to start reducing the amount of stress, anxiety and fear that we allow in our life. Below are four ways that webelieve you can do to start alleviating anxiety
To read the full post and see what these four ways are click here:
https://www.womenoffaith.com/blog/do-not-be-anxious