Don't Let Worry Steal Your Spirituality

Don’t Let Worry Steal Your Spirituality

Philippians 4:4-9

Worry is often a challenge for most of us. Jesus said that worry is useless in the Christian life. It is unhealthy, it is unproductive and it is unnecessary, yet so many of us struggle with it. Quite often our faith pulls us in one direction and our fears pull us in another. It’s a struggle that feels like we’re being pulled apart. Usually there’s a conflict in the area of wrong thinking and conflict in wrong feeling. Worry has been called the thief of our joy. There is a remedy that the Word gives us called prayer!

Prayer is God’s invitation to release our cares into His hands in the form of a petition, praise and prayer! In addition, we must purpose to make rejoicing a habit, it’s a matter of focus. We must also purpose to be gracious or generous to others and purpose to pray about everything. All of those things are designed to remove us away from the focal point of the source of worry and bring us into the realm of focusing on the things that bring joy into our lives, things that encourage our faith. The key to overcoming worry is to have a strong focus of faith that enables us to rejoice. When our focus is right faith gives us a strong assurance in our hearts and it is this assurance which fuels our faith to rise above the source of our worry.