Welcome to the Jada Edwards podcast. It's season two, and I'm still sharing with you what God is sharing with me.

So here we are the first episode of season two, and I had all these things I wanted to talk about.

And recently I've had a lot of conversations with people just about anxiety and worry and life just feeling like a lot.

And so today I wanted to just spend a few minutes talking

about what we do when life is a lot. I think that we think about worry and anxiety, all kind of

mental health challenges that we're having. I mean, it's almost overused now. We classify everything

as worry, anxiety, narcissistic personality. I just i'm like we got google and we know

all the names and so we love all the labels and the language but what do we really do about it well

you know it's human nature and so you may say well it's not really my personality i'm chill

nothing really worries me but human nature says that we are prone to be anxious and worry about things. Otherwise,

it wouldn't be addressed in Scripture. Scripture always addresses what needs to be addressed,

and that's where there's deficiency. So Jesus says in the Gospels, don't be anxious about your

life or what you'll eat or what your drink or about your body right because god takes care of us he

takes care of the sparrow on the field he's going to take care of you paul addresses it again philippians

four a scripture that many people quote often be anxious for nothing but in everything with prayer and

supplication you know make your request known to god and so so when I think about that, I love the Bible.

I really believe the Bible has an answer for everything. But I was trying to think, like, what does that really mean? Because when I'm feeling anxious generally, and it may be different for you. But for me, when I just declare out loud, be anxious for nothing, that does not always tend to resolve my anxiety. And so sometimes I think,

especially as believers, we're like, if I just know this scripture and say this scripture

and keep repeating it, it's going to work. And there is power in scripture. Don't get me wrong now.

There is power in that. But there also has to be practice behind that. What does that mean?

The command to not be anxious or to not worry doesn't really tell us how to not be anxious.

It just says you are not called to live a life of anxiety because God is in control.

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