Faith is believing something you cannot see will happen. Fear is believing something you cannot see will happen. Confidence attracts the positive. Fear attracts the negative.
Give God the negatives. Don’t dwell on them. Take care of them privately. When you want to complain about someone, injustice, or trauma that apparently was caused by a person, take that up with the Lord out in the desert or on a mountaintop. Don’t take your murmurings to another person or live with them inside you. Confess sins, your own and those that others have committed against you, and ask to be cleansed from them. Admit what your conscience convicts you about; don’t cover it up.
Your children also don’t need to know the anxiety, the tension, the anger. Don’t communicate to your children the poverty attitude or your brokenness. While for you it is a passing crisis, it can become a lifetime habit for them to overcome. Your children do not need to be responsible for the knowledge of what you are going through.
Outside of such confidential meetings, keep your conversation positive. No one needs to know the negatives of your situation. Though you may be going through emotional turmoil or suffering mental anguish, no one else needs to know the details. We deceive ourselves, and the enemy of our souls takes advantage when we think that we must share everything with everyone. That’s just not true.
Come generous with your time, your prayers, the Gospel, your work, your grace, your mercy, your compassion, your money, and your talents. As God cleanses your motives and your mind is renewed, the evidence is in your generosity. Spend the time in prayer, then do the work that’s there.
God’s Word is your blueprint for success. Don’t be tossed to and fro by every whim, personality, feeling, or fleeting thought that comes along. Steady yourself in the Word of God.