You ever been afraid to do something? It’s not shameful, nor is it uncommon. We all have fears. My personal major fear is trusting people and letting them get too close. My mind starts to go on a whirlwind of activity. Those are the times when I, as we all should, lay those fears before Him.
Psalm 34:3-4
3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together. 4 I sought the Lord, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.
Fear is the worst thing in the world to have. It can paralyze a person worse than any disease and can keep us from doing the things the Lord wants us to do. And the enemy knows it.
The enemy will use our fear against us. He will make small matters actually seem bigger than they actually are, have us jumping at shadows or thinking people that love us are actually trying to harm us. Our greatest weapon against fear is the Lord.
Let’s do the break down for today’s verse using, guess what, God’s Word as our basis.
First off, when we are fearful, and it doesn’t matter what we are afraid of, we pray. We pray for God to take that fear, to ease our hearts and our minds. If praying alone doesn’t help, get a prayer partner, someone to pray with you. For a long time, my big brother was my prayer partner and even though he’s moved, I still message him to join me in prayer.
Second, if we step away from today’s particular Scripture and over to 2 Timothy 1:7, it says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” Using myself as an example, when my fear of trusting people begins to overwhelm me and I pray, my mind settles down back to logic and objectivity. I can tell you in the times where I haven’t done that, I’ve ended up hurting people I love with vile and poisonous words because of my fear.
Today’s Scripture verse mentions magnifying and exalting the Lord’s name with someone, as I said, a prayer partner. David wrote this Psalm and the reason he mentions doing that is very simple. Magnifying something means you make it larger and exalting means you are elevating something in praise or estimation. Whatever you are fearing today, or in the future, take the Lord’s name and make it larger than the fear and elevate Him in praise above that fear. Lay that fear down so you can have that spirit of power, love and most of all a sound mind.
Java with Jesus 