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The Antidote for Anxiety and Depression: Trust in Abba Father’s Care – Pt 2

Is God’s Peace Ruling Your Mind and Emotions?

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

– Colossians 3:15

When I was a student at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus in Barbados, I had an experience that was very profound. My host at that time had taken me to the bus stop in Rockley and showed me the buses and the bus routes that I needed to take to get to the university. The morning I went to take the bus for the first time on my own, I waited at the bus stop for more than two hours and the bus I thought I needed to take didn’t pass by the time I thought it should have passed. I then got anxious that I had missed the bus and fear of the unknown stepped in. I became so flustered that the questions foremost in my mind were, “did I really miss the bus or was it that I just couldn’t remember what time the buses passed?”

I stood at the bus stop in uncertainty, crying as fear and anxiety enveloped my emotions. As a result I had a panic attack. Precipitously, in the midst of the panic attack I heard a still, small, comforting voice deep within; a voice that I knew right well as it had spoken to me in situations of the past. It was the voice of Abba Father. The voice said to me, “I know how you are feeling. You feel like an eaglet that had just been tipped out of its mothers nest by the mother eagle to learn to fly. But do not be afraid for I am your mother eagle, I am right here with you, and I will not let you fall.”

Immediately, the panic attack ceased while the “Shalom” peace of God ruled and guarded my mind and emotions, as in Colossians 3;15. Shortly after, the bus that I needed to take came and I went to the university.

The reason why this experience is so profound is this: Before I heard the aforementioned in my spirit, I had no prior knowledge about how eaglets learn to fly. I had never heard about it, looked at a documentary of it, or read it anywhere. That was new knowledge for me at that time. Hence, I wanted to understand what Abba Father really meant so when I got to the university that day, the first thing I did was to go to the computer lab and researched it.

It was then that I received a fresh revelation of Abba Father’s care for me. It therefore behoved me to continually allow the peace of God to rule my life and to have an attitude of thanksgiving in all things.  

This is why I believe that God is our Jehovah Shalom, our Peace. Therefore, we ought to let “the peace of God (a peace so wonderful that it cannot be compared to any other type of peace; a peace that stands in a category by itself and rises far above and goes beyond anything the human mind could ever think, reason, imagine, or produce by itself) which stands at the entrance of our hearts and minds, working like a guard to control, monitor, and screen everything that tries to access our minds, hearts, and emotions; call the shots in our lives, be the umpire in our lives and actions, and act as a referee in our emotions and decision” (Renner, 2003).

Abba Father clearly loves and cares for you and me like no other can or ever will. Let us trust in his loving care today and always.

God bless you!

MY PRAYER FOR TODAY

Heavenly Father I praise Your name today because Your name is greatly to be praised. Thank you for your great love with which you love me and your peace that guards my heart and mind. I trust in Your loving care for me always. I declare that the peace of God is ruling my heart and mind and for this I am thankful. I pray this prayer by faith in the name of Christ Jesus. Amen!