Do you find yourself completely immersed in anxiety and worry that makes it impossible to do anything productive? You may be at work trying to focus on tasks or at home trying to spend time with your family, but you find yourself unable to shake the thoughts in your heart and mind that consume you with worry and anxiety. Anxiety and worry can be life dominating and consuming. Many times it is very difficult to break through. What do you do?

Look to Nehemiah as an example of how to move forward in God-empowered action to meet needs that He puts before us. Nehemiah let himself feel the burden and need of his people which led him to weep and mourn. But he did not stop there. He went to the Lord in prayer and fasting as he was committed to his daily job of being the cupbearer to the king. For about four months, Nehemiah showed up to work every day and did his secular job, not saying anything about the burden on his heart. He prayed and worked, prayed and worked, prayed and worked as he gave his burden to the “LORD God of heaven.”