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“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?” —Matthew 6:25 Chronic worry, fear and anxiety can consume our lives if we allow it, and rob us of our joy and our peace and make us absolutely miserable. Worry is such a waste! It’s as though you’re in your car, putting it in neutral and revving the engine. You know what happens when you do that? You just waste fuel, stress the motor, and you’re going nowhere. That’s what worry does! God knows that we are going to be tempted to worry, that there will be some scary things that we have to confront in life. But the psalmist said, “When I am afraid, I will trust in God” (Psalm 56:2), so we don’t allow our fears, our anxieties, our worries to become chronic, or to control us. We can trust God because God only knows that He provides for us abundantly, and everything that we face in life is filtered through the Father’s hands. He cares deeply about what we face and therefore His providence protects us. His love never lets us go.   THE ANTIDOTE TO ANXIETY IS FAITH IN GOD! All the Way to the End Wednesday, February 06, 2019 by Dr. Paul Chappell “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.” Philippians 1:3–7 The Bible is filled with stories of people who waited for fulfillment of the promises they received from God. Abraham waited about twenty-five years for the birth of Isaac. Yet when all human hope had vanished, God worked a miracle to allow a couple long past child-bearing years to have a baby. The promise was kept because it did not rely on Abraham, but on God. Abraham’s faith failed at times along the way, but God had not forgotten, and in His time He did all that was necessary to complete the promise. We have nothing to do with saving ourselves. Salvation is all about what God does for us, not what we bring to offer to Him. We simply call out to Him in faith for salvation. And it is the same God who saved us who promises to care for us during this life and the next. We can fully trust that promise, because we can fully trust the One who made it. David endured many trials and afflictions in his life. He spent years on the “most wanted” list as Saul tried to kill him. He slept in caves and even lived with the Philistines for a time. Yet David was able to say, “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread” (Psalm 37:25). Today's Growth Principle:  God has never failed to complete His work and promises, and we can trust Him.