Paul’s Recipe for Reducing Stress pt 3 – Just Ask!

Philippians 4:6 – Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.(KJV)

In other words, there is no need to be anxious about anything. Self centered worry is counterproductive and takes away from your work of spreading the Gospel. Worry can consume you to the point of forgetting to pray.

Jesus preached in Matt 6:25-34 that we are not to worry, Look at all the things in nature that the Lord makes sure are cared for in splendid manner. He then assures us that we are so much more important than these things and that God knows what we need. Again we can look to Peter for reinforcement in 1 Peter 5:7 where he calls for us to cast …all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

The Lord knows what we need and He desires that we ask Him for it when we recognize that we need something, but He will sure allow you to try to do it yourself if you forget to pray.

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Filed under: Butch Adams, Devotional on July 8th, 2008