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Living right is first achieved by your thinking, which is what we talked about last week. By changing the way you think, you are able to practice a practical lifestyle. Once you have learned how to think, it’s up to you to take that and apply it to your own life. The way you live goes hand-in-hand with the way you think! If you put into practice what you learn, you gain the power of God’s peace, eliminating any anxiety, which goes back to our first episode in this series. All of these topics are related, and if you give Him your burdens and actively work to change the way you think, God can do wonders.

A further extension of gaining peace from God is positive thinking, or correct thinking. What we fill our minds with truly affects our everyday living. Often times we lie to ourselves or think on negative things much more often than anything positive. Philippians 4 talks about the types of things we should think about. By changing the way we think, we are able to give God our worry and gain from Him our peace; it’s all connected and related! This week, try to surround yourself with positive people as well as try to find the positive in situations you would normally only find the negative. With the peace of God and positive thinking, we move closer to living a joyful life.

This episode, we continue the talk of finding peace during times of worry and anxiety. The real key to finding this peace is having complete faith and trust that He’ll give peace in the first place! Once we are able to trust that He’ll give that peace to us, we find strength, then, to move on through whatever may be troubling us. Remember a few episodes ago when we talked about uploading our worry to God? That strength and peace we’ll gain will allow us to push through that after we’ve given whatever is bothering us to Him.

If God allows us to give him our worry, is there anything we get in return? Well, He gives us something that literally exceeds our mental capacity! When we throw our burdens of anxiety and worry onto God, He gives us a peace that we can’t even comprehend. Peace that passes our human knowledge. Often times we never take a step back and allow that peace to hit us. The next time you worry about this or that, try letting God take it and see what He gives you back!

I’m sure all of us have been worried about this or that at least once in our lives. Being anxious or worrying are a natural part of being human, and God knows this! This episode, Al looks at a few verses that advise us to give that burden of anxiety to God. Guess what? God is so interested and concerned about us that he WANTS us to give all of our worries to Him. By doing this, well, we’ll talk about the benefits next week!