Anxious Heart

In Discerning the Voice of God, Priscilla Shirer asks the question Which of the following adjectives describe your stance when waiting on God's Word to you?
I marked doubtful and confident because I still doubt His Word to me but then I have more confidence in His word then I did before and I am becoming more confident in Him as I grow. I also marked other and wrote the words anxious and rest assured because again I tend to go both ways. I didn't understand why the word anxious would come to mind either cuz I do not worry like I used to. But I wrote it down anyway wondering if God was really giving me that word.
So Saturday night at church I got to sit in service. I was late but arrived just in time to hear what the Lord wanted me to hear. Be anxious for nothing, but in
everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;~ Philippians 4:6
I learned that anxious in this passage means drawn or pulled in different directions.
I just about fell outa my seat. Well, okay, I wanted to but I didn't. Everything inside me was jumping at the fact that God was talking to me. I had no idea that anxious could mean that. I always thought it only meant worry.
Anxious is a problem for me. I am definitely drawn and pulled in different directions by others opinions or judgmental comments to me. This is the other voice that distracts me from the one true voice that I need to follow, the only one that matters. This is also where my approval addiction kicks in. The only opinion and approval I should be seeking is the Word of God and not what man thinks.
I have learned in the last couple weeks that we are not all in the same place spiritually and therefore you can have two people reading the same book, passage, or listening to the same message but there perceptions can be very different.

Lord teach me to follow hard after you. May I receive others opinions of myself with patience and grace just as you have received me in patient love and grace. And may your opinion and approval be the only one that matters to me, the only one I follow.