Who or what is the main cause of anxiety and stress?

​

Let's take a look at who or what it could not be:

​

It is not God,  (See 'UNDERSTANDING GOD'). 

​

It is not the Holy Spirit,  (See 'HOLY SPIRIT'). 

​

It is not you - the human spirit  (See 'HUMAN SPIRIT'). - especially if you have been born again.

​

That only leaves 3 other entities that could be the main cause of anxiety and stress. 

​

1. the body/brain/flesh (See 'YOUR BRAIN, SOUL, AND YOUR SPIRIT'). 

​

2. Satan/demons (See 'SATAN WHO HE IS'). 

​

3. Your soul (mind, will, and emotion) needs renewing. See verses below:

​

1. YOUR BODY, YOUR BRAIN

There are a great many people who think that they are their body and or their brain.  And that the thoughts that come from

both the body and the brain belong to them, and that they are thinking these thoughts.  This is not true. 

(See 'YOU, YOUR BRAIN, AND YOUR MIND'). 

​

2. SATAN

1 John 3:8 "Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil." (See 'SATAN WHO HE IS'). 

​

 

3. YOUR SOUL

A. Romans 12:1-2 “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

​

B. Ephesians 4:22-24 “to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,  and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”

​

C. Colossians 3:10 “and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.”

​

You can find the above references about your soul on this website.

​

(See 'YOUR BRAIN, SOUL, AND YOUR SPIRIT').