Anxiety : When our situations REALLY are messed up!

The thing that I have failed to acknowledge in this series is the idea of "Reality". I don't want to come off like  I"m sugarcoating anything. I don't want to these posts to come off as some lofty, floaty, new age, type of ideas. It is anything but that. What I want to communicate in this series on anxiety is that God is bigger than ALL of our problems. One of the biggest setbacks and strongholds to overcoming anxiety and fear is that we grapple with this idea of reality and the fact that sometimes our situations  really are messed...

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Anxiety: What's the Mind got to do with it?

What's the big deal about what we think about? Don't think there's a connection between how we think and how we feel? There is most definitely a connection between anxiety/worry and what thoughts are going on. And even more so God Himself cares about our thoughts!! Let's see what the Bible has to say about this: Submit Your Mind to God From the very beginning, God told us that our mind matters! Surrender does include our  minds.  The word says to surrender our Hearts, souls, AND MIND to God.  SO from the...

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Meditations for the Anxious : Psalm 23

Tonight * I was reading Psalm 23 (the "Funeral" Chapter) and I realized that so many times we read it and think of it in the future ie we WILL have peace, rest, etc. But I recognize that David wrote Pslam 23 in the present; he wrote that RIGHT NOW "i shall not want" . It didn't matter what his situation was and he didn't wait for "tangible" or "visible" blessings as confirmation that that was true. He also didn't make it his life's goal to chase after peace, rest, comfort and make idols of them because he knew that no sitaution or mateiral possession...

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Anxiety : The lack of Peace

Let's be honest and clear here. If we are anxious about something...we are not trusting the Lord. This is a truth that people often love to argue against and twist around. But worrying and anxiety is something that God straight up told us not to do [Philippians 4:6 for example].  But we will never stop worrying /being anxious UNTIL we admit this. Only then can we repent and move towards freedom. No one LIKES anxiety. What we're really looking for is peace. But why don't I have it?? Truth : Peace is a byproduct. According...

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Anxiety : We need a Gatekeeper

  We encounter many thoughts that pass through our own mind. We cannot simply let ANY and EVERY thought go pass. We need someone or something to sift through this so we can know what is clear and what should be denied. What we need is a GATEKEEPER. Where do we find that? Truth is the Gatekeeper. Now that may sound super simple but it's not always so. Why? Because we need discernment. We hear many voices throughout the day [through media, other people, the enemy, our flesh etc] Are we going to listen to what the world, Satan,...

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The Cure for Anxiety

Well, to be straight ot the point..the cure is Jesus. HE is the answer for everything. No matter what the question is. It's something we all know, but at the same time, people are often confused on the practical issues of anxiety. Well, fortunately, Jesus really IS practical.                                        When we're anxious it's because we're freakng...

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Facebook : Life, Death & Lot's Wife

Immediately after I posted about Lot's Wife, I went to type in someone's name on my facebook and a certain person popped up. T I hadn't contacted that person in a few years nor had I been thinking about them. See in my last post I said, do not reminisce on xyz. You fill in the blank. Well, this is my xyz. Or one of them because we have multiple xyz's. This certain person tried to contact me through another source and so forth and I knew that I was not to be in contact with them. But right then and there I had a decision to make....

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Victory comes from Him alone

Didn't there always seem to always be something happening in David's life? Not only that but David had many, many enemies and people were set out to kill him. It's so crazy to me as I was reading this verse (see link to Psalm 3 below) under the dryer at the hair salon today. How often is it true that I complain and worry about "enemies" or "unfavorable circumstances". I can honestly say that I have never had someone try to kill me. Yet I complain when someone makes one rude complaint to me. Ahh! Look at David! I'm currently reading through the...

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