Feb 26, 2021 … “Fear Not!”

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 57 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Zach Williams singing … Fear Is A Liar…  poignantly singing of how fear is a ploy of satan … never a tool of God. 

Fear not !!! 

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Highlight Passage:  Psalm 56:3-4 [ESV] ... 

3 When I am afraid,  I put my trust in you.   4  In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? 

… When fear gripped King David, he put his trust in God.        

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Psalm 56:3-11 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… King David deals with any fears of those attacking him by trusting in God’s mercy/grace.  

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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 41:10, 13 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God repeats His charge thru Isaiah to God’s people (that’s us) … to FEAR NOT, because it will be the Lord’s mighty right hand which lifts them up in times of weakness.  

Reference Passage: … John 16:33 [ESV] … 

33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” 

…  Jesus, giving His disciples peace in a troubled time, declares that He has overcome any fearful elements of the world.   

Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:6-7 [ESV] … 

<i>  6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. </i> 

…  Paul showing fellow Christians to cast their fears aside and humbly pray to receive God’s peace and empowering grace.        

Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 1:7 [ESV] … 

7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.  

…  Paul exhorts/teaches Timothy (and us) that God is NEVER the source of our fears. 

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:6-7 [ESV] … 

6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because He cares for you.

…  Another Apostle, … Peter …, exhorts believers to humbly trust in God to deal with our fears and anxieties. 

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Sheridan Voysey, AT THIS LINK    … tells of how a Pastor dealt with a slanderous attack by a partitioner, casting aside any fears thru His trust in God and thru surrendered prayer.    

Fellow Christian, if you believe, as I do, that the Bible is ABSOLUTELY TRUE, … every author, writing every word, … then, if you’ve read and meditated on the words (in Scripture) of the authors quoted above,  … King David, Isaiah, the Apostles Paul and Peter, and Jesus, Himself, … we’d have to agree with Zach Williams in the linked song, … that fear truly is a liar.  And God, thru the Apostle Paul (in both Phil 4:6-7 and 2Tim 1:7), actually gives us God’s prescription against fear … and that is to trustingly and humbly pray to God, knowing that God is never behind our fears and that Satan is using them to lie to us that God is not in control.  

But Hs is in control, isn’t He!!  … And we can know, … as did all of those in the Bible who declared “FEAR NOT,” … that fear is NEVER in our minds because of God.  It’s ALWAYS a ploy of Satan to turn us into our selves and away from our Lord. 

So, … my dear ones, … I pray today that we all turn away from the lies that fear brings to our hearts, and trust that God will lift us up in our times of weakness … just as He promised, over and over and over again, in His word.    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving us Your truth, thru Your word, to combat our fears. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to let go of any attitude of fear, and give them in prayer today to our Lord, Who will always lift us up and give us His empowering grace.   … Amen 

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