In your life, many things will try to rob you of your peace and happiness and cause you to worry every day. Worry is not from God, it is an attack from the devil himself. It is through worry that many have mental health issues and depression that the devil uses to attack their lives. There is a way that you can avoid worry and obtain peace from God.
When God is in your life and you have received the Holy Spirit your human spirit has many fruits that it produces for you to enjoy life. One of the fruits among many is peace from God himself. That is why I said to you that worry is from the devil. This is what the Holy Spirit produces in you when you allow God to work in your life.
The Bible says, “But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!” Galatians 5:22-23 NLT
Can you see that peace is one of them? Anytime you are worrying you are not operating from the spirit of God, that is why the devil attacks many lives with mental health and depression. However, you can overcome worry, mental health, depression and all the attacks of the devil on your mind by obtaining peace from God. When it says, there is no law against these things, it means that nothing can withstand them from operating in your life, except when you let them do so.
God wants you to have peace, and one way to obtain peace from God is by prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. If you solely focused on this next part alone anytime you were worrying I am sure you would be delivered from all the attacks the devil tries to throw at you, and before you know it depression, mental health, and life’s problems will be easier to manage.
Obtaining peace from God through prayer and supplicationKeep your peace from God by meditating on the right thingsKeep your peace from God by letting go of strange lifestyles
Obtaining peace from God through prayer and supplication
God wants us to come to Him each time we are attacked with worry, and Apostle Paul in the book of Philippians showed us how we should pray when we are under attack from the devil with anxiety or worry.
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplications make your requests known unto God, and peace of God will guard your heart and mind through Christ Jesus our Lord.” Philippians 4:6-7 KJV
This is how you deal with worry, you come to God with the worry in prayer, make supplications (sincere pleadings) to God, and ask him to help you with those situations and things that are causing you to worry.
The devil knows that when you don’t enjoy God’s peace you won’t enjoy life and ultimately won’t operate in God’s best for you. He wants to use worry to stop you from worshipping God freely, and from enjoying life. This is why mental health, depression and heart palpitations cannot be permanently stopped by medication or prescriptions of science. God’s solutions are the permanent solutions that you need right now.
Peace from God will get you a permanent solution to all the worries that you can ever have. When God’s peace is in your life, you cannot have mental health problems, or even talk about depression. The Lord Jesus Christ came not only for you to receive life, but life more abundantly, John 10:10b. A life abundant with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. He came to give you peace that no man or scientific solution can ever give you.
Jesus said to his disciples, “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.” John 14:27 NLT. He is saying the same thing to anybody who would believe in Him today.
The next time you worry, do not accept it. The next time you get anxiety attacks do not accept them. They are from the devil, and the only way the devil has access is when you allow him to. You can stop him, with the prayer above and after you pray, you will get peace from God.
Although you have this peace, the devil will come again and try to attack your mind, more times than you can imagine, he is a thief! John 10:10a. So how do you keep your peace from God?
Keep your peace from God by meditating on the right things
After praying Apostle Paul showed us a way in which we are meant to keep the peace from God that we would have received after praying to God about our worries. The devil uses your mind to attack you, and he knows that your mind is so powerful, that if he casts any shadow of doubt, self-blame, fear or any weapon he can use against you, he will gain control over your life and stop you from enjoying it. Remember he is a thief!
The solution is in Philippians 4:8 NLT, which says, “And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honourable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me, everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.”
You cannot keep thinking with the same thoughts you had before if you are going to keep your peace from God. You have to change your thoughts and start thinking of things that are good, praiseworthy, lovely, of good report, and wonderful. You have to replace the old thoughts using the power of your mind.
You can switch your mind anytime you catch yourself thinking about the wrong things that keep you down and depressed. If you don’t do this, you will continue in up and down cycles of happiness one moment, worry the next, and anxiety afterwards, which eventually leads to depression and more.
This is how not to worry about anything in life. Remember Philippians 4:6 says, “In everything, by prayer and supplications, make your requests know unto God”. Everything means that this covers anything you can think of. You could be worrying about your future, your past, your money, your family, your marriage, your career, your business, or anything that causes you to worry, you can stop the attacks of the devil on your mind and heart.
You may even have long-standing thought patterns and that causes you to worry and steal your joy in life. However, “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 NIV
You can cast down all those wrong imaginations, and thoughts as you pray to God about them. They are satanic, and they come from the devil. Pull them down, and don’t let satan control your mind. Fill your mind with good things, and one way to do so is through the word of God, as this is the will of God for you in your life from him, Romans 12:1-2.
Keep your peace from God by letting go of strange lifestyles
In the same teaching before Paul taught about praying about anxieties and worries. He mentioned what causes many to rob them of their peace. There are gateways that the devil uses to gain access to your life. One of the gateways is the things we do in sin against God. The devil does not just attack you for no reason. He attacks based on the access that you give him. Whether through your allowance of certain thoughts or through certain behaviours that are not pleasing to God.
In Galatians 5:19-21, the bible says, “When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarrelling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”
These are the things that give satan access to your life. Anything that motivates you into these behaviours must be cut off, otherwise, you will continue in the cycle of worries and anxieties. Things such as worldly (unGodly) entertainment, music, movies, books, friends, places, things, addictions and more. The devil can use any one of them as gates to attack your mind and bring worry, anxiety, depression, mental health and many more problems.
The Kingdom of God is a place where God wants you to enjoy His peace and many of the fruits you just learnt about today. So what are you going to do about the behaviors? Let them go, and let God have a place in your life in replacement of those behaviours and lifestyles.
When you do these things you will definitely enjoy peace from God, and always know how not to worry about things that are happening in your life. Jesus Christ came to give peace that this world can never give to you. When you let Jesus Christ have power over your life, you will overcome anything the devil throws at you. Obtain peace from God!
God Bless
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