59/365: Taking Control Of Worry

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 4: 6-7

Don't get caught up in the tangles of worry. Being anxious about things beyond your control is a waste of time and it strangles your peace.

Trusting God means letting go of those things beyond your control. Relax your grip and hand it over to God's grace, love, and mercy.

Take control of your worry:

Give your worry a name
Confess it to God and others
Pray for it's death
Give thanks to God for the win

GO DEEPER: Psalm 27: 1-5

NEXT STEP: What are you worried about right now? Begin your confession right here - right now.

Bob E

on 03/01/2023 at 04:25 PM

My only worry is truly with my daughter. I know we are all individuals but she's doing and acting absolutely totally the opposite of how she was raised by me her mom her grandparents. I will put part of the blame on Facebook and social media the kids see everyone in the world now and compare themselves to them. so she is my only worry I can get everything else in order she does pray but her and her boyfriend are so delusional so any extra prayers out there I would appreciate for my daughter to get her stuff in one sack thanks and God bless.

Lavelle Livingston

on 03/01/2023 at 03:42 PM

Robert I was just where you are now weeks ago! Years of foolishness and selfishness on my part finally broke my wife and was a wake up call for me to come back to Christ. My wife came to me asking for a divorce. I fought and I fought. More importantly I went to God and the scripture. I cried and prayed. Go to God, pray for yourself and most importantly pray for your wife. Ask Him to renew your spirit and hers, ask Him for everlasting change. Ask for forgiveness of your sins and for your wife's. Pray for his wisdom, strength, courage, and discernment. It is time for a new season in your marriage, your old one is gone. Show here in action and deeds not just words. Also, don't stop!!! Keep going no matter how she responds especially if it's negative or discouraging, keep going and keep praying.

Old Dude

on 03/01/2023 at 07:09 AM

Praying for Robert and Jacob. 🙏🏻

Kevin Miller

on 02/28/2023 at 07:10 PM

I’m praying for you Robert and Jacob. It’s hard turning worry over to God. I have worried myself sick a few times. I was working so hard doing whatever I could to make sure things happened my way I wasn’t sleeping enough, using caffeine to stay awake, just go and go.

on 02/28/2023 at 06:24 PM

Daryl , I too am struggling with complete surrender and have asked myself the same question about porn. Like you I have received the same answer. My only hope is Jesus and the knowledge of Phil;1: 6. I have failed too many times to count, but I continue to get back up. I long to experience the love and intimacy of God, but I didn’t grow up in a loving home, so I am not sure what it is. Daryl keep persuing Him and not allow the failures to get the best of you. You have a friend who understands.

Bobby

on 02/28/2023 at 05:36 PM

My worry is of myself. The duties I have, my responsibilities, my accountabilities, my FAITH, my health...my fear of letting those who count on me down is my greatest issue. It creates an overwhelming flood of stress. I pray for perspective and clear view of what is important.

Nick W

on 02/28/2023 at 05:27 PM

So grateful for the honesty and openness that each of you has shared with. Brothers, I read them all and have been and will continue to be praying for each of you today. GOD is in control, and GOD IS GOOD! My anxieties are numerous. My son is also young and is also struggling with academics. My oldest daughter - 12 years old - wants more and more freedom and doesn't understand why she's "too young to date." I've spent so much time as a lukewarm Christian and passive father that I worry about the longterm impact to my relationship with my children. I am a COVID "long hauler" and the impact to my health has been rough. I used to pride myself in my ability to quickly analyze a problem and find the optimum solution and now everything feels like thinking through a fog. I worry about the impact this will have on not just my immediate employment, but my long term career as I work in a competitive intellectual field. Praise God, He has been showing me in His Word that we are not to worry, but to trust in Him. Every time I find myself worrying, I recognize it as another thing which I have yet to trust God with, and another opportunity to draw closer to Him as I surrender that fear, too. Lord, please give us faith to trust in you, even with the difficult things which give us anxiety. Thank you, Lord, for your servant David, who composed so many psalms confessing his fears and anxieties and giving them to you in faith. Thank you for giving us his example and please help us to echo it.

Daryl Trowbridge

on 02/28/2023 at 05:03 PM

My greatest worry has to do with my relationship with God. I struggle with making a complete surrender. And I know that, without full submission, I am lost. The other night, I was impressed with a thought that shook me. I was trying to figure out why pornography continued to have mastery over me and the surprising answer came: because I like what porn gives me more than I love God. I don’t want it to be this way, but I can’t seem to figure out how to fall madly in love with Jesus. Coming from an abusive home, I have struggled with the concept of love and understanding exactly what love feels like, but my hope is that my desire to love Jesus supremely will grow until it happens and thatI will be able to count all the stuff this world (Satan) offers as refuse. I have full faith in God’s ability and desire to save. Faith in myself and my ability to put God first… not so much.

Alex W

on 02/28/2023 at 04:49 PM

At church on Sunday, my pastor described our lives as two circles: the Circle of Responsibility and the Circle of Concern. Inside the Circle of Responsibility are the things the Bible commands us to do like loving God and loving our neighbor. The Circle of Concern contains things that we worry about like the economy. The difference is that God will take care of the things in the Circle of Concern as long as we take care of those in the Circle of Responsibility. Recall Matthew 6:25-27, "So my counsel is: don’t worry about things - food, drink, and clothes. For you already have life and a body - and they are far more important than what to eat and wear. Look at the birds! They don’t worry about what to eat - they don’t need to sow or reap or store up food - for your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than they are. Will all your worries add a single moment to your life?"

Ethan R.

on 02/28/2023 at 04:34 PM

I'm calling worry, hitler. My hitler is that my life is a waste, and it's too late to do the good I should have always been doing. hitler is a lie, the parts of hitler I cannot change I must give to God. The things I can do are because of God, my submission to His will and way enable me to face life in a whole new wonderful way, with love. My marriage has hitler in it as well. I am in recovery, she is not. She is miserable and blames me for why she can't do drugs. (not a spoken thing, but i know because i am an addict as well) She does not support me. I can only do my part and show her the new man I am becoming by God's grace and direction. I cannot control anyone else. I can affect other's lives by example and my compassion through Jesus's love. Yes, the serenity prayer is powerful,...the complete prayer. If you don't know it, please look it up and learn. Thanks be to God.

Elliott

on 02/28/2023 at 03:32 PM

The most beautiful thing in the world cannot be touched nor can it be seen. It comes from the heart! Love who you are today Jesus does!

jarrod adams

on 02/28/2023 at 03:14 PM

My stapdad has a tumor in his spinal cord that will require surgery in the coming days/weeks. Im believing for healing but there is also a seed of worry in my heart. My mom is not handling it well and worries alot. This surgery could leave him paralyzed or even worse. I have faith in my Father but i need the Lord to help me and my family's unbelief.

KJE

on 02/28/2023 at 03:08 PM

Thanks for your honesty and sharing, Robert. I am praying for you! I believe that your willingness and openness to post about the situation here is the first step in truly giving it over to God, and trusting that he will care for you in this relationship with your wife. I can relate because I too have hurt my wife and am ashamed of, the things I have done for years in our marriage, including pornography. I am now almost 2 years removed from these things, and God has shown me a new way. I still don’t think she has truly forgiven me, but our relationship has improved. I know that I need to continue to walk my path with Jesus, trust him in all things, and continue to pray with grace and humility! Only He can make the changes in my wife’s heart that lead to a mended relationship!

Joey Taylor

on 02/28/2023 at 02:53 PM

Greetings brothers ,Satan has entrapped many of men with this the Bible is full of them he's always tried to break up marriages . It seem like everything is failing us on both sides but God will never fail us . The Bible warns of consequences and that's what we don't realize upon decision in life . I have a loving wife that believes in her relationship with God we are all sinners no matter what the sin ,sin is sin in the eyes of God and he alone will be the one to correct us in a loving way. Repent and start walking with God and build that relationship and watch the mighty hand of God part the waters that keeps up from moving forward. I am also dealing with the uncertainty of loosing my job and wondering how to provide for my family I have to realize that I could lose material things but God will be faithful and just .He said he would not let his people parish and we have to believe that . How fitting for the devotional is don't worry is very hard not to but take one day at a time and no more and give thanks and praise to the almighty God we serve and watch him deliver us out if bandage amen.

Craig

on 02/28/2023 at 02:31 PM

Praying for the spoken and unspoken requests. His grace and peace be with us all.

Matthew Brown

on 02/28/2023 at 02:27 PM

I have been worried about work and finances lately. I am having trouble giving it to God and trusting Him to take care of my families needs. I ask you Lord to take this worry and I thank you for providing me and my family with everything we need

Tommy Williamson

on 02/28/2023 at 02:25 PM

Jacob Dixon, have you considered having your son tested for autism. I am not a doctor by any means but what you describe is fairly classic symptoms based on what I have read and my interactions with parents of autistic children.

Brandon Pembleton

on 02/28/2023 at 02:22 PM

Robert your share is full of honesty. It reminds me that all I have control of in life is me and my relationship with God. The best way to be an example of that for my family and girlfriend is to just be an example, and not a commander. Be kind like Jesus and be understanding even when it would be much easier to point out what they may need to do to get right with God - that's their journey to go on not one I can dictate or pace. I must share openly with my family about my feat of anxiety and vertigo. How surrendering them to God has freed me from them. Anytime I decide I want control back over any area of my life the fear of loss creeps in quick and fast. I know these little whispers of fear are not from God. They are whispers and lies from the evil one. I command Satan to leave me alone in the name of God and His son Jesus. I don't protect my life, but God does. The only thing I do to protect it is to ask God constantly to fill me up and shield me from evil. God help me to be armored from evil and to be an example of powerful living in Christ. I love you God amen 🙏

Tommy Williamson

on 02/28/2023 at 02:21 PM

Robert McFadden, you have worked hard to make the changes that you have made in your life. If your wife has turned her back on God because she does not want to forgive you then that is on her and she will have to answer for that on judgement. It’s just like on Sunday evening when we had a family sit down because our 26 year old son wanted to us that he considers himself transgender during the entire conversation I opened up a lot about my past that neither him or my wife had ever heard about. In the process I individually asked each of them to forgive me of wrongs and pains that I have caused them, even apologizing to my wife for all the porn I have watched during our marriage among other things. My son acknowledged and accepted my apologies while my wife just said “you know that I turned you over to God to let Him deal with it” . Not once did she acknowledge my apology or say that she forgave me. All day yesterday Satan kept trying yo tell me “see you have done so much ghat you own wife can’t forgive you why are you bothering to even try to serve God.” You can’t control your wife’s thoughts. All you can do is to turn her over to God, completely let go of the situation and let God handle it as He feels best. Right now it is between her and God you just need to step back and continue to pray that God will have His way in her life and bring her back around.

Tim Debronsky

on 02/28/2023 at 02:20 PM

I’m praying for you Robert, Jacob

Delray Sheen

on 02/28/2023 at 02:03 PM

Robert and Jacob my prayers have been sent. Jacob I am in the same situation with my son as well. We want the best for our kids and can't help but take the brunt of their fallings. God gave us that spirit of love, power, and a sound mind. Show him your in this together and though it isn't clicking now, like the parting of the Red Sea that glorious day where it all comes together is closer than you think. This reading is an important reminder for me that I am not to worry, that I am to caste my fears and worries upon the Lord. To do the contrary would not give him the trust and faith he desires. Most times that is easier said than done, but who ever said faith would always be easy? Compared to the scope of his unlimited power, my problems are a speck of dust. I rejoice that my God is ready and willing to take on the burdens and guide me to light. No matter the situation, we have to be content because our satisfaction comes from a Holy source, God.

Tommy Williamson

on 02/28/2023 at 01:56 PM

Worry and fear do nothing for us except drain our mental, physical, emotional and worst of all our spiritual health, when we worry about things in this life it really means that we are putting our full trust in God and letting Him fix those things that we can not fix. Satan loves putting things in our paths that causes us to worry about things because he knows that if we worry and stress about them it will cause us to doubt our relationship with God, that it will bring on physical illnesses which in turn affects our mental and emotional health. Many times there is absolutely nothing we can do about how somebody else chooses to sees us or acts toward us except to totally surrender that person over to God. Gif is the only one that can truly change a person’s heart or can truly change those things that are beyond our ability. All of us need to learn to trust in God more and leave our worries and fears in His hands and only His; not trying to hold onto them at all.

Boyce Moses

on 02/28/2023 at 01:48 PM

Prayers for your situation Robert. Your have to give it to God and truly trust in your heart that how it turns out is best for you. All worry does is eat you up. Love you Jesus! 💙💛🧡💜

Rich Rangel

on 02/28/2023 at 01:44 PM

Praise report. My friend's wife was literally moments from death in an ICU ward and has been healed and in rehab now. Many people have been praying for her and God in his mercy has healed her. The lesson learned never stop praying as the scripture teaches

59/365: Taking Control Of Worry

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