Posts with the category “anxiety”

do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Paul tells us not to be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let our requests be made known to God. But notice something incredible here. He doesn't just say "make your requests known." He adds something: "with ...  Read More

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. So after exposing anxiety's lies about birds and lilies, preservation and plans, Jesus gives us the solution. And it's simpler than we think: seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.But what does that actually mean right now in your everyday lif...  Read More

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Jesus uses lilies to make an incredible ...  Read More

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? Jesus asks an incredible question: "Are you not of more value than the birds?" But anxiety twists that question around and whispers, "So the birds are more blessed th...  Read More

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?" Yesterday I said over 458 million people have connected with the words "my anxiety, can't shake it off of me." That's not just a song lyric. That's a reality for so many of us right now. But here...  Read More