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Worry is a by-product of fear. That is a deep root and really cannot be directly overcome. It is overcome and "cast out" when we "know and believe the love that God has for us" (1 John 4:16).

But there's an even deeper root from which fear and worry come. That deepest root is CONDEMNATION. The gospel of the grace of Jesus Christ says to us, "There is now NO CONDEMNATION" (Rom 8:1). Our inheritance in Christ is New Covenant in which God says, our "sins and iniquities I will remember no more" (Hebrews 8:12, 10:17). Jesus has "offered one sacrifice for sins for ever" that "by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified" (Heb 10:12,14). We are now eternally righteous, not by what we do, but by what he did. And now, we "which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life by one, Jesus Christ" (Rom 5:17).

If we steep and soak ourselves in these truths of God's love and grace toward us, condemnation, fear, AND worry will melt away like filthy rags off an anointed, oil-slick surface, we also, will truly "reign in life."