Anxiety

If you know me, I struggle with anxiety from time to time. I become very anxious when something is unknown to me. I become anxious when I have a plan and things do not go according to that plan. Can you relate to this? I can get stuck in my ways and upset that my way is no longer the perfect way. I tend to work myself up and allow my pride to keep me from understanding that there is help available for whatever I need help with. Have you ever felt like asking for help will hinder the way you appear to others? Have you always been the person people go to when they need help and at times in the past when you needed those people help was unavailable? So as time goes on, asking for help seems unavailable and you just get use to not asking for help from others. Anxiety for me, has won several times as a result of not asking for help. Anxiety has won several times as a result of not taking a pause and evaluating where I am in that moment. Philippians 4:6 states, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” I have struggled with this scripture. Anxiety comes easy when there is a situation out of my control and sometimes it is challenging to pray when you are upset, grieving, hopeless, and tired to name a few. So when things are not going as I would like them to is this scripture saying to have thanksgiving in place of being anxious? It is not always that easy but what it is saying is that in everything pray and trust that God will work out your situation. If you are anxious it shows that you are not trusting God to do what He can do. When anxiety wins it is because you chose to stop trusting God in your situation. I fail at trusting God fully sometimes and I am sure sometimes you do too. One thing is true in my life, I need God’s help. People’s help is usually conditional and dependent upon something else but God’s help is unconditional and it is nothing we have to do to deserve it.