MY FEAR, MY ANXIETY!
These days we often declare these words over ourselves, and over our circumstances, taking ownership of a label God never intended us to carry, much less define who we are, and who we become ( our identity) or what we do.
Why have we bought into a narrative that the world, and culture is imposing? Why have we listened to people speak harmful, untrue, harsh and negative opinions over us and chosen to believe them? My question remains…. WHY?
Scripture says “FEAR” is a spirit, BUT GOD HAS NOT given us a “spirit of fear” BUT of POWER, LOVE, AND A SOUND MIND!” so Fear and anxiety are not of God, but a “spirit” oppressing your thought life, trying to convince you that you are helpless and hopeless, when the truth is you are neither!
How about learning to believe who God create you to be?
How about learning that you were made with intention, and purpose, uniquely created in His image, with gifts, talents and abilities.
How about knowing that God loves you with an unfailing love, and Jesus died upon the cross, because you were, and are just that valuable to Him?
Philippians 4:6 in the NKJV reads: “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
2 Timothy 1:7 -NKJV reads: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
1 Peter 5:10-NKJV: “But may the God of ALL grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”