You're anxious about many things because...

You're anxious about many things because you've been entertaining potential outcomes that you have no control over. God designed our mind to be logical and reason probabilities, but we're to do so with the spiritual discernment of the Holy Spirit. Attempts made apart from Him result in us being emotionally drained. We can emotionally catapult ourselves into the future for weeks, months and even years when we begin to process probability outcomes regarding our life and those we love. What's crazy about this thought process is...we didn't go anywhere and none of the negative scenarios came to pass, but in our mind, it's as if we lived out each disastrous one! Anxiety is a result of doing life apart from God's love and sufficiency. We're designed to live in the present while having hope for the future, but we risk losing our mind when...we try to go back or forward in time! We have to hitch our mind and heart to God's truth, despite the impossibles we see; then the Holy Spirit can enables us to be hopeful. If we will hold onto God's hope, we will experience Him bringing us through impossible demands, hectic daily schedules and times of sorrow. The key is for us to put our trust in Him and "not" try to use our logic and probability reasoning skills to figure out...how He will bring us through. God's promises stand forever, are full of power and will save, change and transform our life! Don't pass on your privilege of relying on the daily help of the Holy Spirit...doing so allows anxiety to steal God's promises from you. ❤️LMM (Gal 6:9, Phil 4:7, Jer 29:11, Col 2:10, 2 Cor 3:17, Isa 40:8) #renewyourMind #truth #hope #purpose #disaster #disguise #scenarios #anxiety #ChristianInsightForLife   Laura Mangin McDonald 3/1/13LMM