Help for times of Adversity - Part 3 -Dealing with Fear

Happy Monday to you 

Sweet Friends,

Hope you had a most pleasant weekend.

Our's was pretty uneventful but pleasant and fun.

  We re-watched Amish Grace on Friday, then

watched "The Money Pit" on Saturday, we have

seen it before but a long time ago,  and was 

reminded of it by a post from Susan over at

between naps on the porch.  It is a pretty funny

movie...........sure wouldn't want to be living

it tho!!   This movie will make you laugh and 

make you thankful............thankful........ you

don't own their house!!   lol

The highlight of our weekend was church,

our fav smoothie, getting groceries at Wally

World,  cause we were out of everything,

and Scott and Megan came over last night

 to get Joey and to visit and had Cranberry

 Chicken salad with us.  We haven't had

that for awhile,  so that was fun too!!

Guess I had best get started on our next

segment on Adversity.

We will be talking about dealing with

Fear again,  so here is Adversity tip

#4

Remember that the opposite of faith is fear

so we must guard our hearts against it and 

take this verse below to heart.

 Hebrews 11:6

 without faith it is impossible to please God,

 because anyone who comes to him must

 believe that he exists and that he rewards

 those who earnestly seek him.

I can tell you first hand this is true, true, true. 

 Something that has helped me immensely

 in this fear area for years now I heard from

 Joyce Meyers about 7 or 8 years ago, and

 that is when you are feeling fearful to Just say

"I trust you Lord, I trust you Lord,  I trust you Lord, 

 and you might need to do it over and over again,

  but making that declaration of faith is an amazing

thing.  The Lord understands our lack of faith at

 times and here is a great example from scripture 

of what someone says at a time like that.

Mark 9:23-24

 " 'If you can'?" said Jesus. "Everything is

 possible for him who believes."

 Immediately the boy's father exclaimed,

 "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief 

God doesn't just expect us to trump this stuff

 up on our own,  that is why we need Jesus.

I rec'd an email some time ago that just made my

 heart sing,  and I guess that is because sometimes

 non believers can tell you some situation that just 

seems horrible and it just stops you in your tracks

 and you are left wondering what in the world should

 you say in God's defense.  Well,  the story from that

email was the direct dilemma this one christian lady

 found herself in as she was talking with her hairdresser.

Her hairdresser told her because of the mess the

 world was in she just did not believe God existed, 

and the lady just didn't  know how to turn that around, 

 so she sat there thinking Lord what do I say, 

 and nothing came to her. A while later,

 the hairdresser finished up her hair, and she

 paid her and left the shop, as she was leaving the

shop.... she happened to see  this man who was

very  dirty and unkempt andhe had greasy, messy,

 tangled and disqusting looking hair,  and an idea

came to her.........so she went back to her hair-

dresser and said come her,  look at this man....

see how unkempt he is and look at his hair, now

 I don't believe there is such a thing as a

 hairdresser,  and the hairdresser said of course

 there is I just finished doing your hair, and the

 woman said yes,  but look at that man's hair....

there could not possibly be a hairdresser

or that mans hair wouldn't be such a mess, so

 the hairdresser said well,  it's not my fault if

 he want come to me.............

and the lady said exactly,  so it is with God, 

 it is not his fault people will not come to Him either.

I tell that story not just for someone who may not

 believe in God or Jesus,  but sometimes even 

those of us who do, are still living in unbelief and

as if He doesn't exist..... many times we have not

 because we ask not,

according to James 4:2

You want something but don't get it. You

 kill and covet, but you cannot have what you 

want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, 

because you do not ask God.

And of course, we need to ask with right

motives and a pure heart,

but

Many times we are trying to live life on our

own and completely leaving God out of the

picture,  and we tie his hands of blessing.

So if we need courage, faith or strength or

 for God to take your fear away why not call

 on the one who loves us and can supply

 those things.  He is like any Good Daddy

He promises to meet our needs.

(not our wants or greeds,  altho he will many

times give us our wants or desires but I

believe there is a condition on that 

according to

 Psalm 37:4

Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give

 you the desires of your heart.

 but his promise is to meet our needs as you

will see in

 Matthew 6:25-34

 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,

 what you will eat or drink; or about your body,

 what you will wear. Is not life more important than food,

 and the body more important than clothes?

 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap

 or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father

 feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life ?

 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies

 of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.

 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor

 was dressed like one of these.

  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is 

here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not

 much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

  So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What

 shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

  For the pagans run after all these things, and your

 heavenly Father knows that you need them.

 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,

 and all these things will be given to you as well.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,

 for tomorrow will worry about itself.

 Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Now I realize some people might not like or relate to

 the Daddy analogy because some Daddy's are not

 good Daddy's, and might possibly have been abusive

 or mean, and trust me I understand that.............

 but there is one Daddy

you can always count on,  and that is our

Great and Awesome Abba Father...God!!

The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you;

 he will never leave you nor forsake you.

 Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."

Something I learned a long time ago is that 

we either have to choose to believe God's word,

the Bible is true,  which means all of it is true,

or none of it is true and must be a lie............

we can't pick and choose the verses that we want

 to believe but throw the rest out.............

our christian life will never work for us like that!!

Stay Tuned for next week

when we will talk about some of the reasons

 for Adversity in our lives...........

What is God up to anyway!!!

If you missed Part 2 of the series

Click Here

If you missed Part l,  click on Part 2

 and there will be a link there to Part l.

Thanks for much for stopping in,

and for your encouraging comments.

Have a Marvelous Monday!!

Hugs, and blessings Galore,

Nellie