How to Benefit from Worry

Have years of worry sapped your strength? There's a fierce battle going on where Satan would love nothing better than to gain control of your mind. Constant worry leaves a person vulnerable to the enemy. It saps your energy, leaving you feel completely drained.

Worrying is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere. When I start to worry, I encourage myself with an old Sunday school song that reminds me what I really need to do—pray and trust!

Why worry when you can pray?
Trust Jesus. He'll be your stay.
Don't be a Doubting Thomas.
Rest fully in His promise.
Why worry, worry, worry, worry
When you can pray!

Instead of worrying, invest that energy in praying and trusting God. Sing! Put on some godly worship music that carries you into God's Presence.

There's no need to despise this weakness towards worry. What Satan means for evil, God can use for good. Use it as a tool to draw closer to God. Whenever Satan tempts you to worry, recognize his tactics and see it as your constant need to create an intimacy with God that is well worth the effort.

Each time you flex your spiritual muscles, grabbing the fiery dart of worry that Satan hurls at you, you have an opportunity to strengthen yourself spiritually, by hurling that fiery dart straight back at Satan in the form of prayer, praise, song, worship or quoting Scripture—a mighty arsenal of powerful weapons of spiritual warfare.

Ask God to control your mind. He will bless you with peace in place of worry.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee.
—Isaiah 26:3

Battlefield of the Mind Commemorative Edition
Weapons of Our Warfare

Be kind and forgiving

"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." —Ephesians 4:32

Drained?

Have years of worry sapped your strength? There's a fierce battle going on where Satan would love nothing better than to gain control of your mind. Constant worry leaves a person vulnerable to the enemy. It saps your energy, leaving you feel completely drained.

Worrying is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere. When I start to worry, I encourage myself with an old Sunday school song that reminds me what I really need to do—pray and trust!

Why worry when you can pray?
Trust Jesus. He'll be your stay.
Don't be a Doubting Thomas.
Rest fully in His promise.
Why worry, worry, worry, worry
When you can pray! 

Instead of worrying, invest that energy in praying and trusting God. Sing! Put on some godly worship music that carries you into God's Presence. 

There's no need to despise this weakness towards worry. What Satan means for evil, God can use for good. Use it as a tool to draw closer to God. Whenever Satan tempts you to worry, recognize his tactics and see it as your constant need to create an intimacy with God that is well worth the effort.

Each time you flex your spiritual muscles, grabbing the fiery dart of worry that Satan hurls at you, you have an opportunity to strengthen yourself spiritually, by hurling that fiery dart straight back at Satan in the form of prayer, praise, song, worship or quoting Scripture—a mighty arsenal of powerful weapons of spiritual warfare. 

Ask God to control your mind. He will bless you with peace in place of worry.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in. —Isaiah 26:3

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Put God First!

My mother passed away in 1998. Her name was Helen (Petry) Wilmerton. I just came across some of the handwritten notes she left behind. The following was written out on five pages of paper taken from of a very small notepad. Because of their size, they could have been easily tossed away but I believe the words were preserved for a special reason and feel compelled to share them here. I hope they are a blessing to someone.

"Oh, how important to give God the first day of each week, the first hour of each day, and the first part of every dollar, and to put Him first in our habits and in our homes. All this is not only important but worthwhile for herein lies God's secret of success.

"The giant of God, Robert McCheyne said, 'If we agree that prayer is our noblest and most fruitful employment, we likewise should give God the best part of the day. If prayer means any less than this to us, we might as well not pray at all.'

"Charles H. Spurgeon said of morning devotions, 'It should be our rule never to see the face of men before first seeing the face of God. The morning watch anchors the soul so that it will not very readily drift far away from God during the day. The morning is the gate of the day and it should be well guarded with prayer. He who rushes from his bed to his business without first pending time with God is as foolish as though he had not washed or dressed and as unwise as one dashing to battle without arms or armor.

"'Remember, the man of prayer is the man of power. The price of power is prayer. The secret of power is prayer. Prayer is power.'

"E. M. Bounds, in his wonderful little book 'Power Through Prayer' states: 'We might go through the list of men who have mightily impressed the world for God and we would find them early after God. A desire for God which cannot break the chains of sleep is a weak thing and will do but little good.

"'Our laziness after God is our crying sin. The children of this world are far wiser than we. They are at it early and late. We do not seek God with ardor and diligence. No man gets God who does not follow hard after Him and no soul follows hard after God who is not after Him in early morn.

"'Spiritual work is taxing work and men are loath to do it.... We can curtail our praying and not realize the peril until the foundations are gone. Hurried devotions make weak faith, feeble convictions, questionable piety. To be little with God is to be little for God.'"

Leaders Are Readers!

If you're satisfied with other people leading you around the rest of your life, taking control of decisions that impact your life and the lives of your family members, then become a couch potato, wasting precious time watching mindless TV and forget reading good books. 

But if, on the other hand, you'd really like to turn those tables, take control, and make a real difference with your life, make time to dive into some stimulating, good reading. Leaders are readers. Learn the incredible power of a book!

I can do something

I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.  —Helen Keller