Be Still My Anxious Heart: Ten Days of Devotions

By Vida Li Sik

Do you have days when you feel worried and stressed about your life, health, family, or finances? Do you feel lonely, and wonder where God is amid all your trouble? The good news is: you are not alone. God cares. He cares about your anxiety and your fears. And he wants nothing more than for you to lean on him. Be Still My Anxious Heart offers ten devotional readings to help you find peace and calm through God's word and prayer. Join me on a journey through the Bible, examining men and women just like us who found their strength in God. They faced their biggest fears and overwhelming odds. Yet, they found comfort through prayer, their relationship with their God and community. May you find the same.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vida Li Sik
• Release date: Sep 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201825263

Vida Li Sik

Vida Li Sik is a wife, mother, award-winning journalist and multi-genre author. She grew up in a small town, Nigel, in sunny South Africa. Together with her family, she is actively involved in a youth and family ministry in Johannesburg, the City of Gold. She has no pets and has yet to find a weird and wonderful hobby. In the meantime, she loves to write about people, real ones and imagined.  For updates, contact Vida through her website: https://www.vidalisik.com/ or on social media. She would love to hear from you. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vidalswriter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vidalisik Twitter: https://twitter.com/vidalisik

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Be Still My Anxious Heart

Ten Devotions

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.

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Please note that these devotions are written in British English.

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Cover Art: Anna Jensen

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Dedication

A big thank you to the women in my Devotions for Women WhatsApp group who inspired the topic of this booklet. Your support means the world to me.

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And, above all, glory and praise to our Father who knows my anxious thoughts.

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"You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you."

(Isaiah 26:3)

Introduction

Anxious? Who me? I would never have pegged myself as an anxious person, but the signs were always there. As a teenager, my heart would pound, and I would break out in a sweat every time I attended a social event. I’d only get as far as the door before I turned on my heels and ran back home.

I thought worrying was normal. I would worry about my health, safety, and my lack of friends, writing exams, finances, and the future. Somehow, I learnt to navigate temporary everyday social situations despite my anxiety, made it to adulthood, and got married.

But then I moved to live in two different countries where I didn’t speak the language. On top of that I gave birth to my two sons during two separate military takeovers in a foreign country. Slipping into survival mode where I coped became second nature to me.

Upon our eventual return to our own country, I relaxed in my familiar environment, but the