Sometimes, when you have gone on praying for what God does not give you, it may be that there will steal over your mind the conviction that you are not on the right track and that result of your prayer will, in itself, do you good, and be a blessing to you. Leave off, then, this damaging habit of worry and take to this enriching habit of prayer! See how you will thus make a double gain-first, by avoiding a loss, and secondly, by getting that which will really benefit you and others, too! Turn everything that is a care into a prayer. It is good for a man to have a holy care and to pay due attention to every item of his life, but, alas, it is very easy to make it into an unholy care and to try to wrest from the hand of God that office of Providence which belongs to Him and not to ourselves.Ĭares are numerous and, therefore, let your prayers be as numerous.
God has given them to you, and the devil himself cannot take them away. A hurricane of afflictions may beat about you, yet you shall be a blessed man, for all the elements of blessedness are within your own heart. Have that little bird in your bosom that sings sweetly of the love of God wear the flower called heart’s-ease in your button-hole and you may go merrily through a perfect wilderness of trouble and a desert of care.
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There have been some who have been perfectly free in a prison, while others have been in absolute bondage with wide estates to roam over. Happiness lies more in the mind than it does in the circumstances in which any individual is found, and the man within has far more to do with his own joy or sorrow than anything outside of him has.
Never let anxieties about Sanctification destroy your confidence of Justification. If you begin to think always of yourself, you will be miserable!
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The man who is full of care, is ripe for any sin, but he who has cast his care on God stands securely, neither shall the evil one be able to touch him!Ĭares have brought many to the poisoned cup, the halter, and the knife, and hundreds to the madhouse.Īway, then, with dark suspicions and anxieties! Is it care about past sin? “The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s dear Son, cleanses us from all sin.” Is it present temptation? “There has no temptation happened to you but such as is common to men: but God who is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.” Is it future peril? O, leave that with Him, for neither “things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the Love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. The very essence of anxious care is the imagining that we are wiser than God, and the thrusting of ourselves into His place, to do for Him that which we dream He either cannot or will not do! Pride begets anxiety true humility gives birth to patience. And the man within has far more to do with his own joy and sorrow than anything outside of him has. Happiness lies more in the mind than it does the circumstances in which any individual is found. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. Baptize every anxiety into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and so make it into a blessing. Let your cares be the raw material of your prayers, and, as the alchemists hoped to turn dross into gold, so do you, by a holy alchemy, actually turn what naturally would have been a care into spiritual treasure in the form of prayer. Turn into a prayer everything that is a care. The cure for care is joy in the Lord.Ĭares are manifold therefore, let your prayers be as manifold. Joy in the Lord is one of the best preparations for the trials of this life. Many of the following Charles Spurgeon quotes on anxiety come from Gospel Hope for Anxious Hearts: Trading Fear and Worry for the Peace of God.Īnxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
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