Peace is my drug of choice. While settled on peace I can think like God. While settled on peace I can talk like God and act like Him.  

 

The drug of worry, however, causes one to think like fear, talk like fear and act like fear. Worry brings about a constant sense of trouble.  Most who are strung out on worry don’t even know they’re strung out. They think they are sober, and can get behind the wheel of their life and make right choices. They’ve been strung out so long on the drug of worry, they have no idea they are worried.  It’s a way of life for them. 

 

Worry is when you play out thoughts in your mind of how a situation will turn out on the negative side.  Worry is constantly thinking about what you don’t want to happen.  Worry is meditation in the negative direction.  Worry escalates into anxiety, and anxiety starts to tear down the body, and before you know it you’re making doctor’s appointments, and living on prescription drugs, and all the while you continue to worry, and your anxiety continues to rise to an all-time high for the day every day. When you agree with God—His Word—peace becomes the flow of your life and keeps worry under your feet.  (Philippians 4:6, Matthew 6:31-33, Colossians 3:15, Job 22:21 (AMP).

 

I Peter 5:6-8

      5 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

    6 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 

    7 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

 

In other words, when you humble yourself and cast your care, that brings sobriety and from there God will exalt you above your care.

 

It appears to me that anxiety is at an all-time high among God’s people. How can this be? Worry starts with an uncontrolled concern. The root of worry is PRIDE.  You must first humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, and from there you cast your care, at that point He will exalt you above your care and the worry will then cease and peace will be the flow. The more you do this the more skilled you'll become.

 

Jesus told the woman with the issue of blood, who touched His garment, that her faith made her whole and then gave her the instruction to go in PEACE. This gives us the idea that it was the loss of peace that was the open door for the sickness to get into her life. (Mark 5:25-34) 

 

I encourage you today to cast down those worrisome thoughts, reach out and touch Jesus—His healing power with your faith, and go in peace. (II Corinthians 10;3-5) The more you practice peace the easier it will get—it will become the flow of your life and perfect health will be the result. (John 14:1, 27) 

 

Have a great week everyone, and remember Jesus is coming soon!