{"id":2232,"date":"2009-10-08T06:34:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T11:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2009-10-08T06:35:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T11:35:03","slug":"soap-dont-get-weighed-down-by-the-anxieties-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/soap-dont-get-weighed-down-by-the-anxieties-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"SOAP: Don&#8217;t get weighed down by the anxieties of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scripture: Luke 21:34<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBe careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Observation:<\/strong> Don\u2019t let day-to-day life on earth bring you down and cause you to lose focus on the Lord\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong> I must keep my focus on the Lord and his blessings and instruction so that I do not get weighed down by unimportant things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong> Lord, so often I feel pulled in too many directions and know my focus cannot be where you would want it to be. I make choices that seem like good ones at the time, but then sometimes feel weighed down by the obligations which come with the choices.<\/p>\n<p>Please help me to remember that my to-do list is my own. It is filled with choices I make.<\/p>\n<p>Guide me in keeping my focus on you when it comes to filling my to-do list and keep me focused on you in evaluating and carrying it out, as well.<\/p>\n<p>I want my life to be about you. I do not want to be weighed down by worldly things. Keep my focus where you want it to be, not where my mind and heart may wander.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Lord.<\/p>\n<p>PS: If you are joining me in praying for your husband daily at Noon, today we are praying about his fears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 21:34 \u201cBe careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. Observation: Don\u2019t let day-to-day life on earth bring you down and cause you to lose focus on the Lord\u2019s coming. Application: I must keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-praying-wife","category-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}