Grace Centre Daily Devotional
Date: Tuesday April 28th 2020
Topic: Anxiety
Text: Matthew 6:25-34

Message
There is a saying that goes thus "If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail". This saying always remind us of the word anxiety because we do take anxiety for planning which is wrong.

Luke14:28 explained planning that "For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?" This bible verse points at planning as estimation and preparation for a task ahead which is completely different from anxiety as it was stated in the book of Matthew 6:25-34 as "worry"
Reading through the book of Matthew 6:25-34 which says "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" Anxiety is worry not planning and God did not want us to be axious about things of this world. He (God) also made us know in verse 33 that "but seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you". God knows that worry or anxiety can't give us what we want but add to our problems.

Thus, we have to be very careful so that our planning will not turn to axiety, once our planning is getting to a stage of worry we have to Know that anxiety has set in.

Proverbs 10:22 says "The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it." This gives us rest of mind that it is only God's blessings that make one rich not by anxiety.

Prayer: Oh Lord, take the spirit of axiety away from my life.