{"id":5817,"date":"2019-10-11T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=5817"},"modified":"2019-10-25T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:22:55","slug":"how-i-found-god-faithful-in-battling-my-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=5817","title":{"rendered":"How I Found God Faithful in Battling My Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:<\/em><\/strong><em> This article is part of a series on anxiety.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of our experiences with anxiety is very different based upon who we are as a person and the circumstances that we find ourselves in.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are writing about the experience of anxiety from many different angles so you may not find every article as helpful to you as another one that better describes your experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;The good news is that the Bible isn&rsquo;t a one-size-fits-all guide to life, but be confident that the answers found in the Bible can help you.&nbsp;&nbsp;God does understand what you are going through, and He will guide you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In this testimony, Carol Wright (BCC Counselor in Northwest Indiana) details how God has brought her through some severe and debilitating struggles with anxiety.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Every fall season, some community in Indiana has an &ldquo;OZ Fest.&rdquo; It summons up mental pictures of the OZ Squad tiptoeing through the forest in dread of the lions, tigers, and bears. (oh my!) What could have been a nice walk to Oz turns into dread-filled trepidation.&nbsp; But, is their dread and anxiety over the unknown much different from ours?<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, like anger, fear has many faces. Dread and anxiety are two we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this testimony, Carol Wright details how God has brought her through some severe and debilitating struggles with anxiety. She writes about how her anxious dread \u201ckept me from being punctual in appointments and deadlines. It kept me from going back to school, and it kept a little, invisible black cloud hanging over my head (think doom and gloom). My mindset was that if the worst could happen, it would. However, one day that started to change.\u201d<br \/>\nThe post How I Found God Faithful in Battling My Anxiety appeared first on Biblical Counseling Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":5819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[868,800],"tags":[239,871,252,870],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-center","category-selected-authors","tag-anxiety","tag-bcc-anxiety-series","tag-fear","tag-for-those-seeking-hope","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BCC-Favicon-150x150-2.png?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5821,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions\/5821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}