Anxiety is real. It affects thousands of individuals. The dictionary describes anxiety as a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
Treatment for this disorder comes in the form of counseling, and medication, and leads to more testing causing an undue amount of stress in itself. The outcome of anxiety results in so many different illnesses that play havoc in our life and living. Fortunately, there is another treatment within reach, it only takes sitting still long enough to read. Here are a few verses of scripture to get you started and see what is available to the believer.
“Do not be anxious about anything, 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 your minds in Christ Jesus.”
—Philippians 4:6-7
“Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.”
—Psalm 42:5
“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.”
—Matthew 6:34
“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
—1 Peter 5:5-7
“We can confidently say, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?’”
—Hebrews 13:6
