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God's Answer to Stress and Anxiety

2/1/2019

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God's Answer to Stress & Anxiety. Prophetic Word and Prayer Strategy from Deborah Perkins of www.HisInscriptions.com

Around the world today, people are dealing with unprecedented levels of stress. Never before have we had such widespread fear, anxiety, and even terror. In response to this, I believe the Lord wants to release not just the grace to deal with stress, but strategies to overcome it. Keep reading for a prophetic word on this subject, and a prayer strategy you can use to eradicate stress from your life altogether!
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How God Sees Stress 


“I am revealing Myself in this hour as a ​Wonderful Counselor because the stress and pain on the earth is so very high. Your needs are great, but My love and support is greater! It was My idea from the first to be your constant Companion and ever-present Friend. I chose to abide in you through thick and thin long before you ever invited Me to do so!
 
There has never been a time such as this, when people feared and fretted for their futures. No one has the capacity to endure such stress on their own; without Me their hearts will fail them, for they will quickly empty themselves of any strength they possess. Only a constant infilling of My Presence will hold men’s feet to the fire yet keep them from being burned. Men, women, and children alike need supernatural equipment to navigate the perilous times they are in.
 
Support in stressful times is good, but the body is designed to need ME and My direction, not just each other. Fellowship is good but will not take you farther than your arms can reach. It is friendship with God that opens new doors, new relationships, and new possibilities that give you an “escape plan” when stress from the enemy torments you.
 
Stress is the primary weapon the enemy is using in this hour to annoy My people and eradicate those who don’t know Me yet. All disease and all negativity feeds on stress. Watch your external reactions to stress and you will see what is happening internally as well!
 
Wisdom knows that stress can be a tool, not just a weapon. The enemy means to use stress as a weapon against you, but you can use it as your tool to develop a deeper relationship of trust with Me.
 
Stress will not undo you if you take it into your hands, acknowledge it for what it is, and then return it to the sender. (i.e., the enemy.) YOU DO NOT NEED TO TOLERATE THE PRESENCE OF STRESS WHEN YOU ARE WALKING IN THE PRESENCE OF MY SPIRIT.
 
Ask Me for My strategies to overcome stress and I will show you, in each situation, what you must do to eradicate it before it undoes you. I have not called you to MANAGE stress but to DEMOLISH it!”


How God Sees Stress: A Prophecy and Prayer Strategy to Overcome Anxiety


​The Problem of Stress


The enemy has long used sin and stress as weapons to deceive, torment, and separate people from God. God’s people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. This does not mean that we need more information; it means we need more of Him! One of the most powerful prayers in the Bible is that we will come to “know Him better.” (Ephesians 1:17).
 
From Genesis until modern times, people have sought after knowledge, information and self-help techniques rather than seeking the knowledge of God, whose Spirit IS knowledge, counsel, wisdom and understanding. Only the fear of the Lord brings true knowledge and enduring wisdom to live life victoriously!
 
While the world tries to combat stress with impotent weapons like anger management, yoga, mind control, diets, drugs and drinking, we are to use “divinely powerful” weapons to wage warfare against stress: not to manage it but to demolish it! Worldly strategies may alleviate stress for a time, but God's ultimate plan is to bring total freedom from stress!

 
Stress and anxiety set themselves up as fortresses of wrong beliefs about our future, their walls rising up higher each time we react to negative situations with fear instead of faith. God’s plan for stress is that it be demolished as we take those wrong beliefs captive to the obedience of Christ.  


The Solution to Stress


How do we do this?
 
We begin by renewing the mind. (Romans 12:1-2) Using Bible truths, we cast down every argument or speculation that sets itself up in opposition to the knowledge of God.
 
The Word of God becomes our primary weapon in this type of fight, for without it we are not aware of the victory that is ours. Immersion in the Word of God brings the “peace that passes all understanding.”* It bypasses the stress we perceive in our minds and feel in our bodies and renews us on the inside, by the Spirit.
 
Several Bible commentators agree that this kind of warfare has three discernible phases:
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  1. Demolish demonic mental fortresses of false reasoning and prideful arguments. (i.e., don’t tolerate the lies that there is no hope for your situation or you will continue to be stressed until circumstances change!)
  2. Take captive any wrong thinking about your situation and conform your thought life (your mind and emotions) to the truths of the Gospel (speak the truths of God’s Word over your mind, body and emotions. Say this instead: “You will keep me in perfect peace as I keep my mind on You! Jesus has given me divine wisdom for every circumstance. My peace does not come from intellectual understanding but from the Spirit of God. He who is IN ME is greater than he that is operating in my world!)
  3. Bring everything into obedience to Christ. (The book of Philippians gives us a good reminder: we will be anxious about nothing when we pray about everything!)
 
Jesus disarmed the principalities and took away the weapons in which the enemy trusted. Now, using supernatural weapons, we bring everything into subjection to His anointing, including stress, anxiety, and fear. We take the Word of God in prayer and declare victory over anything that rises up to challenge our peace in God and our relationship with Him!
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What You Can Do to be Free from Stress


​Taking a break from the busyness and spending time in prayer is a good starting point when you feel overwhelmed. But to be free of stress in the long run, you'll need to know the Word!

*Read Isaiah 26:3; Romans 12:1-2; Luke 11:21-22; Philippians 4:6-7; Hosea 4:6; Isaiah 11; Ephesians 6:12-18; Romans 7:11; Romans 13:12-14; Colossians 2:15.

​Write out these or related verses that remind you of God’s promises and memorize them so that you are armed with Scripture the next time the enemy approaches you with stress. The peace you gain will be a blessing not just to you, but to those around you who long for the same freedom you possess.

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