Dealing with Anxiety

I know it's been a while. Last couple months were quite hectic. I recently started studying again and had difficulties juggling work and study. I hope to write a post on how to juggle work and study in the near future. :)

So today I would like to talk about anxiety. What does anxiety mean? Anxiety is defined as 'A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome'.

When I started my course, I had a lot of anxiety. At the moment, I am working full-time and studying part-time. As soon it started to get stressful, I started to get very anxious. I was worried that I would not be able to pass the course and even thought of quitting. I was literally wondering why I was doing this to myself. I was comfortable just working. On top of that, I started to worry how I was going to pay for the course. My biggest anxiety has always been finances since I did my first degree.

I would even worry about things that are in the future.  But what I have learnt through this season of my life, is that I need to feed my mind with God's word, reminding myself that God does not want me to feel anxious; that I need to trust him and that he hears my prayers.

 As it says in Philipians 4:6-7: Do not be anxious about anything, 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 your minds in Christ Jesus.'

When I had anxiety all I wanted to do is to stay in bed all day, I wouldn't want to talk to anyone. I purposely wouldn't pick up phone calls, because I didn't want any contact with people. I would literally be angry with everyone. 

When we worry, it literally robs us of our peace. But we always need to remind ourselves that need to put our faith in God and stop trying to figure things out.

I would like to encourage anyone, who is feeling anxious, that you cast all your anxiety to God. We need to let go, and stop trying to control everything. I believe when we worry, we believe that God is not able to do the things that we are praying for. We think that it doesn't sound realistic or the way things are going it doesn't look like what we are praying for will come to pass

Please know that God does not want you to feel anxious and that He wants you to put your trust in Him not in men or even yourself.  As the bible says, there is nothing impossible for God.

Matthew 6:25-34

'25“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^e ?

28“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.'

I hope the post has blessed you xx

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