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From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere." Anonymous God Is Enough Single moms have even greater financial pressures and often no one to share them with. When Susan’s husband left her and her two young girls, she had no extended family around to help or offer assistance in any way. While some single mothers have parents, aunts,

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere." Anonymous As we rode up the Maine highway, I felt like a fifty-pound weight was on my shoulders. My friend Linda sang along with a Christmas tape as she drove the car, but I was preoccupied with my own worried thoughts. Just then a car passed, loaded with laughing kids and brightly wrapp

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "Prayer, even prayer for what God desires, releases power by the operation of a deep spiritual law; and to offer up what one loves may release still more." Sheldon Vanauken Worry to Wonder As mothers, we have a desire to protect and care for our children that seems to come with the job description. But sometimes that caring can turn to clinging. A crisis occurs. Your child is ho

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "Prayer, even prayer for what God desires, releases power by the operation of a deep spiritual law; and to offer up what one loves may release still more." Sheldon Vanauken Losing Control Oh, how we wish we could control things so everything would go smoothly for us and our kids, so they wouldn’t have problems and neither would we if we could just manage it all! For years, my fri

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "Prayer, even prayer for what God desires, releases power by the operation of a deep spiritual law; and to offer up what one loves may release still more." Sheldon Vanauken Dashed Hopes My spirits fell like the rain pelting the window beside me. Swallowing a huge lump in my throat, I thought about the yellow Snoopy lunch box our son had picked out, the new jeans and red plaid

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "Prayer, even prayer for what God desires, releases power by the operation of a deep spiritual law; and to offer up what one loves may release still more." Sheldon Vanauken Dread tied my stomach in knots before I ever opened my eyes that September Sunday morning. Even in deep sleep I listened for the sound that sparked fear in me. The rattling sound was all the scarier because

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 NIV Worry to Wonder Acceptance says, “True, this is my situation at the moment. I’ll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I’ll also open my hands to accept whatever a loving Father sends. Thus acceptance never slam

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 NIV From Control to Rest I’ve found that the more we worry, the more we try to control people or situations. That causes us to be more fearful, especially when the people we’re trying to control resist us or the situation

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 NIV What Acceptance Is and Isn’t Sometimes we equate “acceptance” with an attitude of “anything goes”: I’ll accept any behavior my husband or children dish out. Instead, acceptance is embracing and dealing with the problem

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 NIV When Emotions Overwhelm From that point to the present, whenever Marilyn begins worrying about a situation, she repeats the process that brings her to acceptance. No, the circumstances didn’t change overnight. But she

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 NIV Marilyn was exhausted the morning she and her husband, Dave, came home from his month at the rehab center. Every day she’d handled the load not only of caring for their three children but fielding calls from angry bill

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured." Rick Warren Worry to Wonder We each have different “panic buttons” and certain experiences that shake our lives. Sometimes it’s a single calamitous event, like the death of a spouse or job loss (or the threat of such a loss). Other times misfortune come

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured." Rick Warren Catapulted into Prayer It’s an amazing thing that the very things that push our panic buttons can catapult up into earnest prayer. When people discover I write and speak on prayer they ask me, “Have you always been a praying person? Have yo

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured." Rick Warren Praying the Four Ps When Esther returned to her room after the seminar, she had a long talk with God. “I’ve always been able to count on everything in Your Word. I’m going to put these verses into practice, regardless of how I feel,” she sa

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured." Rick Warren Esther helped her elderly patient settle into a bed in the outpatient oncology center where she served as a nurse. She chatted comfortably while gathering supplies and preparing the medication for the patient’s chemotherapy. All her pa

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "Just as saving faith comes through hearing the gospel, so also the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone. Only in scripture do we find an adequate view of God’s relationship to and involvement in our painful circumstances. Only from the scriptures, applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, do we receive the grace to trust God when we are afraid." Jerr

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "Just as saving faith comes through hearing the gospel, so also the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone. Only in scripture do we find an adequate view of God’s relationship to and involvement in our painful circumstances. Only from the scriptures, applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, do we receive the grace to trust God when we are afraid." Jerr

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "Just as saving faith comes through hearing the gospel, so also the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone. Only in scripture do we find an adequate view of God’s relationship to and involvement in our painful circumstances. Only from the scriptures, applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, do we receive the grace to trust God when we are afraid." Jerr

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "Just as saving faith comes through hearing the gospel, so also the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone. Only in scripture do we find an adequate view of God’s relationship to and involvement in our painful circumstances. Only from the scriptures, applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, do we receive the grace to trust God when we are afraid." Jerr

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "When we are lost in the greatness of God, we realize that there is no physical, emotional, or social loss so great that God cannot bring good out of it and compensate us in the next life." Gary Thomas Worry Busters Praying scripture is one of the most powerful things we can do to dissolve our worries and grow in our relationship with the Lord. In the next chapter, we’re g

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "When we are lost in the greatness of God, we realize that there is no physical, emotional, or social loss so great that God cannot bring good out of it and compensate us in the next life." Gary Thomas Worry to Wonder Our faith as believers isn’t just a passport to heaven; eternal life doesn’t just start when we die. It begins here on earth as we make Jesus the center of ou

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "When we are lost in the greatness of God, we realize that there is no physical, emotional, or social loss so great that God cannot bring good out of it and compensate us in the next life." Gary Thomas Lost in the Greatness of God How could Anne face what she did and not be overcome by fear or despair? She was centered on God, lost in His greatness, focused on His faithfulnes

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "When we are lost in the greatness of God, we realize that there is no physical, emotional, or social loss so great that God cannot bring good out of it and compensate us in the next life." Gary Thomas The Turnaround That night the checking account balance hadn’t changed. My husband still didn’t have a job and was just as withdrawn and depressed as usual, but something new wa

From: Replacing Worry for Wonder: A Woman’s Secret to Letting Faith Flourish By: Cheri Fuller "When we are lost in the greatness of God, we realize that there is no physical, emotional, or social loss so great that God cannot bring good out of it and compensate us in the next life." Gary Thomas A Story of God’s Faithfulness Over our salads and bowls of soup, I asked Anne about her experiences as a missionary in China. She shared about the day she was leaving Shangha