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

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
⁵ Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
⁸ 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.
⁹ 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.