How many of you reading this have been battling fear and anxiety ?
So I actually wrote this several days before actually posting it and wouldn’t you know that the devil came to attack me in a real way right after it was written! Again I’ll say… I HATE HIS GUTS!!!!
So the things I talk about….I’ve just went through and are currently battling right on through them.
I choose to walk in faith and not fear! All glory to God!
So… back to my original question… how many of you reading this have battled or are battling fear and anxiety?
❇️Fear of COVID-19?
❇️Fear of dying?
❇️Fear of killing your child?
❇️Fear of killing your grandparents?
❇️Fear of your grandkids killing you?
❇️Fear of sending your child to school?
Of course I mean all of these things listed due to the “China Virus”
Although there are many other reasons people battle fear and anxiety.
Our minds are being constantly bombarded with news and images no thanks to the media.
If I’m being honest and I try to be fully open and honest when I write….. the spirit of fear is a for real battle. I have days where I struggle. What shocks me is that I’ve never been a fearful person, but yet recently I find myself dealing with this snare. I don’t understand how it got a foothold in my life for it to even become an issue…. and yet here I am….. and I know I’m not alone.
It’s on my mind daily. I was talking to a friend about the fact of me having “writers block” if that’s even a thing…. and he said “hey, if you’re needing something to write about then write about fear because a lot of people seem to be struggling with it”
FEAR!!!!
Yes, Lord, I hear You prompting me! I will do my best to write on the very subject that I’ve been battling. I will bring it to light… expose it for the liar it is…. and then I will be over the fear that’s gripped me the past several months…. in Jesus name it will be rebuked and bound.
I told my husband just a couple of weeks ago that I’m tired of dealing with fear. When fear attempts to grip me…my immediate prayer has now become “Lord, help me to walk in faith and not fear. Guide my steps and give me wisdom and peace of mind.”
And I absolutely mean those words with everything I have in me!
As I pray those Words the Lord takes me to various scripture that I claim.
PROVERBS 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (KJV)
Forgive me Lord when I say with my lips that I trust you but when my heart is trembling in fear. I don’t have the understanding of what’s going on around me, but I TRUST YOU and know Your plans are perfect or me!
Then LUKE 21:16 says:
Men’s hearts failing them for fear…..(KJV)
Lord, forgive me for letting my heart be gripped by fear and anxiety when all I had to do was call upon You and know that You will send angels to minister to my trembling heart.
I’m sorry that when I allowed fear to rise that I was inadvertently doubting Your infallible Word that says “there is NO fear in love, but PERFECT LOVE cast out fear”
I praise You for Your perfect love for me. I praise You that when I see myself as weak that you call me strong. When I feel like I’m completely falling apart… You reach down and hold me together all while never giving up on me even though I have failed You over and over again. I thank You and I praise You for that perfect love.
I know this battle starts in the mind. The thought comes and then I/we must make a choice whether to let it stay or make it flee.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (KJV)
The helmet of Salvation is our mind protector. Without it… then we only fight with our own strength and we will NEVER be a match for the enemy by ourselves and in our own strength.
We have been ordered to take every thought captive.
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; (KJV)
Vain imaginations never give you comfort or peace… vain imaginations always give you the worst case scenario! It’s what we call the “what if’s” and
I’m not even gonna give the devil an inch in this area to even list examples. You guys know what I’m talking about.
That vain imagination becomes a picture image that’s played over and over in the mind. With each replay the heart gets more anxious. You can even feel the heart begin to beat faster. Then a lot of times it’s followed by tears. Tears that come and you don’t even know why. Tears that break the heart of Jesus because that’s never His plan for you and they’re tears that allow the enemy a stronger grip on us and all while he’s laughing the entire time. I HATE THE DEVILS GUTS!!!!
Fear is used by the enemy as a diversion for us to keep us distracted from the Lord. Fear allows the enemy to win battles. Fear gives the enemy “the upper hand”
Vain imaginations come to steal your peace and rob you of joy and destroy God’s plans for you.
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (KJV)
Lord, I’m thankful my life belongs to You. I’m thankful for Your constant love and guidance. I’m thankful for Your rebuke and correction when needed. I’m thankful Your plans for me are perfect and never meant for harm. I’m thankful You’re always thinking good thoughts about me to give me peace through all of life here on earth and through eternity.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (KJV)
Today, Lord, because You are over my life and live in my heart…I call upon you and those vain imaginations of fear and anxiety will be cast down because I’m covered by Your blood. I walk in full faith knowing that my days are numbered only by You and I will not leave this earth one second before it’s time and that when I do I will be with you…. so either way I’m a winner! 🙌🏼
Today I walk in faith knowing that You see me as healthy and that no sickness or disease will get past You and attack me unless there’s something good in it for me and that will bring You glory.
Today… Lord…. those vain imaginations are exposed and brought to light. I lay them at Your feet….just as You say.
Today my burden is lighter because of Your glory.
Today I lift my hands to praise You. Today…. my fear is gone!!!!
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