Casting Off Our Anxieties to God (TMF:1231)

Monday, October 07, 2019
Peace to Live By: Casting Off Our Anxieties to God (TMF:1231) - Daniel Litton
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       Thirdly, prayer allows us to cast off our cares, our anxieties, on God so that he can deal with them and instead of us sitting around and worrying about them. I think we can all agree that anxiety is a big problem for us as we all face varying life circumstances that can weigh us down. We need to learn to cast our cares on God so that our minds can be at rest, so that we are not carrying around our problems in our heads throughout the day, thinking about them and worrying about them regularly. God indeed wants to help us with our difficulties, and he will surely help us when we let him—when we allow him to. A problem for us is that we often choose to worry about our issues instead of giving them to him, which doesn’t do us any good at all. It only enhances, or amplifies, our current trouble. Finally, before we go into studying the Lord’s Prayer, I would like to say that putting God first when we start our day is important for us. Some of us are particularly good at this, but some of us require some work at this. When we first wake up in the morning and get out of bed, I would recommend that you say at least a short prayer, a greeting to God, if you will, to start the day.