Luke 12:29
“And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink,
nor have an anxious mind.
Philippians 4:6
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and
supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
Romans 14:23
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith;
for whatever is not from faith is sin.
Matthew 6:34
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things.
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Worry, fear, doubt and anxiousness all contribute to what we call
physical stress and are not based in faith but based in doubt.
Stress is the physical expression of the wrong thoughts we have
chosen to constrain our minds with and so we have chosen to make
those wrong thoughts our paradigm to live by.
Here is an example...
The boss threatens us and tells us that something must happen
by a certain time or there will be consequences.
So the wrong way to deal with this is to take upon ourselves
the threat of something that may or may not happen and cause us to worry or
be fearful or anxious over the future when it is very likely with prayer, wisdom and
some effort we can accomplish the requested task without putting ourselves through
all the self imposed mental anguish that can come when we do not live
our lives by God's plan and help and instead choose to go it alone in our own strength
instead of the strength and blessing of the Lord.
There is so much down side to stress on our physical bodies, our mental health
and our spiritual walk with God that it is one of the worse things a person
can allow themselves to be caught up in and yes stress based on
worry, fear, doubt and anxiousness is wrong because it leads us away
from faith and trust in our Heavenly Father and His intentions to bless us
through Christ and instead causes our walk with God to become stunted.
The right way is to pray and ask God for wisdom and His peace
and to ask God to forgive us if we have done anything wrong and to forgive
others for their threats and pressures against us as we ask God
to bless them and give us His favor with our boss knowing that if we do what
is right before God, He will defend us and bless us even if we were fired,
God would turn it into a blessing for us and lead us to an even better position
because our trust is in Him.
Going God's way, the stress drops off and instead of living under the pressures of
fear and doubt of the future or what may or may not happen, instead we have faith in
God as we see Him moving in our lives because faith releases God's hands to
bless us and bring about His plan for our lives.
Stess is the physical result of the opposite of faith because it is based on worry,
fear and doubt while God's way brings about positive results and His PEACE into our lives through
our faith in Him and this faith pleases God and will cause God's blessings to appear in
our lives and build even more faith.
Peace is where God wants us to live and is the opposite of stress.
Faith in God brings His peace and assurance into our lives and then God's hands are untied
to bring more of His blessings into our lives which increases peace and faith and so on ...
Hebrews 11:6
But
without faith it is
impossible to please Him,
for he who comes to God
must believe that He is,
and that
He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
God wants us to walk in His peace and love and not to be moved by
what goes on around us but to place our faith and trust in Him as our loving Father
who will move heaven and earth for those who will trust in Him and His ability to
bless us as we follow His ways and not our ways.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear,
but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
If we are under stress it is our fault and not from God because if we would stop
what we are doing and thinking and asked Him into the situation,
He would come upon us with peace and give us the wisdom we need to
get through those things that try our souls and give us His blessings and build our faith in Him.
John 20:27
Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands;
and reach your hand here, and put it into My side.
Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”
