Monday Motivation: Overcome the Anxious Lies with This One Change

Overcome the anxious lies – that’s my hope with this episode of Monday Motivation.

Anxiety is a sneaky thing that most are familiar with. It tends to lurk around, waiting for a moment of insecurity to the surface threatening to sabotage your day.

But today, we’re going to take a different approach to anxiety – we’re going to tell it who it’s messing with. In this episode of Monday motivation, you’ll learn why you shouldn’t just tell your anxieties to God but why you need to tell your anxieties about God.

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Anxiety used live with me, like a bad family member who never leaves, takes all of your things without asking and leaves a mess behind. That was anxiety in my life. Now I’m not saying anxiety is gone but rather than it being a present member of my household – I tend to only meet with it in a dark ally. 

It hasn’t been easy, to kick it out, because in some ways it became something known. A part of me that I was scared would be void if I made it leave. Like any bad relationship, there are always concerns that life really won’t get better without it, but the hole will be filled with something worse.

But that’s exactly what anxiety wants you to believe – that the worst is yet to come, the struggle is imminent in some way. But it doesn’t have to be that way – you don’t have let anxiety rule your life. 

defining anxiety

I wonder, is anxiety so sneaky because we don’t adequately define it? Sure, the Websters dictionary has defined it, but I don’t think it has gotten to the bottom of it.

Webster’s Dictionary definition of anxiety is:

A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.

Do you see what I mean? It hasn’t necessarily defined what anxiety is but how it makes you feel. So what would change if we got to the root of what anxiety is – not just how it makes you feel. We all know how it makes us feel, right? 

I’d suggest that anxiety is just fear. Fear of the unknown, of the future, and fear of our health, finances, and relationships. Anxiety is a fancy word for out of control fear.  My question becomes, what could change by simply changing your definition to fear?

This weeks quote and anxiety plan hit anxiety {or fear} head on and help give you a realistic and powerful way to not just meet it in a dark ally but to knock it out.

quote

Today’s quote comes from Kyle Idleman’s book, Don’t Give Up.

“Don’t just tell God about your anxietieis, tell your anxieties about God. I get that some of you migh tbe thinking, You don’t understand my weight. It’s too much. No one can carry it. Or maybe you’re thinking, it’s heavy for me and wearing me down, b ut it’s not a big enough deal to bother God. 

But that’s like me telling you, when you sprian your ankle, just to be grateful you diddn’t break your leg. Pain is pain. Weight is weight. I’m not worried about comparing it, and neither is God. He doesn’t weight our prayers on a worry scale.

Please hear me. The weight you carry isn’t part of who God made you and formed you tobe in the beginning.  You are his loved one whom he adores. He sees you in your struggle, your borkenness, and even your pride induced anguish. His heart aches because yours does and he’s moved to tenderness and compassion. He desires to take your weight from you and desires you unhindered. He desires you free. 

What weight do you need to transfer over to God? “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” {1 Peter 5:7}”

action plan

Today’s action plan is straightforward – tell your anxieties about God.

The one who created Heaven and Earth and is above all things. The one who has the power to carry the weight for you, to lift your burden and free you from your bondage. 

Cast your worries on Him. Because in Him there is no fear. 

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