A 3-Day Business Bible Study to Throw Off the Shackles of Anxiety and Live in Freedom COURSE HERE Do you struggle with moments of fear and anxiety in your business? I'm going to help you understand where anxiety in business comes from, what purpose it actually serves None of these anxieties are surprises to God. They all find precedents – and hope – in the Bible.

I used to cringe looking at my credit card balances. Seeing debt would set me into a state of depression. I'd binge on Mcdonald’s for a week, be super unproductive at the office, and disconnect from my morning time with God and my writing. That's the power that SEEING a credit card bill had over me. Crazy. However, I learned to change the way I see debt. I used to see it as slavery, but now I see it as freedom. I smile when I see my credit card bills because I know the debt is because I'm building a business that will (eventually) pay the debt off. That simple shift in my view has reduced my stress and helped me push forward with my ideas, even if I didn't know how long it would take to pay it off. I can rest assured that God is working in my life to become the entrepreneur that is faithful with a little and thus can be trusted with more. How could I go from depression to excitement over the same credit card bill? The only explanation is that the enemy has one plan for our lives, and God has a totally different (and opposite) plan. We Christian entrepreneurs can apply this type of mental opposition awareness to almost every area of our business and personal lives. The enemy that dwells in our mind has one goal - for us to feel pain. So how do we battle this enemy? How do we go to war with it so we can finally defeat its negative thoughts that send us into periods of depression? What I've come to learn is that our job isn't to battle the enemy. Jesus already did that and won. Our job is to know it exists, simply observe it, smile at it, and NOT follow where it wants to take you. The Bible says Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. (Ephesians 6:11-17 ESV) Notice how God's plan is to shift the mind into metaphorically protecting the body (where the holy spirit dwells), thus escaping the mental cycle that the enemy exists in. After you realize that the enemy dwelling in your mind (1 Peter 5:8) is causing you pain, preventing you from truly running your business in the present, you need to detach yourself from your mental cycle. How? To separate yourself from the grips the enemy has on your mind, you must become fully conscious of it and the power it has over you. Otherwise, you’ll never understand the countless small and subtle ways the adversary influences your thinking and behavior – and, therefore, your happiness. The Bible wants us to see the enemy as something we must battle against, thus the imagery of putting on the armor of God. Through observing yourself as a soldier standing firm in your faith, you’ve managed to create a gap in the enemy's flow of thinking. The great news is that you don't actually have to go into any battle. You're simply partnering with God (who is the armor), and He battled the enemy so you can run your business freely. That's why I can run my business with confidence, even in the face of the enemy taunting me because of my credit card debt. If you apply this concept to different business areas, you’ll start to notice how much you are usually occupied by the continuous attacks from the enemy in your mind. And you’ll have found the primary tool for interrupting the enemy and thus separating from it. HALLELUJAH! Another method I use to battle the enemy in my mind is to simply observe it without judgment. For example, I don't judge my debt as a failure, not getting rich fast enough, others being better than me, or being irresponsible with my money. Judging is itself an act of the enemy. He has us question everything, and usually, the judgment doesn't lead us anywhere good. So if we judge something, we are back to being controlled by our mind again. The counterattack to this is to use your physical body in a certain way. Some people will speak the enemy away. Others will just smile at it and accept that it exists. Our body knows what's good for us because that's where our Holy Spirit dwells. By doing these tactics, we'll learn to notice the enemy in our mind without having to follow it wherever it’s trying to lead us on our entrepreneurial journey. #TrustOnGod

The pandemic has caused many to face uncertainty, which has caused anxiety to build up within you, and You may try and think positive thoughts about your tomorrow, but the heaviness of anxiety cripples you If you are facing anxiety or struggling with it, here are two prayers to help you through: Dear Heavenly My God and My Lord, I am struggling with anxiety where its weight is too heavy to carry. Bless me with Your rest and refresh my soul from all anxiety.

The reason why we have stress and anxiety about money is that we’ve attributed good things in our business Anxiety and stress make me forget. For me, it’s my antidote to stress. Do this, and see how your anxiety level about money changes.

There’s a pathway out of the valley of the anxiety and stress of entrepreneurship. Anxiety doesn't believe you received it. Stress doesn't believe you received it. Anxiety and gratitude can't share the same heart inside of an entrepreneur. Your anxiety will begin to fade as you write because anxiety and gratitude refuse to share the same heart God will help you pull out the roots of your anxiety.

I’ve uncovered the root of my anxiety. Their action doesn't cause them anxiety, our reaction to their action is what causes it. The situation we're in doesn't cause our anxiety; our reaction and response bring the anxiety. We understand anxiety when it's right there on the edge when it’s close because we’re not sure. When you know and declare the outcome, anxiety leaves you.

(Philippians 4:6) The key to overcoming anxiety in business is simply to not let yourself be caught in a state of PERPETUAL anxiety. You can't remove anxiety, but you can TRANSFER the anxiety to Him so you don't have to carry it. of perpetual anxiety. #GodpreneurRule: Anxiety comes with business, but doesn't have to dominate us in our businesses.

My anxiety goes through the roof, I don’t know how I’m going to get out of this low, and I want to quit

When we want something, it makes us stressed and gives us anxiety.

In my next series of teachings, I want to talk about overcoming anxiety in business. Depending on the nature of that day’s decision, it was either excitement or anxiety. And even when you’re faced with winning a big contract, the anxiety of figuring out how you’re even going Key #1: God Leads the Way The first key to overcoming anxiety in business is God leading the way. Bible Study to Throw Off the Shackles of Anxiety and Live in Freedom Heard of the Godpreneur Academy

In part 1 of my series Overcoming Anxiety in Business, we learned that we need to let God lead the way #GodpreneurAcademy #BusinessBibleStudy Overcoming Anxiety in Business A 3-Day Business Bible Study to Throw Off the Shackles of Anxiety and Live in Freedom Heard of the Godpreneur Academy?

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While at a men's retreat, the speaker talked extensively about depression and anxiety. He then explained that anxiety is when we're stressed or worried about something in the future. Anxiety over things we cannot control or out of our reach makes no sense (Matthew 6:27). His context here is about the emotions of fear and anxiety.

Stop the pity party, stop the depression, stop the anxiety and worry, just stop it.

The most difficult moments for me as an entrepreneur are moments of darkness. When I can’t see the big picture and I can’t see the whole plan played out, I get anxious. Clarity isn’t always certain, and darkness will always come. In those moments of darkness, it's easy for us to lose sight of the vision and get frustrated, possibly even make bad decisions. But the hope for a Christian entrepreneur is that there is a LIGHT that is always on and forever shining a light at our feet. In Isaiah 50:10 we read “Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God.” Maybe we’re not supposed to see visions all the time on purpose. Maybe God designed it this way so we can keep our eyes on the next step we’re taking, not the road 5 miles ahead. A runner needs to have two perspectives: the big picture glance, but the constant stare at the ground in front of him. Don’t get discouraged when the vision goes dark. Rely on God as the lamp on your feet. That’s God telling you he needs you focused on today…on the now. ACTION STEP: What’s the ONE THING you need to accomplish today? Forget the BIG goals, what’s the small objective you can today? Leave me a comment. Share this with someone you know that’s experiencing a season of darkness. #EnhanceFocus