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Be Afraid? Be Very Afraid?

Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again." (Exodus 14:13)


Fear VS Faith!! Which one will win in your life?


There are many stories and verses in the bible that tell us not to be fearful. I love this one in Exodus because most of us can really relate to it. The children of Israel had their backs to the wall, or should we say the "water" . They could only see fear. They saw their sudden death approach them in the form of their past master, Pharaoh, and his army approaching.

So many of us are in the same place. Our past is on our heels and desiring us to fall back into the deadly spiral we have just recently escaped from. We are afraid of the uncertainty the future in front of us holds.  We have hopes and dreams but the sound of the approaching past drowns out our hope and stirs up our fears.  We think:

"What if it doesn't work out"
"What if I am doing the wrong thing"
"What if I get lost"

These are all valid questions that we should look to the Word of GOD to answer. However instead of looking in GOD's word we focus on our past. The past that is riddled with the failures of the endeavors that were fueled by our own strength and will.  We fear and worry based on a past that didn't have GOD's guidance or blessing.  In this case our fear, just like the Israelites, is a very valid fear.  Without GOD we should expect to fail at everything, and fear everything.  For it is HE who allows our hearts to beat successfully  without us even thinking. All the "little" successes we take for granted, (i.e. waking up, breathing, heart beats,... Etc) can be the norm for our life's goals.  Just as we have a built up faith in the chair that holds us up at the dinner table, we need to develop faith in GOD. 

In our fear we find it hard to remain still. Like a mouse that struggles in the grip of a python we struggle to find a way , any way, out of the direction of our fears. We place ourselves in the grip of fear when we loose faith. The key to reverse this is found in the words of Moses:

   "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again."

GOD's Word says "Stand Firm!!!" . . In other words stop moving... Stop squirming and stop trying fix this while you are intoxicated with worry and fear. . . If we would only read and believe (actually and not aspirationally) what the word of GOD says to us, then we would work in faith and not worry in fear!  When you move towards a goal while in a state of worry you will fail. Worry is not of GOD.  GOD cannot worry because he is always in control.  When you move towards a goal while in a state of faith you will succeed. When you breath in you have faith that there is air to fill your lungs and therefore you do not panic. However someone who is hyperventilating is convinced that there is not enough air around them to fill their lungs. They are fighting for each breath in a state of panic and worry.  But in reality there is enough air for them and everyone standing around them trying to calm them down enough to regulate their breathing.

Some of us are living in a state of spiritual hyperventilation.  We are grasping at everything and everyone's else's opinion  because we are having trouble having faith in what GOD's word says. GOD's word is the same yesterday, today, and will be the same tomorrow. Stand still and look to GOD's word and His promises in faith and the problems of your past will never have the same hold on you again. You will never see them again! GOD can and will remove that fear and replace it with faith!

Be encouraged!

 I love you always and in all ways.

Rev. M. Harrison

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