How to NOT be ANXIOUS about ANYTHING!

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."  Philippians 4:6-7 NIV

How, you ask, can you not be anxious about anything?

First, realize that God commands those who believe in Christ not to be anxious.  So anxiety is a choice to worry instead of trusting God.  And that is a sin. 

Now I'm not speaking of anxious feelings. I'm not speaking of anything physical, chemical.  I'm speaking of a mindset that focuses on situations outside of our control, situations of uncertainty.  In times like these, we have a choice: 

Focus on our lack of control, or focus on God's complete control. 

That is what God commands.  
Worrying is chosing to distrust and disobey God.

Second, realize that God has given a way out of worry, an activity, something to do instead that solves the problem.

PRAY!

That's right.  Good ole prayer!   As someone somewhere at sometime said, "Prayer changes things!"

It really does!  Really!  It changes the state of anxiety to one of tranquility.

How and why?

This is how.  This is why.

When we pray, thanking God for what we already have, and asking Him for what we don't have, God assures us that He will provide for us or give us the ability to be content with what we have.  In other words, a supernatural assurance will be given to the one who prays until God answers.  God promises us peace of mind and emotion when we trust Him.  He gives us this certainty, which destroys our every anxiety.

Is it really that simple?

Look at the alternative.

What if we don't pray or trust God or ask God for help.  We refuse to ask Him to be what cannot be and to do what we cannot do.  We instead place all of our trust in ourselves.  We solely trust in our own minds and will power. Yet everything outside of ourselves is outside of our control.  Everything! 

So...we worry...and rightly so!

But if we REALLY see the Almighty as the one who is in control, the one who cares, the one who provides and sustains, we can simply ask Him for what we need.  We can request that which will relieve our anxieties. 

I love the word of God because it is so practical, so simple, so beautiful!

Pray instead of worrying.

Pray.