Read and be comforted my dear......
"“Father God, I am afraid. I admit it. I need Your protection; I need You to rescue me. Keep Your promises, and save me.
I also need You to banish the fear I'm feeling. Panic is its own threat to me as well. The chemical toxins released by fear cripple my body and my mind. Anxiety sickens me and brings out the darker elements of my soul. Yes, I am learning to trust You and to lean into Your love and rest that comes from a confidence of Your goodness, but I still struggle and suffer the damages that my fears leave behind.
You gave fear as a gift, to guard and motivate me against real danger. I need it also to learn to approach You with utmost care and respect. But I have given fear a domain it NEVER deserves. I have let it rule me. I have made fear a god in my life, and its tyranny drives me to my knees, not in gratitude but in terror. It’s a sick kind of false worship. Deliver me from fear’s grip. For I now see that fear has been an enemy and NOT a friend in my life.
Your promises uplift me Lord. I thought that the medicine for fear would be courage, that I should buck up and fight the enemy fire for fire. BUT Lord, You say something else: You say, “Perfect LOVE drives out fear.”
Okay…. Imagine that… Love, the engaged empathy one to another actually creates a counter hormone in my brain, a tonic that neutralizes the toxins of fear. Being loved and loving literally re-wires my circuitry cutting through the tangled knots left behind by fear. Love from You and to You “DRIVES FEAR OUT!!!”
So today my prayer is for love, that You would guide me to receive Your tender affections and Your wisdom to grasp the infinite value You place on me, and that in return, out of gratitude, not obligation, I would return that affection, to You and in turn outward to others. Today, give me the grace of love… Which will then set me free from fear!
I will trust You in this Lord, that as I give LOVE whenever I feel fearful, fear will be displaced and sent to the pit of hell where it belongs.
In Jesus name". Amen…”
