Be Anxious for Nothing by Joyce Meyer

Author:Joyce Meyer [MEYER, JOYCE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL012000
ISBN: 9780446549752
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2008-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

PRAYER PRODUCES PEACE

Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.

And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

PHILIPPIANS 4:6,7

In this passage the apostle Paul does not say, “Pray and worry.” Instead, he says, “Pray and don’t worry.” Why are we to pray and not worry? Because prayer is supposed to be the way we cast our care upon the Lord.

When the devil tries to give us care, we are supposed to turn and give that care to God. That’s what prayer is, our acknowledgment to the Lord that we cannot carry our burden of care, so we lay it all on Him. If we pray about something and then keep on worrying about it, we are mixing a positive and a negative. The two cancel each other out so that we end up right back where we started — at zero.

Prayer is a positive force, worry is a negative force. The Lord has told me the reason many people operate at zero power level spiritually is that they cancel out their positive prayer power by giving in to the negative power of worry.

Too often we pray and give a positive confession for a while, and then worry and give a negative confession for a while. We go back and forth between the two extremes. That is like driving down the highway going from one side of the road to the other. If we keep doing that, sooner or later we are going to end up in trouble.

As long as we are worrying, we are not trusting God. It is only by trusting, by having faith and confidence in the Lord, that we are able to enter into His rest and enjoy the peace that transcends all understanding.

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