Don't worry. Pray. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point. Inc.com's

Jeff Steen has a new technique for anxiety management. Scheduled time to worry. Setting aside time

to consider what worries us, he says, clarifies our fears, it reminds us of what's important,

what we can do about it, and most importantly, what we can't do about it. It's something

he's encouraged business leaders to do for years. And there's a better biblical idea for Steen's technique.

Prayer.

If that sounds like a cachet, it might be because we've lost one of the main things

prayer is meant to be.

Cast your anxiety on him, says the apostle Peter, because he cares for you.

The psalmist puts it like this.

For God alone, my soul waits in silence.

From him comes my salvation.

He alone is my rock and my salvation. My fortress, I shall not be greatly shaken. We aren't to

muscle through anxiety. We're supposed to bring them to God. It's important because as good as

Steen's advice is, it's still only limited. It's self-help. It's speaking into the void. But Christians have something better than his idea.

We have someone listening to our concerns on the other end.

I'm John Stone Street.