Be Anxious For Nothing
As Jesus and the apostle Paul said in the two Scripture verses that I gave you in that article - no one who keeps looking back and dwelling on their past is fit for the kingdom of God. Paul says that we have to forget those things which are now behind us and move and press forward into those things which now lie ahead of us. As I stated in that article, God will give each person a reasonable amount of time to clean up some of the loose ends from their past. He will give you a reasonable amount of time to get an inner healing from Him on all of the hurts and pains that you have may have experienced from certain situations or from other people. God will show you the truth on many of the matters from your past so that His truth can start to work to set you free from any chains that may be still holding you captive to your past. But once God has sufficiently dealt with everything from your past that He wants to deal with - then you will need to turn around, let your past go, and start to walk and fly into the divine destiny that He has set up for you to follow in this life. In other words - you will have to get back living in your present again and start walking forward into the new life that God has now set out before you. Once this has occurred, you will now be ready to start to work very closely with the Holy Spirit as you start to move and fly forward into your divine destiny for the Lord. The Holy Spirit will now let you know what specific qualities He will want to try and work into your mind, soul and personality. This article, and the additional articles to follow in this Sanctification Section, will let you know some of the the basic qualities that you will need to get worked into your mindset and how you think about things. As I said in my article "You Are What You Think" - what you think about and dwell on in this life will make or break you in this sanctification realm with the Lord. You simply have got to learn what kinds of things you are to think about and focus on in order to really be able to fly as a powerful and anointed eagle of God. In this article, I will give you a very powerful mental principle that God the Father would like to get worked into your mindset and way of thinking. This mental principle is once again coming from Jesus and the apostle Paul. In the three Scripture verses I will give you in this article, Jesus is telling us that we are to:
I remember when I first saw these verses, I wondered how anyone could learn to be anxious for nothing with all of the bad things that could hit anyone of us at anytime. How can you be anxious for nothing when:
I could go on and on with all of the adverse things that could hit anyone of us at anytime with the full force of a hurricane. As a result of the curse of Adam and Eve that is still in full operation on this earth, we are all stuck with having to battle various types of storm clouds from time to time. And for some, these storm clouds will be downright nasty, vicious and traumatic. Every minute of everyday someone is getting knocked straight to the ground with a vicious torpedo shot. How can anyone learn to be anxious for nothing in the way Jesus would really like from us in the sea of uncertainty that we are all forced to live and swim in - never knowing what is going to happen to us two minutes from now, much less what is going to happen tomorrow or the next day? I will first start out by giving you the three verses from Scripture where Jesus is telling us that this is something that He would really like all of us to learn how to do. I will then end this article with some comments on how we can possibly learn how to get this type of right thinking worked into our mindset and way of thinking - even if we are forced to have to deal with a major storm cloud. 1. Be Anxious For NothingThis first verse from the apostle Paul really sets the stage on this specific mental principle. Here it is: "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6) Paul gives us a major revelation in this verse with how we can be anxious for nothing with the words that come after he initially makes this statement. Notice he says that we are to make all of our requests known to God in prayer - and if we do, then the peace of God can enter into us to guard our hearts and minds through Jesus.
This is why Paul is using the words that the "peace of God, which surpasses all understanding" will now enter into you to guard your heart and mind from getting all worked up and out of control. Once you go to God the Father in prayer to ask for His help to handle a serious problem or situation, then His peace will be able to start to flow into you. And once His peace starts to flow into you, then you will feel His peace starting to calm you down - even right in the middle of the worse kind of storm cloud you could imagine yourself falling into. I have heard testimony after testimony of people who have fallen into the worse kinds of storm clouds you could possibly imagine - and then all of sudden they would feel the peace of God come into them after they had prayed and committed the problem into the hands of God. They had no idea how long it would take for God to resolve the problem. They had no idea as to how God was going to handle the problem. All they knew was that God had heard their prayer and that He would now handle the problem for them. Once this fact was really grabbed by their minds and their spirits, then the peace of God was able to enter into them. And once the peace of God entered into them, they were then able to calm down and be anxious for nothing - exactly like what this verse is telling us to learn how to do.
So in one powerful and profound verse, God is telling us to be anxious for nothing - but at the same time He is telling us exactly how to be able to do this - and that is by going to Him in prayer and telling Him exactly what you will need to handle the problem, and then fully commit and surrender the problem into His hands for His handling. Once you have fully surrendered the problem into His hands, then God will release His peace into your mind and emotions so He can calm you down and help you to be able to be anxious for nothing. 2. Do Not Have An Anxious MindThis next verse will perfectly connect to the above verse from Paul. This next verse is coming direct from Jesus Himself. Here is what He has to say about learning how to remain more calm in how we look at things in this life and not to have an anxious mind. "And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things. But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you." (Luke 12:29) This verse is a major power verse! This verse really puts everything into proper perspective in how we should view this life and what we should all be striving for and seeking after in this life. Notice that Jesus is specifically telling us that we are not to be anxious about the basic necessities of our life. Without food or water, we will literally die. Our bodies cannot go very long without proper nourishment. Yet Jesus is telling us not to worry about these basic things. The key words in this verse is the last sentence where Jesus tells us to concentrate and focus on seeking after the kingdom of God. If we do, then God the Father will make sure to add all of the basic things that we will need to survive and live in this world.
In this support that you will be getting from the Lord will be all of the money that you will ever need to accomplish His perfect will for your life, all of the good people and friends you will need, all of the favor you will need so that certain doors and opportunities can open up for you to take you to the next step, and the wife or husband you will need to walk and share the journey with if it is in His perfect will that you get married in this life. This verse from Jesus should be burned into every believer's memory bank - as it perfectly sets the stage as to what is most important in this life and shows us exactly what we should be striving for and seeking after. This verse shows us that our top priority has to be with God and with what He wants to do with our lives. If we make the Lord and His perfect will for our life our top priority and goal in this life, then God will give us everything else we will ever need to be able to live and work for Him in this life.
The word "all" is a maximum intense word. The word "all" means that God will give us everything we will need to live and work for Him - not just some or part of what we will need! Many Christians are not getting some of their basic needs met because they are in violation of this basic principle. God is not #1 in their life. They are not seeking after God to get to know Him better. They have not entered into a true personal relationship with Him. They have not fully surrendered their lives into His hands so that He can place them into His perfect plan and destiny for their lives. Notice Jesus starts the last sentence out with the word "but." But first seek the kingdom of God - and then all of the basic things you will need in this life will be given to you. Once you fully understand this basic principle and get it properly implemented into your life - then you will no longer have an anxious mind since you will now know that God has your life fully and soundly in the palms of His hands and that He will now be working everything out for His and your own good. 3. Do Not Worry About Your LifeThis last verse will perfectly wrap up what the above two verses are trying to tell you. If you no longer have need of having an anxious mind because you are now seeking after God and His perfect will for your life, then this means that you can now take the last and final step - and that is to not to worry about your life and the direction it is now going since God is now in total contol of your life. God is now the captain of your ship. God is now at the helm of your ship, and He will now be the One to direct your life in the direction that He will want it to go in. Once you fully grasp this revelation, then you will no longer need to worry about your life and have an anxious mind - because you now know that God has everything in good stead with how He will be working and handling your life. The burden and stress of trying to figure everything out has now been taken off of your back. God will now be leading you into the specific jobs He will want you to have in this life. He will now be leading you to the spouse He will want you to marry if it is in His perfect will that you marry in this life. He will now lead you to the friends that He will want you to have in this life. Too many Christians are still trying to work out all of the above issues out of their own flesh and out of their own intelligence. As a result, they end up marrying the wrong people, end up taking the wrong jobs, and end up hooking up with the wrong friends. By the time they reach their mid-life:
If you will follow God and His perfect plan for your life - then much, if not all of the stress, anxiety and burden can be lifted from your life. As a result, you can then learn how to be anxious for nothing and learn how to relax and enjoy this life with much more vigor and vitality in the way that God would really like. Study this next verse very carefully with what Jesus is trying to tell you. This verse is loaded with major revelation. "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Jesus could not have put it more perfectly than by the way He has worded this longer verse. He gives 3 major analogies with the birds, the grass and the lilies of the fields. All three of these are being perfectly held up and supported by God the Father. And if God the Father is upholding and keeping these three perfectly alive, then He will do the same for each and everyone of us since we are obviously of much more value to Him than they are. If you can really grab a hold of this principle and get it worked into your mindset and way of thinking, then you can achieve what the last part of this verse is trying to tell you to do - and that is to not worry about your life and what tomorrow may bring because you now know that God has every little detail of your life held perfectly in His hands. ConclusionWhen you put all three of the above verses right next to one another - you are receiving a major revelation from God the Father. This revelation is that it is possible to learn how to be anxious for nothing and how not to be overly worrying about anything and everything in this life. When it comes right down to it, you have very little control over much of what happens in your life. You can't control:
When you get right down to it, you have little or no control over most of what happens in your life since you don't know what is going to happen to you in the next two minutes, much less what is going to happen to you in the next day or two. This leaves you with either one of two choices. You can either learn to fully trust God with every aspect of your life and learn how to be anxious for nothing because you know everything is totally in His hands down to the very smallest detail of your life - or you can choose to worry about anything and everything driving you and everyone else around you crazy. As I said in some of my other articles, we all have to go through various trials and tribulations in this life as the result of the curse of Adam and Eve that is still in full operation on this earth. And until Jesus comes back to set up His Millennium Kingdom, we are all going to have to put up with certain amount of evil from demons and bad and evil people who will choose to live this life on the dark side. So how can we really be anxious for nothing when hit by one of these heavier storm clouds as mentioned at the top of this article? The apostle Paul gives us the answer in the first verse I mentioned above. No matter how severe and how bad this storm cloud may be - God, through prayer, can still bring healing, deliverance or a solution to any problem or crisis - no matter how hopeless the situation may look to you in the natural. If you have just lost your job, God can lead you to the next job, and this next job may end up being better than the one you have just lost. If you have just gone through a messy and painful divorce and you feel like your life has been totally ruined and you have no where else to go - God can now take over, bring you up out of it, and give you a whole new life with a brand new start. If you have found that one of your children has become addicted to one of the more heavier drugs - you can go into the gap with the Lord and pray that He move to reach and bring your child out of that addiction. If you have been the victim of some type of crime, God can give you the grace and the ability to be able to forgive those who have wronged you, and then help you sort out and clean up whatever may have occurred as a result of the crime. The only possible way you can learn how to be anxious for nothing in this life is to learn how to totally trust God with every aspect of your life - and then totally trust Him to help you handle any type of storm cloud that may come your way - no matter how big or how severe that storm cloud may be. The Bible says that with God nothing is impossible. For many, this basic mental principle of learning how to be anxious for nothing is a tough one to learn how to really get worked into your mind and emotions in the type of world we live in today. We live in a very fast-paced, high stress, dog-eat-dog type of world. Unless you have your personal faith and trust levels built up in the Lord to some type of appreciable degree, you will initially have a hard time getting this particular mental principle worked into your mind and emotions.
Again, this is all part of the sanctification process that God would like to get started with each and everyone of us. And part of this sanctification process will be to get right thinking imparted into your mind. If you can learn how to get this particular mental principle worked into your mind, will and emotions - it will just make your life that much more fun, pleasant and peaceful in the Lord.
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