Dealing with life challenges Philippians 4:6-7 NLT _Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then, you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus._ Worry is an accepted part of humanity. It is our response to unmet expectations, failed efforts, and delayed help. We justify our worries so long as things don't fall out as planned. Worry has proven to be the most common and effective response of humans to challenges, but it also has a track record of not giving one single solution to a problem in the history of the world. This worldview is so bad that one is seen to be irresponsible if he or she doesn't get worried over problems. Worry comes as a result of fear, uncertainty, and discouragement. However, God's word to us is to replace worry with prayer (Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything). It is not to pray in worry or out of worry. With God, if you choose worry, don't pray. If you pray, don't worry. Worry is stress without work, pain without a fight, and busyness with no progress. Prayer is transferring the tension, the pressure, and the difficulty onto God. That is why the first answer to every prayer request must be peace that surpasses all understanding. If you really did a transfer to God, peace will be automatic. Worry is something that can show up many times in the day, depending on what is confronting you at all fronts. That is why prayer must also be done many times in the day. _As life throws worry-inducing situations, you also do worry-transferring prayers._ Never finish a prayer until you see that peace has replaced your worry. When worry shows up in the course of the day after earlier prayer, it is also an alarm to offload another thing in prayer. That is why the word of God entreats that we pray without ceasing. And also pray and not faint. Translate your tears into prayer, your murmuring into tongues speaking, and your hopelessness into thanksgiving. Such exercises will from the beginning, feel like throwing a stone at an elephant or a wall. The peace that will show up may be faint after long prayers. Keep it up. Very soon, you will begin to experience overwhelming peace. And then answers will start to flood in like rivers. Let's Pray - Father, I thank You that, You always hear me when I pray in Jesus’ name. - Now through the day pour out your heart to God in the name of Jesus.