Gloom, Despair & Agony on me............

Here comes another trip back in time........

"Gloom, despair and agony on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all.
Gloom, despair and agony on me."

This is the now infamous song from Buck Owens and the gang on Hew Haw, a primitive TV show of the 60's. Even though it was quite primitive, by today's standards, it spoke of a deep & dark truth. Today, some 40 years later, ANXIETY & STRESS are major killers of the body. Our enemy likes that for a number of reasons, the biggest being a life cut short before it could accomplish what God had destined it to be & do. Our brother Paul spiritually understood this and was reminding the saints in Phillipi of this danger;

Phil 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

This word "anxious" has a root word in the Greek that let's us see why this is so dangerous;

merimna mer'-im-nah
From G3307 (through the idea of distraction); solicitude: - care.

Paul uses this strong word with them because he knows in his own life how the enemy of our souls wants to distract each of us and prevent us from being "all we can be in Jesus Christ". The anxiety & stress he was warning them about was going to be a direct result of the persecution that was going to come as they took their STAND in Him. The cure for this ANXIETY & STRESS was "in EVERYTHING with prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

And then comes the promise that we can "take to the bank";

Phil 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

You notice it says "WILL guard", not might guard, or maybe guard.............it's He Will guard.

So the question you have to ask yourself is this;

What song are you gonna sing when the enemy comes in like a flood and your soul's gotta sing somethin? Are you going to join Buck Owens and the gang.............or would you like to sing a "new song".