The world can tell us who we are based on the occupation we hold, what we look like, accomplish, etc. This gives us a myriad of reasons to worry because we will never find enough value in any one of…
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Celebrate All Life's Victories
Your brain cannot stay worried if you are displaying an attitude of celebration, especially when you give God the praise and glory. Find fun healthy ways to celebrate all victories, big and small.
This can be more than the usual…
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Be Excited to Repent
To repent is to make a radical turn from one way of life to another. That may sound like a strange thing to get excited about, but when we see the benefits and new life that awaits us, it is…
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Serve Without Expectation
Whenever we do things expecting to get something in return we set ourselves up for worry and disappointment. We worry that what we are doing is insignificant, that people don’t see us, don’t love us, don’t respect us, etc. Yet…
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Praise God
To praise somebody is to revere, worship or adore them. In Hebrew, one of the words for praise literally means to extend or throw the hand. Think of a child putting their arms up in complete surrender and trust to…
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Hope in the Lord
It is so easy to look around at the chaos in this world and lose hope; hope in justice, hope in love, hope in peace, etc. If we give into this temptation, however, we will become paralyzed with worry and…
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Use Your Words Wisely
Words are powerful. They can encourage and heal or they can discourage and hurt. Words in and of themselves can be the root of either worry or hope.
If you want to get right to the source of your worries…
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Give Up Your Agenda
If we are honest with ourselves, we would see that we make up our own self-centered agendas for so many aspects in our lives. We think we are taking control over situations we are worried about, but this is rarely…
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Hold Out Open Hands to God
Worry is frequently about not having something we long for or losing something we cherish. Ironically though, if we obsess too much about what we want or cling too tightly to what we love we end up with more worry…
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Stop Trying so Hard
Often worry stems from trying so hard to be someone we are not meant to be or do things we are not expected to do. We put overly high demands on ourselves and then worry we won’t attain those measures…
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