Worry is defined as giving way to anxiety or unease; allowing one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles. Worry has a way of incapacitating your will and your resolve, so that you allow your fears, weaknesses, and sorrows to overcome your sense of peace and security.
When you worry, you think upon your past mistakes and problems, and it keeps you in a state of fearful expectation of the present and the future. You have a hard time believing in yourself or in God's ability to fix your issues.
The circumstances of life can produce fear, and we all have felt some anxiety when faced with a problem; fears can be faced and dwelt with as a child of God with believing in the power of God, His Grace and Mercy, and allowing Him to deal with the issue. Your faith determines God's response, for without faith, you cannot not believe in miracles or in the providence of God.
Worry is a step above ordinary fears, it is a state of constant fear and anxiety. You are always thinking of how a problem can get worse, or you don't believe the situation will get any better. You never take any risks because you can't believe the outcome will be a positive one. You are always thinking about what happened in the past, and you can't shake how you feel about what happened; you are always telling yourself that you can't do any better, so you never try to do anything that would most likely solve the problem. Worry is a big stumbling block for believers.
What is the solution? We need to stop focusing on ourselves, and learn to focus on the Lord. He can bring peace and security to our hearts, even in the toughest of circumstances:
Matthew 6:25-27 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?"
Matthew 6:34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
We only have what God gives us daily to consider the situation in front of us today; if we continue to dwell on the past, or the future, we are robbing ourselves of the resources to deal with today's issues. Trying to fix what has already happened will not change the past, and you will overextend yourself if you continue to worry about the future. Everything that has happened, everything that is happening, everything that will happen is in God's hands. Just trust Him and believe that He can provide for you; because of His Love and Mercy He will make a way out of no way, and He will provide for all your needs.
Prayer of Deliverance From Worry
Dear God,
My mind can hardly fathom the depth of your love for me. So when my anxious heart feels suffocated with the mounds of worry this life can bring, I only know to come to you. You who knows every hair on my head. You who flung stars into space. You who plans every step I take. When my worry mounds and builds, escalating to numbers that exceed my expectations, You ask me to relinquish my cares to Your hand. The hand that created the hair on my head. The hand that created the starry night sky. The hand that holds my future. Would you give me the courage to trust You wholly? Would you give me Your peace that calms all fears? For that is when I am rejuvenated, From pitiful worrier To prayer warrior. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.
I read psalm 91 everyday, and it helps me to focus on God instead of my circumstances, so I recommend you read it as well.
Thank you Lord, for your love, grace and mercy; you have never let me down and you will not fail, I give my heart, mind, and soul to you, and every circumstance that creeps up into my life, I will not allow fear and worry to dominate my life and my thoughts ever again, and I give your name the glory, the honor, and the praise forever and ever AMEN
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