Putting an X Through Anxiety

We’ve all experienced fear, we’ve all experienced anxiety - in one form or another. We’ve all dealt with worry and stress. For the last 9 years, that has been my life. Married to anxiety and fear, and birthing worry. Not quite the picture perfect family I had in mind!

I defined myself for many years by each anxiety attack. I shamed myself, I isolated, I hid away from everyone – including the One who loved me the most, God. I experienced rejection by my peers, “friends”, and some family. Day after day, I was plagued with negative thoughts. I wondered what was wrong with me? Why couldn’t I be “normal”? I looked in every single place I could to fill the hole within my heart. People pleasing, impulsive buying, self-help books and affirmations. Nothing seemed to take away the ache deep in my soul.

It took me a long time to realize that NOTHING was wrong with me. I WAS normal. I simply had bad programming. I had “stinking thinking.” My coping skills were broken. My heart needed a surgeon, my soul needed grace. By the incredible love of God, He brought me to my Biblical Counselor & Pastor and to two powerful, strong friends that stand firm together with me in prayer. What a miracle.

I’d be lying if I said that there are days when I don’t struggle. As long as I’m on this earth, the enemy will always be prowling around trying to get me back on his team. Anxiety still tries to overtake me, but I crush it like the cockroach it is. I rebuke it. I rebuke the enemy and his lies. I put a giant X through anxiety. Why? Because through the pruining, the digging up of the bad roots, the healing balm of Christ’s love, I’ve learned that there’s a better way. A healthier way. A holier way. HIS way. His will. My faith.

Friends, whatever your struggle is right now, know that you are not alone. You never walk alone, you never have and never will. He’s right there with you. In the midst of your deepest pain, heartache, heartbreak. He’s right there and He has experienced it all. Turn to Him, run to Him. His arms are wide open just waiting to comfort you, heal you, and strengthen you. The love that Christ has for each one of us is incomprehensible for our finite minds, but we can trust that His love surpasses anything we could ever imagine. He couldn’t love us any more than He does.

“I love you, I chose you. I know where you are, and what you’re going through. I do. Hear me, believe me. There’s nothing you could do, that I would leave you. No matter what you need, I’m still the God who parts the sea.” - Sherry Anne

Click the link above to hear my friend, sister in Christ, and singer/speaker/author, Sherry Anne sing this beautiful song that she wrote..for such a time as this..

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