"Fear isn't just a reaction to external circumstances. It's a spiritual force. It begins inside a person. And it is totally destructive. In fact, fear is Satan's primary weapon. He moves in response to fear, the way God moves in response to faith. He challenges the promises of God with it.
Faith is developed by meditating on God's Word. Fear is developed by meditating on Satan's lies. " (Kenneth Copeland)
Psalm 27:5
For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock.
Ok so it's easy to talk about overcoming fear when things aren't rocky, but when trouble comes we freak out and forgot not to be afraid! So I am determined to remember - "Ok Victoria, this is one of those 'days of trouble' God warned me about, but take a breath girl, as he will still keep me " safe", "shelter and hide me" and "set me high upon a rock ", basically meaning that in the midst of that "trouble" - I'm un-touchable!
"Don't let fear keep you small. Don't let fear contain the potential inside you. Every person who ever did anything amazing started out just a bit afraid." (Holly Wagner - God Chicks). So even though those emotions of fear might be there, as Joyce Meyer says "Do it afraid" as God's word promises, we're untouchable!
2 Corinthians 12:9
And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me”
The word translated "strength" in this scripture is dunamis. It means "God's miracle-working power ." I think 'strength' is a word that can become a bit blasé, because we use it in our every day language, but in this context it certainly has a whole lot more of a kick to it! (I'm more than happy to have that "miracle-working" power "resting on me"!! and I've certainly got enough areas of weakness for it to do so too!). Be encouraged guys to start attacking those areas of fear in your life, cause they are the biggest hindrance in your life moving forward, and you have far too much greatness within you to be hindered!!
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- Victoria Bradley
- "Slumber is not an option for us while the world sleeps deceived .. now is your time to awake and arise ..."
Kiaora Victoria.
ReplyDeleteRelentless, Reslilient, Resolute: Damien's personal set of "3-Rs", which actually begin with R. (Unlike the school ones: an R, an A, and a W!)
I like the idea of "Untouchable", and indeed have been in a similar place (along the same road?) myself: both recently and for as long as I can remember. Along with Untouchable however comes Unstoppable, I know you know this too.
Thanks for getting this blog up, it's encoraging to me as a writer (ahem, one who hasn't written nearly so much as his God indicates to him he should have done) to find friends who are both expressive and wise in the ways of "this same road". If not the road of writing, then at least the road of being ultimately Untouchable.
The best, I am told, is yet to come.
Slainte,
Damien. (He writes...apparently.)