Our limitations will melt away if we believe they will, keep the faith, and act on opportunities.

I was born optimistic. But it wasn’t blind optimism: Rather it was optimism based on seeing better ways to proceed.

From the earliest age, I could see easy ways to improve on what the adults around me were ignoring. Take choosing a driving route, for instance. Most people simply went the way they had gone before whenever the mood struck them.

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There are two kinds of people in life—those who make their decisions based on faith and those who are constrained by fear. Faith inspires us to move forward, while fear can keep us trapped in the mundane but “safe” world of our own choosing.

Do you have fears that hold you back from opportunities to grow? Dwelling in fear versus faith makes all the difference in what you are willing to do. How you choose to approach the risks and opportunities set before you will largely determine your lot in life and impact your potential for happiness.

Fear-Based Living

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Sometimes people ask, how do I get rid of fear?
Or how can I eliminate my fears about such and such a situation?
There was an old saying that come forth some time ago called “feel the fear and do it anyway” and with limited understanding that is indeed true. However there is another level of understanding that can come forward in regard to feeling fear. And it is to be able to understand what the thinking process is that triggers the fear.

Fear is the follower of doubt. We doubt that we know how to do something say something or how to behave in situations and fear arises.

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Faith is the most needed trait when obtaining what you want out of life. It is known that when you tell yourself something over and over, and if you hear something over and over, you will eventually believe it. That is exactly what we must do in our lives to attain what we want.

A metaphor was used in “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” by Taylor who said, “Masterfully designed to move you through space and time, your body is a physical vessel. But no vessel goes anywhere undirected. There has to be someone on board who directs the travels and judges that journey’s process. That someone is your thinking mind.”

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I met my husband in 1995. I’d just turned 31. We got married in 1998. I was 34. We tried to start to have a family in 2000. I was 36; a bit old to start but certainly not past child bearing age. That was the start of a long and uphill battle. It lasted three and a half years.

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Whether we worry about time, or timing, it doesn’t matter. They both belong to God. To worry excessively about how our future might work out is as futile as it is disobedient.

Let’s not dwell on what kind of people we might be someday, but rather, let’s live for Christ, in Christ today. It’s easy to imagine ourselves as something impressive sometime later, but it is better to obey the Lord right now. So it goes that God’s grace always requires reality-based action, which will continue to seem excessively difficult to us as long as we are impressed with imaginary greatness.

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Philippians4: 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made know to God.

Anxiety is a plague. This plague of worry, fear and anxiety is sweeping across the nation and you have probably, at one time or another, fallen victim.

Anxiety is another word for fear. There are realistic fears and unrealistic fears. Anxiety is normally unrealistic. Anxiety is produced from thoughts and speculation about what you think might happen. You speculate the outcome of a future event then place a preconceived judgment or opinion of the event. In anxiety, the judgment of the event is always bad. What you see happening in the future is always negative, which you have no way of predicting.

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Whether we worry about time, or timing, it doesn’t matter. They both belong to God. To worry excessively about how our future might work out is as futile as it is disobedient.

Let’s not dwell on what kind of people we might be someday, but rather, let’s live for Christ, in Christ today. It’s easy to imagine ourselves as something impressive sometime later, but it is better to obey the Lord right now. So it goes that God’s grace always requires reality-based action, which will continue to seem excessively difficult to us as long as we are impressed with imaginary greatness.

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Sometimes people ask, how do I get rid of fear?
Or how can I eliminate my fears about such and such a situation?
There was an old saying that come forth some time ago called “feel the fear and do it anyway” and with limited understanding that is indeed true. However there is another level of understanding that can come forward in regard to feeling fear. And it is to be able to understand what the thinking process is that triggers the fear.

Fear is the follower of doubt. We doubt that we know how to do something say something or how to behave in situations and fear arises.

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How you would like to be used in the healing of a lame man who had never ever walked and then have the authorities throw you into prison as a consequence? That has happened, and many are being imprisoned in these present days for similar reasons - for having real living vibrant faith.

In Acts Chapters 3 and 4, in the New Testament part of the Bible, Peter and John heal that lame man in the Name of Jesus Christ and preach that Jesus is Risen from the dead. They are imprisoned, put on trial, threatened, refuse to compromise their calling in Christ, and are released and return to the waiting Fellowship, where all those present launch out in prayer.

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