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06/03/2026

Anxiety: What It Is

Anxiety is more than worry—it’s a feeling of dread, apprehension, and uncertainty that often stems from a fear of not being in control. It can be triggered by current situations, unresolved issues from the past, or concerns about the future.

The Bible’s concept of anxiety carries the idea of being “pulled apart” or distracted—the opposite of peace. When left unchecked, anxiety affects not only our minds but also our physical health, creating stress that can impact the entire body.

Understanding anxiety is the first step toward overcoming it. As we learn to trust God with the things we cannot control, we move from fear toward peace.

05/29/2026

Conquering Timidity

Proverbs 29:1 - 27
The fear of man bringeth a snare but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. (Prov. 29:25)


Mark it down: whenever you embark on a course of action simply to gratify or get around another person, you are in for trouble. First of all, the other person can sense that your attitude is not wholehearted and sincere. Second, you have no guarantee that your action will produce the results for which you hoped. And third, your action turns out to be a trap from which you cannot escape. You can never undo those past decisions and actions.

How do you get around “the fear of man”? The answer is found in the second half of today’s text: “Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.”


• Learn to see others as they are: human beings like yourself, with burdens and needs, hurts and hopes like your own.

• Always make a conscious attempt to think with, and into, the other person’s feelings. This is known as empathy. One of the nicest compliments I ever received came in the course of a hospital visit, when a young man looked up from his pillow and said, “Gee, Doc, you do know how I feel, don’t you?”

• Always commit any interpersonal relationship to the Lord. He dwells within you by His Holy Spirit, and He knows your needs as well as those of the other person.



Small thought here

If you are ever afraid of people, just remember that many of those around you feel just as timid as you do! Reach out a friendly hand, get interested in another human being’s problems and needs, and forget your fears.

- Dr Robert A Cook

05/28/2026

Doing doing what You think should happen and do what God said. Even at that, Holy Spirit will guide you, according to the Word.
Run from this foolishness.

🚨 YES, THIS REALLY HAPPENED. 😲

This took place at The Rock Church in Parkersburg, West Virginia, during a so-called "prophetic conference." Guest speaker Kevin Leal ripped a page out of the Bible (from the book of Proverbs), handed it to a teenage boy named Ethan, and told him to chew it up and swallow it. While the boy was eating the page, Leal declared, “Eat it. The power of God is going to go inside of you,” and blew on him.

This is exactly the kind of nonsense that deeply concerns me. This is not prophetic. This is not the Holy Spirit. This is not biblical Christianity. This is not holy. This is not righteous. This is weird, wicked, and whack.

The Holy Spirit leads us into truth, He doesn’t perform strange theatrical stunts for spectacle. This kind of foolishness brings reproach on the name of Christ and makes a mockery of genuine spiritual authority.

RUN. FROM. THIS. GARBAGE.

05/24/2026

Mental Health in the Bible

Addiction - Solomon

In this passage, we see King Solomon indulging his desire to have many women in his life. He marries 700 women and keeps 300 more on the side. Even after God’s clear instructions not to marry these women, who worshiped false gods, Solomon ignores him. Instead, he follows his immediate wants, almost as if he has a compulsive need for the attention and intimacy of these women. Solomon falls deeper and deeper under the influence of his wives and concubines and casts his faith in God aside. He allows the women to distract him and convince him to worship their false gods. Because of this, God delivers some harsh consequences for Solomon’s disobedience, vowing to take the kingdom out of King Solomon’s bloodline.

Solomon’s overpowering desire to marry these women and chase the feelings he got from them doesn’t look too far off from the way many struggle with addiction today. Solomon allowed the voice of his addiction to drown out the voice of God in his life, and if we aren’t careful, our addictions and habits can do the same. The subject of our addiction can quickly become the object of our worship, which can have lasting consequences.

The influence of our addictions can be powerful, but God is stronger. If you’re ready to return to God, away from the bo***ge of your addiction, there’s no better day to start than today. Ask God to forgive you for ignoring his voice in your life, and take a step to get help.

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“King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.”

But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. He had 700 royal wives and 300 concubines; his wives had a powerful influence over him.
When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.

Solomon worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte and the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; he did not remain loyal to the Lord, like his father David had.

Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods.

But he did not obey the Lord’s command. So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead. But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.””
‭‭1 Kings‬ ‭11‬:‭1‬-‭13‬ ‭NET‬‬

King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites. They came from nations about which the LORD had warned

05/22/2026

Mental Issues in the Bible

Depression - Elijah

Elijah was a prophet during an unstable time in Israel’s history. Many had turned away from God to worship Baal, a false god. God sent Elijah to help the Israelites see the error of their ways and return to God, and his efforts resulted in the death of many prophets of Baal. This caused a rift between Elijah and people like Jezebel, who all but guaranteed she would kill him.

Elijah immediately fled and hid away in the wilderness, exhausted and completely alone. In his solitude, Elijah was consumed by feelings of hopelessness. He became convinced that his life had no value and begged God to end his life right then and there.

Clinical diagnoses for conditions like depression didn’t exist in Biblical times, but Elijah’s thought patterns look very similar to what many with depression struggle with today. Feelings of helplessness and low self-worth can trick us into believing things will never get better. But as we read on, we see that God meets Elijah where he’s at and provides for his most basic needs. An angel of the Lord brings Elijah food and water, and God provides space for Elijah to rest and regain his strength. It isn’t long before Elijah turns a corner and continues his journey.

When you’re in the midst of depression, you may start to believe the lie that your life doesn’t matter, there is no hope for your situation, and God doesn’t care about you. Remember how God saw Elijah and gave him what he needed to heal, and know that he can do the same for you.

“Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword.

Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, “May the gods judge me severely if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” Elijah was afraid, so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah.

He left his servant there, while he went a day’s journey into the desert.
He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub.

All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more.

The Lord’s angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, for otherwise you won’t be able to make the journey.” So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.”
‭‭1 Kings‬ ‭19‬:‭1‬-‭8‬ ‭NET‬‬

05/21/2026

Mental issues in the Bible

Anxiety - Martha

Whether you experience occasional stress or suffer from an anxiety disorder, you’re probably no stranger to what Martha felt in Luke 10:38-42. Jesus was coming over to her house, so she wanted to ensure everything was perfect. (Who could blame her?) Martha began to let her concerns about creating a hospitable environment for Jesus escalate to full-blown anxiety.

Our anxious thoughts can act like blinders, blocking parts of our awareness and keeping us from seeing the big picture. While Martha was laser-focused on doing all this work to impress Jesus, Mary simply sat at his feet and absorbed every word he said. Martha was about to miss this special opportunity, but Jesus lovingly reminded her that it’s okay – even valuable – to slow down and refocus on what’s truly important.

Where has anxiety given you blinders in your life? Take some time to ask God to slow your thoughts down so you can focus on what’s most important.

“Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said. But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.””
‭‭Luke‬ ‭10‬:‭38‬-‭42‬ ‭NET‬‬

Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said.

05/20/2026

In case you were deeply thinking:

“For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things.

I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Against such things there is no law.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬-‭24‬ ‭NET‬‬

05/19/2026

Mental issues in the Bible

Grief - Naomi

Naomi has just suffered a colossal amount of loss. Her husband and her two sons have just died, leaving her without any support. Her grief so consumes Naomi that she becomes bitter and resentful, completely hopeless for her future. She pushes away her daughters-in-law, Orpah and Ruth, to keep from dragging them both into her misery with her.

Ruth, however, pushes back. She knows what Naomi needs right now is someone to care for and support her, so she promises never to leave Naomi’s side.

If you’ve ever experienced grief, you may have slipped into isolation, just like Naomi. But leaving yourself alone with such deep feelings is never a good idea. Just like Ruth’s friendship helped Naomi move forward from her grief, there may be someone God’s placed in your life that can help you journey through yours.

“Sometime later Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, so she and her two sons were left alone. So her sons married Moabite women. (One was named Orpah and the other Ruth.) And they continued to live there about ten years. Then Naomi’s two sons, Mahlon and Kilion, also died.
So the woman was left all alone – bereaved of her two children as well as her husband! So she decided to return home from the region of Moab, accompanied by her daughters-in-law, because while she was living in Moab she had heard that the Lord had shown concern for his people, reversing the famine by providing abundant crops.
Now as she and her two daughters-in-law began to leave the place where she had been living to return to the land of Judah, Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother’s home!
May the Lord show youthe same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands and to me! May the Lord enable each of you to find security in the home of a new husband!”
Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly. But they said to her, “No! We will return with you to your people.”
But Naomi replied, “Go back home, my daughters! There is no reason for you to return to Judah with me! I am no longer capable of giving birth to sons who might become your husbands! Go back home, my daughters! For I am too old to get married again.Even if I thought that there was hope that I could get married tonight and conceive sons, surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! No, my daughters, you must not return with me.

For my intense suffering is too much for you to bear. For the Lord is afflicting me!” Again they wept loudly. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung tightly to her.
So Naomi said, “Look, your sister-in-law is returning to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law back home!”

But Ruth replied, “Stop urging me to abandon you! For wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live. Your people will become my people, and your God will become my God. Wherever you die, I will die – and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I do not keep my promise!

Only death will be able to separate me from you!” When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to dissuade her.”
‭‭Ruth‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬-‭18‬ ‭NET‬‬

Sometime later Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, so she and her two sons were left alone. So her sons married Moabite women. (One was named Orpah and the other Ruth.) And they continued to live there ab

05/19/2026

Even as mankind increases in knowledge and struts his “wisdom,” he remains foolish about the things that really matter. There is no more basic foolishness than to deny the existence of God (Psalm 14:1), and there is no more basic wisdom than to fear God (Psalm 111:10). “Where is the wise person? . . . Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe” (1 Corinthians 1:20–21).

When we reject the Designer, we have to try to explain away His design that is so evident throughout His creation. In our proclaimed wisdom, because we refuse to be subject to the Designer, we contrive foolish explanations to dismiss the natural order and design. This is the significance of the statement in Romans 1:22 that “professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” Paul is challenging his readers not to make that mistake but to acknowledge God instead.

All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23), and the penalty for that sin is death (Romans 6:23). But God has revealed how we can be righteous and have a relationship with Him (Romans 3:21–22): we can receive His grace through belief in Jesus Christ (Romans 3:24 and 3:28). Rather than “professing themselves to be wise” and therefore become “fools,” Paul wants his readers to actually be wise and put their trust in Jesus Christ.

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