21 Days to Overcome StressSample

Strategies of the enemy

The enemy has a number of strategies to defeat you…primarily, for you to be weary and exhausted every day of your life.

Your adversary would also like nothing better than for you to be terrified and filled with fear. And finally, your enemy wants you alone. All alone.

Stress, weariness, anxiety, fear, and loneliness are emotions that taunt women of every age and at every time in history.

For the next few days, we are going to dig deeper into these schemes of the enemy, as well as the remedy for your corresponding emotions…straight from the truth of God’s Word.

The first bit of good news is this: Jesus is not surprised by these emotions, nor the schemes, and His plan trumps that of the enemy every single time! There is power in the Word of God to fight every negative emotion and to dismantle the schemes and plans of his royal nothingness.

A Bible dictionary defines weariness as, “exhaustion; to be faint; to wear out or be worn out; tired, sick, fatigued, exhausted, and out of patience.” Perhaps the Bible dictionary just described you!

In any case, that is the “you” that the enemy wants you to be. Satan is conniving, deceptive, and secretive, and he will wear you out any way that he is able to do so. The route to weariness is a short one, and you will arrive at exhaustion sooner than you dare believe.

Many Christian women that I know are worn out from overspending and overeating; they are exhausted from overcommitting to the wrong things and under committing to all the right things. Stress is not merely just a result of trying to attempt to do too much, but it is spending your time doing things that leave you unfulfilled and empty.

I encourage you to continue this journey with me as we look closer at worry, anxious thoughts, and hurrying through life.

DAILY DEPOSIT:

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. – Isaiah 40:29 NIV