There are many self-help DIY approaches to achieving the nirvana of peace, but the only proven method requires help from the God of peace. Here are 4 Bible truths that give real peace instead of fear, anxiety, discouragement, and depression; hope instead of suicide; and help instead of suffering. These are the Bible truths that cured me from anxiety attacks and phobia of flying. They have helped me and they have helped others so they can help you.
God already knows your lifespan
God already knows the number of days in our life, which will probably be somewhere between 1 and 29,000. That number won’t change if we do the activity that triggers an anxiety attack. That number won’t change if we do the activity that triggers your phobias. That number won’t change if we do something really stupid, but God knows that too. Is that good enough for you?
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. (Psalm 139:13 WEB)
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. (Psalm 39:4 KJV)
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. (Psalm 90:12 KJV)
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. (Psalm 103:14 WEB)
God has plans of real peace for your life
You have free will so you can choose to obey God or you can choose to disobey God. You can be a good example or you can be a bad example. You can thrive or you can languish. If you choose to follow him, he may use you as another Moses, Daniel, or Paul. If you choose stupid foolish risky behavior, God’s plan may be short. If you choose a violent criminal lifestyle, God’s plan for you may involve prison ministry. God already knows all of this ahead of time, so he can use you no matter what. Is that good enough for you?
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (Jeremiah 29:11 KJV)
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. (Psalm 40:5 KJV)
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. (Malachi 3:16 KJV)
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:8-10 KJV)
You are invulnerable in God’s plan
You are invincible and invulnerable in God’s plan. You are the ultimate super hero. If you are obedient to God, he has promised to bless you. If you are disobedient to God, he has promised to curse you. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. (Romans 14:8 KJV)
This may sound like circular logic, but the Bible truth is God has planned to use you as he can where you are. Is that good enough for you?
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. (2 Chronicles 16:9 KJV)
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. (Isaiah 54:17))
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose … What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (Romans 8:28, 31-34)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35-39 WEB; Psalm 44:1-26)
You will be carried by angels to God
When the time has come that God already ordained for your life on Earth to end, you will be carried in the arms of the angels into the presence of the Lord. If your phobia is actualized, you will be carried by angels to God. If your fear is realized, you will be carried by angels to God. If your anxiety causes a heart attack, you will be carried by the angels to God. If your airplane explodes in mid-air, you will be carried by the angels to God. Is that good enough for you?
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. (Luke 16:19-22 WEB)
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 5:1-5 KJV)
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. (2 Corinthians 5:6-10)
Since God already knows the number of days you will live and he has plans of real peace for you, you will be invulnerable during your life, and when his plans are finished, you will be carried by the angels into the presence of God. Is that good enough to give you real peace?