Fear Factor!!

by Paul Dawn
Published June 25, 2005

If there is one thing that the enemy tries to do in our life is to introduce fear. Fear that will paralyze our very being because of the events that are taken place in our lives.

After a super week last week I received a call from the VA Medical Center in Kerrville, Texas this morning, with the results of my blood work done last Thursday. My blood sugar was normal but the CEA test, that is used as marker in reference to cancer was elevated.

For nearly the last three years my results were a .7, but at this time it is 1.1 which is elevated but still in the normal range. I immediately felt a fear begin to arise within me. A fear of a return of cancer and all that it entails. I began to focus on this, rather than the Lord.

I began to realize right away that tactic of the enemy and began to focus on the Lord, on His word and to remember that which He has and is doing in my life. The peace that He has given me.

As I focused on the Lord, that peace, that rest returned and replaced the fear.

It is only as we focus on the Lord, set our affections upon Him that we can deal with the fear factors in our lives.

“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control." II Timothy 1:7 Amplified Bible.

We draw strength from the word, from the presence of the Lord in all aspects of our lives. We need to act daily. To realize that our Father has not given us the spirit of fear, of cowardice, but He has given us a spirit of power, of love and a calmness that can only come from Him. That we can discipline our mind, our thoughts, to stay focused on the Lord, upon the life changing word of God.

I am learning what it means to walk with the Lord on a daily basis. A day by day walk. I cannot do anything about yesterday and tomorrow is not here. Today is the day that I need the strength, the assurance, the rest and the peace that passes all understanding.

The Lord wants to take us from the realm of theory to the realm of reality, to see that we can walk daily in the life giving power of the word, of the spirit and presence of the Lord.

He is not afar off. The Lord is ever present and in the midst of our life as we yield to Him. He wants to reveal Himself to us now.

Is there a fear factor in your life? Is there something the enemy tries to use to paralyze you, to keep you from moving forward in your walk with the Lord?

Give it to the Lord! Allow Him to replace it with His presence. Acknowledge that He is Lord of your life and that you desire to walk in the fullness of His purpose in your life.

It is amazing to have that peace, which brings rest to the heart, peace to the soul and an assurance that the Lord is in control, even when we cannot see it with our eyes.

Then, it becomes an act of Faith!!

Till later,

Paul

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