Biblical Solutions to Anxiety
Several scriptures give us good advice on dealing with fear and anxiety. Proverbs 12:25 is one: "Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad." This verse acknowledges something that is common knowledge but that all of us could do better at putting into practice.
We need encouragement, particularly when facing a daunting project or new responsibility involving unfamiliar skills and challenges. Make it a part of your job to give encouragement and foster a feeling of confidence among your coworkers. Take the same approach within your family, spreading the kind of "good word" about which Solomon wrote in Proverbs 12.
Jesus Christ pointed out that, in the end, worry and anxiety accomplish little.
"Therefore I say to you," He counsels us, "do not worry 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, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
"Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
"Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble" (Matthew 6:25-34).
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Table of Contents that includes "Biblical Solutions to Anxiety"
Anxiety:
- _Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
- _The Godly Gift of "Forever Eyes"
- _Steps in Dealing With Grief
- _Are You Feeling Overwhelmed?
- _Wagon of Rocks
- _The Godly Gift of "Forever Eyes"
- _A Solution to Fear
- _A Cure for Code Orange
- _Enemies of Faith
- _Esther: A Woman of Faith and Courage
- _Peace: The Hunger of Human Hearts
- _Dealing With Fear
- _Defeating Our Fears
- _Fear Factor
- _Do It Anyway
- _Fear and Depression: Conquer Them With These Crucial Keys
- _Eleanor Had It Right
- _Resisting the Roaring Lion
- _A Cure for Code Orange
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