Hakuna Matata!!!! Simply Put:Trust God

 Hakuna Matata!!!! 

Can't you just hear the famous Disney tune ringing in your ear! It means No Worries. What a way to live! Worry free!
Then the movie ends, the curtain falls and you realize that YOUR life is full of things to worry about.

Recently I was faced with a challenge that left me worried and anxious. At almost 7 months pregnant I began to feel stomach tightening to the point my doctor recommended for me to be seen at labor and delivery. After running several test and checks everything was fine. The next night I began to feel contractions. Not the false labor contractions but all night I woke up to the nudging pain of 30-40 second contractions. After several of these contractions I began to get concerned but insisted on trying to sleep through them. They finally began to dissipate and I was able to sleep through the rest of the night. When I woke up and said my morning prayer I was given a gentle reminder of John 16:33

"In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

What did this mean? It meant that this problem will not be the last of the problems I would face, so I needed to make a decision today that would affect the rest of my life. I needed to decide not to worry and become anxious when every new problem arises, because they will. I had to decide not to allow what was going on around me to determine if I would trust God. For 2 days I had allowed the enemy to place so much worry and anxiety on me that I was putting stress on the blessing inside me. I was pushing myself into an early labor if I didn't give it to God. So I decided to do just that.

Later in the day after asking God how to do this, I opened my Facebook and something strange came across the screen that I didn't recall ever clicking. It was a picture-gram from Ann Voskamp that was dated for the current date and said:

I will not let worry overrule today. 

When the King rules my world, I cease to rule or to worry. 

ALL WORRY DETHRONES GOD. 

All worrying makes me King and God incompetent. 

I am going to trust in the little places, through unexpected people, 

his perfect story is unfolding and unwrapping all around me and within me, 

the light overtaking the dark.

 What a statement of truth and mandate of action. In my worrying I dethrone my Savior and I certainly didn't want to do that. So I decided to make a few changes going into 2015 that would intentionally help me to worrying less.

4 Practical Tips to Worry Less in 2015

Tip 1: Talk to God about exactly how you feel regarding what your worrying about and the promises he made regarding you as his child. Talk to him as if your talking to your best friend.

Tip 2: Realize that what the devil meant for evil, God can/will turn around for your good. Seek out ways that this could be turning into something victorious for you.

Tip 3: Be patient with God through the trial. All the fruits of the spirit are characteristics that go upward before they go outward. So we should practice patience with God so that we will become patient. 

Tip 4: Turn you WHY into WHAT. Ask God what is he desiring for you to learn or exhibit through this. What does he see that needs to be worked on as you go through the trial. Trials reflect the best and worst in us, so let it shape you as God intended.

As the New Year approaches determine in your heart to start working on Worrying less and Trusting God more!

Hakuna Matata and Happy New Years from The Mom Squad!!!