How to conquer anxiety

CONQUERING ANXIETY

ANXIETY is listening to what the devil says, believing what he says and then meditating over what he says. In other words anxiety is a form practical obedience to the devil. Anxiety is being disturbed by the lies of the devil. In Matt 14:28-30, Peter was disturbed by the boisterous wind shown him by the devil and he began to sink. We are only disturbed by those lies because we are accepting and believing them as the truth. And we believe those lies because we don’t know enough truth to displace and replace them with.

To be anxious is to be careful about things God had already taken care of. We are commanded to be “careful” for nothing….. (Philippians 4:6). This means the only thing we are allowed to be “careful” about is nothing. Because we are also told in (1 Peter 5:7) that we should cast all our cares on HIM; for HE cares for us. (Careful in this context means anxious)

Anxiety is seeing yourself the way the devil sees you which is directly opposite to the way GOD sees you. God is the only true GOD and of course the only GOD OF TRUTH, HIS WORDS are true; yea and amen! “GOD is not man that HE should lie, neither is HE a son of man that he should repent” Numbers 23:19. The devil on the contrary is a liar and the father of liars.

The Bible says “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of GOD” Romans 10 : 17. Faith is the opposite of fear; therefore if faith comes by hearing the word GOD which is the truth, then fear comes by hearing the words of the devil which are nothing other than lies.

To have faith, the first thing we need do is to make deliberate and sincere effort to read, hear/listen to the word of GOD. “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of GOD” Romans 10:17. And then to accept it, then to meditate on it, and believe it is the real needed truth, commit your heart to do it as you read it and most importantly, be the doer of the word. “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.”  Ezra 7:10.

How do you know if the devil is speaking? It is so simple, he points out your weakness and shortcoming to you. He doesn’t want you to see your strengths at all. In matt 14:28-30, as soon as Jesus asked peter to come on the sea the devil was on hand to show peter how much boisterous the wind was around him. To Jesus Christ, creator of all things, the wind is always under control either boisterous or not, just like any other thing He created. So to Jesus, the wind is nothing worth considering dangerous. Peter, even though he first recognized the fact that the wind or the sea is nothing when Jesus is around, he later listened to the devil and obeyed him by shifting his gaze from the Lord to the show of the boisterous wind around him. He nearly perished, but Jesus was on hand to save and to deliver him.

The devil says things that are directly opposite of what God says in the Bible. Since God says the truth always and the devil in his best interest has nothing else to say other than lies which is the opposite of what God’s truth says. Remember that God said in Jer 29:11 that “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” So when the devil comes to you and tells you something opposite of this, it is so easy to dispel the thoughts by rebuking the devil and he shall not just leave you alone, but flee from you. But it is unfortunate that many don’t have the light of the word, insomuch that when the devil comes with lies, they don’t recognize it and they tend to believe it. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom…” Colossians 3:16

And whatever you believe can either bring both peace and joy or both fear or torment depending on whom they came from: God or devil.

But fear on the contrary, is listening to the word of the devil (i.e. hearing out the devil), accepting, believing and meditating on it. Any drop of alphabet from the devils mouth that you allow is a potential seed that bears the fruit of anxiety, worry, fear, confusion, torment and death. So please “Give no place to the devil” Ephesians 4:27.

To overcome the devil, you need to know the truth (the word of GOD ALMIGHTY). The light given by the word of God in your heart exposes the camouflage of the devil. John 1:1-5 “In the beginning was the word,… And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”  And once you recognize the antics and cunningness of the devil, all you need to do is to rebuke him. James 4:7 “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Submit yourself unto God by reading, studying and doing the word of GOD and then the devil will obey you at the first time of asking whenever you rebuke him. The devil was created by God and God is alive in us. So all we need is to obey God AND EVERY OTHER THINGS that God created including the devil will obey GOD in us.

Doing is the most important part of God’s word. The truth is that God knows those who obey HIM and the devil knows those who obey him too. So the devil knows exactly who to obey. He obeys those who obey God and deals with those who obey him. . James 1:22 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”

STOP WHINING AND DINNING WITH THE DEVIL TODAY. STOP ASKING QUESTIONS IN YOUR MIND AND STOP ANSWERING WHEN YOU’RE ASKED(Especially the “what if” voice.) STOP FIDGETING AND JITTERING WHEN YOU ARE ACCUSED IN YOUR MIND. Rom 12:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

STOP ARGUEING WITH THE DEVIL (The only sure way to conquer him is by rebuking him not by trying to prove a point to him.)

STOP ILL-DEFINING SITUATIONS, INSTEAD, SEE THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE.

STOP MAKING A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLE-HILL.

STOP BEING ANXIOUS. STOP TURNING A BAD SITUATION TO WORSE.

BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING AND TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE TODAY!