I have a P31 devotion today and want to say hello and “welcome” if you found your way here through it! I’m so glad you stopped by!
I wish we could sit in a coffee shop and chat today.
I’d love to talk with you about things that are weighing you down or worries that are making you weary. They always seem to lighten when shared with a friend.
I’d tell you about the year I let my problems pile up and how all that pressure almost took me down. It’s all in chapter 9 of my book including the story about how I accidentally took my dogs medicine one morning.
In my devotion, I shared how God has been changing me and rearranging me. I also promised to share three steps to overcome worry and a practical way to physically give God your concerns! Since we can’t chat in a coffee shop today, I decided to share my heart in a short video post.
Message Notes: You can download my “Video Message Notes” in a PDF here or in a Word doc here. They include the points of my message, verses and blanks to fill in. {If you’d like to watch more FREE Confident Heart videos based on my book, click here.}
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This devotional really spoke to my heart. There are things in my life that I worry about and haven’t given them completely to God to deal with. I want to rest in Him, that He will work everything out.
Renee,
What a perfectly timed post! Your words of encouragement are always timely. Thank you for ministering to so many. Praying for you!
Mary
Thank you, Renee. For sharing your heart and the truth that only comes through Christ. Worry has been my lifelong burden. It is a thief that robs me of the joy and happiness that is promised through a relationship with Christ and it is consuming me today. I am 13 weeks pregnant and I don’t even want to tell people because I am worried that my husband and I are too old, have been married too long and don’t have room in our house and lives for a child. I am so focused on the worries of motherhood that I can’t even rejoice in the miracle that is happening inside me. I downloaded your book months ago and I want to read it every time I see one of your devotions. I may have to go get a hard copy. Apparently this ebook thing doesn’t work for me. 🙂 Thanks again.
Wendy,
Please do not let satan rob you of joy in the miracle God has given you. There are many older women married (and actually even older single women who are still wainting on the Lord) who would LOVE to be in your shoes. Children are a gift…if you were too old God wouldn’t have allowed this to happen. (Romans 8:28) May I suggest that you do not look to the approval of popular opinion but to rest in the knowledge that God took note of you and has given you a divine gift which I believe will give glory to Him. Look to the future with excitement and anticipation of a new path that God has selected you and your husband to journey. Celebrate your miracle! I pray God grants you strength, peace and comfort throughout your pregnancy.
Ah…I woke up this morning from a horrible nightmare, was wide awake at 4 am (when I desperately needed sleep), husband texted me at 5:45 am to tell me our account was overdrawn…again…and my computer crashed when I tried to check it. In the midst of desperately wishing I was still asleep (without the bad dreams) I remembered that I had told God last night to wake me this morning when he wanted me to read his word…
So I opened my Proverbs31 devotion and your words were EXACTLY what I needed to hear. I have decided to sit down and make a list of my commitments, deadline…anything weighing on my heart. Just get it all out on paper…and then see if there is anything that I need to re-evaluate!
Thank you for your words of wisdom and encouragement!
Thank you so much for today’s devotional…I needed something and was praying for something just like this to correct my prayer life this week. thank you for jump starting my morning and leaving me with something to begin anew this morning in how I want to present my concerns to God in prayer.
Renee, after reading your P31 devotion I felt as if you were writing about me. We just came back from a week in the forest. It was incredibly peaceful there, but as we got closer and closer to home, I started to be anxious and tired. Your message reminds me what I must do to rid myself of the tension and tiredness. Thanks for the wonderful message! Keep on sharing with us so we can draw closer and closer to God.
This was exactly what I needed today! I’m so thankful that God uses ladies like you to remind me that the burden is too much for me to carry and that I need to lay it at His feet! And thank you for the reminder that seeking is better than serving. Sometimes I get so caught up in my tasks I can lose focus of what really matters! Praying that God continues to use you and bless you and your ministry. Much love!
Thanks for the encouragement! My favorite scripture for worry is Isaiah 41:10. I kept repeating it while I ate supper last year while 20 tornadoes hit all around us, we didn’t even have hail like most had.
What a praise!!
I needed this today. I just was put on bed rest at 21 weeks. I need to give my worries to God and just pray, pray, pray!
Lord Jesus, I pray for Becca today. Would you wrap your arms around her and let her feel your presence right there in the middle of her bed rest order? We pray that you would give her the confident heart to trust you with her body and the decisions of the doctor. God bless you, Becca!
So many concerns on my mind lately and I am finally coming to Him throughout the day
In prayer over so many things. I am a natural worrier and today’s devotion was again truly what
I needed to read. Thank you so much for your messages, your book, your ministry and allowing
God to speak through your words.
Thanks, I need this. I have always seen myself as a Martha, and have been clueless as to how to become a Mary. I read P31 every morning, and long to spend the time with GOD, but I am constantly overwhelmed at my busy schedule and to do lists, that never get done. After I read that you dreaded coming home from the mountains, I thought, “wow, I haven’t had a weekend getaway like that in my entire 21 years of marriage”. I dread coming home from the grocery store because there is so much to do when I get home. Help!
I ‘d love to read your devotional. Until then, I will do the three steps ( stop, pray and praise!!).
Thank you for your devotional today. I have been overwhelmed lately. After listening the devotional I’m going to talk to God more and focus on thanking Him for what He is doing in my life.
Renee, your message touches me everyday….almost to tears. It seems as though I always have some “worry” that I won’t get it all done. Full time for all the positions that I fill in my life. Most of the time, I do it well. Then, I fall. Reading your message this morning, reminded me that I’m normal. I live a life just like everyone else. But, with God, all things are possible.
Thank you so much! I needed to be reminded that Jesus does care about what I worry about! I know you didn’t directly say this, but this is the one thought I wrote down: “You can’t worry and pray about the same thing.”
Just felt called to take a moment before rushing off to work to read today’s P31 devotion and I’m so thankful I did that, along with visit your site and listen to you speak. I have been particularly overwhelmed with trying to keep it all together and make everyone happy. I have an especially difficult boss who is making work a place I don’t even want to consider going to each day, yet I’m her personal assistant and the office manager so I feel like I’m also in a place where I can greatly impact numerous individuals. It’s so draining but your encouragement has reminded me that God is on my side, he knows what’s going on and he wants me to cast my cares and concerns on him. Thanks! Hoping to apply the “stop and pray immediately” rather than start fretting over how I’m going to get a specific task accomplished principle. Also love the idea of placing note cards by the cross! God bless!
stop, drop and pray! 🙂 Good stuff, friend. Blessings to you!
I am not sure how I first stumbled onto Proverbs 31 website but I am blessed over and over again from the daily devotions and todays message is one I need to hear over and over. Thank you..
I love the visual concept of having a table top cross by your nightstand and then literally laying your concerns and worries at the foot of the cross. That is something that I am going to incorporate into my life.
I really liked that idea also!
How perfect are your words today? I have a huge decision I am waiting on to come in the form of an email and all I can do is worry about it. I have asked God to help me let it go. I will be repeating this verse today so I can give it to Him and focus my time on my small children!
Today’s devotion was right on target for me…just as so many P31 morning moments are. I am so thankful to know that I am not alone in this walk of trying to be a woman after Gods own heart and being all we can be for our family’s without forgetting our own needs. Thank you! Kendra
Thanks. That was exactly what I needed to read today! I am going to talk to God about my worries and place them in His lap. Just that picture of handing my worries over to the One who can certainly handle them better than I can is comforting. Thanks again.