If You're Worrying, You're Not Praying

I don't have any answers for the world's troubles. I'm just a basic, practical Christian, trying to live right in the world.

I miss the target often. I have to pick myself up, dust myself off, and try, try again.

But like the paper I have stuck to my cube wall says:

If you're worrying, you're not praying. If you're praying, you don't have to worry.

Or, as my pastor once preached, negative thoughts and words bring negative results.

Worrying is negative energy.

Praying is positive energy.

Praying over the problem and turning it over to the Lord allows Him to work on it. You don't know what your end result will be, but it WILL be positive. Even if it doesn't look like it in that moment.

Sometimes, something has to happen to trigger a good end result.

Losing that house seems like a financial disaster. But you know, maybe it's freeing you up to make that move to a better location and a better job. Maybe it's setting you free from a financial burden that you don't need to bear right now. Maybe by letting go now and re-establishing your finances and credit, you're going to be able to buy again in three years, when the real estate market has hit bottom and you're again considered a first time buyer. (Next time, get a fixed rate FHA loan!)

And maybe it's one of those hard lessons that we all face in this life, to not overextend ourselves, not let the world convince us that we're better off than we are. Because GOD determines our worth, not the world.

Maybe that house was just more "stuff".

You don't have to impress anyone. There is only One that matters.

Pray on it.

I have personally found that when you lay it all at the foot of the Throne, you will be restored. It will take time.

Seed, time, harvest.

Restoration takes time.

Stop worrying, start praying.

If you're worrying, you're not praying. If you're praying, you don't have to worry.

He ALWAYS answers.

Start praying, then the answer will become clear.