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Should we not stand strong in faith, refusing to let fear take over and trust that He is strong enough to handle whatever is coming? Our strength is blind to what the next minute holds much less the next year. Yet, His strength is capable of covering it all.
I like to use the phrase “fear is food for satan” and we all know that when something is starved it dies. Or at least realizes we are not a source of food for it so it has to leave. So, I remind myself to starve the enemy and feed my faith in times of fear, worry, and doubt. My favorite way of doing that is by speaking life giving words over myself and others. I can even get a little harsh sometimes when speaking to evil—they are demons after all. I remind them they have no place in my mind, my home, or my heart.
While I don’t mind speaking truth to the enemy—I remind myself where my focus should be. Psalm 22:3 tells us “But thou art holy, O thou that inhabits the praises of Israel.” (If you are a Child of God you have been adopted into His family and are included in this!)
What does that mean? Dictionary.com says that inhabit means: live in or occupy. When we praise God - He is there. He lives in—He occupies those praises!!!
So praise Him with all you have—with your whole voice—because He resides within it!
Need help getting back into worship mode? I did. So, I found a product that can help. Try out the 30 Days of Worship journal and Companion Calendar because it is ok to need a refresher and new ideas of how to worship Him more. What a beautiful way to feed your faith!
For more on fear you can read: Fear: A foreign language.
Jobs, marriage, kids, illness, storms, failure, death, destruction, fear, loneliness….these are the things on the mind of one woman alone. I can not imagine what all you yourself are dealing with. The question is: how do we know which 'issue' we need to focus our attention on most? Do we put all our efforts into managing one just to then be blindsided by another? So many times it seems that way, doesn't it?
Unknown circumstances are kind of my Achilles heel. I have always said 'I can deal with anything thrown at me, I just need to know what it is'. Yet, unfortunately, we don't always know what it is. Things come out of nowhere. We are caught off guard, blindsided. Reassurance, for me, comes from knowing that God knows what is on the blind side that I cannot see. Nothing happens that surprises Him. I do not know the future, but He does and I wouldn't be able to control it even if I did, so what good would knowing it and worrying over it do?
When purchasing something from a vending machine or playing an arcade game we can see a note that says “insert coins here”—we these days it says “insert card here”….sigh. One day, seeing one of these prompts made me think 'what if I did that with my faith more frequently'? 'What if I could remind myself to insert faith when it is needed most?'
