1 Peter 5:7 [AMP] ‘casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully].’
DAILY READING; 1 Corinthians 1:1-17; 1 Kings 12:32-13:34; Joel 1
Hajnal Ban is an Australian politician who became famous for going to extraordinary lengths to increase her height.
Hajnal Ban was born diminutive with a height of 5 feet.
While growing up she was often made fun of and in school, she was taunted and called names such as ‘midget’.
After she graduated and began working she became convinced that her short height was the sole reason why she wasn’t being taken seriously in the professional world.
Fearing that it would count against her progress in her legal and political career, she decided to cosmetically add more inches to her height.
In 2001, when Ban was 23 years old, she found a solution in an orthopedic clinic in Russia—albeit a painful one. According to an article in the Times of London, Russian doctors agreed to “break both her legs in four places and stretch them slowly for 1mm every day for nine months.”
In effect the doctors did not make her taller, the real work was done by her body which through the breaking of the bones, was coaxed to create new bone tissue, along with the nerves, blood vessels, ligaments, and soft tissues that surround it. The painful procedure which took almost a year to complete and cost $40,000, only added 3 inches to her height.
Worry and anxiety over gaining respect and approval in her career, made Hajnal Ban willing to take a very drastic action to increase her height.
We live in a word where people are worried and anxious about a lot of things.
Jesus says in Luke 12:25 ‘And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? ‘
The Greek noun for “cubit” refers to a form of measure that is equal to the length of the lower part of the arm and is estimated to be 18 inches.
Interestingly, 3 inches was all Hajnal Ban could gain after undergoing a painful, bone-breaking process.
God is the only One who can easily add cubits to our heights and increase us in every other area of life. Promotion comes from Him alone. When He opens a door before us, no man shut it.
It is therefore wise for us to trust Him to handle every issue of concern in our lives.
Psalm 37:5 (NLT) says ‘Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you”.
If you’re going to live in peace, it’s not going to happen by accident, you will have to deliberately choose to trust God and roll over your cares to Him.
Studies show that living stressed and worried can weaken a person’s immune system. You need your health and vitality intact to accomplish your great destiny. Therefore you don’t have the time to worry about people’s opinion or approval. God does not make mistakes and He has made you good for your situation. He has given you all that is needed to fulfill your assignment on earth. Therefore instead of worrying about what we cannot control, we should rather shift our energy to what we can create to positively impact our world. The energy you would have used in worrying, use that same energy to thank God for being in perfect control of your life. When you turn your worry into worship, certainly, God will turn your trials into triumphs.
PRAYER: Lord, please help to stop worrying about things I have no control over, I trust you are in control of my life. I thank You for causing me to always experience Your peace that passes all understanding at all times in Jesus Name .
QUOTE;
Praise always guarantees you power for a raise, learning to praise God in season and out of season is key to fulfilling destiny. – WORDBITE 222.
Shalom!
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