How to live fear free - Article

[marvelloustime]

Good evening all,

After a difficult day today, finding this article in my inbox helped. I want to share it for those who are also having a difficult time at the moment.

https://www.crosswalk.com

How to live Fear Free.

Lynette Kittle

 

If you’re feeling anxious, fearful, or distraught over current headlines, you’re not alone. An unstable and volatile world is causing people to feel vulnerable at home, in school, at work, in travel, and as they go about their daily activities.

Still Scripture encourages you to not be afraid of those who kill the body (Matthew 10:28). God doesn’t want you to live a fearful life and urges you to “Have no fear of sudden disaster” (Proverbs 3:25).

So how is possible to live fear free in a fearful world?

Since God has not give you a spirit of fear (2 Timothy 1:7), it’s up to you to choose to trust Him no matter what you’re facing, to walk around assured He is with you, and to believe His promise that, “Never will I leave you or forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5).

In life-threatening situations, you can be assured God is with you. Scripture describes what Stephen experienced when he came under attack, how “Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to Heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God” (Acts 7:55).

God was with Stephen in the darkest of circumstances and when he died, he passed into new life. Like him, your life in Christ is eternal as explained “When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory’” (1 Corinthians 15:54).

You belong to God and your life is safe and secure in Him. As Jesus said in John 11:25, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me will live, even though they die.”

The Apostle Paul understood God’s eternal provision for life when he stated, “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21).

Even if threats of death increase in the world, you don’t have to live a fearful life because nothing, not even death, can separate you from His care. Romans 8:38, 39 states, “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Whatever situations life may bring, resist the urge to be afraid. As Stephen did, look to God, being assured He is with you knowing, “He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge;

His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart” (Psalm 91:4).

[mlbrokish]

Thank you so much for the article you have shared! I have Bookmarked the site so I can frequently read and share articles from it.

I just have to mention that your additional comments about fear of death really connected with me.  

I remember when I first became a true believer and devoted to following Jesus, the biggest difference I felt was the absence of fear of death.  Oh, I'm sure that it would be instinct and an automatic response to be scared to be fatally injured, but if I had a moment of clarity, I would be comforted knowing that I will be safe and secure with Him.

[marvelloustime]

Hi @mlbrokish

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I find some good articles on that website. The actual address of that article is https://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/bible-study-minute/how-to-live-fear-free-in-a-fearful-world-bible-study-minute-june-18-2018.html?utm_source=Your Bible Minute&utm_campaign=Bible Study Minute - BibleStudyTools.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2845883&bcid=5da31583941ac0436f866785e89f41c2&recip=547950175

I'm not afraid of dying either. But I think the body's self preservation and automatic instinct would activate itself if we were in a life threatening situation. I can imagine I'd be praying something like "Please let this be quick, and please don't let this hurt". 

My mum passed away peacefully in hospital last October. I can imagine that is a very nice way to exit this life and walk over to actually be with Jesus in eternity.

Becky. X

[mlbrokish]

1 minute ago, Rebecca Pickles said:

My mum passed away peacefully in hospital last October. I can imagine that is a very nice way to exit this life and walk over to actually be with Jesus in eternity.

Becky,

Sorry about your mom's (mum's) passing, as my heart has ached since my grandmother passed in 2015.  I agree with you, though, that believers, with a peaceful exit would probably be quite lovely.  No matter how, or when, the moment we are with Jesus, we will feel overwhelming love and peace, I believe.

Thanks again for the link, and for the chat.

mlb

[marvelloustime]

Hi @mlbrokish

I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother. It is such a painful thing to go through isn't it. I never thought I'd feel that much pain when my mother died. She was 86 and in a care home, and she died of heart failure. She was admitted to hospital, and was in there for a week before passing away.

I've been doing better regarding my mother's passing. Until today, when some bureaucrat decided, out of the blue, to email me to my personal email account, some paperwork nonsense regarding my mother. It brought back all those raw painful feelings that I had last October when she passed away, and it has set me back again.

Praise Jesus, one day all of us will be at Home in Heaven, with Jesus. And I am very much looking forward to it.

Becky. X

[shortangel]

thank you for shareing this

[mlbrokish]

Hi @Rebecca Pickles,

It's too bad that politicians, or whomever, can cause such frustration for something so personal.  Hopefully, this sort of thing doesn't continue to happen to you.

For me, the passing of my grandmother was bittersweet. Grandma was 92 and fairly healthy for her age, aside from her eyesight failing. She fell and hit her head on the corner of the stove/oven in her kitchen and went into a coma a few days later, then passed away. The interesting thing was that her son had died as an older teenager decades before from a head injury and coma in almost identical ways. 

Also, I wasn't a believer at the time, but in my sorrow and grief, I realized about a year & half later about the true way to see her again forever in Heaven. The Holy Spirit took over and I haven't been the same since, including not being afraid to pass away.  I'm just hoping I can gradually show my husband & children the same way.

I'll pass along the article you posted to those I think may be interested, through my personal e-mail. Who knows? Someone else may like to read it also.

- mlb (aka Michelle)

[turtletwo]

Sometimes even  imaginary fears can plague me...

things I may find myself worrying about.. 

but thank God, they don't really materialize 

I enjoy acronyms. Here is one for the imaginary form of fear:

[marvelloustime]

2 hours ago, turtletwo said:

Sometimes even  imaginary fears can plague me...

things I may find myself worrying about.. 

but thank God, they don't really materialize 

I enjoy acronyms. Here is one for the imaginary form of fear:

Yes, I'm with you on that one. I love that acronym.

[marvelloustime]

19 hours ago, mlbrokish said:

Hi @Rebecca Pickles,

It's too bad that politicians, or whomever, can cause such frustration for something so personal.  Hopefully, this sort of thing doesn't continue to happen to you.

For me, the passing of my grandmother was bittersweet. Grandma was 92 and fairly healthy for her age, aside from her eyesight failing. She fell and hit her head on the corner of the stove/oven in her kitchen and went into a coma a few days later, then passed away. The interesting thing was that her son had died as an older teenager decades before from a head injury and coma in almost identical ways. 

Also, I wasn't a believer at the time, but in my sorrow and grief, I realized about a year & half later about the true way to see her again forever in Heaven. The Holy Spirit took over and I haven't been the same since, including not being afraid to pass away.  I'm just hoping I can gradually show my husband & children the same way.

I'll pass along the article you posted to those I think may be interested, through my personal e-mail. Who knows? Someone else may like to read it also.

- mlb (aka Michelle)

Hi @mlbrokish

Thank you for sharing that. It's amazing how the death of a close loved one can either bring us to believe in Jesus, and bring us closer to Him. 

I was a believer before my mum died, but since she has gone, last October, it has definitely brought me much closer to Jesus.

Like you said, we know we will see them again in Heaven, and we will all be together, for eternity.

How bizarre that she passed away exactly the same way as her son a few decades before. It sounds as though both of them passed away peacefully. Fall into a sleep, and then pass over into Heaven.

I pray right now that you're able to show your husband and children the same way. 

Keep praying for them constantly, every day. And don't give up. And ask the Lord when He wants you to say something, and what it is He wants you say to them. Sometimes He doesn't want anything said at all, and sometimes He does. He knows what's in all their hearts.

Becky. X