“The other side of Fear is Freedom”
Proverbs 3: 5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways submit to Him and He will make your paths straight.
The moment you start worrying about what other people think, it’s over, because the fear of disapproval is always worse than disapproval. It’s very hard to make that move. It took me forever, but I have faced it and moved against it by writing this blog. It brought many things up I didn’t want to face. Lots of tears. I stepped out in faith and trusted God and started writing. I had to get my lion on. I remember sitting in church just know everyone was staring at me because they had read this and how awful they would think of me. Courage comes when you’re sure that’s what God wants you to do. I couldn’t do this alone. I thought “I’ve got to clean up my act before I bring this to Him. “Wrong…. God doesn’t expect us to clean up our act before we approach Him. Jesus spread His arms and said, “I love you this much, now come as you are”.
Psalms 57:3
He will send down help from heaven to save me because of His love. That’s why we can bring our messes and failures to God. He wanted me to come as I was. Changing my life required me to think differently. It is a mental battle. It is win or lost in the mind. I didn’t change until my thoughts and attitude changed. I did that with lots of prayer and spending a lot of time in God’s Word. Get ready to know Him.
change of mind = repentance
death to life
sin to forgiveness
guilt to peace of mind
hell to heaven
To turn from my ways to God’s way I had to make a choice and ask God to show me the way. The more I fill my mind and ears with God’s Word the easier it became. The more time I spent time attending church and getting involved in small groups made me stronger. I became more honest with myself, and God gave me strength to become a new person.
God healed my heart, arms holding me tight making me feel I was alright. I feel at peace finally.
The Holy Ghost grew inside me gradually and I’m becoming more like Him. Still Growing. Revealing my story was the beginning of healing. Negative emotion gives the devil a stronghold. Don’t hold onto stuff. God takes those who are the worlds deemed the lowest, the hopeless, and the helpless and used them to change the world. God transformed me. He healed me and He set me free. We all live through troubled and painful experiences, some worse than others. If we dwell on those things, we make ourselves captives.
Dear Heavenly Father I confess I have sinned, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe Jesus died to take away my sins, and that You raised Him to life. His blood now covers me. I believe You will accept me into Your eternal home in heaven one day. Guide my life and help me to do Your will. In Jesus name I pray
Amen
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