What guards your heart and your thoughts? In other words, what allows you to have peace? For Christians, Philippians 4:6-7 is an excellent instruction and reminder to all on how to have the peace of God guarding one’s heart. While both the world and most Christians are worriers, this does not have to be so, or at least not until you remember this passage. Now, it is true that everyone will have times of anxiety. The Lord did, the Apostles did, and so do most Christian leaders today. But, it is the repeated anxiety or long lasting anxiety about worldly things that we should not do. Tragically, most worrying is a result of a lack of faith in God to work things out.
Jesus’ Spirit spoke through the Apostle Paul saying in Philippians 4:6-7,
“In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.”
See, prayer is a way for us to give our problems to God and let Him take care of them. It works. The hearts and thoughts of those who trust God and pray to Him have peace. One way in which counselors help those with anxiety is to have them write down a list of things that they worry about, then write next to each one whether they can control it or not. If they can control it, then they should write how. This is a great exercise. Now, the Christian counselor tells them to pray about it. This is even better. God takes stress away and the weight is lifted right off one’s shoulders.
Notice how we are to make our requests known to God “with thanksgiving”. Knowing what you are thankful for and remembering how God has blessed you helps with anxiety. When people are happy and joyous, they are always thankful.
Here’s a great promise: pray and “And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.” The peace of God Himself on your heart and your thoughts has to stir interest and great confidence in God and His commands.
What would we have to complain about if we remembered to pray? Christ is right. Anxiety will not add a cubit to your height (Matt. 6:27). Has anyone seen their bills get paid by worrying? Has anyone’s sick relative or friend got better because we worried? Today has all the concern that we need. We just have to let go in prayer and let the Lord take care of us.
Here’s another great promise from Christ. Matthew 6:33, “But seek you first His kingdom, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” These things are food, drink, and clothing.
The Breath of God 
Sunray,
I liked where you were going and I don’t disagree with the first half, but we must be careful that though we do not have to be anxious, we all have been. I think of Christ’s sweat drops of blood and His prayer to the Father in the garden. Was Christ anxious? I appreciate your thoughts.
How many times have you heard that sicknesses are just God’s way of punishing you because you sinned? How untrue that is. The huge majority of sicknesses are caused as a consequence of sin. Sicknesses do not come from God they come from satan, did you know that 60 tot 93% of all sicknesses find their origin in the mind. NO this is not an “it’s all in mind “thing where people presume to say that just because you think you have it now you suddenly have all the symptoms. The sicknesses find their origin in the mind because this is the battlefield of satan. Why?
What satan does is he splits your thoughts first in two then in four and so on and what happens is you now have all these many different thoughts. He splits your thoughts with all kinds of “What if scenarios” and he plays off all these little scenes in you mind and shows you all kinds all pictures in your imagination of what could happen and what follows is fear and once he has inspired fear, anxiety follows, and the consequence is that stress follows , and he will let you worry about anything from the biggest to the very smallest and he has no scruples about anything and will use friends, situations, circumstances, places, pet, animals and even the church and as soon as he has achieved this then he is satisfied he has you worrying and of course the modern name for worry is stress, so he will continue pounding you with these “what if “ scenarios so that he can split your thoughts and get you to worry and stress and then you end up at the doctors so that they can give you some pills to fix this stress or sickness as satan wants you to believe and as long as you run to the doctors with this sickness called stress you will be stuck with is because it will ultimately cause your death.
Because stress is the result of anxiety and anxiety is the result of worry an worry is the result of satans’s suggestion he puts in your minds and the “what if scenarios”, and do you know what?, it seldom if ever, so satan spawns worry, worry spawn fear, fear spawns anxiety and anxiety causes the muscles to contract and the hart to pump faster and now you are getting back aches and migraines and you end up in the clinics and hospitals with heart problems and coronary diseases, ulcers, lung troubles and so on. Can you see where all this is going? So Stress is a sin, stress believes in satan and no faith in God and unbelief and disobedience to his word. Plainly Put Faith in satan
So now the doctors are trying to cure you of your sin (stress) with all these different types of therapies and he gives you some pills but all the pills do is they numb you senses for a while and when they run out you go back and ask for some more and the pills cause some other side effects which now need a pill and the cycle gets worse and so the dosages get until you turn into a drug user (not the mandrax cocaine type druggy) and the drugs eventually do more damage than good. All because you were unfaithful and disobedient.
So why do you worry so much when Jesus says in the bible that you should cast all your worries on him, so if you don’t do it you are being disobedient and that is a sin. So what am I saying, if you worry then you are not a child of God. Does that hurt, well if you do stress it should.
Glad to help. Thanks.
This post is awesome. I really liked it because I felt like you were talking to me. I really need to know that God is with me always. Lately, I’ve been so stressed out with work and everything* that sometimes I feel overwhelmed and too stressed out to pray. Great post and at the right time!
* By the way, am I the only one who notices that there’s always something wrong with a vehicle?!
Great post. I, too, needed to hear it. More than you know.
You should post more of these.
Good post. I really needed to hear that. That’s extremely relevant especially in today’s world because it’s so easy to get distracted and stressed out over things that God can and will inevitably take care of.