These are times not for the faint of heart. Not for the faint of wallet either. With the stock market seemingly out of control and with prices on goods and services taking a page from Buzz Lightyear’s playbook and going “to infinity and beyond,” it’s a tense time for many.
The only sure thing you can bet on in this market is that anxiety is at an all-time high.
And if you’re a woman, you’re twice as likely to suffer from a good bit that of worry, says the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.
Research shows that men and women are wired differently but, the other thing that probably accounts for women experiencing higher levels of anxiety is societal expectations of today’s woman.
The women of today have too much going on, too much expected of them. Too much to do, too little time. How in the world can there be family unity when mom is worried?
Soooo, what do we do? Fret, feel troubled, concerned, bothered , anxious, agonize and lose sleep? Life doesn’t have to be like that.
Thoughts are the key to our mental sanity.
Christianity and living the Christian life is a war that goes on between your ears. And is a matter of our thought life more than it is a matter of the devil and demons and what they do. We have to remember that our flesh is fallen; married to Lucifer since the fall and therefore what is natural to man, the will of the flesh is in unity with sin and therefore Satan. That is why it is called the sin nature. It is our nature to sin. You don’t have to train a child to sin, you have to train them not to sin, not to take what isn’t theirs until it’s paid for and so much more. Scripture tells us and we know from our own lives, that a man acts and does in accordance with how he thinks. “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: ” Proverbs 23:7
2 Corinthians 10:5 “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” The Bible doesn’t say “take every demon captive” but “take every thought captive. That is not saying you are not to cast out demons out of demon possessed people. NO, but if you are born again by the spirit of God, then you do not belong to Satan. You might have ways of behaving due to your ways and system of thinking you were trained to have by the world and need to destroy that system of thinking and have your mind renewed by the truth of God’s Word so that you will then act and behave in a different manner, in a way that is godly and acceptable to God.
We have to know that we cannot change our lives by changing our behavior. Dealing
with behavior will not change your life. For “As a man thinketh…” You have to change your way of thinking and your thought patters if you are going to change your behavior. You change your life by changing what you think. Then when your thinking is lined up with God’s thinking, God’s Word, then that seals Satan off and he has no entrance into your life. He will come and try to do so, he will throw accusations at you to try and penetrate your mind and thinking because that is how he gets power in a person’s life. If he can get you to think evil thoughts, angry thoughts, hateful thoughts, vengeful thoughts, lustful thoughts, any thoughts contrary to God’s Word, that is how he gets you to act sinfully. You don’t go out and do sinful acts if you didn’t first think and meditate upon them. You don’t go to see a porno movie
without desiring it in your mind. You don’t take a gun and go shoot someone unless there are murderous thoughts in your mind.
If you have on the armor of God, if you have on the breastplate of righteousness on
and your shield of faith up (which is faith in the Word of God) and your mind filled
with the preparation of the Gospel, he can’t get you to do his bidding and dirty
work. If the devil can’t penetrate because your sword of the Spirit, the Word of
God is sharp and ready then the enemy can’t penetrate your mind and get you to
follow his system and way of doing things. The key to the armor of God and putting
it on and having it in force in your life is the Word of God, daily renewing your mind
to truth, filling your mind with truth and building your faith up with the truth. That
is what arms and defends you against the attacks of the enemy against your mind
and gives you power to attack him on his own turf. Of course that means that you
are obeying that truth that you know, walking in obedience to the Word in your
daily life for that is how the Word has power in your life.
Having trouble with anxious thoughts? The Center for Family Unity can help. Please call us today to schedule an appointment.
