August 30, 2021 • 26 mins
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Anxiety!!! AHHHH!
No doubt, you've experienced even more anxiety lately. And it's no wonder with everything going on in the world! In chaotic times, it can seem near impossible to find the peace we crave. Yet we know, as believers, that true peace comes only from God.
But then we have to break through the noise, the distraction and the chaos, to find our quite place with God. Isolation has never sounded so good! Nevertheless, in the midst of our struggle, God makes a way for us to meet with Him.
Today, I'm sharing my steps I take to get my mind ready to meet with God, when anxiety tries to take over. I call it the Path to Peace. I created a guide and worksheet to help you work through the jumble and find that place of clarity and rest with God. I pray that this tool blesses you richly!
Grab yours here: https://michelleremington.com/path-to-peace/
Be sure to leave a review and subscribe if this podcast has been a blessing to you. And to find more tools for your journey to deepen your faith, emotional mastery, and thriving on purpose, visit https://www.michelleremington.com
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Worth It! Squad (00:00):
If you enjoy worth it, consider joining the
worth it squad Facebook group,we're a squad of fellow prayer
warriors and thought conquerors,we pray together, we celebrate
each other. And through allthat's going on in life, we grow
together, we encourage and keepeach other accountable. There's
no judgment here. No shame. Weunderstand that life can be
(00:24):
overwhelming, but you don't haveto battle it alone. We can make
it worth it together. So take amoment. Look up worth it, squad
on Facebook. Grab your swordwarrior, and join your squad
today.
On today's show, we're talkingabout anxiety. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
(00:46):
the fun one. Today we are goingto be answering anxiety. I have
no doubt that many of us havebeen experiencing some kind of
anxiety with everything that isgoing on in the world. And we're
going to address that today.
We're going to answer thatanxiety today. And I'm going to
(01:09):
share with you what I call mypath to peace, how I handle the
anxiety and get myself back towhere I need to be looking
straight at God. So withoutfurther ado, let's get into it.
Worth It! Intro (01:31):
Welcome to worth it. The podcast where we
answer anxiety, deflate fear andshut down shame you were made to
thrive. My mission is to helpyou get deeply rooted with God
and reclaim your weapon that theenemy of God has been using
against you. After going tobattle for my own mind. Four
years ago, I realized that thereis a war going on for our minds.
(01:55):
A battle that begins with how wethink says you have much more
control than you realize. Witheach episode, you'll learn how
to fight back and become moreconfident in the truth that God
already knows. You are worth it.
I'm Michelle Remington,Christian mindset Coach spotcap
debater, daughter of the kingand warrior Mama. Grab your
(02:15):
sword data of the king, it'stime to unleash your inner
warrior princess.
Michelle Remington (02:30):
Hey, beautiful warrior. Welcome back.
And thank you for joining me foranother episode of worth it. Oh,
yeah. Today, we're just gonnadeal with that just big old
elephant that's just sitting onus. We call that elephant
anxiety. And so today, we'regoing to answer that anxiety.
(02:53):
And no surprise, a lot of us areprobably experiencing anxiety
with everything that is going onin the world. Right now. There's
probably a lot of anxiety that'sbeen going on. And many of us
have been going through it forso many years. And today, I just
wanted to share with you how Ianswer that anxiety because I've
(03:18):
actually here recently, nosurprise been experiencing a bit
more anxiety than usual, whichat first it threw me off track.
And I'm just being honest withyou, because I'm, I'm not a
medical professional yet. I'mworking on it. But I'm not a
medical professional yet.
And quite frankly, I just wantto be real with you. Because I
(03:41):
want you to know that you arenot alone in what you are
feeling. But I do feel that Godhas given me a gift to share and
also a responsibility like acalling, I guess you would say,
to help other women to getthrough this same thing and to
(04:02):
know that they're not alone toknow that you are loved to know
that God has provided us a wayto overcome these things. And I
want to share these steps thatI've been taking with you in
partnering with God, he will beable to work through you as well
(04:23):
and give you that perfect andbeautiful piece that we crave so
much. So I'm going to share withyou today what I like to call my
path to peace.
What I realized when I wasexperiencing this anxiety, like
I have this kind of analyticalscientific mind. So I'm like,
(04:45):
Okay, I'm recognizing that I amfeeling anxiety and I haven't
had this for quite some time. Sowhat has happened to cause this
to come upon me and so I startto retrace my steps and look at
what I've been doing. And likemany, I've been looking at the
(05:08):
news and things like that. Andthat'll definitely spike your
anxiety, right? So just watchingthe news, seeing what's
happened, trying, really tryingto watch the news. So I can be
prayerful and know what to prayfor. I was watching the news,
being prayerful, but really justneed to be more prayerful and
(05:30):
less news. That was one of thesteps that I was noticing. But
then also just kind of lettingmy mind wander.
And if you've listened for anyamount of time to the podcast,
I'm very big about emotionalintelligence. And so while I was
trying to be prayerful in what Iwas seeing, on the news, what's
(05:54):
going on in the world, I was notexercising that emotional
intelligence as well. So whatI'm then realizing is that I
really need to limit what likehow much of the news I watch,
because anytime we watch thenews, it triggers an emotional
(06:15):
response, and the news, andcommercials and shows and
everything like that they arenow all triggered. To create an
emotional response in theviewer, we need to be aware of
that in this generation.
This is something that the enemyof God has used for so much
(06:38):
time. And, and, of course, forso long, it was just through
literature, but then also likethe verbal stories and things
like that, but now with, withradio, and television and and
things like that, there's evenmore of a reach into the human
(06:59):
mind to latch on to thoseemotions, and then create that
fear or create whatever thatemotional response is, whether
it's like watching a romancestory and feeling like oh, and
warm and fuzzy inside, or likesome kind of feel good moment,
or creating that fear in somekind of horror movie or
(07:21):
suspense, Thriller drama orsomething like that they're
triggering an emotion.
So as believers, we really needto monitor that, as well as
limit that because in limitingand monitoring that we are
basically changing the accessthat we give to the enemy, and
(07:43):
other people that have createdthis content and influencers, we
can limit their reach into ourminds and into our emotions. So
that's a lot. But I want you totake some time to think about
that, okay, because that's,that's really going to be
instrumental in your emotionalhealth in you taking back
(08:05):
control of your emotionalhealth, because there's only two
people that should have access,main access to your emotional
well being to your mind, andthat is you. And God. Very
simple. And I don't take lightlythat I have a podcast, and that
(08:30):
you are listening to thispodcast, I don't take that
lightly. I take it to God. And Imake sure that I am honoring God
and honoring you. In honoringyou, I'm also honoring God. So I
want you to know that as well.
So getting into this path topeace number one step in my path
(08:55):
to peace, is prayer. Now, ofcourse, with all of the
distractions in the world today,maybe prayer is not the first
thing that you think of becauseyour mind is so rattled and
distressed and distracted, thatyou try to go to prayer. And
your mind is just so jumbled.
You don't know what to say, orthese thoughts. Just keep on
(09:18):
coming in your head as you're,as you're sitting there, trying
to pray. So you can flip thispath to peace if you need to
help you get into the rightmindset, kind of like why a
church service usually startswith music, or chart starts.
Some of them start with prayer.
(09:42):
Some of them start with music.
It just depends on how you trainyourself. So in this
circumstance, prayer is thenumber one priority here but it
doesn't have to be the firstthing you do. Okay? And feel
free to write these down.
And I think I'll probably createsome kind of PDF for you. So
(10:08):
that you can maybe tape this upin and just put it somewhere or
maybe put it on your phone,something like that to where you
can just look at it. And whenyou're in that moment, of
anxiousness, because I don'tknow about you, but like, if I'm
in that moment of anxiousness,like my mind is completely
occupied and, and distracted.
And so it's helpful for me tohave a list in front of me,
(10:34):
like, okay, these are the thingsthat I need to focus on. Okay.
And then from there, as youpractice your path to peace,
because it's going to bedifferent for everybody, as you
practice your path to peace, youcan then write down your order
of what works best for you.
(10:56):
So number one priority in thatpath to peace, is prayer. second
priority is the other way thatGod talks to us. And that is,
through His Word, scriptures.
Maybe there's a scripture thatyou have memorized, maybe it's
just opening up your Bible andreading his word, maybe there's
a particular chapter of, or bookof the Bible that that is just
(11:18):
comforting to you, like, SecondCorinthians, or Philippians,
anything like that, the nextstep is praise or worship, you
may find that this is like yourfirst step that you take,
turning on some kind of praise,or worship music, depending on
what you're feeling at themoment and what you need, and
(11:39):
what you know, will get you intothat right mindset.
And you may start with praise,go to worship, start with
worship, and then after you'redone, go to praise. It's how
ever you work. And this is yoursolution to put together. And
because God created you in abeautifully unique way, the way
(12:03):
that you work with God to put ittogether is going to is what's
gonna work for you. And this isgonna be your go to. And after a
while, you probably won't needto have a list in front of you.
You'll just know like, Okay,well, I feel some anxiety coming
on. Okay, let me let me get myheadphones, or let me get my,
(12:24):
get some some praise music on ormaybe, maybe you want to do the
next step, which is journaling,or vlogging, maybe it's helpful
for you to just like, Okay, mymind is so inundated with
thoughts right now. And so Ijust want to write this down. Or
maybe you just want to work outyour thoughts. And you can talk
(12:47):
on video doing a vlog, you don'thave to post it anywhere, you
can just keep it for your ownemotional health away for you to
work it out.
And with all of these steps, asI said, Before your prayer,
prayer is going to be your firstpriority. And each of these
steps can meld into prayer, ifyou come across a scripture
(13:13):
that's just really resonatingwith you. And you just got to
stop right there, close youreyes and pray like thank you
Jesus for this word as maybetriggered something and you
could talk to Jesus then, ormaybe, you know, praise and
worship very often leads toprayer. So that's a great step
there. Or maybe if you're, youknow, doing your, your
(13:34):
journaling, or your vlogging,you can then turn to prayer, as
well.
And then the very last step thatI would say, is phone a friend.
So this is going to be I'm goingto put some some criteria on
this. Because you don't want tojust call any friend that
(13:55):
doesn't have their ownrelationship with God. This is a
trusted friend, somebody in yourcircle, somebody that you
regularly pray with someone thatyou can trust in someone that
you know, has that spiritualwisdom that God has given them.
(14:17):
So you may or may not have aperson like that in your life,
but the number one person thatare the number one person that
we want to turn to as Godthrough this time.
Because we know that the reasonwhy we're answering that anxiety
is because that anxiety is lies,it's lies that have like created
(14:42):
this kind of emotionalattachment, in our mind,
especially aided by, you know,seeing on on some kind of video
or listening to something thathas triggered an emotional
response or maybe it's somethingthat you saw a while ago or
something that you're seeingjust in general in the Word in
the world today. And like it'sbeen eating at you for a while,
(15:05):
and you haven't addressed it.
That's why it's important everyday, especially before you go to
bed, I personally, I pray twicea day, when I wake up. And
before I go to bed, and so maybeyou want to get into the habit
of before you go to bed, eitherjournaling, in praying or just
praying, and just laying out allof those worries to God, before
(15:28):
you go to bed. Because there isscientific studies now that have
shown going to bed, you know,with like anxious thoughts and
things like that, depending onthe person will sometimes that
person will feel better in themorning, they've worked it out,
you know, maybe it's just aproblem that that they're that
they're working out, or it'ssomething that could begin to
(15:52):
fester.
So you kind of want to make astudy of yourself. And that's,
that's what I had to do. Thosefour years ago, when things got
very much out of control. Andthen I had that scary moment
where it could have all ended.
And I realized very quickly thatI needed to understand myself
(16:12):
better. And what I knew fromreading God's word, from prayer,
and from the preaching, that Ihave been blessed to hear over
the years, just knowing allhaving all of that, circling
around in my head, I knew thatif I was going to know myself
(16:34):
very well, as well as I couldpossibly know myself, I would
need to partner with God becauseHe is my Creator, he knows me
better than I know myself, andGod knows you better than you
know, yourself. And don't thinkabout because I used to go here.
(16:54):
So I'm just going to say thisbecause I used to say like God
knows you better than yourself.
And then I would instantly justsnap to God knows what a
horrible person I am. What musthe think of me just going into
that no, close the gate, don'tgo down that road. Because
(17:17):
that's a lie as well.
God knows you better than youknow yourself, and he loves you
more than you could evercomprehend. Knowing what he
knows about you, he loves youmore than you can ever
comprehend. Because what heknows about you is your heart.
(17:42):
He knows your mind. He knows themeditations of your heart and
mind, he knows your motives forwhat you do. And sure, it may
not all be perfect. But the verybest thing that we can ever do
for ourselves is to turn to Godand full truth and say, God, I
(18:05):
am a very flawed person. And Ineed you because I want to be
better. And I can't be better.
without you. You were the onlyone that can help me. That's why
you partner with God. I mean,it's like the ultimate
partnership. Nobody else knowsyou better. And nobody else can
(18:26):
help you to be the best personthat you can be. So that is the
path to peace.
Now, a few side notes. It mayhelp you to create an
(18:47):
environment of praise andenvironment of worship. So if
you have like your own officespace, or something like that,
and you can create your ownspace, or you can even do it in
your house and create thisenvironment of praise and
worship, have scriptures up onthe walls. And you know, just
(19:12):
make sure you don't haveanything contradicting each
other. Because a lot of that issubliminal. Now, the other thing
is, is that and what I'venoticed over the years, because
I've been living for the Lordfor about 1617 years now is
sometimes I'll have a scriptureup on the wall. And I'll pass it
(19:35):
so much that it in my mind justskips over it. I'm just being
super honest with you. And it'seasy for that to happen. So I
don't know, maybe change it outor something like that. Or maybe
have a scripture on your phonethat you keep on your phone and
(19:56):
switch that out or if you wantto keep a specific scripture on
your phone or in your home,maybe changing out the design
with the seasons or something,I'm just this is just extra
stuff, but just thoughts abouthow to create that environment.
(20:17):
But anytime you experienceanxiety, try to find a place a
quiet place where you can go andpray. If that's not possible.
That's why the rest of thesesteps in the path to peace can
be helpful. And they can bethings that that you can do
(20:37):
while you're going about yourday. And doing whatever from not
being able to listen to themusic and you all you can do is
pray or being able to set thatenvironment with some prayer and
praise music or taking that timeto have some quiet time to pray
or read the scriptures or takinga break to vlog or journal or
(20:59):
something like that. meanthere's there's ways that we can
fit this into our day when we'reexperiencing that anxiety.
Now, like I said before, I'm nota medical professional. So if
you get to the point where youranxiety is at a crisis point,
that would be a good time tophone, that prayer warrior
(21:23):
friend of yours, that would be agood time to phone, your pastor,
or some other leadership memberof your ministry team that you
can pray with, and you can talkto, you are never alone. And
there's always a way out of thedarkness. God's word gives us
(21:44):
that promise and that hope thatGod will always make a way out
and a way back to him. So I wantyou to be encouraged in that. I
hope this podcast episode hasbeen a blessing to you.
Now earlier I did mention aboutcreating a PDF version or
(22:07):
picture version of the path topeace in Jesus and I did indeed
make that for you. So just headon over to Michelle Remington
calm you can also click on thelink in the show notes. It'll
take you straight to thewebsite, grab that free tool for
yourself to help you on yourpath to emotional and mental
(22:28):
wellness.
As always, let's go ahead andfinish out in prayer. Lord
Jesus, I praise you and Iglorify you, God, you are
amazing. You are the Almighty,eternal and sovereign God there
is none like you. And I thankyou God, because we are
fearfully and wonderfully madewith this amazing love by you.
(22:54):
And I thank you, Lord, that Youdon't just make us and leave us.
You make us and you stickthrough us through the hardest
times in our lives. And I prayLord, that for the person
listening to this, that youwould remind them, that you are
(23:15):
with them, that they are hearingthis episode for a reason. And I
pray, Lord, that You would helpthem to find that place to make
that time to meet with you andtalk to you and to overcome and
(23:35):
gain the victory over theanxiety over the depression over
the doubt over the shame overthe fear over everything that is
trying to take over their lifeand distract them from you. I
pray, Lord, that You would helpeach person hearing this to work
(23:58):
with you and find their own pathto your peace. find their own
path, using your word you,praying with you working with
you to finally feel that peacethat you have promised us and
(24:21):
even restore their joy. Lord,help them to feel their joy and
help them to connect on a deeperlevel with you God. That is my
sincere hope and prayer is thateach person hearing this would
(24:41):
be able to draw closer to youthan they have ever been in
their entire lives and that theywould continue to stay close to
you. The world right now islooking pretty scary and the
world right now is lookingpretty close to A lot of the
things that are written about inyour scriptures, and I think
(25:05):
that's what's causing a lot ofthat anxiety, Lord. But you've
also told us in your scripturesthat though we may see these
things, to keep our eyes on you,and I pray, Lord, that You would
help each person that hears thisto keep their eyes on you. I
thank you, God, for who you are.
I thank you, God for how youlove us. I thank you God for the
(25:27):
opportunity to know you and tolove you and to know the
greatest love that we could everknow in our lives. It's in your
precious in Your holy name Jesuswe pray, Amen. And Amen.
Thank you for joining me onanother episode of worth it. Be
(25:50):
sure to leave a review andsubscribe if this podcast has
been a blessing to you. And tofind more tools for your journey
to deepening your faith,emotional mastery and thriving
on purpose, visitmichelleremington.com
If you enjoy worth it, consider joining the
worth it squad Facebook group,we're a squad of fellow prayer
warriors and thought conquerors,we pray together, we celebrate
each other. And through allthat's going on in life, we grow
together, we encourage and keepeach other accountable. There's
no judgment here. No shame. Weunderstand that life can be
(00:24):
overwhelming, but you don't haveto battle it alone. We can make
it worth it together. So take amoment. Look up worth it, squad
on Facebook. Grab your swordwarrior, and join your squad
today.
On today's show, we're talkingabout anxiety. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
(00:46):
the fun one. Today we are goingto be answering anxiety. I have
no doubt that many of us havebeen experiencing some kind of
anxiety with everything that isgoing on in the world. And we're
going to address that today.
We're going to answer thatanxiety today. And I'm going to
(01:09):
share with you what I call mypath to peace, how I handle the
anxiety and get myself back towhere I need to be looking
straight at God. So withoutfurther ado, let's get into it.
Worth It! Intro (01:31):
Welcome to worth it. The podcast where we
answer anxiety, deflate fear andshut down shame you were made to
thrive. My mission is to helpyou get deeply rooted with God
and reclaim your weapon that theenemy of God has been using
against you. After going tobattle for my own mind. Four
years ago, I realized that thereis a war going on for our minds.
(01:55):
A battle that begins with how wethink says you have much more
control than you realize. Witheach episode, you'll learn how
to fight back and become moreconfident in the truth that God
already knows. You are worth it.
I'm Michelle Remington,Christian mindset Coach spotcap
debater, daughter of the kingand warrior Mama. Grab your
(02:15):
sword data of the king, it'stime to unleash your inner
warrior princess.
Michelle Remington (02:30):
Hey, beautiful warrior. Welcome back.
And thank you for joining me foranother episode of worth it. Oh,
yeah. Today, we're just gonnadeal with that just big old
elephant that's just sitting onus. We call that elephant
anxiety. And so today, we'regoing to answer that anxiety.
(02:53):
And no surprise, a lot of us areprobably experiencing anxiety
with everything that is going onin the world. Right now. There's
probably a lot of anxiety that'sbeen going on. And many of us
have been going through it forso many years. And today, I just
wanted to share with you how Ianswer that anxiety because I've
(03:18):
actually here recently, nosurprise been experiencing a bit
more anxiety than usual, whichat first it threw me off track.
And I'm just being honest withyou, because I'm, I'm not a
medical professional yet. I'mworking on it. But I'm not a
medical professional yet.
And quite frankly, I just wantto be real with you. Because I
(03:41):
want you to know that you arenot alone in what you are
feeling. But I do feel that Godhas given me a gift to share and
also a responsibility like acalling, I guess you would say,
to help other women to getthrough this same thing and to
(04:02):
know that they're not alone toknow that you are loved to know
that God has provided us a wayto overcome these things. And I
want to share these steps thatI've been taking with you in
partnering with God, he will beable to work through you as well
(04:23):
and give you that perfect andbeautiful piece that we crave so
much. So I'm going to share withyou today what I like to call my
path to peace.
What I realized when I wasexperiencing this anxiety, like
I have this kind of analyticalscientific mind. So I'm like,
(04:45):
Okay, I'm recognizing that I amfeeling anxiety and I haven't
had this for quite some time. Sowhat has happened to cause this
to come upon me and so I startto retrace my steps and look at
what I've been doing. And likemany, I've been looking at the
(05:08):
news and things like that. Andthat'll definitely spike your
anxiety, right? So just watchingthe news, seeing what's
happened, trying, really tryingto watch the news. So I can be
prayerful and know what to prayfor. I was watching the news,
being prayerful, but really justneed to be more prayerful and
(05:30):
less news. That was one of thesteps that I was noticing. But
then also just kind of lettingmy mind wander.
And if you've listened for anyamount of time to the podcast,
I'm very big about emotionalintelligence. And so while I was
trying to be prayerful in what Iwas seeing, on the news, what's
(05:54):
going on in the world, I was notexercising that emotional
intelligence as well. So whatI'm then realizing is that I
really need to limit what likehow much of the news I watch,
because anytime we watch thenews, it triggers an emotional
(06:15):
response, and the news, andcommercials and shows and
everything like that they arenow all triggered. To create an
emotional response in theviewer, we need to be aware of
that in this generation.
This is something that the enemyof God has used for so much
(06:38):
time. And, and, of course, forso long, it was just through
literature, but then also likethe verbal stories and things
like that, but now with, withradio, and television and and
things like that, there's evenmore of a reach into the human
(06:59):
mind to latch on to thoseemotions, and then create that
fear or create whatever thatemotional response is, whether
it's like watching a romancestory and feeling like oh, and
warm and fuzzy inside, or likesome kind of feel good moment,
or creating that fear in somekind of horror movie or
(07:21):
suspense, Thriller drama orsomething like that they're
triggering an emotion.
So as believers, we really needto monitor that, as well as
limit that because in limitingand monitoring that we are
basically changing the accessthat we give to the enemy, and
(07:43):
other people that have createdthis content and influencers, we
can limit their reach into ourminds and into our emotions. So
that's a lot. But I want you totake some time to think about
that, okay, because that's,that's really going to be
instrumental in your emotionalhealth in you taking back
(08:05):
control of your emotionalhealth, because there's only two
people that should have access,main access to your emotional
well being to your mind, andthat is you. And God. Very
simple. And I don't take lightlythat I have a podcast, and that
(08:30):
you are listening to thispodcast, I don't take that
lightly. I take it to God. And Imake sure that I am honoring God
and honoring you. In honoringyou, I'm also honoring God. So I
want you to know that as well.
So getting into this path topeace number one step in my path
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to peace, is prayer. Now, ofcourse, with all of the
distractions in the world today,maybe prayer is not the first
thing that you think of becauseyour mind is so rattled and
distressed and distracted, thatyou try to go to prayer. And
your mind is just so jumbled.
You don't know what to say, orthese thoughts. Just keep on
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coming in your head as you're,as you're sitting there, trying
to pray. So you can flip thispath to peace if you need to
help you get into the rightmindset, kind of like why a
church service usually startswith music, or chart starts.
Some of them start with prayer.
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Some of them start with music.
It just depends on how you trainyourself. So in this
circumstance, prayer is thenumber one priority here but it
doesn't have to be the firstthing you do. Okay? And feel
free to write these down.
And I think I'll probably createsome kind of PDF for you. So
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that you can maybe tape this upin and just put it somewhere or
maybe put it on your phone,something like that to where you
can just look at it. And whenyou're in that moment, of
anxiousness, because I don'tknow about you, but like, if I'm
in that moment of anxiousness,like my mind is completely
occupied and, and distracted.
And so it's helpful for me tohave a list in front of me,
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like, okay, these are the thingsthat I need to focus on. Okay.
And then from there, as youpractice your path to peace,
because it's going to bedifferent for everybody, as you
practice your path to peace, youcan then write down your order
of what works best for you.
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So number one priority in thatpath to peace, is prayer. second
priority is the other way thatGod talks to us. And that is,
through His Word, scriptures.
Maybe there's a scripture thatyou have memorized, maybe it's
just opening up your Bible andreading his word, maybe there's
a particular chapter of, or bookof the Bible that that is just
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comforting to you, like, SecondCorinthians, or Philippians,
anything like that, the nextstep is praise or worship, you
may find that this is like yourfirst step that you take,
turning on some kind of praise,or worship music, depending on
what you're feeling at themoment and what you need, and
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what you know, will get you intothat right mindset.
And you may start with praise,go to worship, start with
worship, and then after you'redone, go to praise. It's how
ever you work. And this is yoursolution to put together. And
because God created you in abeautifully unique way, the way
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that you work with God to put ittogether is going to is what's
gonna work for you. And this isgonna be your go to. And after a
while, you probably won't needto have a list in front of you.
You'll just know like, Okay,well, I feel some anxiety coming
on. Okay, let me let me get myheadphones, or let me get my,
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get some some praise music on ormaybe, maybe you want to do the
next step, which is journaling,or vlogging, maybe it's helpful
for you to just like, Okay, mymind is so inundated with
thoughts right now. And so Ijust want to write this down. Or
maybe you just want to work outyour thoughts. And you can talk
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on video doing a vlog, you don'thave to post it anywhere, you
can just keep it for your ownemotional health away for you to
work it out.
And with all of these steps, asI said, Before your prayer,
prayer is going to be your firstpriority. And each of these
steps can meld into prayer, ifyou come across a scripture
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that's just really resonatingwith you. And you just got to
stop right there, close youreyes and pray like thank you
Jesus for this word as maybetriggered something and you
could talk to Jesus then, ormaybe, you know, praise and
worship very often leads toprayer. So that's a great step
there. Or maybe if you're, youknow, doing your, your
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journaling, or your vlogging,you can then turn to prayer, as
well.
And then the very last step thatI would say, is phone a friend.
So this is going to be I'm goingto put some some criteria on
this. Because you don't want tojust call any friend that
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doesn't have their ownrelationship with God. This is a
trusted friend, somebody in yourcircle, somebody that you
regularly pray with someone thatyou can trust in someone that
you know, has that spiritualwisdom that God has given them.
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So you may or may not have aperson like that in your life,
but the number one person thatare the number one person that
we want to turn to as Godthrough this time.
Because we know that the reasonwhy we're answering that anxiety
is because that anxiety is lies,it's lies that have like created
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this kind of emotionalattachment, in our mind,
especially aided by, you know,seeing on on some kind of video
or listening to something thathas triggered an emotional
response or maybe it's somethingthat you saw a while ago or
something that you're seeingjust in general in the Word in
the world today. And like it'sbeen eating at you for a while,
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and you haven't addressed it.
That's why it's important everyday, especially before you go to
bed, I personally, I pray twicea day, when I wake up. And
before I go to bed, and so maybeyou want to get into the habit
of before you go to bed, eitherjournaling, in praying or just
praying, and just laying out allof those worries to God, before
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you go to bed. Because there isscientific studies now that have
shown going to bed, you know,with like anxious thoughts and
things like that, depending onthe person will sometimes that
person will feel better in themorning, they've worked it out,
you know, maybe it's just aproblem that that they're that
they're working out, or it'ssomething that could begin to
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fester.
So you kind of want to make astudy of yourself. And that's,
that's what I had to do. Thosefour years ago, when things got
very much out of control. Andthen I had that scary moment
where it could have all ended.
And I realized very quickly thatI needed to understand myself
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better. And what I knew fromreading God's word, from prayer,
and from the preaching, that Ihave been blessed to hear over
the years, just knowing allhaving all of that, circling
around in my head, I knew thatif I was going to know myself
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very well, as well as I couldpossibly know myself, I would
need to partner with God becauseHe is my Creator, he knows me
better than I know myself, andGod knows you better than you
know, yourself. And don't thinkabout because I used to go here.
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So I'm just going to say thisbecause I used to say like God
knows you better than yourself.
And then I would instantly justsnap to God knows what a
horrible person I am. What musthe think of me just going into
that no, close the gate, don'tgo down that road. Because
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that's a lie as well.
God knows you better than youknow yourself, and he loves you
more than you could evercomprehend. Knowing what he
knows about you, he loves youmore than you can ever
comprehend. Because what heknows about you is your heart.
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He knows your mind. He knows themeditations of your heart and
mind, he knows your motives forwhat you do. And sure, it may
not all be perfect. But the verybest thing that we can ever do
for ourselves is to turn to Godand full truth and say, God, I
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am a very flawed person. And Ineed you because I want to be
better. And I can't be better.
without you. You were the onlyone that can help me. That's why
you partner with God. I mean,it's like the ultimate
partnership. Nobody else knowsyou better. And nobody else can
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help you to be the best personthat you can be. So that is the
path to peace.
Now, a few side notes. It mayhelp you to create an
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environment of praise andenvironment of worship. So if
you have like your own officespace, or something like that,
and you can create your ownspace, or you can even do it in
your house and create thisenvironment of praise and
worship, have scriptures up onthe walls. And you know, just
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make sure you don't haveanything contradicting each
other. Because a lot of that issubliminal. Now, the other thing
is, is that and what I'venoticed over the years, because
I've been living for the Lordfor about 1617 years now is
sometimes I'll have a scriptureup on the wall. And I'll pass it
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so much that it in my mind justskips over it. I'm just being
super honest with you. And it'seasy for that to happen. So I
don't know, maybe change it outor something like that. Or maybe
have a scripture on your phonethat you keep on your phone and
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switch that out or if you wantto keep a specific scripture on
your phone or in your home,maybe changing out the design
with the seasons or something,I'm just this is just extra
stuff, but just thoughts abouthow to create that environment.
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But anytime you experienceanxiety, try to find a place a
quiet place where you can go andpray. If that's not possible.
That's why the rest of thesesteps in the path to peace can
be helpful. And they can bethings that that you can do
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while you're going about yourday. And doing whatever from not
being able to listen to themusic and you all you can do is
pray or being able to set thatenvironment with some prayer and
praise music or taking that timeto have some quiet time to pray
or read the scriptures or takinga break to vlog or journal or
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something like that. meanthere's there's ways that we can
fit this into our day when we'reexperiencing that anxiety.
Now, like I said before, I'm nota medical professional. So if
you get to the point where youranxiety is at a crisis point,
that would be a good time tophone, that prayer warrior
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friend of yours, that would be agood time to phone, your pastor,
or some other leadership memberof your ministry team that you
can pray with, and you can talkto, you are never alone. And
there's always a way out of thedarkness. God's word gives us
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that promise and that hope thatGod will always make a way out
and a way back to him. So I wantyou to be encouraged in that. I
hope this podcast episode hasbeen a blessing to you.
Now earlier I did mention aboutcreating a PDF version or
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picture version of the path topeace in Jesus and I did indeed
make that for you. So just headon over to Michelle Remington
calm you can also click on thelink in the show notes. It'll
take you straight to thewebsite, grab that free tool for
yourself to help you on yourpath to emotional and mental
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wellness.
As always, let's go ahead andfinish out in prayer. Lord
Jesus, I praise you and Iglorify you, God, you are
amazing. You are the Almighty,eternal and sovereign God there
is none like you. And I thankyou God, because we are
fearfully and wonderfully madewith this amazing love by you.
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And I thank you, Lord, that Youdon't just make us and leave us.
You make us and you stickthrough us through the hardest
times in our lives. And I prayLord, that for the person
listening to this, that youwould remind them, that you are
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with them, that they are hearingthis episode for a reason. And I
pray, Lord, that You would helpthem to find that place to make
that time to meet with you andtalk to you and to overcome and
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gain the victory over theanxiety over the depression over
the doubt over the shame overthe fear over everything that is
trying to take over their lifeand distract them from you. I
pray, Lord, that You would helpeach person hearing this to work
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with you and find their own pathto your peace. find their own
path, using your word you,praying with you working with
you to finally feel that peacethat you have promised us and
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even restore their joy. Lord,help them to feel their joy and
help them to connect on a deeperlevel with you God. That is my
sincere hope and prayer is thateach person hearing this would
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be able to draw closer to youthan they have ever been in
their entire lives and that theywould continue to stay close to
you. The world right now islooking pretty scary and the
world right now is lookingpretty close to A lot of the
things that are written about inyour scriptures, and I think
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that's what's causing a lot ofthat anxiety, Lord. But you've
also told us in your scripturesthat though we may see these
things, to keep our eyes on you,and I pray, Lord, that You would
help each person that hears thisto keep their eyes on you. I
thank you, God, for who you are.
I thank you, God for how youlove us. I thank you God for the
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opportunity to know you and tolove you and to know the
greatest love that we could everknow in our lives. It's in your
precious in Your holy name Jesuswe pray, Amen. And Amen.
Thank you for joining me onanother episode of worth it. Be
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sure to leave a review andsubscribe if this podcast has
been a blessing to you. And tofind more tools for your journey
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on purpose, visitmichelleremington.com
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