Are You Anxious?
Have you ever been anxious? Frustrated? Fretting? Worrying whether things will work out? Being anxious just means that you are FEARING, in the present, about a possible imminent event in the future or something with an uncertain outcome. This is a good mnemonic to remember:
F: False
E: Evidence
A: Appearing
R: Real
When you are anxious and worrying, you are borrowing from the possibilities of tomorrow that hasn't even happened yet and may never happen.
God is so good. I've been crazy busy with my business and just trying to keep things together as many schools are starting back. But, you know how the devil will just throw a wrench in the works? Well, I just started at 2 new schools and I am the teacher at those 2 new schools until my other teachers finish their paperwork. So, just this weekend, half asleep, I stepped down from the couch and injured my foot. So much so, that I elevated and iced it all day Sunday and thought Monday it will be done and over with. Well, not so. I could barely stand on it and had to go to the doctor and get an x-ray. Well, evidently I sprained it pretty good... or err bad.... hmmm. We'll leave that expression alone!
So, I had to cancel the class at the 2 new schools that I just started at last week because 1 teacher is on vacation and the other isn't available for afternoon classes... and I can't go now! Ouch that hurts. I began to get concerned about the possibility of losing those 2 new schools, which of course would benefit my income. But, you know what, what the devil means for evil, God can use for good. I missed my 2-week summer vacation break that I normally have. I've pushed myself so hard over the past 2 years and my body has been telling me that I need a break... NOT LITERALLY! So, when I injured myself and realized that it wasn't better on Monday... my first response was to be tempted to get anxious and panic! Oh No! The 2 new schools! I will lose them! However, I decided, you know what... I'm not even fretting. I will just go with the flow and see what tomorrow is like in whether I'll be able to get on the foot or not. If not, then I guess I may be starting my fall break earlier than next week and give my body the rest and relaxation that it has needed all year when I couldn't take off voluntarily.
You know, so often we get flustered and anxious when the devil attacks and bad things happen in our lives. Satan uses these things to distract us and detract us from where God means for us to be and to prevent us from accomplishing the work that God has assigned us to do. But, if we have on the whole armor of God, even though he may attack the body... he can't touch this child of God! So, my comment to you today is taken from 2 Timothy 1:7 - For God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of POWER and LOVE and a SOUND MIND.
So, since you are dependent upon God and he has given you this POWERFUL, LOVING, and SOUND MIND Spirit. I say to you be not anxious about tomorrow, let tomorrow take care of itself. You are to walk in that Spirit and let nothing detract you from the direction that God has you walking in.
God is so good. I've been crazy busy with my business and just trying to keep things together as many schools are starting back. But, you know how the devil will just throw a wrench in the works? Well, I just started at 2 new schools and I am the teacher at those 2 new schools until my other teachers finish their paperwork. So, just this weekend, half asleep, I stepped down from the couch and injured my foot. So much so, that I elevated and iced it all day Sunday and thought Monday it will be done and over with. Well, not so. I could barely stand on it and had to go to the doctor and get an x-ray. Well, evidently I sprained it pretty good... or err bad.... hmmm. We'll leave that expression alone!
So, I had to cancel the class at the 2 new schools that I just started at last week because 1 teacher is on vacation and the other isn't available for afternoon classes... and I can't go now! Ouch that hurts. I began to get concerned about the possibility of losing those 2 new schools, which of course would benefit my income. But, you know what, what the devil means for evil, God can use for good. I missed my 2-week summer vacation break that I normally have. I've pushed myself so hard over the past 2 years and my body has been telling me that I need a break... NOT LITERALLY! So, when I injured myself and realized that it wasn't better on Monday... my first response was to be tempted to get anxious and panic! Oh No! The 2 new schools! I will lose them! However, I decided, you know what... I'm not even fretting. I will just go with the flow and see what tomorrow is like in whether I'll be able to get on the foot or not. If not, then I guess I may be starting my fall break earlier than next week and give my body the rest and relaxation that it has needed all year when I couldn't take off voluntarily.
You know, so often we get flustered and anxious when the devil attacks and bad things happen in our lives. Satan uses these things to distract us and detract us from where God means for us to be and to prevent us from accomplishing the work that God has assigned us to do. But, if we have on the whole armor of God, even though he may attack the body... he can't touch this child of God! So, my comment to you today is taken from 2 Timothy 1:7 - For God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of POWER and LOVE and a SOUND MIND.
So, since you are dependent upon God and he has given you this POWERFUL, LOVING, and SOUND MIND Spirit. I say to you be not anxious about tomorrow, let tomorrow take care of itself. You are to walk in that Spirit and let nothing detract you from the direction that God has you walking in.
Live Victoriously in all things!