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How To Cast Worry and Overwhelm In God's Hands with Jayme · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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  Hey guys, welcome to This Week She Speaks live for a solo
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  episode with me. I hope you've had a chance to
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  listen to the previous episodes of The Renewing of Your Mind and
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  How to Stop Worrying. I'm enjoying these times with
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  the Lord as he has so faithfully downloaded His word to me and to
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  impart in each episode. The word of God changed my life.
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  It changed my thinking. It shapes me to see myself and
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  others the way God sees us, and I feel like there's no time with
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  a present to chat about the gospel and encourage us in these
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  days ahead. So I'm bringing us through the
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  Contentment series from the five topical categories that you'll
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  find in the journal Serenity, Calm your Soul and Strengthen
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  your spirit, which you can purchase on my website,
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  jamieelizabeth.com. And for 15% off with free
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  shipping, use the code VIP15 by any means.
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  It's not a necessity to have one to listen to these solo
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  episodes. So what's unique about the
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  Serenity Journal is that you can personalize the scripture with
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  inserting your name within the verse.
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  This is one of the many ways we can study or read the Bible, as
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  it brings this personal directive to take heed of the
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  word of God in our lives. So as I'm sharing in this
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  episode, you'll be able to walk with me in a verse to
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  personalize, and then we'll chat about it like a mini Bible
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  study. So for today, I want to begin by
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  reminding us about what we talked about previously, of
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  having a disciplined mind. A disciplined mind is a renewed
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  mind. And how do we renew our minds?
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  Through God's Word and taking it through our actions.
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  It's more than just being hearers of the Word, but we need
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  to be doers of the Word to live a transformed life.
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  Remember that wrong thoughts kick against the Word of God and
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  a renewed mind will fill us with the right thoughts.
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  God's thoughts, which is His Word.
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  So this week that I'm recording is Thanksgiving, and there's so
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  much to be said that the way to hold fast to what God has done
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  for us is thanking Him. So praising Him brings Him
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  gratitude. And when we praise Him with
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  Thanksgiving, we are expressing our faith.
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  And when we give our praise of gratitude to the Lord, it
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  combats the enemy and protects our blessings.
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  Ephesians 427 Paul says don't give the devil a place in your
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  life. One of the many ways we can keep
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  the enemy out of our lives is through praise and gratitude.
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  The enemy can't get through a crack When we are continuously
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  giving God praise and Thanksgiving, and you know,
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  gratitude puts our faith in operation.
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  We are continually releasing our faith, which makes the enemy
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  flee ways the enemy seeps through.
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  The crack in our lives is a lack of peace.
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  It's a lack of God's word in our lives and a lack of giving God
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  praise and Thanksgiving. And did you know that gratitude
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  and anxiety or fear cannot coexist at the same time?
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  I find that so fascinating where our neurons can't have that
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  going on at the same time. And when we cultivate that
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  gratitude in our lives, we develop a calm mindset as it
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  opens our awareness of God's goodness and it deepens our
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  faith to help us live in the moment of contentment.
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  Being faithful to God is literally our instant mood
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  lifter that we may not do often enough, and I'm speaking for
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  myself here, that that it will supply more joy in our lives as
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  we give thanks, Which, by the way, it's in the journal
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  Serenity. And I give ample space to write
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  out your praise and gratitude to the Lord, which I found it to be
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  a great way to begin my day. So to start with the verse we
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  will be personalizing today I I want to 1st segue into it by
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  taking talking again about Second Timothy 17.
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  And it says in the amplified version for God has not given us
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  a spirit of timidity or fear, but has given us a spirit of
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  power, love, sound judgment and personal discipline that results
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  in a calm, well balanced mind and self-control.
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  I know we talked about this verse last time and the renewal
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  of our mind episode, but I think it's important to remind
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  ourselves that God has authored us power and authority that
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  belongs to us to deal with fear. Fear is a spirit that comes not
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  from God but the enemy. God has given us the opposite, a
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  spirit of power, love, and a discipline, self-control mind.
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  And like we discussed before, to have a self controlled mind.
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  It requires us to renew our minds every day.
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  With God's word. It's not enough for a Sunday or
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  a Monday to take us through our week.
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  An undisciplined thought life will totally rob us of our
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  peace. And sometimes we aren't even
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  aware that we are thinking wrongly until we start to read
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  God's word and receive the knowledge and go, Oh no, no
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  wonder it's been a struggle. But that's why it's important to
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  allow God, God's Word, to shape our thinking and actions to
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  align it with His will. And the enemy can't force you to
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  take up wrong thinking. We have been given all authority
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  to take those thoughts and submit them to the will of God,
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  which is His word for our lives. We do have a choice to take to
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  take thoughts of fear or thoughts of God's word, His
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  power, His love, a mind that is governed by the Holy Spirit to
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  lead us into right thinking. So this segues us into our verse
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  for today of first Peter 5-7 and it says cast all your anxiety on
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  him because he cares for you. Other versions may say cast all
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  your burdens or worries or cares to God.
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  This is one of my ultimate favorite verses because God sees
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  that we can get heavy burden, overwhelmed, and for some people
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  they can literally physically get sick with panic.
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  In fact, a couple of weeks ago I had never felt so overwhelmed.
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  I tend to gravitate to the I'm Wonder Woman, mindset,
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  mentality, and I can do it all, but in reality I can't do it
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  all. And what started off with a
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  simple phone call with my daughter of sharing with her
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  about my nights waking up at 3:00 AM.
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  And I I couldn't shut my anxious thoughts off and I felt like the
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  walls were closing in on me. She just simply responded with
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  Mom, Can I pray with you right now?
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  And I know what you're feeling. I've been there.
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  So let me pray for you. And I kid you not.
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  A wave of emotion just came right over me.
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  And this release of this heaviness started to lift as I
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  had someone, my daughter, which is special in itself, but
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  another person just pour into me and pray over me and pray
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  scripture over me. That's how though the one prayer
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  can release everything that I wasn't supposed to carry as I
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  had handed it over to God. So as we say this verse out loud
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  by personalize it, understand that God wants us to cast
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  everything to him because he cares so much about us and wants
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  us to live fulfilled with the freedom that he's already given
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  to us. So where I say Jamie, you'll say
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  your name. OK, here it goes.
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  Cast all Jamie's anxiety on him because he cares for Jamie.
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  This means take it out of your hands and tend to God's mighty
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  hands. When we cast it out of our hands
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  and into his hands, he starts working on it.
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  God isn't going to rebuke us for giving him our anxieties, burns
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  fears, but it says he cares. When someone cares, there's
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  affection and love involved. God is an affectionate, loving
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  God, and he is watchful. He's going to take it with care,
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  but we have to make sure not to take it back.
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  Don't take back what we have already given to God.
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  Let him do the finishing. Let him do the work,
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  surrendering it over for him to work on.
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  And have you ever had a child give you something to fix?
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  And then they see it getting fixed and they want to do the
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  rest. And they're like, Mommy, Mommy,
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  let me do the end. Let me finish it.
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  And you watch your child's struggle.
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  And then they end up giving it back to you to finish.
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  We can do that so often with God.
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  Let's not take back what we give him when we start to see our
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  lives getting better. Saying I can take care of my
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  life now. Let the author of our lives care
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  for our lives. Continuously.
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  Keep our lives in his care in his hand, and he will
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  affectionately care for it. That goes beyond what we could
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  ever imagine. So I hope this helps you,
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  encourages you. Thank you for listening, and I
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  hope you all have a blessed Thanksgiving giving him
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  continual praise and gratitude. And if you'd like your own copy
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