Feelings of anxiety are often related to our thoughts. Let’s do an inventory of our thought life. What have you been thinking about lately? Try to identify the fear that is the result of those thoughts. Often times anxiety occurs when we think about something that could be true, it might be true, but we are not sure it’s true.
Main Points:
1. We become anxious over something that could possibly happen, but it hasn’t happened yet. It may or may not happen, but the thought of it happening causes us to fear.
2. Some years ago, during a particularly difficult season where I experienced anxiety that seemed to be uncontrollable, I remember one night God speaking to my heart. It was one of those moments when the voice of God was unmistakable. With startling clarity, God asked me, “Loren, these thoughts you are thinking that cause you to be anxious, do you know them to be true?”
3. So, I began an exercise that would lift anxious thoughts off of my heart. When I would feel anxious about something I would ask myself, “Do I know this to be true?” Most often, the answer would be no. I would then say to myself, “If this becomes true, God will give me the strength to deal with it.”
Today’s Scripture Verses:
Psalm 139:23 - "Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.”
Philippians 4:8 - “…whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”
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