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August 11
Tuesday


GAD
OR GOD?

READ:
1 Peter 5:6-11
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Casting all your care
upon Him for He cares
for you.
__1 Peter 5:7
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Are you a chronic worrier? Do you worry about bills, the future, health, debt, marriage issues? Has worry so consumed you that you have become "a fret machine"? If this describes you, perhaps you have generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD--a condition marked by a perpetual state of worry about most aspects of life. according to David Barlow, professor of psychology at Boston University, "the key psychological feature of GAD is a state of chronic, uncontrollable worry." A little anxiety is normal, but constant worry is not.

Overwhelmed by suffering and persecution, the first-century Christians were driven out of Jerusalem and scattered throughout Asia (1 Peter 1:1-7). Many of these Jesus-followers were experiencing feelings of distress because of possible danger or misfortune. Peter encouraged these believers not to be filled with anxiety but to cast all their worries upon God (5:7). He wanted them to realize that it made very little sense for them to carry their worries when they could cast them on God who cared deeply about what happened to them.

Are you a chronic worrier? Let God be responsible for your anxieties. Stop worrying and start trusting Him completely. __Marvin Williams
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```````````````````When every worry, every care````````````````
`````````````````````To God in faith is brought,``````````````````
`````````````````We have no place wheron to found```````````````
`````````````````One single anxious thought. Anon.```````````````
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Worry is a burden God never intended us to bear.

**************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 Peter 5:6-11************

6 Therefore humble
yourselves under the mighty
hand of God, that He may
exalt you in due time,

7 casting all your care upon
Him, for He cares for you.

8 Be sober, be vigilant;
because your adversary the
devil walks about like a
roaring lion, seeking whom
he may devour. 9 Resist
him, steadfast in the faith,
knowing that the same
sufferings are experienced
by your brotherhood in the
world. 10 But may the God
of all grace, who called us
to His eternal glory by
Christ Jesus, after you have
suffered a while, perfect,
establish, strengthen, and
settle you. 11 To Him be the
glory and the dominion
forever and ever. Amen.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

"Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that
He may exalt you in due time (1 Peter 5:6). The pattern for the
humble man or woman exalted by God is supremely exemplified in
the Person and work of Jesus Christ (Phil. 2:5-11). To be a servant is
to be Christlike. __DENNIS FISHER