Monday, October 21, 2013

Stressing Less

I was sitting back this evening enjoying a fresh cool breeze as I found myself looking around at our cozy little place.  An enormous feeling of peacefulness rushed over me.  It wasn't long ago that I was worrying all the time and about every little thing.  Migraines were a daily part of my life and tears a regular part of my routine.  The devil was using the same people or situations to gain ground against me.  He was up to his old tricks today and I almost fell for them.  Just as the tears were ready to spill over, Billy snapped me back into reality with the truth.  I realized what he had to say was right. Things in life are going to happen, people will be just that- people .  It's how I react to those situations that matters.  Do I let them move me to tears or allow them to trigger a raging migraine?  It's better to accept each situation as it is and each person for who they are.  The way they act is a reflection on their self and for me to take on that reflection is falling into the devil's snares.  I don't always have to have the last word, not even when I know I'm right.  Sometimes it is best to hold my peace and allow the Holy Spirit to navigate the choppy water.  My daddy is a King, that makes me a princess.   I'm an heir to royalty.  Anyone can be inferior to me in their own eyes, what matters is how I see myself.  I don't need to be a power player that lifts myself above others because my God is THE power player and I am perfectly happy resting on His team.  It feels so good to enjoy life again.  I still have lots I could worry about and I am a work in progress so it still tries to creep back in. Every time the worry bug tries to bite I quote a Scripture and go back to stressing less and living more!

~ Chelle
    10/21/13

Philippians 4:4-13

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Matthew 6:25-34

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

1 comment:

  1. Girl u r so inspirational. GOD is using you in my life. Love you

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