Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. Good morning. We are picking

up with a two of our anxious for nothing devotional in the Bible app. There's a link to that

in the description of this podcast if you guys want to follow along with us and as always

I'm going to read the scripture and then Tori's going to read the Devo. Let's do it.

The scripture is Romans chapter 15 verse 13 and it says this, I pray that God the source

of hope will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you

will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. So good. So the

devotional today is actually a story from a man named Jordan and it says, what if anxiety

can bring you closer to Jesus. Jordan spent a whole year praying his anxiety away until

he discovered something deeper, a stronger relationship with Jesus. Maybe you can relate

to his story. I think I'm going to die. That's exactly what I thought to myself numerous

sleepless nights last year. I would try to fall asleep only to be woken up and terror

for no particular reason. My chest was tight. I felt like I was choking and I couldn't

breathe at times. The cycle would repeat and eventually I resigned myself to sleep on

the couch so I'd stop waking up my wife. One day I went to a doctor and explained my symptoms,

the chest pain, the trouble falling asleep and the panic attacks. After a couple of

tests over a few visits, he diagnosed me with anxiety. Can I be honest? It made me feel

like a failure as a Christian. Hadn't I been praying against this the right way? I'm

not supposed to deal with this. I would think to myself, I'm supposed to have peace and

not worry. That's what Jesus said to do. After following the doctor's instructions

and starting to take a small dose of medication, I continued praying for anxiety to just

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