It's worry, it's anxiety that robs us of our joy.

It's hard to be joyful when you're afraid, when you're worried, when you're concerned.

What are you worried about?

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,

let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through

Christ Jesus.

Whose teaching does that sound like?

It almost seems as if Paul was an eyewitness to the sermon on the mount and to the teaching of Jesus

when he said to his own disciples, be anxious for nothing. It's worry, it's anxiety that robs us of

our joy, isn't it? And what is anxiety, but fear? Fear is the enemy of joy. It's hard to be

joyful when you're afraid, when you're worried, when you're concerned. But again, what's the

solution to that?

It's going back to our Father.

It's going to Him in prayer.

It's entering into fellowship with Him.

It's staying close to the source of our joy

so that our anxieties can be shed from our souls

and the virtue and the strength of the fruit of the spirit

may come alive again within us.

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