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August 5, 2018 - February 18, 2019
“God does not produce feelings of fear or anxiety. In fact, it’s the opposite. God’s Word tells us over and over again not to worry or fear and is very clear that God doesn’t give you a spirit of fear, but a Spirit of power. If you’re anxious or fearful about this, that is not from Him.”
As I prayed night after night, the Holy Spirit began to show me that I needed to change the way I was praying. Instead of crying out to God for my situation to change, He led me to cry out for my heart to change. I learned an important lesson through that experience: when we stop praying for God to change our circumstances and start asking Him to change our hearts, that’s when we experience the peace that passes understanding (Philippians 4:7).
Help me, God, to reach the point that I hate fear and what it does to me—enough to really deal with it. Get me to the place where I want more than anything to be set free.
words “Do not be afraid, [insert your name], as you’re facing [describe the situation that is causing fear], because the Lord is with you!” Put that piece of paper where you can see it often, or type the same words into a note on your phone so you can look at them and remember them.
fear that called it the belief that something bad is going to happen.
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10
So what’s my point? The world of the sea is so extraordinary and so complex, but God is so detailed and so amazing that even tiny, microscopic organisms have a purpose in His plan. They are little, usually invisible to the human eye, but their purpose is huge. If God can breathe purpose into the life of plankton, just imagine what He can do through you.
plankton.” The way they eagerly wait for the light and then take it back to the darkness is exactly what I want my life to reflect.
Sometimes we try to swim with the flow of our own current, running after the things in front of us. Maybe it is time to stop, look up, seek, wonder, and follow God’s lead. Let go of the reins on your own life and drift into His presence.
I want to be plankton! I want to swim up to the light and bring it back to this dark world. I want to provide light and energy and life to those around me.
How do you respond physically to fear? Wouldn’t it be nice if that didn’t happen anymore?
Probably the very best Bible verse there is about the mind is Philippians 4:8: “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise” (NLT).
PRAY: God, help me to take captive every thought in my mind that is not of You and silence the whispers of the enemy in my ears. I choose to fill my mind with thoughts that are pleasing to
When he lies to us, he often does it through our own thoughts. He’ll plant a thought in our mind—something totally not true—and the next thing we know, we believe it!
One of the enemy’s best tricks is to create fear by making false evidence appear real. No matter how things appear, God and His Word are what’s true and real, and they will defeat the enemy.
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN PRAY: Lord Jesus, I pray that I would see evidence of Your love in the midst of my biggest fears and that You would give me the courage to risk doing what I am afraid of.
When God sees us as His children, He sees through the eyes of perfect, unconditional love, everything good about us.
wept because I realized I had been praying about my present without having dealt with my past—the mistakes, the pain, and the words running around in my brain—negative words and lies I had spoken to myself, and others had spoken to me. Without realizing it, I had started to believe those words, and I had come into agreement with the father of lies.
freedom is only found in the words God has written.
God, break my heart for what breaks Yours—and when I try to hide from You the things that are hurting me, I believe that breaks Your heart.
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