You Can Be Filled With Joy

Breathe Deep and Know: God is the source of hope, and He can fill you with joy and peace as you trust in Him.

What are you filled with today? Is fear or anxiety filling your mind and heart? Or are you full of joy and peace?

I’m fairly certain we’d all choose being filled with joy and peace over fear and anxiety any day, but it often seems impossible to make that shift on our own. And honestly, it is impossible. Willpower alone is not enough to be able to release fear and be filled with joy. We can’t always force ourselves to stop feeling anxiety and be filled with peace because often anxiety is as much a physical health condition as it is a mental one. Breathing exercises can help to calm the body and relieve some of the physical effects of fear and anxiety, but breathing alone does not fill us with joy and peace or give us confident hope. Only God can do that.

So breathe deeply. Thank God for tools to address your anxiety. And ask Him to meet you there and to bring joy and peace to your heart today.

I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:13

inhale:

GOD OF HOPE, I TRUST YOU;

exhale:

FILL ME WITH JOY AND PEACE.