How faith can remove anxieties and move mountains

Many church-going teenagers and young adults share a common predicament: the difficulty of sharing their faith. Most of these budding evangelists and missionaries say that they have a fire within that could not be contained. Yet, at the same time, they find themselves weighed down by self-doubt and apprehensions. While their faith pushes them to open up and reach out to other people to share their beliefs, these young sharers of the Word become discouraged buy their own lack of confidence in their abilities or gifts. Being unsure of whether they are fit to do the task, they shy away and tell themselves that they are simply incapable of the enormous responsibility given by their church.

You now have come face-to-face with the realities of spiritual conviction. Your body suffers from nausea,vomiting, shortness of breath, and chest pain — all of which are signals that something is not right in terms of your physical and emotional health. Dizziness, lack of appetite, restlessness — these are only some of the distressful manifestations or anxiety symptoms felt by young missionaries and aspiring men and women of the cloth.

Medical studies describe...