How do we cast our anxieties on to Jesus

[Wrg1405]

Evening friends.

For the last week or so I have been struggling with an eye issue. Shimmering and flashing in my eye for about a week and a half. Not before the eye problem but during this time I was laid low with viral like symptoms which seemed to increase the eye issue, Feeling wiped out, no energy, did not want to get out of bed.

I have not had my eyes tested for 10 years +.

I suffer generally with severe anxiety and have done for 27 years, so when something adds to that the anxiety ramps up. Putting the general anxiety aside I woke up this morning and bit the bullet and called the eye doctor. I asked if I needed an emergency appointment, when I describe my symptoms I was called in straight away. Anyway the eye test gave my eyes a clean bill of health. Optician thinks the reason for the issue is because one eye is long sighted and the othe short sighted and because I have been wearing the wrong glasses my brain is finding it difficult to compute. It should settle down with my new prescription but my viral infection last week made it worse. However the pressure in my eyes is a cause for concern and have to go back next week for another pressure check to see if I need to treatment to reduce the pressure.

Even though my eyes are healthy and she had to reassure me 5 times I'm still full of anxiety of what might happen next week.

Putting aside my general anxiety anything over and above adds to it.

I know the bible verses about casting our anxiety over to Jeus. I've prayed it every day for 27 years, claimed it for 27 years but I still suffer with it.

What am I doing wrong, what's lacking in me, I just don't understand what to process is. 27 years is a long time and when stuff piles on top of the normal daily routine of wakeing up with it, 27 years feels like 54 years.

Sorry to burden you all, just struggling more than normal.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

I'm the same as you.
I was seeing more stuff come out of my eye, I thought for sure I was about to become blind.
The doctor just smiled and said nothing was wrong.
Things like I was experiencing just happen with age and each person experiences a little something different.
So now it comes and goes and I don't think anything of it.
Sometimes I realize I hardly notice it.

I too have high anxiety.
I'm 65, I've come to realize I've had it all my life and it was never treated.
I've been taking xanax for quite sometime now and it is getting so I really don't need it very often any more.

My anxiety got so bad 6 years ago that I had 3 emergency room visits by ambulance thinking I was having a heart attack.
Only then did they prescribe xanax.
And no one ever monitored me to tell me how and why to take it.
It took me a couple of years to figure things out on my own.

General anxiety - it has hundreds of definitions, no one really knows why we get what we get.
Stress has a lot to do with it getting out of control.

Anxiety and our God, Jesus Christ.
This is the hard part.
When you are having an anxiety attack, it is most difficult at that moment to give it to Jesus and do nothing.
No one can ever understand the feeling of an anxiety attack unless they've had one.
And how hard it is to give anxiety over to Jesus every day when one suffers from anxiety every day.

I don't have the answers.
I just keep praying, learning to know what I can and can't do in life, and sharing that with my loved ones.
Try to teach them to understand what I go through every day.
I may look okay but I may be falling apart on the inside.

Just one day at a time.

 

[Wrg1405]

I'm the same as you.
I was seeing more stuff come out of my eye, I thought for sure I was about to become blind.
The doctor just smiled and said nothing was wrong.
Things like I was experiencing just happen with age and each person experiences a little something different.
So now it comes and goes and I don't think anything of it.
Sometimes I realize I hardly notice it.

I too have high anxiety.
I'm 65, I've come to realize I've had it all my life and it was never treated.
I've been taking xanax for quite sometime now and it is getting so I really don't need it very often any more.

My anxiety got so bad 6 years ago that I had 3 emergency room visits by ambulance thinking I was having a heart attack.
Only then did they prescribe xanax.
And no one ever monitored me to tell me how and why to take it.
It took me a couple of years to figure things out on my own.

General anxiety - it has hundreds of definitions, no one really knows why we get what we get.
Stress has a lot to do with it getting out of control.

Anxiety and our God, Jesus Christ.
This is the hard part.
When you are having an anxiety attack, it is most difficult at that moment to give it to Jesus and do nothing.
No one can ever understand the feeling of an anxiety attack unless they've had one.
And how hard it is to give anxiety over to Jesus every day when one suffers from anxiety every day.

I don't have the answers.
I just keep praying, learning to know what I can and can't do in life, and sharing that with my loved ones.
Try to teach them to understand what I go through every day.
I may look okay but I may be falling apart on the inside.

Just one day at a time.

Hi Rollo, thanks my friend for responding.

My anxiety started when I was 20. Saw a Doc who basically told me I was fit young and healthy you have no reason to suffer from anxiety. The next Doc I saw said the same.

You are right unless someone really understands severe anxiety and how difficult it is to give it to Jesus when its ongoing day after day they will never really understand.

We are falling apart on the inside and it is hard.

But do you know what. Our Father is using us. Despite the despair we feel he still uses us. I see your posts, you love people, you post to help people, your genuine interest is to show the love of God.

God has promised to work good in all things for those who love him. That's the way he is working through you and hopefully me.

I have to cling on to the hope that when we meet Jesus he will say "My good and faithful servant"

God bless you my friend.

 

[JohnDB]

There are millions of asteroids poised at a moment's notice to come and wipe all life on the planet and there is nothing we can do about it.

Rogue nations have nuclear weapons and biological agents enough to wipe out all mankind again.

But God is good right?
God is Sovereign?
Nothing happens with out His consent?

And?

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Hi Rollo, thanks my friend for responding.

My anxiety started when I was 20. Saw a Doc who basically told me I was fit young and healthy you have no reason to suffer from anxiety. The next Doc I saw said the same.

You are right unless someone really understands severe anxiety and how difficult it is to give it to Jesus when its ongoing day after day they will never really understand.

We are falling apart on the inside and it is hard.

But do you know what. Our Father is using us. Despite the despair we feel he still uses us. I see your posts, you love people, you post to help people, your genuine interest is to show the love of God.

God has promised to work good in all things for those who love him. That's the way he is working through you and hopefully me.

I have to cling on to the hope that when we meet Jesus he will say "My good and faithful servant"

God bless you my friend.

And don't forget, I'm here for you in personal messages if you want.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Hi Rollo, thanks my friend for responding.

My anxiety started when I was 20. Saw a Doc who basically told me I was fit young and healthy you have no reason to suffer from anxiety. The next Doc I saw said the same.

You are right unless someone really understands severe anxiety and how difficult it is to give it to Jesus when its ongoing day after day they will never really understand.

We are falling apart on the inside and it is hard.

But do you know what. Our Father is using us. Despite the despair we feel he still uses us. I see your posts, you love people, you post to help people, your genuine interest is to show the love of God.

God has promised to work good in all things for those who love him. That's the way he is working through you and hopefully me.

I have to cling on to the hope that when we meet Jesus he will say "My good and faithful servant"

God bless you my friend.

The Apostle Paul understands.
Philippians 2:25-27;
Epaphroditus was sick and almost died.
Only God healed him.
With all the healings that God had done through Paul, Yet he almost lost Epaphroditus.
After he got well, Philippians 2:28;
"Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety".

 

[Angel]

I went through trauma from my teens to twenties. I made a lot of bad decisions. I was so young and STUPID!
I got to the point where I had to accept what the Bible told me.
There's a verse that says,

For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. 2 Tim 1:17

And I was like... WHY AM I STILL SO DANG AFRAID ALL THE TIME?!

I called CRISIS phone lines and told them for years, I'm afraid! Help me! But all I was told is to write in a journal.

I finally learned that you have to receive the Scripture, and apply it. You apply it by accepting it and then you execute that acceptance.

Power comes from recognizing that God is bigger than your anxiety. Maybe there is something in this that He wants you to learn to help yourself AND others? You have the power to have peace, take it! Sometimes taking hold of the peace is doing something to survive the moment. Coping skills MUST be applied or your going to get nowhere.

Love is recognized in God. Look in the mirror every day and tell yourself, "God loves me." Count your blessings, being thankful for what you have. Worship is the most amazing way to dwell and think upon the love of God.

Self Discipline starts with you and your personal determination to do or not do whatever need be. You can apply discipline to your anxiety. "I feel like crap right now, but I'm still going to get up and go to work." Knowing how you are going to cope ahead of time is discipline.

You do have power over how you will react to your anxiety. Some days are going to be harder and some days you will feel better! And if you can't find a way out of temptation to give into the anxiety ask God for a way out. Turn your back on your anxiety and turn towards Jesus. Read the Bible and meditate over it. Take its truth and apply it to yourself.

I hope this helps. I do understand the stress of anxiety. It sucks. But you can take your life back. And if anything, time helps heal wounds too.

 

[dianegcook]

Evening friends.

For the last week or so I have been struggling with an eye issue. Shimmering and flashing in my eye for about a week and a half. Not before the eye problem but during this time I was laid low with viral like symptoms which seemed to increase the eye issue, Feeling wiped out, no energy, did not want to get out of bed.

I have not had my eyes tested for 10 years +.

I suffer generally with severe anxiety and have done for 27 years, so when something adds to that the anxiety ramps up. Putting the general anxiety aside I woke up this morning and bit the bullet and called the eye doctor. I asked if I needed an emergency appointment, when I describe my symptoms I was called in straight away. Anyway the eye test gave my eyes a clean bill of health. Optician thinks the reason for the issue is because one eye is long sighted and the othe short sighted and because I have been wearing the wrong glasses my brain is finding it difficult to compute. It should settle down with my new prescription but my viral infection last week made it worse. However the pressure in my eyes is a cause for concern and have to go back next week for another pressure check to see if I need to treatment to reduce the pressure.

Even though my eyes are healthy and she had to reassure me 5 times I'm still full of anxiety of what might happen next week.

Putting aside my general anxiety anything over and above adds to it.

I know the bible verses about casting our anxiety over to Jeus. I've prayed it every day for 27 years, claimed it for 27 years but I still suffer with it.

What am I doing wrong, what's lacking in me, I just don't understand what to process is. 27 years is a long time and when stuff piles on top of the normal daily routine of wakeing up with it, 27 years feels like 54 years.

Sorry to burden you all, just struggling more than normal.

Not burden....
I too have had anxiety.
Especially going to any doctor! Lol
Like Rollo was on xanax.
After awhile got immune to them.
When I go to the doctor, my blood pressure would be high, I call it the white coat syndrome.
I rarely went to doctors, hate medicine...
Then when I had my heart attack, have to go to the doctor all the time, tired of seeing them, but my anxiety has calmed down, so use to going now.
Your eyes might be effected by your viral problem also, don't worry, they have some good technology to treat whatever it is.
My daughter would have allergies that would make her eye lid droop.
Gave her drops, everything ok.
I believe if it could be something bad, she would have told you.
It is easy to fear the unknown.
But once you go through with it, you realize, it isn't as bad as you feared it to be.
I just accepted that God is in control, He can take one of us any minute, and would that be bad?
We have ETERNAL life, through Him.
We should look forward to see His face.
Be at peace, don't worry....
Keep you in my prayers...

 

[for_his_glory]

You do have power over how you will react to your anxiety. Some days are going to be harder and some days you will feel better! And if you can't find a way out of temptation to give into the anxiety ask God for a way out. Turn your back on your anxiety and turn towards Jesus. Read the Bible and meditate over it. Take its truth and apply it to yourself.

Truer words have never been spoken as you nailed it on the head with the word temptation and how to overcome it. I deal with depression as my body can no longer do the things I use to be able to do and when I feel the pain it brings on depression and at that moment I literally yell at Satan and tell him greater is He (Jesus) that is in me than you trying to steal my joy. Wrg, we only give in if our faith is weak so bump up the amps of faith and drown out the anxiety and let your joy be overflowing.

 

[Wrg1405]

Hi my wonderful friends.

Just to give you an update. Went back to opticians this morning as symptoms seemed to be getting worse. Was given a comprehensive eye exam included having both eyes dialated. They could not find anything wrong other than a slightly higher eye pressure than they would like. Even with that there were no signs of damage caused by it. Been given non urgent referral to eye doctor to see if eye drops are needed.

Just wanted to say thank you for your prayers and support. Maybe God is using this to teach me something.

God bless you all.

Bill