"If I were your enemy, I'd magnify your fears, making them appear insurmountable, intimidating you with enough worries until avoiding them becomes your driven motivation. I would use anxiety to cripple you, to paralyze you, leaving you indecisive, clinging to safety..." I've felt like the woman in this picture. Maybe you have too. You were climbing that mountain, headed in an exciting direction in your life and career, and then - you're STUCK! You were moving upward but now you're just hanging on for dear life! Fear of falling! Fear you'll lose your grip! Fear that help is not coming! Your whole life summed up by that one word: FEAR! Well -- that's the enemy's game!!! In this chapter we learn about how the enemy uses fear. Fear if we fail. Fear if we don't try. Fear of being shut down. He can instill fear in us using just about any situation. I can relate to a number of thoughts Priscilla had here. These are my top 3: On page 108 she writes: "What if no avenues crop us where I can get my work published or distributed? Even if I can, what if people don't find it helpful ... What if the financial adjustment we'll need to make in order for me to do it means my kids will have to give up some of the activities ... What if it all ends up being a total waste ... What if it's all just some sort of ego trip or head game..." The word if shows up 6 times in this short passage. Sometimes life if FILLED with if's it seems. Does that word ever had an impact on you? But I love the Scripture she follows up with, "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1.7 NKJV Page 111: "I know the kind of paralysis that can harden around you when you're scared to death about going through with something you've committed to do, and you just don't think you're got what it takes to do it. I've known those times..." Maybe you have too? Then Priscilla reminds us that God told his children three-hundred times in different way, DO NOT BE AFRAID. Page 113: "... fear is the antithesis of faith." Then she writes: "In fervent prayers, we discover something: Our God is fearless. And because He is fearless, we can be fearless too." I love this Scripture: "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." 1 John 4.18
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