I wanted to share an excerpt from “Jesus Calling” from last week:
Bring me all your
feelings, even the ones you wish you didn’t have. Fear and anxiety still
plague you. Feelings per se are not sinful, but they can be temptations
to sin. Blazing missiles of fear fly at you day and night; these attacks
from the evil one come at you relentlessly. Use your shield of faith to
extinguish those flaming arrows. Affirm your trust in Me, regardless of
how you feel. If you persist, your feelings will eventually fall in line
with your faith.
Do not hide from
your fear or pretend it isn’t there. Anxiety that you hide in the
recesses of your heart will give birth to the fear of fear; a monstrous
stepchild. Bring your anxieties our into the Light of My Presence, where
we can deal with them together. Concentrate on trusting Me, and
fearfulness will gradually lose its foothold within you.
“In
addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can
extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.” Ephesians 6:16
“This
is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him
there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the
darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in
the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his
Son, purifies us from all sin.” 1
John 1:5-7
“Behold,
God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord
God is my strength and my song, and he has
become my salvation.” Isaiah 12:2
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