CURE FOR WORRY

Philippians 4:-7 NLT 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.

If you’ve ever watched a hamster running round and round in his little wheel going nowhere, you’ll identify with how it is when we worry about something over and over again and we get absolutely nowhere as well!

For the amount of worrying we do it wouldn’t be so bad if it actually achieved anything but we know it doesn’t! Apart from producing more wrinkles and probably raising our blood pressure, worry makes us miserable and drains our emotions, it’s a waste of time, and yet many of us still do it!

The Lord knows us so well and it’s one of the things Jesus spoke about. “Don’t worry about tomorrow…” It actually comes down to not trusting God enough and it’s one of the ways the enemy trips us up because worry has become a habit. So what can we do to break the habit?

God did give us the manual to help us and in 1 Peter 5:7 His instruction is to cast all our cares on to Him because He cares about us. I wonder if we’ve done that yet today or have we forgotten? He’s asking us to be willing to surrender even our worries to Him and say we’re going to choose to trust God to sort them all out for our good. He’s asking us to put our faith to work to believe for the turnaround, for His good plans to unfold.

Then He tells us to pray about everything - everything means the little niggly things as well as the giant ones.😊 He goes on to say to be thankful for all His goodness He’s already blessed us with when we’re asking Him for what we need now. He knows if we’ll dwell on the wonderful things He’s done in the past it will encourage us to know He’ll come through for us again. Rehearse the victories, not the defeats!

So can I encourage us all today to put into practice what God says to do and cast all our cares on to Him like a fisherman casts his net in faith. But then don’t pull it back in again - leave it out there cast on the ocean of God’s love and care so He can deal with it in His good time, in the way He knows will be best for us. 

Let’s believe God to bring our net back to us with a boat sinking load of blessing in due time.😊 Thank You Lord. Amen.

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