Worry Free Guarantee
This blog today may sound like the sequel to my blog from yesterday which was about not letting fear grab hold of us. This blog is icing on the “Do Not Fear” cake. “Don’t worry!” You may be saying “That’s easy for you to say. You’re not facing what I’m facing today.” Perhaps not the exact challenge or situation, but I’ve known troubles and I’ve had reasons to worry. And, out of those times, I survived — so much so, that I sincerely desire to help comfort others with the same comfort that I was comforted with. (2 Corinthians 1:4).
I wish you and I were face-to-face and I could convey to you how much I want to put my arms around you and help you through whatever it is you’re facing today. Mostly, I want to give you a “Worry-FREE Guarantee”. If you follow me at all, you know I am a believer in ‘If God said it, I believe it and that settles it — no ifs, ands, or buts about it.’ Plain and simple, I know that God’s Word (the Bible) is the key to overcoming fear, sickness, discouragement, and everything that concerns us. There’s an answer for everything in God’s Word. In Joshua 1:8, God gave a “key” to success when He told Joshua: “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; FOR THEN you will make your way prosperous, and THEN you will have good success.”
That is the key. We think that it’s up to God to take care of this and do that. But, very clearly, God is saying that if we do our part (not letting His Word depart out of our hearts by thinking and meditating on His Word) that we will be successful.
Proverbs 23:7 says: “For as a man THINKS in his heart, so is he……” Obviously, this means we must do our best to stop thinking the negative thoughts. How do we get a handle on our thoughts? By the “thinking” shortcut. THINK about the things that we feel good about, and avoid thinking about what we don’t feel good about. Here’s the “Worry-Free Guarantee” straight from God’s Word:
Philippians 8:4 “Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of a good report, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, THINK on these things.”
Isaiah 26:3 “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”
It is a matter of disciplining ourselves to put a halt to negative thinking. It’s like changing the channel on the TV. A negative thought comes in….quickly change the channel to the positive thought. Let this be our prayer today:
Father, I commit to live free from worry. I lay all my anxieties, all my worries, all my concerns — once and for all — on You. You care for my family and me. You sustain me. I lay aside every worry. I think on the praiseworthy things. I will not let my heart be troubled. I abide in Your Word, and Your Word abides in me. Thank You, Father, for helping me to be care-free. I walk in your peace that passes all understanding, in Jesus’ name! Amen.