Everyone is susceptible to the virus of anxiety. Some are more prone to nearly die from it.

Fear sees a threat.
Anxiety imagines one.

Fear sees a threat and reacts.
Anxiety imagines a threat and can’t move.

Jesus said, ‘Worry will wreck your walk with me.’
Worry means to have a divided mind, to divide your mind! God wants you to devote your mind.

Let’s learn a healthier form of imagination:
Ephesians 3.20
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”
I suggest we develop a BIG imagination. But, imagine what God can do, what he can do when storms come your way. He has a winning record!

That is why Thanking is the first therapy for anxiety.

Build a growing Thanking list. Build it big!

Meditate on the History of God at work in the Bible and in your life.

Thinking God

These are God’s characteristics. God wants us to have these same characteristics. This is how God thinks and this is how God wants us to think.

You have the mind of Christ.

You can’t fill your mind with the wondrous work of God and be anxious about the same time.

Rather than seek control, God invites you to relinquish control to him.

“I hereby relinquish control of the world.”

“This looks so bad, I can’t wait to see what You are going to do!”
A miracle is making something happen that isn’t there. Drop a rock, it naturally lands on the ground… unless…

God is in Control and God only delivers good results:
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8.28

2 Corinthians 10.5 says, “Seize every thought and make it obey Christ.”

Would you construct 2 pillars:

Build a huge Thanking God list. Let your Imagination move in a better direction.

Turn to Thinking of God when the pain of anxiety builds.