Understanding The Power Of Faith Over Fear And Worry

The covid 19 pandemic has taken a toll on us.

Understanding the power of faith over fear and worry. Father god i know you are not the source of fear and anxiety that is. Keep the good take the bad captive and keep your mind fixed on god. Faith in the face of fear stretches us to grow up spiritually. In romans 10 17 we recognize that faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word about christ in order to build our faith we must broaden our knowledge understanding and application of god s word.

This faith has the power to drive away all fear and anxiety. Worry is the thought process that mulls over and gives power to the object of our fear. For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the lord as the waters cover the sea hab. Begin today to be intentional about paying attention to every single thought that comes into your mind.

Our deliverance from fear and worry is based on faith which is the very opposite of unbelief. Fear worry and anxiety show up together and feed into each other in the various situations where danger lurks. God is at work every single. Anxiety is what we feel when our body is responding to the emotion of fear.

Scripture says god shields the righteous and to cast our anxieties on him because he cares for us. The reason that the nations who are laboring to build worldly empires will fail is that god s kingdom will level all competing regimes. When we choose faith over fear wisdom over worry and prayer over panic we can experience the peace of god which surpasses all understanding that we read about in philippians 4 7. Keep faith over fear faith is listening and trusting beyond what we can see and make sense of.

For god gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self control 2 timothy 1 7 see also philippians 4 7. So let faith reigns over god s people so that fear of every thing will be gone. Faith drives away fear and vice versa. In doing so we become the light of christ in a very dark situation.

It s so important to choose faith not fear even in the midst of a crisis as big as the one we re currently facing. Reading your article on facing fear now i can face fear with the power of holy spirit. We need to understand that faith is not something that we can produce in ourselves. Faith is a gift ephesians 2 8 9 and faithfulness is described as a fruit or characteristic that is produced in our lives by the holy spirit galatians 5 22 23.