I am inwardly fashioned for faith, not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear, doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry, my being is gasping for breath – these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence, I breathe freely – these are my native air. A John Hopkins University doctor says, “We do not know why it is that worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.” But I, who am simple of mind, think I know; We are inwardly constructed in nerve and tissue, brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. To live by worry is to live against reality.
Worry
Kris Vallotton
These days, it’s easier than ever to get caught up in what could go wrong, and imagine wretched worst-case scenarios. But I want to challenge us to take Paul’s instruction in Philippians 4 to heart! Let’s choose to feed our souls on something better than the worst possible outcome. I encourage you to find whatever is pure, worthy, excellent, and anything of good-repute – and meditate on that today!
Corrie Ten Boom
Ray Johnston
Seth Dahl
If we don’t get out of worry, we risk getting into idolatry. Idols are anything we need to check with before we say yes to God, and quite often, money is something people are checking with, and worrying about it only reveals we are trusting it instead of Him.
Bill Johnson
If you have more influence from media than you do from the Word of God, then your discouragement is self-inflicted.
Thomas Watson
It is our work to cast care, and it is God’s work to take care.
Corrie Ten Boom
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
Francois Fenelon
January 29, 2020
Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.
Phillip Daniel Watkins (Age 7)
If you love God, you never have to worry again.