What we think on matters

  Phil. 4: 7-9 

" Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for
 all he has done.  Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, 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." 

Worrying is a meditation on the wrong things in one's lives. It's predicting the unknown in a negative way.

Now, I get that its part of the nervous system's function to do that in order to keep us alive however - there are more constructive ways to handle the situations that arise.

I have found that when I worried and fretted over things that it didn't help at all - it only wore me down and make things way harder. 

Once I started focusing on this verse - and gauging what my thought patterns were like - my reaction to stress started to improve. 

I hope to share a bit more about this later on. But for tonight I will keep it at this - what are you and I focusing on? Does it fall in line with what is talked about in Philippians on what to focus on? 

I encourage you and myself that when the devil wants to paint us a picture of the worse - that we pray and ask God for help, use scripture to help establish what God says about the subject, thank Him for the victory because He is faithful to help, keep, guide and protect us if we listen to Him and keep our minds on what He says. 

 I hope this verse and thought has helped. Good night friends.