Wednesday Writing...12/5/18..."Fear is a Liar"

Good morning,

Today's writing examines the unwanted things that happen when we allow fear to take over our life. One of the biggest losses is peace in your life. Bre wrote, "Why don’t we realize that God can do anything and that He loves us more than we can imagine? He’s got this. We need to be still and trust that He is in control, that He knows what to do. All we have to do is obey."

This would be a great time to work on skills that we could use to overcome fear.

Bre

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Today's Devotional 

"Fear is a Liar"

Written by 

Bre Miller

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. 

I do not give to you as the world gives. 

Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

John 14:27

Recently, I’ve been amazed at the amount of changes that have come my way. I’m not a big fan of change and I think the main reason for that is fear.

What’s going to happen now? Where are we going to live? Where are we going to work? What kind of people are going to be there? Will they like me? Will I like them? Those are legitimate concerns, but that’s life. We don’t have any guarantees. The only guarantee we have is that God will walk us through it and that we will always have Him by our side.

We all know that we are not suppose to fear, but something that isn’t taught very often is how do we stop being afraid? How do we work through that? Something I have recently started doing is praying as soon as I feel afraid and telling fear to go away, In Jesus’s name.

Something else that can keep fear in our hearts is a lack of trust. A great friend of mine was reading a passage from 1 Corinthians 13 the other day and she brought up how we skip over some of what that passage is telling us about what love does. How often do we think about how “love always trusts”? 

Wow. What conviction. Why don’t we trust God more? Why don’t we realize that God can do anything and that He loves us more than we can imagine? He’s got this. We need to be still and trust that He is in control, that He knows what to do. All we have to do is obey.

                                                
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  Zach Williams 

singing 

"FEAR IS A LIAR"

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*Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.

*Fear is temporary; regret is forever.

*Don't let your fear of what 

could happen make nothing happen.

*Your largest fear carries your greatest growth!

*Give your fears to God when you pray 

and carry on with His blessing.

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