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Why Does Anxiety Keep Stealing My Peace? | Walking in Spiritual Discernment · Divine515 Podcast

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  - Welcome to the divine five one five podcast.
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  - Here is today's prayer.
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  - Hello, and welcome to today's daily prayer.
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  - We're talking about the subject of
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  - what to do when anxiety keeps stealing our
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  - peace.
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  - And the scriptural text I'm gonna be pulling
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  - from today comes from Philippians four six through
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  - seven.
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  - And it says, do not be anxious about
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  - anything,
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  - and the peace of God will guard your
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  - hearts and your minds.
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  - And I wanna start the conversation today by,
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  - you know, addressing
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  - anxiety
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  - and how anxiety
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  - is the opposite of peace and can steal
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  - our peace so much to
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  - the point where
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  - it can rob us of of, sleep,
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  - our energy, and any number of things,
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  - including our perspective of how we see things.
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  - It con it convinces
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  - us that we must solve everything ourselves and
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  - that the worst case scenarios
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  - are inevitable.
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  - And so
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  - I wanna address that
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  - God understands
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  - that we're gonna have issues with life, that
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  - life is hard. Right? We can all agree
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  - that,
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  - life is just tough. You know? And,
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  - although
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  - we are faced with sometimes some really immense
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  - challenges
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  - that can leave us feeling anxiety ridden,
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  - the scripture tells us
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  - regardless of what you're dealing
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  - with, in essence, don't worry about it, which,
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  - you know, if if you have a a
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  - a proneness to anxiety and fear, this isn't
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  - the easiest thing to to tackle.
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  - But here is where trust and faith come
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  - into place.
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  - And the scripture tells us that without faith,
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  - it's impossible to please God. And you might
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  - be,
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  - feeling like, well,
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  - I don't know what that looks like.
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  - I don't know how to not worry.
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  - But that's where meditating on God's word and
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  - and memorizing God's word comes in place.
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  - And again, that talks about being intentional. You
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  - have to be intentional
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  - about
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  - making time to just be still
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  - and hear
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  - what God has to say,
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  - and
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  - not be in such a hurry
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  - to to have the answer because he's the
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  - answer.
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  - It's in the process, not necessarily
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  - the answer itself.
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  - And to know that he always knows what's
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  - best for us,
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  - our well-being
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  - is his top priority in fulfilling his will
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  - for our lives.
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  - And ultimately,
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  - because he knows what's best,
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  - we can never go wrong. And so
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  - I wanna encourage you to
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  - lay
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  - the fear down at the throne. Give God
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  - the fear.
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  - Give God the anxiety,
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  - whatever it is,
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  - and pick up and take peace.
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  - And know that he has you,
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  - and he loves you, and he will never
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  - let you go.
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  - That being said,
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  - pray with me.
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  - Dear heavenly father,
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  - you know the worries we carry and the
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  - fears
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  - we rarely
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  - say out loud.
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  - But today, God,
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  - we surrender them all to you, and we
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  - make a conscious decision to not pick them
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  - up despite
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  - what
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  - our our our intent or our impulse tells
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  - us to do.
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  - Replace anxiety with peace and uncertainty with trust,
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  - father.
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  - Help us
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  - bring our concerns to you instead of carrying
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  - them alone.
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  - And heavenly father, guard our heart and mind
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  - with your presence,
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  - and we will bless you in Jesus' name.
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  - If this was an encouragement to you, share
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  - this prayer with someone who might need peace
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  - today.