{"id":11682,"date":"2015-08-17T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highdesertmg.wpengine.com\/our-holly-days\/2015\/08\/17\/phillipians-45-7\/"},"modified":"2015-08-17T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:00:04","slug":"phillipians-45-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/2015\/08\/17\/phillipians-45-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillipians 4:5-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2015\/08\/phillipians\/\">Holly Sosa<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2015\/08\/phillipians\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/phillipians-41.jpg\" alt=\"phillipians 41\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>One of my biggest struggles in my life is anxiety. In fact, I have such severe anxiety that it manifests itself in physical symptoms and conditions. I read recently that <em><strong>where you struggle with anxiety the most is where you trust God the least <\/strong>(<a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/gospelrelevance.com\/2011\/12\/01\/5-ways-to-help-you-deal-with-anxiety\/\">source<\/a>)<\/em>. It spoke to me and my nature, why I&#8217;m anxious, and forced me to ask why I&#8217;m untrusting of Him in certain life situations. It&#8217;s hard for me to give up control in many aspects of my life, just as my husband (ha!). I believe that my loss of control attributes to my lack of trust and therefore results ultimately in stomach churning anxiety.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/phillipians-42.jpg\" alt=\"phillipians 42\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>This week, I turned to my Bible for references on anxiety and how to best cope with it. I was eventually lead to Phillipians 4 and was deeply moved by the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><sup>5<\/sup>Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; <sup>6<\/sup>do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. <sup>7<\/sup>And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/phillipians-43.jpg\" alt=\"phillipians 43\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>This was a reminder for me to give it all to Him through prayer and thanks. There is peace in Him, this I know for certain. Instead of running to Google when I&#8217;m worried about something, why am I not opening my Bible and speaking to Him through prayer for peace and guidance? Whatever the case, I&#8217;m making more of an effort to lean on Him rather than my anxiety.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/phillipians-44.jpg\" alt=\"phillipians 44\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\"><\/p>\n<h1>For more journaling Bible inspiration and testimony, be sure to follow my Journaling Bible board via Pinterest.<\/h1>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/ourhollydays\/journaling-bible\/\">Follow Our Holly Days&#8217;s board Journaling Bible on Pinterest.<\/a><br \/><!-- Please call pinit.js only once per page --><\/p>\n<div>\n<a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fourhollydays.com%2F2015%2F08%2Fphillipians%2F\" title=\"\"><i><\/i><\/p>\n<div><span>0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fourhollydays.com%2F2015%2F08%2Fphillipians%2F\" title=\"\"><i><\/i><\/p>\n<div><span>0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fourhollydays.com%2F2015%2F08%2Fphillipians%2F\" title=\"\"><i><\/i><\/p>\n<div><span>0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fourhollydays.com%2F2015%2F08%2Fphillipians%2F&amp;text=Phillipians%204:5-7\" title=\"\"><i><\/i><\/p>\n<div><span>0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2015\/08\/phillipians\/\">Phillipians 4:5-7<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/\">Our Holly Days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2015\/08\/phillipians\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Phillipians 4:5-7\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Holly Sosa One of my biggest struggles in my life is anxiety. In fact, I have such severe anxiety that it manifests itself in physical symptoms and conditions. I read recently that where you struggle with anxiety the most is where you trust God the least (source). It spoke to me and my nature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}