Good Afternoon Blog Family. I pray that everyone’s having an awesome day in the Lord and ready for a glorious week as well. Praise God.
It’s good to be posting a blog this morning, it has been a while. I haven’t posted in about 4 weeks and that is way too long. I do apologize for the absence, I was dealing with a little anxiety and that made me think I was having some health issues that I was not having. I have heard people talk about having anxiety, but I don’t guess I actually knew what it was until now. It is really strange how anxiety works and I had to learn how to deal with it so that I could get it under control instead of it controlling me. Since I am understanding more about it now, I am doing a lot better in dealing with it.
I didn’t realize there were so many people that deal with anxiety everyday. I have learned that when you have stress and you don’t deal with it then, it will turn into anxiety. I had a lot of things that I went through that I guess I didn’t deal with at the time and over the years it just built up and up until it became anxiety. Although, I was going in and out of emergency rooms thinking I was having heart attacks, I was having pains in my chest, on the side of my face, in my arm, shortness of breath, my blood pressure would be very high. I was even admitted to the hospital a couple of times and many tests were ran to find out I was perfectly fine, there was nothing wrong with me. That is when I was told that I was experiencing symptoms of anxiety and what I was feeling felt real to me but it was not real. This was really something new to me and I had to learn about this anxiety and I did,
I was told by my doctor that I needed to find a good therapist that dealt with anxiety so that I could be given the tools I needed to get this under control. Well, I had talked to a friend on a girls weekend trip that was dealing with anxiety and she described a lot of the health issues I thought I was having that were not real because she had gone through the same thing. She also told me she had a therapist and they helped her a lot and now she is doing fine. So, I found me a Christian Therapist and we have had a couple of meeting so far and I am so glad I did. She has been such a great help to me and learning and dealing with anxiety. She incorporates the Word of God into our meetings and I love that so much and I am so thankful to God for sending me to her, she is definitely a God send.
Although, after I was diagnosed with anxiety, I did a little research on my on to look into what God had to say about anxiety in the Bible and it was amazing at all of the scriptures I found. Then I searched my in my devotions website and pulled up many devotions on anxiety and learned so much more than I could have ever imagined. There are a lot of Christians that deal with anxiety of different levels and they gave such god testimonies and good advise that really helped me a lot. So, this anxiety journey of mine has been a very good learning experience for me and I a so glad God is going through it with me. He said that He would never leave me nor forsake me and I am so thankful for that. Philippians 4:6-7 reads, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. I have found this verse to be so true and I stand on it daily.
So, I don’t know if any of you deal with anxiety, stress, depression on worry, but if you do God is the answer. Even though I talk with a therapist once a week, we both know that God is still the answer. Seek Him and He will help you and go through this with you, He will not leave you to deal with this on your own. Just stay in His Word, believe what He says, be obedient to what He instructs you to do and trust Him. God Bless 🙂
Prayer
Father God, we come to You in the Mighty Name of Jesus, Your Son and our Lord and Savior. Giving You all of the praise, all of the honor and all of the glory that belongs to You. Thanking You, Jesus and Your Holy Spirit for all that You do in our lives everyday. You are such an amazing Father and we thank You so much for looking after us the way that You do. I personally want to thank You for helping me with this anxiety issue that I have been dealing with since the beginning of the year unaware of what it was. I thank You for the Christian Therapist that You lead me to, she is amazing. Although, she is amazing we both know that You are the answer to all of this and we will continue to seek you. Amen, Amen and Amen.