Good morning to all of my Bible and bedtime listeners. I'm Amber Lawton, and you know me because I read Bible passages to help you fall asleep. Well, there's one thing I haven't shared with you guys, and that has to do with my journey

with anxiety.

Over the years, I have had numerous occasions where I've had to seek help.

And in the most recent pauses in my podcast, those have been related to periods where I've needed to seek further help medically.

For that reason, I wanted to share something with you that I do in the mornings, just reading scriptures daily.

Sometimes I focus on one scripture as I'm praying.

A central scripture to my daily prayer is that God did not give me the spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind. And throughout prayer,

I tend to repeat that he's given me a sound mind.

A reminder that while at times my mind, will and emotions,

don't quite align with what he has planned for my life, Ultimately, this is what he has given me.

He did not give me a spirit of fear.

And so even when I'm afraid, I am reminded to be brave in the Lord.

Now, oh my goodness.

One other thing before I begin, our morning devotion. I'm going to read a

proverbs a week. So instead of doing one proverb per day, I like to go ahead and do one

proverb a week. That way you have time to really meditate in the proverb. I know many make it a practice

to read one proverb per day for each month and that's nice as far as repetition goes, but how often

do we get to really soak in the word of God?

You may hear some other background noises.

I do my best to be in the quietest place possible, but at times I do find that it's really,

really hard living in a city area and to find the right time to record.

So here's what I want you to do.

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