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October 29, 2024

Finding Peace in God’s Strength Amidst Anxiety

– By Lori Benka I was in the middle of preparing a meal in my Crock-Pot when a sudden, sharp chest pain struck. Immediately, my mind raced to my father’s heart history. Fear gripped me as I realized I needed to seek medical attention. I calmly informed my husband of my decision to go to the Continue reading

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October 29, 2024

Battling Giants: Embracing God’s Promises

– By Lori Benka My husband and I were out walking in the woods the other day when the most horrifying, unthinkable thing happened. As I was gingerly walking, talking, and taking in the scenery, something slithered right where my foot was about to come down! Although I am not an acrobat, I managed to keep Continue reading

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October 29, 2024

How God Turns Our Brokenness into Masterpieces

– By Lori Benka I love going to Lake Erie and searching for beach glass. It’s always exciting to find something that was once so broken to become a treasure I seek after. I have three containers filled with pastel shades of green, white, aqua, blue, and brown. I proudly display each container in different areas Continue reading

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October 28, 2024

How to be Still Before God and not Fear

It was just like any other evening of Bible study. The kids were asleep and the house was quiet except for the humming of the refrigerator. I needed to Be still before the Lord and hear His voice. Opening my Bible, I began hoping God would somehow illuminate something that would minister to my broken Continue reading

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October 28, 2024

The Truth About Who I Am in Christ

– By Lori Benka Do the feelings of fear, anxiety, inadequacy, or discouragement ever bombard your mind and take hold of you like a vice-grip? In my last blog post, I wrote about how my German Shepherd deals with debilitating fear and anxiety due to the fireworks. (You can read about it here) I mention that he Continue reading

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October 28, 2024

A Fearful Dog and a Lesson in Faith

It’s one of the most anticipated holidays of the summer. A holiday filled with fireworks, picnics, summer fun, cherry pie and my German Shepherd cowarding in paralyzing fear. As I prepared for the holiday, I made an assumption that my dog would be fine this year because he was getting older. However, upon further review, Continue reading

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October 28, 2024

You Are Made For a Purpose

Have you ever found yourself wondering what your purpose is in life? Sometimes this question can resonate in our minds after a change in a job or even a change in home dynamics. We feel lost and confused about God’s plans for our lives. When my youngest son left home, I began to find myself Continue reading

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One response to “Finding Peace in God’s Strength Amidst Anxiety”

Psalms 91 Ministries

October 29, 2024

Tom Dunn says:

When I was 35 with a young family, doctors told me I had MS. I went into a deep depression and suffered physically and mentally for years. Several years later during a checkup for some dizziness, they discovered a blocked artery. They cleared that up with a little rotor rooter and that was that. I questioned the Lord about all these physical problems I was having. Then one day I felt like the Lord said, “That’s enough”. With that, I decided to fight back and began exercising and training and managed to regain my strength. Doctors told me I shouldn’t be able to do that. But I knew God gave me the strength and drive to do what was needed to come back.
The next couple of years went great. I’d have some neurological bouts but worked through them.
Then one day I felt a little short of breath. I thought, “Must be time for another rotor-rooter”. This appointment turned out different though. The doctor showed me an x-ray picture of my heart and said “These are your arteries”. They looked like a bunch of dried up fishing worms caught on the driveway after the sun came out and fried them up. He said, “We’re going to have to open you up”. So here comes the old fear and worry again. Talking to the surgeon afterward, he said, “We saw 4 til I flipped your heart over. Saw another one hiding back there so we got five for you!” Wow!
That took some rehab and a lot of work. Was only able to do cardio so went at it with a vengeance. Made a full recovery.
A few years later, just a couple years ago, my doc didn’t like some things he saw and referred me to a neurologist. After tests, they decided that I was a victim of ALS. ALS??? Are you kidding me?? After all I’ve been through Lord, ALS? The worst thing a person can have?? I don’t have to tell you what that did to the ‘positive’ fight-back mindset that I’ve worked years to foster in myself. It was terrible. It was the worst thing that had ever happened to me. I went through months of painful tests here and at Cleveland Clinic and they couldn’t nail it for sure. Then, the day after Thanksgiving, at about 8 PM, I get a phone call. It was one of my neurologists at Cleveland Clinic. He said, “Can you put me on speaker and get your wife? I’d like to talk to both of you.” I don’t have to tell you what my mind was doing. He said, “I apologize for interrupting your holiday weekend, but I just had to tell you that I’ve determined that you DO NOT have ALS!” I was in tears. This had been so hard. They’ve all been so hard. He told me he was giving me back to my PCP. Said, “In my job, I rarely get to give anybody GOOD news, so I wanted to tell you personally.” After all that, my PCP gave me the ‘good news/bad news scenario. “You don’t have ALS. Thank God. Bad news is, we can’t figure out what you DO have!”
So here I am. In God’s hands, as I realize I’ve always been. Ticking time bomb? Who knows. But I’m going to live like there’s no tomorrow! (OK. Bad pun).
Fear never helped me through anything. After all I’ve been through, now when something hits I think, “Ok…now what…”
We ride it through. Knowing God’s timing for us CAN NOT be altered by anything. Anything.
So don’t worry little girl…

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