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No matter what's making you feel anxious, God cares! Set your heart free as you are encouraged by God's truth and empowered by His love. Be uplifted as you read short devotions to quiet your mind, scripture to guide your thoughts, and prayers to help you convey your burdens to the Lord, who can handle them all. Burdens such as...staying safenavigating your financesrepairing relationshipsmaintaining good healthfacing the future Are you ready to release your worries and receive God's infinite peace? This book will help you in your daily prayer time, enhancing your current experience and freeing you to fully embrace heavenly peace. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	26 septembre 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736971805
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture references are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. ( www.Lockman.org )
Verses marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version . Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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PRAYERS FOR FREEDOM OVER WORRY AND ANXIETY
Copyright 2017 Bruce Wilkinson
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-7179-9 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-7180-5 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wilkinson, Bruce, author.
Title: Prayers for freedom over worry and anxiety / Bruce Wilkinson
Description: Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 2017. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017014018 (print) | LCCN 2017022898 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736971805 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736971799 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Worry-Religious aspects-Christianity. | Anxiety-Religious aspects-Christianity. | Peace of mind-Religious aspects-Christianity. | Prayers. | Prayer-Christianity.
Classification: LCC BV4908.5 (ebook) | LCC BV4908.5 .W555 2017 (print) | DDC 242/.4-dc23
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Dedication
Dedicated to all who long to leave worry behind and walk in ongoing peace and contentment.
May you find practical biblical answers and meaningful prayers within these pages.
May your prayer with us each day be exactly what you needed for that day!
Acknowledgments
This book could only be possible with the creative and writing skills of my talented editor, who requested anonymity.
Thank you for your heart for the Lord and sensitivity to others, as demonstrated throughout this book.
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prayers for
1. Unknown Health Issues
2. Finances
3. Mental and Emotional Health
4. Job Security
5. Personal Safety
6. Aging
7. Future
8. Relationships
9. What We Eat
10. Diseases and Sickness
11. God s Acceptance
12. National Security
13. Personal Value
14. Low Energy Levels
15. Loneliness
16. Lack of Purpose
17. Economic Collapse
18. Family
19. Travel
20. Spiritual Warfare
Appendix: Catalog of Scriptures to Overcome Worry
Notes
About the Publisher
Introduction

I f you are like the rest of us, you struggle with anxiety and worry from time to time. Don t you? Since you do, how would you like proven Anxiety Answers that work every single time? I m not overpromising or overstating the truth even a little.
Before we reveal those effective solutions to anxiety, however, how about a little self-examination? Pause for a moment, and let s do a little self-diagnosis by answering the questions below as honestly as possible.
1. You experience feelings of worry or anxiety this often:
Numerous times in a day
Maybe once a day or so
A couple of times a week
Once a week
Hardly ever
Never
If you answered Never, then see if you can return this book and get your money back. Or give it away to someone you know who has challenges with anxiety!
2. On a scale of 1 (very low) to 10 (very high), how strong and bothersome are your feelings of anxiety and worry?
3. Have you ever taken medicine or drugs to help you cope with anxiety?
4. When you feel anxious, how do you normally cope? Note the tactics that you usually use to relieve your anxiety:
At times, I use drugs to cope.
At times, I use alcohol to cope.
At times, I use pornography to cope.
At times, I overeat to cope.
At times, I slide into depression and sleep far too much to cope.
At times, I exercise to cope.
At times, I isolate myself from everyone else to cope.
At times, I overwork to cope.
At times, I watch TV and/or surf the Web to cope.
At times, I pray and read my Bible to cope.
5. How hard do you anticipate it will be for you to rid yourself of anxiety and worry?
I don t believe I can ever conquer my anxiety.
I believe I will have to stay on anxiety drugs to be free enough.
I believe it will take me years to conquer my anxiety.
I believe it will take far too much effort and won t work.
I believe if the solutions really work, I can be free of anxiety right now.
I ll never forget a three-minute conversation I had with a young man at a men s conference who lamented to me privately that he was totally unable to stop using pornography. I smiled and said, Well, it appears that you have convinced yourself that there isn t any solution, and under no circumstance could you stop using pornography instantly. Am I right? He nodded in agreement. I continued, It s because your sex drive is so much stronger than most men s, right? He nodded even more, sensing I understood his dilemma.
So, if you were looking at pornography in your bedroom in the middle of the night and your mother unexpectedly walked in, what would you do? He nearly shouted, Man, I would shut down my computer instantly! Then I nodded and nodded. He got it. Do you get it?
It s of great value to hold one simple Bible verse in your mind. In fact, you probably already know it: Be anxious for nothing (Philippians 4:6 NKJV ). The words be anxious are translated from the Greek word merimnao . We ll come back to that word later, but right now focus on three important facts about that verb.
First, be anxious is in the present tense-not past tense or future tense. Why? No one can be anxious yesterday when it is today. And, it s just as impossible to be anxious in the future today. Anxiety only can occur in the present.
Second, be anxious is in the active voice, not the passive voice. That means that not being anxious is something you actively do yourself. Someone else cannot be anxious for you. Why not? Because 100 percent of anxiety dwells only within you. Even more striking is the fact that this verb is active, not passive. You are the only one whose action can lead to anxiousness, meaning no one-and nothing-can make you anxious. Not your spouse, your child, your parents, your boss, your government. Nope.
That s why two people can experience the exact same crisis and one becomes anxious and the other doesn t. One person responded by choosing anxiety, and the other person chose not to be anxious.
You and you alone are 100 percent in control of your anxiety. You are the only person who can activate anxiety within you. So with that in mind, it s time to break free from the big lie that something or someone made you anxious.
Are you ready for the third fact about that verb be anxious ? This final characteristic of the verb is the most important: It s an imperative. God reveals a direct command to all of us: Don t choose anxiety under any circumstances. If you do, you have chosen to sin. You have willfully chosen to activate your anxiety in direct disobedience to God s will in your life.
As you know, God never commands us to do something unless we can obey Him. So, in contrast to the big lie , here s the big truth : You have always been in total and complete control of your anxiety. At all times, and under every circumstance, you can always choose not to activate your anxiety. God granted that freedom to all of us. Please note: The only exception to this is if your anxiety is drug-related or chemical-related.
So, if you checked any of the other choices under question #5 except the last one- I can be free of anxiety right now -you have been deluded into believing the lie. Remember that young man with the pornography problem? He was addicted until his mother walked in-then all of a sudden, he discovered massive already-existing reserves of self-control! He was able to stop instantly. As I continued my conversation with the young man, I smiled and said, Maybe you should ask your mother to follow you around all day and night!
Before going to the next section, take a big breath and say out loud, I am always entirely free to choose not to respond to whatever life throws at me. I reject the lie that it s Just the way I am or that I cannot help myself. Even if my life is in the pits, I have control over anxiety and worry.
Let s analyze anxiety for a few moments further. First of all, why do we say I feel anxious instead of I think anxious ? It s because all of us experience the feelings of anxiety. Therefore, too many of us assume that we cannot control our feelings, that we are helpless against the onslaught of anxious emotions. But once again, we are mistaken, since God instructs us to control our emotions. For example, consider these two commands: Love one another fervently with a pure heart (1 Peter 1:22 NKJV ) and Do not fear (Luke 12:7).
One thing should be obvious at this point: All of us are much more in control of our anxiety than we may have ever imagined!
So what, then, is God s answer to our anxieties and worries? Let s take a look at each part of Philippians 4:6: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything ( NKJV ). The contrast betwee