Worry is where we mull over, ponder, and think of a negative outcome until it causes stress, anxiety, dread, and ultimately fear. We usually see things turning out very badly, and imagine the worst case scenario. We can't see that anything will get any better, only worse.
What we know about the soul is whatever we continue to think about things, it affects our emotions. And so anxiety, stress, and fear begin to take over and dominate us. From this point we start to make decisions based on all this negative thinking because this is how we feel. We can tend to withdraw, avoid, shrink back, or try to work things out in our own strength. But Jesus Christ says "Do Not Worry?"
The reason Jesus said for us not to worry is because of who our Father is. He created everything by His word, He created us, and He is all love, all power, all knowing. So if we are believers, then we are also sons and daughters of God.
We have full access to all his help, wisdom, power, which dwells in us right now. If He is already in your heart, then everything you need is on the inside of you by the Holy Spirit. So then, the battle is in our minds, our imaginations, and this is where worry begins. What are we allowing in our minds? What are we allowing our imaginations to see?
We have got to be intentional on what we think on. This is why Jesus Christ, in his Sermon on the Mount, says "don't be like those who don't know God". Don't go down the wrong path to get things in your own strength, stressing and worrying. But seek God, seek His kingdom ways, seek His promises, seek His word in your situation. Think on these things, look at these things in your thoughts and imaginations.
Where you are looking is key. Whatever you put your attention on is the direction you will head in. Faith in God and His Word, and always looking at His words, your eyes on Him. We know when we are worrying and anxious, we have taken our attention away from God and His Kingdom ways and put them back on our own abilities and strength. But 2 Peter 1 says - "We have already been given all we need for life and godliness through the promises of God. This is not easy, as there are plenty of things going to tell you it's not true."
So what kingdom are you operating in today? Where are you looking today? The Kingdom of God - operates by faith and trust in God's ways, God's word. All the other kingdoms of the world operate in stress, fear, worry, and anxiety. Jesus came to deliver us from all of this, by showing us a different way to lie in His kingdom.
So I ask you, which kingdom do you want to live in today? In Matthew, chapter 6, Jesus gives us a road map on how to navigate this kingdom and not to lean on our own ideas, or notions, or motives. We need to die to selfishness, submit ourselves daily to God's purpose and plans for our lives, and allow the Holy Spirit to guide us down the path of righteousness. This is a remedy to eliminate the fears out and away from our lives. Read the chapter below and keep it close to your heart and mind. Be well...
Matthew Chapter 6:
2Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
4That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
5And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
16Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
18That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
28And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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