I Do Not Worry!

[Laurie KRB]

I saw a pastor on tv this morning, talking about casting our care, and it was an uplifting reminder that God has told us not to worry. Not asked, not encouraged to try not to, but commanded to really NOT WORRY - to not be anxious for anything!

Proverbs 12:25 NIV

An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.

Philippians 4:6 NIV

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

With our hearts we believe and with our mouths confession is made and we are saved. By confessing the Word we hear it, and faith comes by hearing.

"I do not worry!"

As you begin to hear the Truth of the word, your faith will grow. As you begin to believe that God has told you NOT to worry, your mind, will, emotions and actions will line up with the truth of the Word and you will find yourself leaning on Him more and more.

"I do not worry - I am not anxious for anything!"

Paul said to call your thoughts ("casting down wrong imaginations"), to stop them right in their tracks if they get out of line. So every time you catch yourself in fear or worry or doubt, say out loud, "It is written: I shall not be anxious for anything."

I do not worry!

Your thoughts will begin to line up with the truth. God does not frustrate us with commands we are not able to fulfill. He loves us and cares for us. He said to cast our care onto Him. Why? Because He cares for us! So if He says to do something, we are certainly capable of doing it.

Fear not.
Be not anxious.
Be of good cheer.

I do not worry!

When I was having panic attacks a few years ago, God spoke to me these words which I have never forgotten: "Selfishness causes anxiety."

Instead of worry and fear and anxiety, we have the love of God: "Perfect love casts out fear."

I do not worry!

I think I may have said "God loves me" about three hundred times, but eventually I believed it, received His love, and am more capable today of loving others as myself, because I have received His love for me.

Have you received the love of God? Did you know that Jesus would have come to this world, lived a perfect life, and died FOR YOU, even if you were the only person on earth?

Make it personal. It is.

He died for you, He cares for you, and His love casts out all fear. All you have to do is receive it.

I do not worry!

Peace, Saints.

 

[EarthMomma]

This is a great post, Laurie, thank you so much.

Here is one of my favorite "don't worry" scriptures (why worry about tomorrow, don't you have enough to do today?):

Matthew 6:25-34 AMP

25 Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?
26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?
27 And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life?
28 And why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin.
29 Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these. [I Kings 10:4-7.]
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?
32 For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.
33 But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His gdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. 34 So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.

May the Holy Spirit guide us as we defeat the adversary's tactic of causing us to worry!

Your sister in Christ,
Earthmomma

 

[kisstheson]

Thank you Laurie!

A very important post. Thank the Lord that He is faithful and when we are faithful.

Remember the man in the Gospel who said to Jesus, "Lord I believe. Help me in my unbelief!"

 

[JPPT1974]

Though we lack in being faithful a lot of times
I admit to not doing so in more than my share
God is faithful and just all the time, everytime!

 

[Laurie KRB]

Thanks & you're welcome. Blessings and peace in the Lord.

 

[JPPT1974]

God bless you Laurie
Take care!!