{"id":4127,"date":"2022-11-16T02:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2023-01-01T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T20:14:09","slug":"from-whence-cometh-anxiety-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=4127","title":{"rendered":"From Whence Cometh Anxiety & Worry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. <\/em>Proverbs 12:25 (KJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anxiety in a man\u2019s heart weighs it down, but a good word makes it glad. <\/em>Proverbs 12:25 (NASB95)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strong’s Concordance – Heaviness #1674 is defined as anxiety: care, fear, or sorrow, and is derived from #1672 be anxious: be afraid, sorrow, take thought.<\/em>[1] Heaviness carries with it the idea of an added burden, weighing a man down, making him stoop beneath the load.[2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anxiety has no advantages. It ruins health, robs joy, and changes nothing. The Greek word the Bible uses for worry, merimnao, stems from the verb merizo (divide) and nous (mind). Worry clogs the mind, splitting thoughts between today and tomorrow.<\/em>[3]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worry causes a swarm of sicknesses: heart trouble, high blood pressure, rheumatism, ulcers, colds, thyroid malfunction, arthritis, migraine headaches, blindness, and a host of stomach disorders. Worry, it seems , hurts our health.<\/em>[4]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen up! Here is the good word to make your heart glad!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. <\/strong><\/em>I Corinthians 2:16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can this be, that believers have the mind of Christ? We have the mind of Christ because Christ indwells believers.<\/strong> Ephesians 3:16&17a<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:<\/em> Philippians 2:5 The little word let<\/em> implies submission clothed in humility. Let<\/em> leads us to obedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. <\/em>Romans 12:2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The renewing of the mind is the adjustment <\/em>(transformation) of the moral and spiritual vision and thinking to the mind of God<\/em>.[5] It is a process that begins at salvation, Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. <\/em>I Peter 1:23, and continues until we step into glory. The whole of salvation and sanctification are activated by His written Word. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. <\/em>Romans 10:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:<\/strong> <\/em>because he trusteth in thee. <\/em>Isaiah 26:3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.<\/em> II Timothy 1:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; <\/em> I Peter 1:13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. <\/em>Acts 17:11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.<\/em> II Corinthians 4:16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word renewed<\/em> in this verse is in the passive voice, meaning that the inward man is being acted upon as we search the Scripture and hide God’s Word in our heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the word of God is quick (living), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. <\/em>Hebrews 4:12<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.<\/em> Hebrews 12:1-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered (died) in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered (died) in the flesh hath ceased (parted ways) from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts (desires) of men, but to the will of God. I Peter 4:1&2<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.<\/em> Philippians 4:13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>...let the word of Christ (Messiah Jesus) dwell (take up its life) in you richly…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1] The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible by James Strong, Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, MA – Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary page 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2] Vine\u2019s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words \u2013 copyright 1984,1996, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, TN – Old Testament Words<\/em> p.101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3] & [4]- Election Day: It’s a Time to Trust<\/em> – Article by Max Lucado<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5] Vine\u2019s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words \u2013 copyright 1984,1996, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, TN p.524.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Proverbs 12:25 (KJV) Anxiety in a man\u2019s heart weighs it down, but a good word makes it glad. Proverbs 12:25 (NASB95) Strong’s Concordance – Heaviness #1674 is defined as anxiety: care, fear, or sorrow, and is derived from #1672 … Continue reading From Whence Cometh Anxiety & Worry?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4246,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions\/4246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}