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This 7-day Scripture and reflection journey is designed to give you practical tools rooted in the truth of Scripture to help you win the war on worry in your mind. Let’s start now by identifying what is keeping you up at night. What are the thoughts that circulate in your mind when you’re trying to fall asleep? Finances? Relationships? Career? Take a moment to write down your thoughts in a journal, and we’ll revisit them over the next week as we learn to replace them with Biblical truths.
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This 7-day Scripture and reflection journey is designed to give you practical tools rooted in the truth of Scripture to help you win the war on worry in your mind. Let’s start now by identifying what is keeping you up at night. What are the thoughts that circulate in your mind when you’re trying to fall asleep? Finances? Relationships? Career? Take a moment to write down your thoughts in a journal, and we’ll revisit them over the next week as we learn to replace them with Biblical truths.
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Winning the War on Worry
7-day devotional with Louie Giglio
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Anatomy of Worry
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Embracing Concern, Rejecting Worry
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Inviting God into Your Worry
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The Power of Perfect Love
I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? …Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.”
Matthew 6:25-26, 34
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The root of worry is fear. And fear doesn’t come from God. Thus, at the heart of worry is the Enemy. And Scripture is clear – the devil is a liar (John 8:44). Keep calling out the lies that worry is speaking and keep surrendering those lies to God, replacing them with the truths of His Word. From the worries you wrote down previously – what is the lie the enemy wants you to believe? How can you use the verses from Matthew to replace those lies with truth?
Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.
I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.’
Isaiah 46:9-10
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Worry always starts with a harmless seed planted in our minds.
If left unchecked, that initial seed can morph into a more powerful negative thought, and worry can take root in our hearts. And at the core of worry is our need to be in control. Surrender your need to be in charge. Trust that His heart for you is good. Believe God is good at being in control. Where do you desire control within your worries? What truth can you take from the verse today to help you surrender control to God?
“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
Matthew 25:23
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Planning isn’t a bad thing.
In fact, being a good steward of our time and resources is one of the ways we can glorify God in this world. But if we spend too much time hanging around the what-ifs, the toxicity of worry begins to poison our hearts and minds. God puts things into your hands according to your ability and His power to work in and through you. If He’s entrusted it to you, you can carry it. Of the things you listed that you are worried about, how can you shift your mindset from worry to stewardship? How can you see that God has entrusted you to carry the thing you worry most about?
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
John 10:10
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In order to win the war on worry, we have to know our Enemy, whose sole purpose is to take us down and steal our joy (John 10:10).
But we also need to know ourselves; and most importantly, we need to know our God. If we don’t know God, we won’t be able or willing to invite Him into our worry. Our first move of attack should always be to surrender our concerns to God in prayer. Have you invited God into your worry? Spend today reflecting on the verse and praying that God would move into your worry and provide the ultimate peace and comfort.
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
Ephesians 3:17-18
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The counteragent for worry isn’t control. It’s faith rooted in love.
When we invite God into our worry, we begin to realize that more than any solution, He wants to give us a Savior. He wants to invite us into an intimate, personal relationship with His Son. Why? Because God knows what we truly need. How can you leverage your relationship with Christ to better surrender your worry? What solutions do you feel Him leading you toward?
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
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You have the power through Christ to identify and bind the power of every lie that comes into your mind.
You can take captive every thought! When you commit to this and put it into practice, you begin tearing down the house that worry built, brick by brick and thought by thought. In a side-by-side column format, write down your worries and on the opposite side, identify a corresponding Scripture to help bind up that worry and release it to God.
I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely.
Psalm 16:8-9
In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 4:8
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Worry, in full force, can affect every area of our lives – our relationships, our work, our families, our motivations.
It can even affect our sleep. Our God is a God of peace. He is always awake and zeroed in on your every need. He leads us toward rest when we fix our gaze upon Him. As you reflect on the Scriptures from this week, what verse(s) can serve as an anchor point in your mind when you feel worry creep in? Write them down on notecards and place them anywhere you need to be reminded of God’s sovereignty over your worry.
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Scripture References
- Matthew 6:25-26
- Isaiah 46:9-10
- Matthew 25:23
- Philippians 4:6-7
- Ephesians 3:17-18
- 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
- Psalm 16:8-9
- Psalm 4:8
Global Pastor
Louie Giglio Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.
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