The Answer to Anxiety by Joyce Meyer

Author:Joyce Meyer
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, pdf
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2023-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Are You Focused on Your Blessings or Your Problems?

Whatever we focus on becomes the biggest thing in our life. If we focus on it long enough, it may even become the only situation we see. We are all blessed, and people who think they aren’t blessed are not seeing clearly. They may have focused for so long on what is wrong in their life, that they have lost their capacity to see the blessings they do have. Hannah Whitall Smith wrote, “The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.”17

I recall a time when I was unhappy with Dave. I thought over and over about the things he did that aggravated me, and God challenged me to make a list of what bothered me about Dave and a list of what I liked about him. To my surprise, when I finished both lists, the one about things I liked about Dave was much longer than the one about what I didn’t like. If you are having problems with someone in your life, consider making these lists, and you just may find that the benefits of this person far outweigh the problems.

Most of us have heard that we should count our blessings, and it might be a very good idea to do just that. Try counting yours, and you will probably grow weary of counting before you run out of blessings. Remember, Philippians 4:6 tells us to pray about our needs and to be thankful instead of being anxious. Being thankful will distract us from our anxieties.

I realize that writing about being thankful when you have problems is much easier than doing it. As a matter of fact, I had an unexpected situation come up last evening that really upset me, so I had to apply this message to myself. It was difficult because my emotions were involved, but when I am writing or teaching, they are not involved. As I write, it has been about eighteen hours since the situation came up. I am about 80 percent of the way to victory and will need to keep pressing on until I get complete victory over this circumstance. Even after that, I am sure thoughts about what happened will revisit me, and I will have to renew my commitment to pray and be thankful instead of being anxious and worried.

If you have a big problem in your life right now, pray about the situation and then spend a few moments thinking about the many things God provides to us each day, such as peace, answered prayer, grace, forgiveness of sin, new beginnings, mercy, hope, and right relationship with Him through Christ. He helps us, He is with us all the time, and He gives us strength and wisdom, to name just a few of our blessings. Jesus says that we will experience tribulation (difficulties) in the world (John 16:33), but we have God’s Word to help us. Just imagine how awful it is for people who have problems and don’t have God’s help.

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