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.

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?

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.