Conquer Your Anxiety: Philippians 4: 6-7
“6) Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7) And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7
These verses contain a unique answer for stress and anxiety. Paul’s simple outlook was; “Why worry when you can pray?” You don’t have to be anxious about anything when you learn the secret of praying about everything.
Make sure you season your prayers with thanksgiving. Because God is and He is compassionate, powerful and in control, He invites us to bring our requests to Him. In so doing, we make God responsible for the results. The outcome is His responsibility and not ours.
When we sincerely bring our requests to Him, He promised to flood us with the peace of God. His peace trumps our worry, stress and anxiety.
But this kind of praying does something even more amazing. It becomes a guard around our heart and mind. What does that mean?
God’s peace becomes a garrison guard to protect us from our own racing emotions and futile thoughts. Worry makes us our own worse enemy.
He replaces our racing emotions and futile thoughts with faith and truth. Our job is to “let the peace of God rule in our heats.” (See Colossians 3:15) Sincere prayer can conquer stress and anxiety.
But there is another thought that must be understood. We do not pray simply as a means of self hypnosis. We pray because God answers prayer. Though prayer does help change our attitude, God also answers prayer over things of which we have no control.
Such was the case of Elijah as mentioned in James 5:17-18. He prayed and God changed the weather. We pray because God has power to change things over which we have no influence.
Daily Bible Commentary By Terry Baxter: Cofounder of GoServ Global.
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“6) Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7) And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7
These verses contain a unique answer for stress and anxiety. Paul’s simple outlook was; “Why worry when you can pray?” You don’t have to be anxious about anything when you learn the secret of praying about everything.
Make sure you season your prayers with thanksgiving. Because God is and He is compassionate, powerful and in control, He invites us to bring our requests to Him. In so doing, we make God responsible for the results. The outcome is His responsibility and not ours.
When we sincerely bring our requests to Him, He promised to flood us with the peace of God. His peace trumps our worry, stress and anxiety.
But this kind of praying does something even more amazing. It becomes a guard around our heart and mind. What does that mean?
God’s peace becomes a garrison guard to protect us from our own racing emotions and futile thoughts. Worry makes us our own worse enemy.
He replaces our racing emotions and futile thoughts with faith and truth. Our job is to “let the peace of God rule in our heats.” (See Colossians 3:15) Sincere prayer can conquer stress and anxiety.
But there is another thought that must be understood. We do not pray simply as a means of self hypnosis. We pray because God answers prayer. Though prayer does help change our attitude, God also answers prayer over things of which we have no control.
Such was the case of Elijah as mentioned in James 5:17-18. He prayed and God changed the weather. We pray because God has power to change things over which we have no influence.
Daily Bible Commentary By Terry Baxter: Cofounder of GoServ Global.
Sent from my iPhone
