This is a thread that I have given serious thought too.
I wanted to open a thread for us to share how faith in God has made difficult times in our lives, manageable.

My faith has made it possible for me to be an emotional anchor to the people that mean the very most to me.
If my faith were absent in these times, I believe it possible that I would have died from grief.
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Thank you God, for allowing me to be a positive influence.

I am battling right now. Every day.

I deal with anxiety. Not panic attacks so much as all day anxiety and axiousness.

My anxiety is based on silly, irrational things. It sucks and I've said I feel like I'd rather not have legs and be cured of anxiety than deal with these mental games.
I often speak to people about their anxiety and can offer some pretty good advice. The problem is that I don't take what I say and apply it yo my own life. I provide scripture and the healing power of Jesus to them and it often puts them in a better place. However, when I experience anxiety I ignore what I have taught others and its like I have no faith at all.

To me, the anxiety is a sin. It seems like a lack of faith in Jesus and creates doubt in my mind or a misplacement of trust.

I pray that I can listen to the verses that I provide others about anxiety but it just doesn't seem to be transformative in My life. I read them and its like I can't actually give my anxiety to Jesus completely.

I currently struggle with this and it is affecting my every day life.
Its making me be worried about moving out and getting married to my girlfriend and even go on vacation. If its not home, I often feel anxiousness.

I know my fears are irrational. I kn ow its a fear of fear. My faith is in Jesus that I can trust in his promises and give him all of my anxiety. I don't quite know how to do that yet though; give Him my anxiety truly.

All I know is that without Jesus, I would be seeking bad things to help heal me. I would be looking to short term fixes and it would ultimately drive more anxiety and not fix anything.

My prayer is that I can learn to actually trust Jesus. I pray that I can be calm always and bot be rattled because Jesus fortifies my heart. I pray that I Jesus will completely remove anxiety from my life as it hinders my every day life and is becoming habitual. Its tough because this is going on 4-5 years but I know in my heart I wouldn't make it out alive without Jesus.

Its something that I pray for as well.
Faith has made me stronger, able to accept things the way they are. If it was not for faith, I could have never of walked away from the emotional turmoil that I put myself through in September.
Faith making a good friend named Cody stronger, as well. He just recently found out (Oct. 30) that he was gonna be a father. Once more, I knew that the boy/man was in love with this girl before he would admit it. Now if he admitted it to her, idk. My personal opinion is that this child will be the foundation of a happy life for the young man.
Prayers for Cody's child to be, have began.

Your faith must be in the right place for "god" to work, tho..

It is quite saddening that you didnt make mention of Jesus in your testimony

Human optimism is not the Christian faith

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. - Psalm 118:8
^ Theres Jesus..

Please help me learn how to properly place my trust and faith and not trick my mind in to optimism