OVERCOMING FEAR IN YOUR LIFE

Pr Nicholas with the children in Garissa at Garissa Academy;

I’ve also learned that whenever I command fear to go I need to ask the Holy Spirit to put something in its place. That can be peace or some opposite of whatever I’m feeling, but I’ve also found that He prefers to change my focus. Fear is self-focused. Even if we are fearful of something terrible happening to someone else, the fear is in what that event will do to me. When we’re self-focused, it’s easier for fear to take hold, so often God turns my focus elsewhere. It’s surprising that worrying about how to help someone else in difficulty can keep you from being fearful, but it does. Too often, we think that we will overcome problems in our thought life by thinking holy thoughts. It’s far more useful to spend your thoughts on finding solutions to other peoples problems or praying for them. Once you’ve prayed that God deliver you from a specific fear, find someone else to pray about. From there, you’ll find it much easier to move into praise and thanksgiving, and you will discover that somewhere along the way you’ve found a measure of peace for yourself.
We live in a fallen world. Each of us must learn to deal with the effects that sin has brought into it. For some, that means repeatedly beating back the spirit of fear. It can be defeated in your life because the Lord Jesus has already defeated it. Remember, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” The power of the Holy Spirit will set you free and enable you to think clearly and see reality as it truly is. In The Name Of Jesus, the sprit of fear must flee. Command it to go. Get help when you need it. Turn your focus off yourself and on to the needs of others.
"Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders."(Deut 33:12)