Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

The other day I got a phone call and the voice on the other end of the phone said,

I'm going to tell you something. But don't worry about what I'm going to tell you.

Well, automatically my worry was kicked in. That was my first response. I thought, oh my gosh, what do I have to worry about?

You see, that's what happens sometimes. Our worry automatically kicks in without us even knowing it.

We just worry when a concern or a care comes into our life. Now, this particular problem was not huge.

It wasn't monumental, but it was a problem all the same. It was something that needed to be resolved.

So I had to push pause for a moment and make a decision. Was I going to let this concern overtake me?

Cause my mind to just spin out of control, fret, and worry until the problem has resolved itself?

Was I going to ruin my entire day because of this concern? Or was I going to say, God, you got to help me with this situation?

God, I got to present this to you. You know everything about me. You said you'd fight my battles for me.

Now, God, I am giving this to you. And I'm going to try to rest and hear everything you would want me to hear from you.

You see, we have to make this choice. How are we going to handle this thing called worry?

Are we going to just work it in our minds? You know, sometimes when I worry, it's like I'm really doing something.

I'm just working it, working it, working it in my mind. I heard worry was a lot like sitting in a rocking chair.

You're doing something, but it's getting you nowhere. We're just working it, working it, and working it in our minds.

And that's so unproductive. My question today is, how are you handling worry?

Because how we handle worry and stress is going to make all the difference in our life.

There's two sisters in the Bible named Mary and Martha. You can find their story in Luke.

Mary and Martha, two sisters, they had a brother. They were obviously from what the scholars say, well to do people.

So they had a lot going on in their life. They had money to manage, they had a home to manage. They had a lot of things happening.

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