key ingredient to beating anxiety... two

The first key ingredient that I see as crucial to beating anxiety is believing in Christ. If you have not read the entry I wrote on believing, I encourage you to take a look at it.

My next ingredient (I like using this analogy because I'm learning how to be a better cook at this point in my life ;) ) is the Word of God!

Don't believe me? Take a look at the Scriptures posted in this entry here.

The only reason I was able to believe was because of the Word of God! It took hearing God's Word in order for me to be set free!

Jesus said to His disciples:
"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32

What is the truth? As we know the Truth is God's Word!

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. James 1:18

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

The Word of God, Jesus Christ, is what is good, pure and true. Reading God's Word is essential to being free and believing. The only way we can know that anxiety is not needed nor is it something from God is by reading His word and following Jesus Christ.

May God bless you all!
~Gretchen