This is Arvell Craig with the Monday Morning Devo for June 15th 2015
Today and for the next few weeks I want to talking about fear.
You know so far in the 30 weeks or so of this podcast we have had 2 major themes. Followed by the Sanctified Ambition mini series.
The first theme was prayer, which we covered for maybe 4-8 weeks.
Then there was a natural transition into discernment. Which was even longer, maybe for 2 to 3 months.
( Sidenote, if you have subscribed to this via itunes, or stitcher or pocketcasts or tunein, you may only see the Sanctified Ambition series. If so, go to soundcloud and search “arvell craig” and you’ll see all the other episodes. I am working with Apple to figure out the old shows. )
But today, I want to start discussing fear, which I’m realizing is also a natural transition.
For when you develop the habit of prayer… followed by the learning to hear God’s response to prayer, or just his direction about life, as you proceed to take action, even with God’s clear approval you will have to deal with fear, apprehension, uncertainty based on possible mistakes.
So for this week, I’m not going to teach anything spe cifc, but I do want to prepare for the topic by starting to pay attention.
Notice how and when anxiety and fear creeps up in your heart and mind.
You may want to journal or take notes if you see a pattern or if you don’t see a pattern.
Next week we will begin to look into the lies of fear and how we can move forward in trusting God over any potential negative outcomes from the decisions we make.
Let’s pray,
Heavenly Father, I thank you that you do not give us fear or reasons to be afraid about our futute. Instead you want us to move out of faith and trust and love and peace.
Would you help us this week to recognize and reject every time fear pops into our heart or mind promoting us to worry or cease what we are doing. In Jesus name. Amen.