Monday Manna - Help for times of Adversity - Pt.2 - Dealing with Fear

Good Monday Morning

to You Sweet Friends.

So how was your weekend???

Really good, I hope!!

I have to say ours was really good and fun too,
 a few of the highlights were watching a movie, 
called "Almost an Angel". It was pretty 

good and definitely different!!

Then Saturday we spent most of the day with 
Scott and Megan looking at family pics,cooking
 a lil and having din din and playing cards,
So it was a very nice day.

His wild rice was delish too!!

Sunday I wound up staying home from church
(this was not the fun part but it did turn out
to be relaxing and good)

 cause I had flu like symptoms, but after all

the 

rest I feel pretty good this morning.

 Jim does too,  he was feeling more tired than 
usual after he got home yesterday, so we
 thought

 he might be coming down with 

something too,

 cause there is a lot of flu

 going around in our area.

Well,  guess I had better get on with my intended

 post for the day....hadn't I....lol

Today we are gonna talk about dealing with FEAR.
 This is

 a lot longer than I anticipated so decided I

was gonna need to split it into 2 posts.
So the other half will be next Monday.

Adversity help

#3

Realize and expect that the enemy of your soul is going 

to try and put fear on you.........this is a new situation or

circumstance that you may not have gone through before,

or even if you have you can still be tempted by fear.....

you might lack confidence in yourself, but realize your

confidence has to be in the Lord not in yourself,

Be prepared and ready for an assault of fear but

determine not to let the enemy put fear on you.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the 

devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom

 he may devour.

1 Peter 5:8

Arm yourself with verses that will give you confidence

and quote them, or write them on note cards and put

them places you go often throughout the day, on

your bathroom mirror or by your kitchen sink or in

your car, or at your desk,  etc. and read them out

loud everytime you see them,  before long you will

know them and be able to quote them instantly.

One that the Lord gave us the last time and keeps

reminding us of this time is:

But seek first the kingdom of God and His

 righteousness,

 and all these things shall be added to you.

Matthew 6:33

Here's another one the Lord gave me 

even before hubby was laid off because

of all the stuff with the economy.

Proverbs 11:28

 Whoever trusts in his riches will fall,

 but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.

Basically,  we had better have our trust in Him,

Not in Money!!  or anything else for that matter!!

Here is a great example of that......

A wonderful lady at our church had breast cancer and I

 remember her telling me that she said to the Lord,

"Lord I accept and am okay with the fact I have the

 cancer,  but please can you take away the fear

..........and he did!

We have prayed that same prayer many times through-

out this 8 months layoff journey and guess what??? 

 He did take it away and also has reassured us.

Example:

One night in the very beginning I was awakened

 by fearful thoughts and immediately cried out to the

 Lord,  help me!!

 I know this is the enemy trying to put fear on me.

The next thoughts were Wonderful, and I believe

 they were from the Lord,

"Nellie,  you are almost 59 years old....and have

 you ever gone without anything you have needed??"

and I had to say an unequivocal NO,  and then

 I was flooded with his peace.  Someone else I

know just had that same experience as well. 

 God is in the comforting business when we

 will allow Him to be.

I just want to say you are not hearing this from

a woman who has not had any issues with

fear in her life, in my earlier life as a christian

I used to be the worst worrier in the world

and had a lot of fear,  but over the years

the Lord has shown me the enemies tactics

 and has helped me to gain victory over him

 in those areas,  not that they never happen 

but they usually don't last long or don't happen

as often.  Mostly now he likes to attack

me with that stuff in the middle of the

night.  He is not a fair foe!!

 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

 Put on the full armor of God so that you can take

 your stand against the devil's schemes.

Ephesians 6:10 and 11

Well, Sweet Folks,

Make sure to come back next Monday

for Part 3,  where we will  continue our 

discussion on Fear. 

If you missed last Monday's post 

and would like to read it....

Click Here!

Hope you have a Wonderful 

Week ahead...

Blessings and Hugs,

Nellie

Everytime I publish this post 

it is haywire, so don't know

what it will do this time, hubby

and I both have tried to fix it

numerous times, so if it is still

goofed up guess I am just

gonna have to post it like that.

Sorry....if it is hard to read!

Strange because I rarely  

have this problem!!