Another devotion from Sarah Young's "Jesus Calling":
Bring me all your feelings, even the ones you wish you didn't have. Fear and anxiety plague you. Feelings per se are not sinful, but they can be temptations to sin. Blazing missiles of fear fly at you day and night; these attacks from the evil one come at you relentlessly. Use your shield of faith to extinguish those flaming arrows. Affirm your trust in me, regardless of how you feel. If you presist, your feelings will eventually fall in line with your faith.
Do not hide your fear or pretend it isn't there. Anxiety that you hide in the recesses of your heart will give birth to fear of rear; a monstrous stepchild. Bring your anxieties out into the light of my presence, where we can deal with them together. Concentrate on trusting me, and fearfulness will gradually lose its foothold within you.
From another "day":
Ask me to open your eyes so that you can find me everywhere. The more aware you are of my presence, the safer you feel. This is not some sort of escape from reality; it is tuning in to ultimate reality. Faith is the confirmation of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality, perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses.
Acts 17:27-28; Hebrews 11:1; Ephesians 6:16; 1 John 1:5-7; Isaiah 12:2
Amanda, no way!! My friend Kala and I read out of this devotional every day! We absolutely love it! God is so funny...He always seems to be teaching us something that coincides with the 'daily devo' as we like to call it. Isn't it great? :)
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