In nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. The peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Anxious or worried
PSALM 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in times of trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.
Bereaved
1 THESS 4:14zFor if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even also those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Bitter or critical
ROMANS 2:1
Therefore you are without excuse, man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
Choosing a career
1 THESS 4:11,12
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
Conscious of sin
1 JOHN 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Contemplating marriage
MATT 19:4-6
He who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this cause will a man leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?' So that they are no more two, but one flesh.
Dedicating your life
MATT 16:24,25
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If any man desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
Depressed or discouraged
ROMANS 8:28xWe know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Doubting
JOHN 20:29yJesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."
Failure comes
HEBREWS 4:15-16
We don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy.
Faith is weak
LUKE 12:22,25
He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?"
Far from God
ACTS 17:26-27
He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him.
Feeling Inadequate
2 COR 12:9
He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
Friends fail
PSALM 27:10rDo not reject me or forsake me, O God my Saviour. Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me
Ill or in pain
PSALMS 103:2,3qPraise the Lord , O, my soul, and forget not all His benefits. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.
In danger
PSALM 91:9-10
If you make the Most High your dwelling-even the Lord, who is my refuge - then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent
Lonely
REV 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
Needing Assurance
1 JOHN 3:23,24
This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another. He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which He gave us.
Needing Guidance JAMES 1:5~But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given him.
Needing Peace
PHILIPP 4:6,7
In nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. The peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Needing sleep
MATTHEW 11:28S"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest."
Praying
LUKE 11:9,10
I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
PSALM 43:5
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my saviour and my God.
Tempted
1 Cor 10:13
No temptation has taken you but such as man can bear. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Wanting courage
Eph 6:10-11
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Weary
Psalm 116:7-8
Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. For You O Lord have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling>