Emotional Security OR Coping With Anxiety

Don't be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God. And the peace of God that transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.  
Philippians 4:6-7

Okay Christ Follower day two of discovering our Security in Christ is related to something that has worked for me for YEARS. It relates to Emotional Security.  Or it relates to helping you find more balance in your emotional well being... especially if you are being challenged by significant emotional events

So let me share with you how you may focus the locus of your focus on a spiritually based foundation of discovering the Peace of God during anxiety provoking times.

1. First, when the Holy Note says "don't be anxious about anything," it is NOT saying you are sinning because you are anxious.  Check out the Garden of Gethsemane.  Jesus was so anxious He sweated blood; however He (according to the wisdom of "The Ancient of Days") NEVER sinned. He did however, practice what I am sharing with you today. If you start shaming yourself because of an emotion, you are gonna have trouble.  Here is the deal... Let yourself feel.  Give yourself permission to feel, but practice what the Holy Note says, and find the peace of God.

2. Next, "IN EVERYTHING"  talk to God about it.  Whatever is eating at you, HE knows it all ready.  HE IS the Wonderful Counselor. He invites us again and again to "Cast all your cares on HIM because HE cares for you." (1 Peter 5:7) See also Hebrews 4:15-16 where HE invites you to "Come boldly to the throne of grace that you may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." One way you can do this is write a letter to God in which you say, "God _________ is happening in my life, and I am anxious because_________."  I would write about EVERYTHING that is causing you anxiety. (So you might repeat this fill in the blank (fill it in of course) several times before you are finished. 

3.  Then thank God: (See Ancient Wisdom Holy Note Above)  Thank God for the privilege of "unloading this wagon." Thank God for the privilege of seeking HIS counsel in prayer.  Thank God for all the things about which you are anxious.  Thank God for HIS control of the situations you are experiencing.  Thank God for everything that comes to your mind (no matter how strange it may seem.)  Thank God for the opportunity to find balance and peace. You get my drift.

4. Present your requests to God. Yes it is Okay to tell the Creator what you want.  Remember, "HE cares for you."  HE wants to hear Y-O-U.  Be specific.  Ask for HIS guidance.  Ask for HIS deliverance.  Ask for HIS help.  Jesus emphasized the importance of asking God when HE said in the Bible "You have not because you ask not."

5. Then a marvelous thing happens:  God puts a Peace Guard around your heart.  HE posts a guard whose name is Transcendent Peace upon your inner being.  Or as the Ancient Wisdom above says, "And the peace of God that transcends ALL understanding WILL guard your hearts and minds IN Christ Jesus.

This has worked for me and many others through out the centuries.  The Divine Therapist or Wonderful Counselor has been providing peace to people long before modern day therapy.  So live by faith and give this a try.  Then ...

Be Blessed 2 day ... Especially 2 day... because 2 day is the ONLY one we are guaranteed.

SoJourner

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