There is No Reason to Worry and Here is Why!

I find that so many times I am engulfed in worry and let stress take over my life. A few years back I suffered from panic attacks. I would be crying, shaking, and captivated by the fear in my mind. I had no control over it until I started praying through them. Prayer was the only thing that calmed me down from those panic attacks. I wish I knew then what I know now. I would have saved myself loads of trouble. You see when you pray the Word of God it has such power. I knew that them but I did not know the Word of God good enough back then. I still do not know the Word of God as good as I should but I try to gain knowledge more and more.

God has made many promises to us in the Bible. Today on a Bible study video I heard that the Bible is full of over 8,000 promises to us from the Lord Jesus Christ. How amazing it that? And from the Word of God we know that He keeps all His promises. So today I wanted to give you a few verses to dwell on and memorize so that when the hard times come you can rest in peace in God's promises to you. Also pay attention to the ones that require action.

Malachi 3:10-11

10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty.

I know I have always been super conservative about tithing. I know I have had times where I have only given my spare change, 10% of my check after taxes, or just given a flat rate of 10% of 40 hours when I know I worked over time. I swear God convicted me of this Today for a reason. I had budgeted roughly 10% of our monthly income after taxes to be tithed. But that is not how God tells us to do it! I also never tithe off of my coaching income. God says what he requires and says he will abundantly bless us if we do it. So let me ask you why aren't we doing it? The answer is the fear of not being provided for. 

Psalm 34:4

I sought the Lord, and he answered me;

    he delivered me from all my fears.

Look here God also promises to deliver us from all of our fears! That is the answer to our excuse from the previous verse. But if this does not have you convinced I will keep revealing more of God's amazing promises to us. 

Psalm 34:10

The lions may grow weak and hungry,

    but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. 

Again this is a promise with an action step. We need to seek the Lord so that we can lack nothing that is good. How easy is that? We just need to start seeking the Lord. Guess what you are doing that now! So good job. 

Philippians 4:19

19 And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. 

God promises to meet all of our needs. Again this a reason why there is no need to fear. Another one is that this verse says according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. That is infinite!!!

Romans 8:32

32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

God wants to bless us. He wants to graciously give to us. He proves that to us time and time again. 

Psalm 119:165

Great peace have those who love your law,

    and nothing can make them stumble. 

Today I want to encourage you to love God's law, rest in God's promises, seek the Lord, and tithe generously. God has made so many promises to us and we do not take advantage of them. We simply do our own thing. We never really dig into the word of God. We never seek to learn more. I am not telling you guys that I am perfect by all means. Sometimes I spend weeks without opening the word of God. Yes, I do Bible study books and read scriptures on social media but I don't dive in. But now that I know God's promises and many of those are locked on to the action of seeking Him. I will be actively seeking Him through prayer, reading the Bible, and meditating on his Word. 

I hope you will also do the same. It is not just enough to hear the Word of God, we must also act upon it. I am by no means good at this either but I am going to try and I hope you will join me in this.