Sometimes fear enters your mind when you least expect it–even when you think your faith is strong.
- Devious. It slips into the cracks of your subconscious mind like a snake, twisting and turning its contorted body around the truth. It grips your emotions, and it paralyzes your belief system. But how does this viper sneak into your heart and mind?
- Deadly. For me, it only takes a careless word or thought–just a moment of anger, bitterness, or unbelief–for it’s poisonous fangs to sink into my mind. Or I look at the circumstances surrounding my life, and I lose hope for just a second. But just long enough for me to lose my focus on the truth of God’s Word.
- Deceptive. Then, the lies and deception begin. My imagination takes me to places that I never imagined possible. My thoughts focus on problems, paranoia, or panic, instead of my blessings. And the insanity begins.
So, how do we overcome fear?
- Focus on our blessings in Christ. Revelation 12:11 explains that Christ provides the power for us to defeat the accuser. “And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony. And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.”
- Focus on God’s promises. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7 NKJV)
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