Encouraged by God's Word

Hello Family,

Many people on this earth will never live up to their God given abilities because they let fear take control of their lives. Regardless of who you are or how successful or great you are, we all have fears that we have to face and deal with on a regular basis.

Currently I’ve been reading this real good book titled Conquer Fear! by Lisa Jimenez. In the book it covers some great insight on the different types of fears, what causes your fears and how to overcome them, which I believe is the best part of the book.

This is no traditional personal development book. It really gets to the core of your fears and why you have them. In the subtitle of the book I think it says it all: A unique blend of psychology and theology to change your beliefs-and thus your results. Most personal development books cover the psychology aspect but not too many deal with the theology aspect of our challenges when conquering fear.

The reason behind a lot of our self-destructive behaviors (procrastination, disorganization, rebelliousness/anger, busyness/lack of production & focus or perfectionism/over pleaser) is because of our fears. And the reason we have fears is because there is an absence of faith.

There I said it. Fear is the absence of faith.

This book states that how we handle our fears determines our level of faith.

Isaiah 41:13 says For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, “Fear not, I will help you.”

With our heavenly Father holding our right hand, there is NOTHING we have to fear. And if there is nothing to fear, we should have the faith to believe that He is going to work out everything for us.

I heard a clever acronym for fear and it is Forget Everything And Run! Isn’t that what we do when we face fear? We forget whose we are and we cower like a scared little child. We drop all knowledge of God and we don’t have faith that He will come through for us as he’s done in the past.

Know that God is always right beside you. Step out on faith in Him and not in your own abilities and don’t fear anything.

Be Encouraged and Have a Great Day!

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